Re: Boot Disk for External Hard drive

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From: GTS (x)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:15:43 -0400

This is probably not possible. The boot disk would have to load drivers for
the PCMCIA bus and the USB card. I've never seen PCMCIA drivers that could
be used that way. If the laptop has BIOS support for USB (some newer ones
do) and you also have a built in USB port (even if USB 1) that would be a
possibility.

The one other possibility that comes to mind is a Knoppix bootable CD.
http://www.knoppix.net/ (This is a version of Linux that can boot and
load from a CD, handy sometimes for drive access to damaged XP
installations. Whether it would work for you is iffy but maybe...) 

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"ed" <JRBRD@MEDIAONE.NETSPAMLESS> wrote in message
news:eh$YK27TEHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi:
> I have a toshiba notebook computer( about 2 years old)
> I have a pcmcia card install that have two
> usb2 outputs. (the card bus is 32-bits)
> One of the output I have go to a usb2 enclosure
> with a hard drive in it.
>
> My OS is Winxp.
> I am using this external hard drive for my backup files.
> In Winxp everything work fine.
>
> What I need is a dos boot disk that can access the external
> hard drive.  Any ideas how I can find one?
> Try doing a search on googles but no luck.
> There is nothing in the cmoss about the PCMCIA card or external Hard
Drive.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
> Thank you:
> Ed
>
>

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