Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop
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From: Brian K on 13 Jul 2010 02:53 press810, Any feedback for the forum?
From: Timothy Daniels on 15 Jul 2010 19:15 "Brian K" wrote: > Tim, > > I'm using a Silicon Image 3132 PCI Express eSATA card with onboard BIOS. I've booted WinXP from the attached HD. I have a laptop, recall, and it would use an Expresscard. And, in fact, the SIIG Expresscard that I have, see http://www.siig.com/ViewProduct.aspx?pn=SC-SAE512-S1 , is by SIIG's own pronouncement, incapable of booting an OS. Did you do anything unusual to get WinXP on your external SATA HD to boot? *TimDaniels*
From: Brian K on 15 Jul 2010 20:50 I restored an image of WinXP to the eSATA HD. Then booted the OS using BING.
From: Brian K on 15 Jul 2010 21:20 Tim, I'm a fast worker. I just ran this exercise to confirm my memory isn't faulty. My external HD is 320 GB (eSATA). I resized the partition to 305 GB so that I had 15 GB of unallocated free space. I restored my WinXP image into this space. A Boot Item was setup in BING with the Swap option enabled as the OS wasn't on HD0. WinXP booted from the eSATA HD. Easy. I have a whole series of backup images that I can use for tests. At present I have over 20 bootable OS on HD0. Several WinXP, several Win7, several Linux, several DOS, etc. All independent, courtesy of BING.
From: Brian K on 15 Jul 2010 21:32
I forgot to mention that installing an OS to an eSATA HD wouldn't be a good idea as the booting files would go to HD0. Better to install the OS to an extra partition on HD0, create an image and restore the image to the eSATA HD. You could then delete the extra partition on HD0. |