Re: in lieu of swapping out hard drives


"C.Joseph S. Drayton" <csdcs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Anna,

Soory I didn't get back to you last night. my DVD-RW decided last night
that it was going to take a vacation <LOL>. I got the Fedora 8 ISO
burned this morning (ended up burning at 1x instead of 2x (another
project to work on . . . why did I need to burn at a slower speed). The
following is what I have done.

1) I burned the ISO on the dv8100cto.
2) shut down the dv8100cto and connected a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
mounted in a Mapower MAP-H31SS-01 drive case connected to my dv8100cto
via an Addonics AASA2SAP15C SATA-to-eSATA converter cable which is
plugged into a Addonics ADEXC34-2E with 2 eSATA ports which in turn is
plugged into the Expresscard port on the dv8100cto.
3) Turned on the computer and presses the [Esc] key within 3 seconds of
powering it on.
4) Enter my BIOS password
5) Recieve screen asking which device to boot from
6) Choose CDROM
7) Run Fedora 8
8) Choose hd2 for the installation
9) Complete installation
10) Remove CD from CDROM drive
11) Shut down Fedora 8 with an actual shutdown (not reboot)
12) Unplug ExpressCard and turn on computer
13) Get my normal grub loader;
Ubuntu loads
Windows2000pe loads
WindowsXPpe loads
14) Using the Hiren's Boot Disk v9.1 use Acronis to check and see if
any new partitions have been created on either my primary or secondary
drive. None have been created.
15) Shutdown the computer
16) Plug in ExpressCard
17) Turned on the computer and presses the [Esc] key within 3 seconds
of powering it on.
18) Enter my BIOS password
19) I recieve screen asking which device to boot from
20) Select second to last option which is the external hard disk
21) Fedora 8 boots up

I plugged and unplugged, boooted from local drives, etc. about a dozen
times. Each time the external drive was connected and I chose it, it
booted up successfully. I was also able to boot my local drives
including the CDROM with the eSATA connected.

If I have time this weekend, I will boot up some of my diagnostics disk
to see if I can determine why this works since HP 'TechSupport' says it
can't. I will also see if can get the system to boot from a
thumbdrive. If I understood Tim correctly, his statement was that HP
was saying that the eSATA is handled by the BIOS the same way that USB
is. Since HP actually makes an application for creating a bootable
thumbdrive I will use their image to create the boot disk. I have found
the application and downloaded it. Again I will post results after
testing.
--

C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services
Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/
E-mail: csdcs@xxxxxxxxxx


C.Joseph:
Again, thanks for the additional info.

But just to make it as clear as I can as to what our primary - if not
exclusive - objective is re this issue...

Whether using an ExpressCard device with a eSATA port in a laptop/notebook
environment that's equipped with that interface, the user can clone (using a
disk-cloning program, e.g., Acronis, Ghost, Casper, etc.) the contents of
his/her notebook's internal HDD containing the XP OS onto a SATA HDD
connected to the ExpressCard's eSATA port and the external SATA HDD will be
*bootable* as a result of this disk-cloning operation.

As I've previously indicated, our experience to date using a number of
different laptop/notebook CardBus & ExpressCard devices with SATA & eSATA
ports has been negative in this regard (although we haven't used the
Addonics device that you're using).

If I've correctly understood you, you have indicated you have achieved
success in this area, i.e., as a consequence of using your Addonics
ExpressCard device with a externally connected SATA HDD, you are able to
clone the contents of the laptop/notebook's internal HDD containing the XP
OS to an external SATA HDD and that HDD will be bootable - at least with
respect to your HP notebook. And at least up to now, the process is
reliable. And I emphasize that we're talking about the XP OS, right?

Do I have all this right? Thanks.
Anna


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