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Not recognizing USB externdal HDD
That doesn't specifically say USB could run slow, but it makes me wonder. Once when I put a USB PCI card on a Mac, running with the USB extensions slowed the system until Apple came out with a fix. They are referring to booting off of a USB-connected hard drive. Yes, there are known issues with that on certain

Bug#353299: installation-reports: Inconsistant HDD assignment ...
churin chu...@new.postalias microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Malke wrote: churin wrote: I connected a USB HDD to my PC where Vista is Could anyone help me to install Windows XP in an external USB HDD in the above situation? XP can't boot from an external hard drive, so this isn't going to work

I want one!
sympatico.ca> wrote: Adam, Maybe you are right that the computer is unable to boot from an external USB connected floppy drive. Apparently XP cannot be booted from an external hard drive. Alternatively can you remove your external hard drive and swap it with your internal hard drive, making sure that the boot

Mouse not working in DOS Mode
I had a USB floppy connected to the guest to do the boot. I've now tried an RH8.0 install booting directly from the CD-ROM with essentially the same symptoms CD-ROM drive in non-legacy mode. Physical drive is actually a DVD+R/RW. I'm not certain what you mean by a generic SCSI device. The virtual hard drive is set

Cloning fails repeatedly
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 .... In our experience booting up with the "Startup Disk" is not particularly quick, to say the least. Are you certain about that boot-time?

Win98 SE Mouse and Printer
Malke ma...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista installation_setup churin wrote: I connected a USB HDD to my PC where Vista is installed in its Could anyone help me to install Windows XP in an external USB HDD in the above situation? XP can't boot from an external hard drive, so this isn't going to

OT: Render External USB Harddrive As Non-Bootable
I eventually installed the FC5 using a USB connected CDRom (fortunately USB works!). The install is mostly smooth; but the ethernet and DVD don't work along with numerous other ..... Though, I was not able to install it through USB CD/DVD Rom drive, I managed to install it via Local Hard drive (using ISO images).

Unique number from PC
Heretofore with other disk-cloning programs this has been a real booting problem involving the cloned HDD when that drive was not disconnected from the system with SATA or eSATA ports as well - the SATA data cable permanently attached to the port is simply connected to one of the motherboard's SATA connectors.

RH7.2 guest on VM4.01 locks after GUI starts
Many laptop CD-ROM drives share controllers with the hard disk, so if you can boot a live CD that points to cable or power. 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 would work.

Apple II Csa2 FAQs: Zip Drives & Tape, Part 23/25
Should be; that's essentially how I installed Mandrake 8 on my thinkpad (X21), except that I did a hard-drive-based install (copied installation CD's onto the preinstalled windows partition, made (on another system) a bootable cd with hd.img, and booted that with the USB-connected cdrom).

Recognizing an external drive when rebooting
Dan Anderson dan.ander...@sympatico.ca xxclone Adam, Maybe you are right that the computer is unable to boot from an external USB connected floppy drive. Apparently XP cannot be booted from an external hard drive. Alternatively can you remove your external hard drive and swap it with your internal hard drive,

External Hard Drive used for System Backup.
However no floppy drive is not great - means you need to boot from a USB disk or CD-rom. Just to this point: I have a USB-connected floppy drive, which the machine's BIOS is and then dumping an image of the Windows partition onto - in your case maybe a USB-connected - hard disk, using the linux "dd" command.

How to install OS in external USB HDD
Michael S. user@#notme.com microsoft public windowsxp accessibility "If the only option is a USB connected drive I would stick with the software option and use PM7 rather than risk the inability of being able to get the system to boot from it." Agreed. -- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows XP Microsoft MVP Program:

USB External HD
Rich M. mentos1...@yahoo.com microsoft public win2000 setup_deployment Do USB connected 3.5" Floppy drives tend to work? This issue has cropped up as I am having problems getting my previously working (on other systems) floppy drive to be recognized on this new machine. As the BIOS recognizes USB devices at boot

Dell Vista update
I know I never could when I had an external HD connected to my USB. Anyway, my friend now has an older HP machine he picked up, with which he is having a problem getting it to boot. He says the BIOS states the 'boot order' to be USB Device followed by Hard Drive (c:\). Strangely, so he says, when he put a bootable

XP not starting
I must admit I get somewhat weary hearing or reading the oft-cited "Yes, you can boot to a USB external hard drive if your motherboard's BIOS supports this would be considerably faster since the SATA HDD is treated as an internal HDD and as such, its performance is substantially superior to a USB-connected HDD.

Cloning fails repeatedly
However, there are special device drivers that allow USB connected mass storage devices to be mapped as ASPI devices which can subsequently be accessed by ..... Currently, for most BIOS, this means a USB floppy drive. However, some BIOS that claim to support booting from a USB hard disk contain bugs that prevent

0.49 Kernel Sync error after crash reported
If you don't then booting from the CD is skipped and you end up booting Windows from your hard drive. You will need to watch your bootup messages to see when If you are using a USB-connected keyboard then it may not work. Your motherboard must support *directly* the USB keyboard and mouse BEFORE the operating

Idea for a simple product: Virtual USB drive via Ethernet
If PC wont boot because of the old drives failure, when connected as slave. Install old drive in external usb case and try from there. "Susan B." <newsgroup_o...@invalid.com> wrote in message news:OBnft1hRHHA.4060@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... Hi, I'm running WinXPpro+sp2. My sole internal hard drive failed;

How to install OS in external USB HDD
anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware Gord I agree with jeff any hard drive when connected to usb like this is not a master boot from a usb hard drive if you computer can boot from usb and your active partition shhould be at the first part of your first drive that you booting