Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop
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From: press810 on 19 Jul 2010 06:36 Thank You Timothy and Brian K for answering my post. Reading your answers have given me an idea on how I will try to go about this. The cnet.com reviews on Bootit NG are positive. If I understand Brian correctly the "BING" bootloader can be run from a CD. It appears it can be tried out without having to first install to the MBR like with the OSL2000 boot manager. Maybe can even run without having to take up another primary.Wonder if there is a way to run BING from USB flash. Oh Timothy I looked into PC Express eSATA cards at Q;A sites but opinions vary from ..."eSATA is the only ext drive capable of booting Windows" to more pessimistic views like Western Digital Tech support which are doubtful Windows is even capable of booting from any external HD. It's just Windows thing they figure. ------------- Brian K on 16 Jul 2010 07:06 wrote: ......Try this. Boot from a BING CD. If you can see your eSATA HD in Partition Work then BING will be able to boot an OS on that HD.....
From: Brian K on 19 Jul 2010 07:39 press810, There are good tutorials on using BING here.... http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/howto/index.htm BING can run from a floppy, CD or USB flash drive. You can partition, create and restore images, and do various manipulations on the MBR from the boot disk. But for the Boot Manager function it must be installed to the HD. You only need 8 MB of unallocated space. It doesn't matter if you have 50 GB of unallocated space. BING will only use 8 MB to create a primary partition for itself. If you no longer want BING installed, it is a one click uninstall. From the BING website.... "Boot any partition on any hard drive (via BIOS)"
From: Brian K on 19 Jul 2010 07:48 "press810" <uce1085(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f3138544-dafb-4961-b144-91be186a3814(a)d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com... > to more pessimistic views like Western Digital Tech support > which are doubtful Windows is even capable of booting from any > external HD. It's just Windows thing they figure. I can assure you WinXP can boot from an eSATA HD and a USB external HD. WinXP can boot from a USB flash drive but it runs very slowly. Although I haven't tried OS other than WinXP on an eSATA HD, I'll bet BING could boot any OS on that HD.
From: Brian K on 19 Jul 2010 08:43 I just booted Win7 64 bit from my eSATA external HD.
From: BillW50 on 19 Jul 2010 16:04
In news:8YW0o.1181$Yv.704(a)viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com, Brian K typed on Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:48:18 +1000: > "press810" <uce1085(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:f3138544-dafb-4961-b144-91be186a3814(a)d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com... >> to more pessimistic views like Western Digital Tech support >> which are doubtful Windows is even capable of booting from any >> external HD. It's just Windows thing they figure. > > I can assure you WinXP can boot from an eSATA HD and a USB external > HD. WinXP can boot from a USB flash drive but it runs very slowly. > > Although I haven't tried OS other than WinXP on an eSATA HD, I'll bet > BING could boot any OS on that HD. To make Windows XP to boot off of an USB drive (and most flash since they are interfaced through USB), one needs to make about three pages of registry hacks. This is all needed because Windows resets the USB ports halfway through the boot and then it will hang. I don't know if BING gets around this or not. But stock, Windows XP (and I doubt Vista or 7 will either) without a lot of modification. I don't know if native Windows resets the eSATA ports too during boot or not. -- Bill Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 1 of 3 - Windows XP SP2 |