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USB Floppy drive
I once tried installing Linux on a USB connected hard drive but could not figure out how to get the system to boot from it (on a Windows machine). GP "ComicShop" <ab...@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:090720031241260980%abuse@127.0. 0.1... In article <3F09928A.B4842...@netvigator.com>, Chung <clo...@netvigator.com>

Sulky Windows start-up
In the case of a USB connected external harddrive I get the same thing. It is hit and miss whether the port that the drive is connected to will enumerate properly on boot or reboot. When it doesn't, the port goes into error state and Windows installs an Unknown device on the port. These are dual ports,

OT - Hard Drive Back up
Rock r...@nospam.net microsoft public windowsxp general "rwf99 via WindowsKB.com" wrote i found in the bios the option to boot from "USB-fdd" but cant find was hoping so. can anyone explain what usb-fdd means and how to go about getting the os on one. thanks I meant in particular a USB connected external drive.

Bill Horne - HD Question
Greetings, I'm using XP at work and have an external hard drive connected through a USB port. When I first attached it, the drive was designated "E:" and all went well. I tried re-booting and a few other things I don't remember (though some of them involved cussing) and nothing works. I didn't try renaming the

Installing Multiple OS on a Blade Farm
... my preference for a USB connected drive is to make use of the ability to plug in a USB drive in a running computer. not so easy for a IDE interfaced drive. I cannot leave any recordable media in the computers unattended. all writable disks must be removed and locked up. right now the idea about booting from

Recognising mobile discs
If memory serves the model in question includes a slot to plug in an extra drive directly into the IDE bus. The only problem would be if the drive were removed with BIOS selected to boot from it the system would hang then report a missing or damaged master boot device. If the only option is a USB connected drive I

OF file write access
r norman rsn_@_comcast.net microsoft public vc mfc Are you sure that all hard drives have serial numers? Do some systems run on strange drives? Booting from Zip drives, using Flash disks, USB-connected drives which can be swapped in and out? Have you ever replaced a hard drive on your system?

OT - Hard Drive Back up
You were trying to do something that I understand CAN be done: a) xxclone your laptop XP operating system to a USB-connected hard drive X, b) install that hard drive X into your laptop and boot into XP. I understand that CAN be done based on the following comments from Kan about a year ago in a posting date Oct 13

Boot Disk Failure Needs CD to Boot Windows (Imaging Vs Cloning
BTW - you can't successfully do this restore operation by booting up on the hard drive first (assuming you even could) and then trying to run Acronis from there, With both the drive containing the backup disk images and the drive you want to restore connected and with the bootable rescue CD inserted, boot up.

freebsd-usb Digest, Vol 172, Issue 1
I also _have to_ connect with Windows because Linux doesn't support my USB-connected modem...I'm also perfectly aware that XHTML is lowercase only (and tags must match and ..... I finally obtained a hard drive (15G), and have it formatted with a Linux partition and a swap partition - big enough this time, I hope.

PING: Dr. Who - FAQ Sig Check
In Linux you can use raid, redundant array of inexpensive drives, then if a hard drive fails your data is safe. Okay the fun part begins when you try to enable ..... I plan on using ZFS on single (external USB-connected) disks at home, so I can easily move them back and forth between my x86 and SPARC Solaris boxes

freebsd-usb Digest, Vol 174, Issue 1
SATA Drive - WCARW2614819, rev 12.01B02 When I boot up I have system set to boot from SATA drive. I have two hard drives connected via PCI controller (Silicon Image ATA-133 Medley Raid Controller card). Both drives a Maxtor 6L200P0 [Hard drive] (203.93 GB) rev BAH41G10 I have four USB hard drives hooked up to a

Driver support for Intel 965 Express chipset (Intel DP965LT mobo ...
Todd H. comph...@toddh.net comp os ms-windows misc bjackson...@yahoo.com writes: Can anyone suggest a quality external (USB connected) hard drive which I can For it to be possible, your BIOS absolutely must support booting from a USB device. If it can't, it's game over. If it can, you can probably get it going.

K7T266 Pro2-RU booting from a USB 2.0 hard-drive?
But somehow, it must find and load drivers for the USB. Ghost 2003, for example, has to reboot into PCDOS in order to work. It says it does this by doing what is necessary for the machine to reboot into PCDOS and find and load the USB drivers needed to see the USB-connected drive in DOS. -- bill Theory don't mean

Assigning a Drive letter to External USB connected Hard Drive
Ahh A missing important detail, your floppy drive is a USB device. I continued to try to make a boot disk but again it doesn't like the device option, any suggestions? My other complication for grub permanently is that I have fedora installed on a usb connected harddrive with XP on the internal hard drive.

External Hard Drive boot
... o usb/91238 usb [umass] USB tape unit fails to write a second tape fil o usb/91283 usb [boot] booting very slow with usb devices connection ( o usb/91538 ..... f usb/116898 usb [panic] sleeping thread while using USB hard drive to o usb/117075 usb [scsi_da] [patch] quirk: USB Samsung YP-U3 MP3 o usb/117183 usb

freebsd-usb Digest, Vol 173, Issue 1
It says it does this by doing what is necessary for the machine to reboot into PCDOS and find and load the USB drivers needed to see the USB-connected drive in tracks/op sys files etc, hence the image file of the hard disk) requires running (booting) from another device, so the system areas can be overwritten.

Boot from USB???
I am using an external USB connected hard drive for my system backups (making of backups are not scheduled). My question now is...should the external hard drive be plugged into the The startup disk takes a couple of minutes to boot and then the window looks exactly like the one I access from Program Files.

booting from an external hard drive
We continually encounter situations where a USB 2.0 device - generally involving a flash drive or USB external hard drive, will work perfectly fine in one If the USB device contains its own power supply, try booting up with its power on, then try powering on only *after* the system has booted to a Desktop. 8.

Cloning fails repeatedly
Since replacing motherboard and hard drive I am unable to play an old DOS game called Sherlock. The game displays but the mouse cursor remains static and the game freezes. The mouse is a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical USB connected to the mouse conn with a USB interconnection. The mouse is fine for all other