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Old 09-03-2004, 08:45 PM
oedipus_complex oedipus_complex is offline
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Default Booting from a USB HDD

Does anyone know if you can boot an emachines 6805/7 from an external usb hdd?
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Old 09-03-2004, 10:42 PM
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

i dont think it's possible, but we should probably get another opinion
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Old 09-04-2004, 04:39 PM
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

I hope it is as it would certainly solve the multiple OS issue for me
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Old 09-04-2004, 06:47 PM
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

I would strongly "guess" that you will not be able to "boot" from a USB device. The boot sequence is setup in the BIOS (F2 when you machine is starting). However, since the USB is not directly connected to IDE channel on the board it will not appear as a boot sequence option. The USB requires drivers to be loaded during the boot in order to work and therefore it cannot be the boot source.


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Old 09-05-2004, 05:34 PM
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

Right now you can NOT boot Windows from a USB hard drive. If your BIOS does happen to support booting from USB disks, windows still does not. You can start an installation that way, and even think it is going to work, but when Windows XP starts to boot you'll get a bluescreen (7b, inaccessible boot device).

I'm not exactly sure why you'd really want to anyway, since USB disks are much slower than IDE.
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Old 09-07-2004, 06:13 PM
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

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I'm not exactly sure why you'd really want to anyway, since USB disks are much slower than IDE
So I can have multiple OS's. I don't want to clog up my audio drive with internet and games and what not
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Old 09-07-2004, 08:18 PM
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

Why not just get another disk to record to? You can have multiple versions of Windows on the same disk.. but I'm not sure what you're trying to dual boot. I don't see any point of dual booting these days. :shrug:
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Old 09-07-2004, 09:51 PM
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

Heres the bootable USB devices in a A7N8X bios > advanced section > first/second/3rd boot device...

USB-FDD
USB-CDROM
USB-ZIP
USB-HDD

You should see something similar unless they hid the options from you, many OEM's like to make their own custom bioses.
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Old 09-08-2004, 01:38 AM
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Default Re: Booting from a USB HDD

Here's a rather old description of my multi-boot system. I wouldn't use FDisk any more, but do all that from within XP - I wasn't confident enough in XP back then.

And some XP tuning tips -
go to here (but don't do 11 or 26) or take a look at this thread.

One big advantage of multi-booting now is that you can install SP2 on your internet option, but leave your PT option(s) alone until any bugs are ironed out.

All this stuff here is copy n paste from Clip Cache (if you install multi-boot and clip cache make the CC reference file the same for all the boot options - that way anything you ever copy in one option is available to paste in all the others)

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