Re: Copy XP boot partition to external USB disk
What is the make/model of your motherboard?
As I see your still struggling with your sata hd installation
"Lars-Erik Østerud" <.@.> wrote in message
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DL wrote:
winxp wont natively boot from an external hd
I'm not trying to do that either, I'm just having the HDD in an
external case while preparing it. It's going on the on-board S-ATA as
soon as it's ready. But then the active partition needs a bootsector.
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