ghosting to usb hd and booting from it

P

Peter

Does Ghost or another program allow me to copy the files from my HD to
my USB drive and if needed boot from the usb drive?

Thanks,
Pete
 
R

Rod Speed

Peter said:
Does Ghost or another program allow me to copy the files from
my HD to my USB drive and if needed boot from the usb drive?
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Booting from the clone on a usb drive requires more than just a
copy of the original internal drive, and so the imager cant do it alone.

The system needs to be able to boot from the usb drive too, not all can.
 
T

Timothy Daniels

Rod Speed said:
Booting from the clone on a usb drive requires more than just a
copy of the original internal drive, and so the imager cant do it alone.

The system needs to be able to boot from the usb drive too, not
all can.
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Can you name one PC (make and model) that can boot from
a USB hard drive (as opposed to a USB floppy drive or a USB
flash drive)?

*TimDaniels*
 
A

Arno Wagner

Previously Peter said:
Does Ghost or another program allow me to copy the files from my HD to
my USB drive and if needed boot from the usb drive?
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Gost has not influence on whether your USB device will be bootable.
That depends on your BIOS.

Arno
 
E

Eric Gisin

Timothy Daniels said:
Can you name one PC (make and model) that can boot from
a USB hard drive (as opposed to a USB floppy drive or a USB
flash drive)?
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No difference between the two, other than the Int13 unit (00/80).
Windows cannot boot from USB though. Bart's PE has a USB hack.
 
R

Rod Speed

Timothy Daniels said:
Rod Speed wrote
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Let us suppose Windows XP or Windows Vista.
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Then you have a problem, and thats nothing to do with the PC, everything to do with what XP or
Vista can do easily, once you have a PC that can boot a USB with another OS like say PE on it.
 

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