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From: Carl on 30 Apr 2010 06:23
On Apr 29, 3:01 pm, John John - MVP <audetw...(a)nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> Carl wrote:
> > On Apr 29, 9:44 am, John John - MVP <audetw...(a)nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> >> Carl wrote:
> >>> On Apr 28, 1:20 pm, "Twayne" <nob...(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
> >>>> PS re the Subject line: You do not "clone" XP to a drive. A "clone" IS a
> >>>> hard drive that contains the operating system. What you do is replace a bad
> >>>> drive with a "cloned" drive, and in theory it will start right up.
> >>>>    Your problem could be in your understanding of what you're trying to
> >>>> achieve. Whatever it is, it is not "cloning ... back to your HD".
> >>>> HTH,
> >>> Thanks for weighing in, Twayne -
> >>> You are right; I used the wrong terminology.
> >>> One of the big surprises and disappointments of my introduction to
> >>> Microsoft Windows was to learn that, after making a clone of your HD,
> >>> if you have trouble, such as I am now having, that you could NOT copy
> >>> back the clone of your HD to your internal HD.
> >>> Macintosh allows this and instead of backing up each week, I use
> >>> SuperDuper to clone my OS to an external HD.  Haven't had to copy that
> >>> clone back to my internal HD since Apple came out with OSX, but I did
> >>> have to do so once or twice under OS 9 and its predecessors.
> >> What do you mean "you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your
> >> internal HD".  We create clones and images all the time here and restore
> >> them back anytime without any problems.  Of course, Windows PCs are much
> >> more varied than Macs, PCs come in a mutltitude of hardware
> >> configurations so moving clones or restoring images to different
> >> computers is not generally supported, whereas a Mac is a Mac is a Mac,
> >> so moving a clone or restoring an image to another Mac might not be a
> >> problem.
>
> >> John
>
> > John -
>
> > Lest my misuse of terminology confuses the situation, let me explain.
>
> > What I should have said was I was told, that for licensing reasons, M/
> > S will not allow you to boot your machine from Windows on an external
> > USB hard drive.
>
> > I have a Seagate external HD.
>
> > I used Seagate's free software to clone my Netbook's HD to an external
> > USB HD.
>
> > If I connect that USB HD, boot up, change the Boot Device Priority to
> > list that USB HD first, then exit and save the configuration, I get
> > nothing but a blinking white cursor on a black screen.
>
> > The first time this happened, I asked on this forum, I believe, and
> > was told that what I was doing was not possible because M/S did not
> > allow you to boot from an external HD.
>
> > I just tried it, and I am looking at the blinking cursor.
>
> > Was I misinformed?
>
> This has nothing to do with Microsoft's licensing, it' a technical
> limitation of the Windows operating system.  What happens with Windows
> is that the USB stack is initialized well after the Windows session
> manager has started, so in essence Windows can't boot off a USB drive
> because Windows has to initialize the stack before it can use it, a
> catch 22 kind of situation.  If you search the internet you will find
> information on how some have hacked the stack drivers to make them boot
> devices which in turn allows the ntldr boot manager to load the stack
> before the session manager is started.  This is unsupported by
> Microsoft, they have never bothered rewriting the boot up routine to
> have ntldr load the stack so Windows can't boot off a USB drive.
>
> John

BTW, shame on Microsoft for not bothering to rewri
From: Tim Meddick on 30 Apr 2010 16:35
Carl,
BTW - Did you read my reply on how to stop the unwanted "Ubuntu" entry on the
startup-menu?

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Carl" <carlhammel1(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for that explanation, J.P.
>
>
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From: Carl on 1 May 2010 08:06
On Apr 30, 4:35 pm, "Tim Meddick" <timmedd...(a)o2.co.uk> wrote:
> Carl,
>         BTW - Did you read my reply on how to stop the unwanted "Ubuntu" entry on the
> startup-menu?
>
> ==
>
> Cheers,    Tim Meddick,    Peckham, London.    :-)

Yes, I did Tim, I just have bee so terribly busy at work that I have
not had time to do it. I will do so this weekend and report back.

I cannot tell you how pleased I am at solving this problem. All
thanks to your patience and good advice.

Carl
From: Carl on 1 May 2010 17:31
On May 1, 8:06 am, Carl <carlhamm...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 4:35 pm, "Tim Meddick" <timmedd...(a)o2.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Carl,
> >         BTW - Did you read my reply on how to stop the unwanted "Ubuntu" entry on the
> > startup-menu?


Hi Tim -

I followed your instructions, restarted the Netbook and it booted
directly to the Windows log-in screen.

Ubuntu is 100% gone.

Thanks very much.

Carl
From: Tim Meddick on 3 May 2010 15:36
I am just very glad to know it!

and... thankyou for re-posting that your problem was resolved.

So many don't bother, and it can be mildly frustrating.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




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On May 1, 8:06 am, Carl <carlhamm...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 4:35 pm, "Tim Meddick" <timmedd...(a)o2.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Carl,
> > BTW - Did you read my reply on how to stop the unwanted "Ubuntu" entry
> > on the
> > startup-menu?


Hi Tim -

I followed your instructions, restarted the Netbook and it booted
directly to the Windows log-in screen.

Ubuntu is 100% gone.

Thanks very much.

Carl

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