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Windows XP cannot be installed nor boot from
an external drive....only an internal drive.

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| How do I modify boot.ini so that I could boot Wxp that is on a USB external
| drive?
 
I hate to keep harping on this - but it's NOT external, it's
removable. I have an external SATA drive that boots XP
quite handily. Both SATA and SCSI attached from outside
the physical PC cabinet disk appear to XP as "Fixed" drives
- not removable.
 
You stated it was an external drive

R. McCarty said:
I hate to keep harping on this - but it's NOT external, it's
removable. I have an external SATA drive that boots XP
quite handily. Both SATA and SCSI attached from outside
the physical PC cabinet disk appear to XP as "Fixed" drives
- not removable.
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b11_ said:
How do I modify boot.ini so that I could boot Wxp that is on a USB
external
drive?
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Does your BIOS support booting a USB device? The one in my Dell does, but
you must re-enable booting every time you try.
Jim
 
Jim said:
Does your BIOS support booting a USB device? The
one in my Dell does, but you must re-enable booting
every time you try.
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1) What Dell model do you have?
2) When you say that you must re-enable booting,
are you referring to USB booting, or must you
re-enable IDE booting after a USB bootup?

*TimDaniels*
 
My bios supports USB booting but I don't know what to add to boot.ini so I
can boot Wxp thats on an Accomdata 40 gb USB drive.
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b11_ said:
My bios supports USB booting but I don't know what
to add to boot.ini so I can boot Wxp thats on an
Accomdata 40 gb USB drive.
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OK, you don't know what to use for rdisk(), right?
So experiment. Assume that the BIOS will see
the USB drive as being at the head of the HD
boot order, i.e. rdisk(0), when you set the BIOS
to boot from USB. Everything else in the menu
entry should be the same as for any IDE partition.

BTW, what model of what PC or motherboard do
you have that boots from USB?

*TimDaniels*
 
XP doesn't boot from USB drives.

b11_ said:
My bios supports USB booting but I don't know what to add to boot.ini so I
can boot Wxp thats on an Accomdata 40 gb USB drive.
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b11_ said:
My bios supports USB booting but I don't know what to add to boot.ini so I
can boot Wxp thats on an Accomdata 40 gb USB drive.
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XP can't boot from an external USB drive.
 
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