|On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:19:54 -0500, dead_man_walking wrote:
|
|>
|>|On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:47:05 GMT, meagain wrote:
|>|
|>|> |>|>>
|>|>> |>|>>>
|>|>>> |>|>>>> After much GOOGLE-ing and trying different things, it seems that I must
|>|>>> use
|>|>>>> some version of FAT instead of NTFS to make my USB 2.0 HDD bootable. Is
|>|>>> this
|>|>>>> true?
|>|>>>> It's a 40GB Maxtor with XP-Home SP2 using NTFS.
|>|>>>> And Asus A7N8X-X which supports booting from USB in BIOS but it just
|>|>>>> won't
|>|>>>> work.
|>|>>>>
|>|>>>> I bought an external enclosure mainly for backing up but maybe I should
|>|>>> just
|>|>>>> put the HDD in the PC as a slave.
|>|>>>>
|>|>>>
|>|>>>
|>|>>> If your bios supports booting from a USB drive the file system does not
|>|>>> matter...
|>|>>>
|>|>>> Did you *install* windows on the USB drive...if so , it should boot.
|>|>>>
|>|>>> If you just copied it over...it will not be bootable.
|>|>>>
|>|>>> If you cloned it over...you may need to "repair" the bootsector fromt he
|>|>>> recovery console
|>|>>>
|>|>>>
|>|>> Thanks.
|>|>>
|>|>> AFAIK, you can't install Windows TO a USB drive. Send me to the right
|>|>> place if I'm wrong.
|>|>> I installed Windows to the Maxtor while connected to IDE 1 in the PC.
|>|>> I temporarily disconnected my main Seagate 120GB to do this.
|>|>> I got all the critical M$ , AVG, spyware updates, rebooted several times,
|>|>> etc. Everything was fine and nice.
|>|>>
|>|>> I just can't boot from the MOFO.
|>|>>
|>|>>
|>|> What I meant was I can boot from it in the PC but not via USB.
|>|
|>|How have you jumpered the drive as an external USB drive? Mine must be
|>|jumpered as master.
|>
|> I don't use jumpers on my external USB drives.
|
|With at least one HDD maker, no jumper is master.
The logic is faultless, Grasshopper.
