Re: Connecting 3.5" HDD to Notebook Computer
- From: Grant <g_r_a_n_t_@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:34:27 +1000
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:23:13 -0400, William P. N. Smith <> wrote:
>"Frenchie" <yannstlo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>and see if the computer can boot off of the image on the 3.5" HDD.
>
>If the 3.5" hard drive is connected to the computer via USB, this may
>not work. WinXP is known _NOT_ to boot off USB hard drives, even if
>your BIOS supports booting off them. As soon as it loads disk drivers
>it'll start reading from the IDE drive, which isn't what you booted
>off.
Unless of course you _hide_ the IDE windows partition, then winxp
will not mount the IDE drive. I've tested this recently on a SATA
plus IDE box to verify a dataloss -- got caught by the behaviour
you describe and second attempt with hidden drive worked. Important
to realise winxp cannot cope with multiple primary boot drives and
will destroy a visible copy, a very interesting time waster, not.
Cheers.
.
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