J
jay-n-123
For backup purposes, I successfully am able to clone my entire Vista Home
Premium hard drive to an IDE drive. Granted I had to insert my Vista DVD
and choose the repair option to get it to boot.
MY PROBLEM: If I enclose the IDE hard drive into an external USB case, my
motherboard and bios support a USB boot just fine, thank you, AND Vista
STARTS to boot. HOWEVER Vista FAILS and causes the computer to restart. If
I then try to repair the disk using the Vista DVD the repair fails.
However, if I then take the same IDE drive and plop it back into my computer
as an ordinary IDE drive, it boots up and runs just fine.
Now, I will reiterate that my Motherboard and Bios handle USB boot
capability just fine, thank you. In addition the drive IS being assigned
the correct drive letter of C:. I know this because the Vista repair
utility recognizes the drive as drive C.
CONCLUSION: until proven otherwise it would seem that Microsoft is
**intentionally preventing me** from booting and running Vista from a USB
hard drive. Reason I believe this to be true, is that Windows ME can boot
and run just fine from a USB hard drive, even ME was installed onto an IDE
and then enclosed into a USB case. So that proves that Microsoft is
perfectly capable of designing an OS that boots from USB, and which would
allow an IDE drive to be enclosed into a USB case boot up.
It seems clear to me that Microsoft intentionally removed that ability for
XP and continues to disallow this for Vista. Thanks to Microsoft's policy
of not letting consumers boot from USB, I am stuck using IDE and SATA mobile
racks rather than being able to put all My SATA and IDE backup drives into
USB cases.
Is there ANY way to get Vista to boot and run from USB hard drive? If I
were to reinstall the whole damn thing from scratch (a time consuming
endeavor) would it let me install onto USB HD and would THAT USB HD boot up
and run, or would I just be wasting yet another afternoon trying to get this
happening?
J.
Premium hard drive to an IDE drive. Granted I had to insert my Vista DVD
and choose the repair option to get it to boot.
MY PROBLEM: If I enclose the IDE hard drive into an external USB case, my
motherboard and bios support a USB boot just fine, thank you, AND Vista
STARTS to boot. HOWEVER Vista FAILS and causes the computer to restart. If
I then try to repair the disk using the Vista DVD the repair fails.
However, if I then take the same IDE drive and plop it back into my computer
as an ordinary IDE drive, it boots up and runs just fine.
Now, I will reiterate that my Motherboard and Bios handle USB boot
capability just fine, thank you. In addition the drive IS being assigned
the correct drive letter of C:. I know this because the Vista repair
utility recognizes the drive as drive C.
CONCLUSION: until proven otherwise it would seem that Microsoft is
**intentionally preventing me** from booting and running Vista from a USB
hard drive. Reason I believe this to be true, is that Windows ME can boot
and run just fine from a USB hard drive, even ME was installed onto an IDE
and then enclosed into a USB case. So that proves that Microsoft is
perfectly capable of designing an OS that boots from USB, and which would
allow an IDE drive to be enclosed into a USB case boot up.
It seems clear to me that Microsoft intentionally removed that ability for
XP and continues to disallow this for Vista. Thanks to Microsoft's policy
of not letting consumers boot from USB, I am stuck using IDE and SATA mobile
racks rather than being able to put all My SATA and IDE backup drives into
USB cases.
Is there ANY way to get Vista to boot and run from USB hard drive? If I
were to reinstall the whole damn thing from scratch (a time consuming
endeavor) would it let me install onto USB HD and would THAT USB HD boot up
and run, or would I just be wasting yet another afternoon trying to get this
happening?
J.