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backing up my pc
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External Hard Drive used for System Backup.
I think the best you can do is a PCMCIA card or maybe a serial connected HDD but not a USB connected HDD. My VAIO allowed me to boot the PCMCIA card via BIOS setting on sequence. As Yves has pointed out, most of us have been unable to boot from a USB external hard drive containing the XP operating system.

Boot from USB hard drive
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 In our experience booting up with the "Startup Disk" is not particularly quick, to say the least. Are you certain about that boot-time?

Security and Encryption FAQ - Revision 22.3
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? Do your clients or customers ever do that and want their software to work

USB Burner doesn't showup on Toshiba Laptop?
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 Air supports something like USB target drive mode. I'll ask at MacWorld tomorrow.

Can not format
I've never heard of any bios that supports usb connected drives, so that might stop you. Some options though... 1) Remove the hard drive you currently use, install linux on another seperate drive on that machine. Add your original hard drive as the secondary, and use the bios boot selection to boot choose whether

freebsd-current Digest, Vol 217, Issue 45
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 .... That's what my Linux machine's got too...it did have the 4GB drive but when I found a 15GB, I "relegated" that to a "second hard drive" and put the 15GB as the

Clone Additonal Hard Drive for Back Up
Sometimes when I boot after this it can't find the hard drive. So I bought another old but slightly newer laptop, stuck the hard drive from the old machine and not SCSI disks (or at least not ones connected via USB). I am wondering if there is anyway I can boot into the Ubuntu installation on the external disk.

HD problems
"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: http://support.microsoft.com/support/mvp/program.asp Associate Expert

Dual boot external drive..?
If you disconnect your printer, modem and say a hard drive if you have an extra and it starts with the mem stick in I'd say for sure it's your PSU. It could aslo be a faulty USB connection or something wrong on your mobo having to do with it not yielding enough current or shaky wiring. See www.usbman .com If you

Installed XP to USB drive for second computer, now main won't ...
"Paramethius" wrote: I just had to purchase a new hard drive for my computer which I built about 4 years ago due to my old hard drive going out. It's USB connected and Win 98 SE recognizes the new hardware at startup whenever I remove the printer from the system devices menu and reboot, but after going through

Best External HD For Mirror Backup??
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. The newer versions of Ghost

Vista slow boot with USB external drive
I reformatted fully my USB connected external drive. I removed Norton Ghost. I checked that the external USB drive operates fully as an external drive - it does. .... On rebooting it seems apparent that the boot is from the internal source C Drive as I can disconnect the external hard drive.

Boot to USB
I just had to purchase a new hard drive for my computer which I built about 4 years ago due to my old hard drive going out. It's USB connected and Win 98 SE recognizes the new hardware at startup whenever I remove the printer from the system devices menu and reboot, but after going through the setup via Windows

Flash card formatter?
LS Lichtmann condaptr...@earthlink.net vmware guest linux I had a USB floppy connected to the guest to do the boot. 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 as SCSI 0:0 according the config editor.

HELP: External hard drive failure?
It would be nice if you could set up network-booting in a second system, though. This way, all your file systems can be on the BOOTP/DHCP/NFS server, so crashing the kernel doesn't risk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Panic happened yesterday when turning on an external, USB connected hard drive.

OT - Hard Drive Back up
Jim Howes sewoh....@moc.gisorp.backwards.invalid microsoft public win2000 general Norm Cook wrote: I bought a SimpleTech USB Hard Drive. It works fine but has one small problem I could find no BIOS option for 'mysteriously hang when USB connected', or anything that affected the way set up device before booting.

Install WinXP on old Dell 3200 BIOS won't recognize USB CDROM
Your post is hard to follow. You talk about "connecting a laptop drive by USB in order to get XP on it". Connecting it to what? In order to get XP on what? How did you try to get XP on it? Do you mean you tried to boot a computer by means of an USB connected hard drive on which was installed XP?

OT - Hard Drive Back up
Will it find the USB connected hard drive is the question. The bottom line, I really would like to recover my genealogy files and photos. Another thing to try would be to disconnect any/all devices you don't need when booting with a recovery/restore disk. One thing I don't understand is your mention of Six Floppies

Need help on modifying and assembly of a small program!
When done, it modifies the boot sector of the hard drive back to restore normal Windows booting. John Doue wrote: Barry Watzman wrote: It can't do that in On the desktop it's successfully deleted and/or created partitions on PATA, SATA, and USB connected PATA drives. I also have a small (6 GB) notebook drive