Re: Copy XP boot partition to external USB disk

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winxp wont natively boot from an external hd

"Lars-Erik Østerud" <.@.> wrote in message
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How do I do this? The program I have that can either copy a whole
partition OR write a new XP bootsector (if I copy the files manually)
will only run from DOS (not from WinXp or Win98) and in DOS the
USB-drive is not available (as there are no DOS drivers for it).

So how do I do this? How do I make the WINNT/XP bootsector on the
partition on the external disk from within Win98 og WinXP. Help?

I imagine it won't help buying any disk/partition cloning/moving
software either? Those doesn't run inside XP either, right, and then
the external USB disk won't be available to them eihter :-(

How on earth do I do this? Grr.. Why does it need to be so hard :-)
--
Lars-Erik - http://www.osterud.name - ICQ 7297605


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