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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
I have cloned a Win 2k to a USB hard disk. (Used Acronis True image)
I can boot to it from the Bios but after loading the bootmenu it starts booting from my main disk. What entry would do I require in the boot.ini file to continue booting from the usb disk? I have 3 hard disks. Primary Slave USB Thanks Farouk Dindar |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
I have cloned a Win 2k to a USB hard disk. (Used Acronis True image)
I can boot to it from the Bios but after loading the bootmenu it starts booting from my main disk. What entry would do I require in the boot.ini file to continue booting from the usb disk? I have 3 hard disks. Primary Slave USB Why are you doing that (cloning to USB and trying to boot from it)? Anyhow, Windows 2000 boot process involves much more than just reacting to boot.ini content. There are many more things to be repaired, before boot is fully successfull. Some of that repair is done by OS itself, but it depends if drives referenced before (ie. before you have changed boot sequence in BIOS) are still available (online) or not. So it depens on what you have done to all drives and in what sequence. |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
Why are you doing that (cloning to USB and trying to boot from it)? Here is may main reason I am practising on my desktop before I try it on my notebook. I am a neurologists and one of things that I do is electrodiagnostic testing (EMG). There are occasions when I take my equipment to the intensive care unit to the the test. The manufactures software is loaded works with Win XP. It is connected with the manufacturers machine via a network card. http://www.cadwell.com/nav_components/index_pc.htm If the hard disk gives me a problem at a crucial time I would like to boot from bootable winXP from USB disk. I just want to be prepared for the worst! Farouk Dindar |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
Why are you doing that (cloning to USB and trying to boot from it)?
Here is may main reason I am practising on my desktop before I try it on my notebook. I am a neurologists and one of things that I do is electrodiagnostic testing (EMG). There are occasions when I take my equipment to the intensive care unit to the the test. The manufactures software is loaded works with Win XP. It is connected with the manufacturers machine via a network card. http://www.cadwell.com/nav_components/index_pc.htm If the hard disk gives me a problem at a crucial time I would like to boot from bootable winXP from USB disk. I just want to be prepared for the worst! I understand. Can you hire an information technology professional to help you? It seems that you can benefit from properly planned data backup and system recovery strategy. There are many crucial details involved that need to be addressed. |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
Kafka wrote...
I have cloned a Win 2k to a USB hard disk. (Used Acronis True image) I can boot to it from the Bios but after loading the bootmenu it starts booting from my main disk. Google "booting from usb hdd". Here is one of the hits that may interest you. http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6713 Good luck. |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
Google "booting from usb hdd". Here is one of the hits that may interest you. http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6713 Good luck. Thanks! I have been succesfull in my desktop based computer in the lab with Win2k to clone the disk and boot directly from from slave disk. I will PERSEVERE!! Farouk |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
Kafkawrote:
I have cloned a Win 2k to a USB hard disk. (Used Acronis True image) I can boot to it from the Bios but after loading the bootmenu it starts booting from my main disk. What entry would do I require in the boot.ini file to continue booting from the usb disk? I have 3 hard disks. Primary Slave USB Thanks Farouk Dindar I believe you may find your solution in your system bios. Make sure "boot other device" is checked. Then, go through your boot order. I have no trouble booting to USB with XP. Half the time it wants to, even when I don't want it to. LOL |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
I can't see the original post, so I will reply here.
There has never been the means to install or boot from USB drives in Win 2K/XP. The USB driver stack is not loaded boot-time like IDE/SCSI/1394 is. Ntldr does load the kernel from any BIOS device, but without drivers the kernel never sees USB drives. In your case, it does see the original on IDE. For those who suggest Bart's PE can load from USB, he has written a RAM disk loader and driver that works around this. Your only solutions are eSATA drives or BIOS with 1394 support. "Harry331" wrote in message news:kcQAf.308453$2k.64183@pd7tw1no... Kafka wrote... I have cloned a Win 2k to a USB hard disk. (Used Acronis True image) I can boot to it from the Bios but after loading the bootmenu it starts booting from my main disk. Google "booting from usb hdd". Here is one of the hits that may interest you. http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6713 Good luck. |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
There has never been the means to install or boot from USB drives in Win 2K/XP. The USB driver stack is not loaded boot-time like IDE/SCSI/1394 is. Ntldr does load the kernel from any BIOS device, but without drivers the kernel never sees USB drives. In your case, it does see the original on IDE. After my multiple experiments this weekend I would tend to agree. I have tried many scenarios. I have a newish motherboard for my desktop with win 2k and and a new thinkpad t42 with win xp which I use at work in the lab I can get the booting to start in the USB disk and can see my different menus that I have created but after that the booting goes to the the primary disk. I have actually solved my problem with the notebook. With Multibay hard disk which I can boot up from the second disk. It took many tries. The final solution was to to create a an image with True Image on primary drive. I then restored the same image to the second disk in the Multibay. There was no need to change the boot.ini file. I needed the option to boot from the second disk in the event of program misbehaving whist I was doing electrodiagnostic testing in a critical situation such as the ICU Farouk Dindar |
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Boot.ini entry to access USB drive
Harry331 wrote...
Kafka wrote... I have cloned a Win 2k to a USB hard disk. (Used Acronis True image) I can boot to it from the Bios but after loading the bootmenu it starts booting from my main disk. Google "booting from usb hdd". Here is one of the hits that may interest you. http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6713 A couple more URLs here. http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php? showtopic=14181&st=40&p=90809&#entry90809 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php? showtopic=14181&st=220&p=97519&#entry97519 I haven't tried any of these methods. My advice is to google how other people did that, and then pick some to try out yourself. |
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