Boot XP pro from external USB II hard drive

[Guest]

Has anybody actually successfully done this????? I have a laptop and want to
boot (Win XP) from an external usb II hard drive for various reasons. The
laptop starts to come up with the windows XP logo and then changes to a blue
backgroound text screen with a warning and then a STOP: 0x0000007B
(0xF7c46524,0xc0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
I read through some of the Symantec Partition Magic Manual and they don't
gurantee that you can boot from an external drive so it might not be as easy
as just getting a boot manager.

 

[Rock]

Has anybody actually successfully done this????? I have a laptop and want to
boot (Win XP) from an external usb II hard drive for various reasons. The
laptop starts to come up with the windows XP logo and then changes to a blue
backgroound text screen with a warning and then a STOP: 0x0000007B
(0xF7c46524,0xc0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
I read through some of the Symantec Partition Magic Manual and they don't
gurantee that you can boot from an external drive so it might not be as easy
as just getting a boot manager.

As far as I know you can't boot XP from an external drive.

 

[Richard Urban]

Some people "claim" to have done this. When pressed for details so others
can duplicate the event they handily "disappear" from the news groups.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew half as much as you think you know,
You'd realize you didn't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

I recently investigated this question. As best I can tell there are very few
computers on which this can be done. Then, they are almost certainly very
new ones. The MOBO and BIOS must support this. Very few do, so far.

cheers
donr

 

[Steve Shattuck]

Has anybody actually successfully done this????? I have a laptop and want

to
boot (Win XP) from an external usb II hard drive for various reasons.
The
laptop starts to come up with the windows XP logo and then changes to a
blue
backgroound text screen with a warning and then a STOP: 0x0000007B
(0xF7c46524,0xc0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
I read through some of the Symantec Partition Magic Manual and they don't
gurantee that you can boot from an external drive so it might not be as
easy
as just getting a boot manager.

Unless you have a computer with USB support in the BIOS (not many do), then
a boot manager is useless.

 

[R. McCarty]

Check the following Microsoft document - it may hold some useful
information for what you are seeking to do:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/usb-boot.mspx

 

[Bob I]

The operative statement from the link is, and I quote:

" Current versions of Windows should not be installed to USB hard disk
drives because Windows does not support USB hard disk drives as the
primary boot device. This paper introduces the expected industry
participation related to the following:"