Re: Cannot boot from USB 2 HDD formatted with NTFS


"meagain" <thatme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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After much GOOGLE-ing and trying different things, it seems that I must
use some version of FAT instead of NTFS to make my USB 2.0 HDD bootable.
Is this true?
It's a 40GB Maxtor with XP-Home SP2 using NTFS.
And Asus A7N8X-X which supports booting from USB in BIOS but it just won't
work.

I bought an external enclosure mainly for backing up but maybe I should
just put the HDD in the PC as a slave.

Thanks for any feedback.

Rick



I guess the Maxtor goes back into the PC as a Slave then.


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