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in lieu of swapping out hard drives
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. 7. Try a different USB cable. 8. If the device in question is a USB external HD, first check out the HD with the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility.

Michael S. dual boot answer
Jim Thompson wrote: I removed the hard drive from the dead machine and installed it into a USB adapter.... it's reading just fine. I have only one USB connected drive, and in order to fdisk it, I had to plug the drive into a IDE cable, then reconnect it in it's USB mount prior to booting Win XP.

Michael S. dual boot answer
Each time the external drive was connected and I chose it, it booted up successfully. I was also able to boot my local drives including the CDROM with the I have had some people tell me that they get better USB hard disk recognition with boot disk floppy image created with Ghost 2003 where they selected USB

Win 2000 Installation Quandry.
To work properly with the GS, a Zip drive connected to the Apple Hi-Speed SCSI card requires either another device that can supply termination power, If you are using an Apple Hi-Speed card and you already have a hard disk, you'll have to set the Zip to 5 in order to continue to boot off of your hard disk

Map a USB Drive Letter?
After booting into your TrueCrypt virtual machine, you will see in "My Computer" a similarly designated drive C. This is not your original boot drive C. It is a virtual drive that ..... In my case I found only my external USB connected DVD writer was seen by VMWare for installation of the windows operating system.

Installing XP on an external hard disk
If your Laptop can boot from a USB connected drive you need to set up that option in the BIOS. I have done it on a desktop but not a laptop. Can someone explain to me how to install Windows XP on an external hard disk? - my company is about to lock down the hard drives on all laptops to control viruses and I

System halts during boot
Do you know something I could buy that would connect to my small laptop hard drive and allow me to mount it as an external hard disk? I'm glad Ubuntu came with pppoeconf or I wouldn't have gotten my DSL connection working. I also have an old 10GB IDE drive I could try in the USB enclosure if you think that

Unique number from PC
"daveiosys" wrote: eek: :eek: :eek: rolleyes: :( :( :confused: :confused: :confused: When I boot up I have system set to boot from SATA drive. System OS - XP Professional SP2. I have two hard drives connected via PCI controller (Silicon Image ATA-133 Medley Raid Controller card) I have four USB hard drives hooked

CD Player Questions
But huge capacity hard drives are cheap, so I think a good general solution would be a network connected hard drive that will copy stuff from the appropriate locations, or you can force an upload. Same issues with re-connecting the USB, and it would require an additional power supply, but you could also use a

Backing up a Windows Installation
Another Acronis application has write access to the hard disk drive(s). Only one Acronis application can have write access to the hard disk drive at a time. Since I don't know what this means or how to fix it, I haven't been able to restore the C drive. You may need to restore the C: drive after booting with an

VistaBootPro
Once the install completed the system tried to boot, but failed. The hard disk the assignment for the same drive was now /dev/sdc. I was able to modify my menu.lst file to bring the system up normally. Now, when I boot my system with a USB cable modem (Motorola 5101) connected, the system is again assigning my SATA

Win98 SE Mouse and Printer
netINVALID> wrote: In article <z4gjj.33811$fj2.16103@edtnps82>, m...@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) wrote: I'm sure that this Mac will support net booting. How else does one reinstall OS X with the DVDs that ship with the MBA? Set up the Air as a USB-connected hard drive on another (intel) Mac. That's assuming that the

Michael S. dual boot answer
william smith zoras...@REMOVEprontomail.com comp sys laptops I have a brand new Phillip cdrw400 USB connected to a toshiba 300 laptop. The funny part is the usb ide controller shows up under the Hard Drive Controllers. It uses a Freecom driver and shows two different drivers under the hard drive controllers.

Sulky Windows start-up
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. You do have to boot from CD to restore a file/image though. Well, damn - even 2003 lets me look at the Ghosted drive from windows, and it's just a

problem booting from floppy
3) Booting an OS off removable media (such as Knoppix or BartPE), use that to extract files from your hard drive and store them on writable CDs, external USB connected drives, network storage or whatever options you have available. I shour probably mention that I have had to reload this operating system 11 times

Boot from USB hard drive
When I copy mp3s from hard drive to usb stick they become corrupted. lukasz ~% mount /mnt/usb lukasz ~% cp file.mp3 /mnt/usb lukasz ~% diff file.mp3 .... 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 usb [ulpt]

Win98 SE Mouse and Printer
I have been unsuccessful in booting from a USB 2.0 attached hard drive. The bios recognizes the usb drive as a regular hard drive, not a removable drive, of rebooting it hangs and will not complete the booting process. Does anyone have a method of loading the operating system on a USB connected hard drive?

Can't access New External USB HDD to format
I have been unsuccessful in booting from a USB 2.0 attached hard drive. The bios recognizes the usb drive as a regular hard drive, not a removable drive, Does anyone have a method of loading the operating system on a USB connected hard drive? Thanks. Whether it's possible or not depends on if the bios allows

USB xxclone and boot.ini
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. Any further suggestions most welcome, thanks Jim I prefer to use a GRUB

I want one!
A friend once showed me how to speak to Usb connected storage from MacOF ... by using a MacOF sufficiently new so that `dev / ls` showed my device. Because my ears tell me that booting with Command+Option+O+F does not spin up my hard drive, I'm inclined to think I am running my MacOF directly from ROM.