Re: cloning to a larger drive
- From: "Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 02:15:13 -0700
"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
But if you mean can an OS *reside* on a laptop's
external ExressCard-connected eSATA HD and be
*loaded* by a loader that resides on the internal HD,
the answer is "maybe"
In thinking about this some more, the more I think that it
probably can't be done. The problem involves the BIOS
and the fact that the laptop BIOS is set up to see only a single
hard drive, and it doesn't make a list of attached hard drives
that could be used to define the "rdisk(x)" parameter in the
boot.ini file where "x" would be other than 0. That means
that the loader, ntldr, wouldn't know how to find the
ExpressCard-connected hard drive and thus couldn't load
any OS residing on it. It seems that there must be some
feature of an already loaded OS, maybe the ExpressCard's
driver, which makes the attached hard drive visible to the OS.
I know that Casper 4.0 live CD loads up with the ExpressCard-
connected hard drive visible, but it appears also to have a
minimal OS (possibly MSDOS or WinPE) to load those drivers.
If one understood the BIOS/ntldr interface, there might be some
way to make MSDOS or WinPE that was loaded from a live CD
or a live USB stick tell ntldr how to find the ExpressCard-
connected hard drive and its WINDOWS folder so that ntldr
could then load the final OS, but *I* certainly don't.
*TimDaniels*
.
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