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Vista & External Storage Devices & NAS Boxes Problems & Issues,+Ot
The BIOS appears that USB drive can be placed in the boot order list. Does this mean that Windows Vista can be installed in an external USB HDD? No. As I said, XP will not boot from an external hard drive. There have been reports that it has been done with hacks, but I've never seen it reported successfully with

W2K Pro Upgrade/Clean Install to Vista
Install TrueImage HOME 10.0 on your computer. Create the emergency boot CD from within TrueImage. Connect up an external USB hard drive of sufficient capacity. Install a new hard drive and install a new copy of the operating system. Of course, Sony didn't give you a hard copy of Vista so you will have to

Unable to connect to external USB drive
I also have an external USB hard drive, formatted in FAT-32, that I use for backups. Most common liveCDs will be happy to serve. The atheros/madwifi cards are vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse found penguin patterns on mousepad. Partition scan in progress to remove offending incompatible products.

Microsoft throws in the towel on Vista
Is it available on the liveCD (I never used it during an install)? A few more details on this step would be useful. Sorry when I said boot via liveCD I wasn't specifically referring to the Gentoo I had an external USB hard drive that I connected to the laptop and mounted. I copied the partition table to it.

Somewhat off-topic but I don't want to open a new newsgroup
"hitesh ughreja" <hitesh.ughr...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:40565aad-85d1-4476-a60e-8f655ca2e43d@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... hello, i bought a new x61 laptop which doesn't have any CD rom drive. i have an external USB drive. the laptop come with windows vista OS. i want to install windows XP in other

Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo
You would have to do a repair install to even begin to get it to work. It is much easier to just load the O/S fresh in a new virtual machine. I have tried both using an external USB Hard Drive and copying the backup image onto a second virtual HD, but I cannot get Acronis to see either the USB external drive,

USB Pen drives
John Dulak - Gnomeway Services -http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6 John, The original post was because I could not boot using my hard drive C and the internal DVD was faulty (been that way for some time) so I wanted to know how to use the windows 98 install CD with an USB external CD_RW drive. Never could get it done that

home basic
Leythos V...@nowhere.lan microsoft public windows vista general On Wed, 09 May 2007 01:05:20 +0000, 46erjoe wrote: I did try to use an external USB hard drive enclosure. It didn't work. It was a Z-Disk External by Cintre. My computer detected the conection of a USB drive, but it didn't appear in my Windows Explorer

Upgrading to Vista?
... Brother HL1440 Laser printer Apollo p2200 inkjet printer Dlink WNA2330 wireless card External USB hard drive Kodak P850 digital camera and printer dock etc. If vista fails to install (see a recent post here) what are you going to do? And you certainly won't be installing vista on 'older hardware' - what

Vista crashes,how to backup in safemode?
Am I being paranoid or is there any real danger? I'm using Vista on a new high end Dell which as of now seems very stable. I installed a 500 gig hard drive for video editing and as a place for backups, but now that I've read the manual, I think I'll also get an external USB drive for backups. Joe.

Vista seams slow
Talal Itani tit...@verizon.net alt comp hardware "kony" <s...@spam.com> wrote in message news:rmo2231rq0l2sr97shi92nr7h20ig3aqgm@4ax.com... On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:01:33 GMT, "Talal Itani" <tit...@verizon.net> wrote: With my current PC, I do backups about every 2 weeks, to an external USB hard drive.

Single-app Linux install?
Hi, I have Sony Vaio VGN-N250 with windows vista preinstalled. I have a usb Hard drive on which i want to install windows xp and use it when required on this notebook. i donot know how to do it so can aNYONE GUIDE ME HOW TO INSTALL WQINDOWS XP ON THE EXTERNAL USB HARD DRIVE AND BOOT my notebook from that. i will be

External USB Hard Drive not working, Vista asking for drivers
Shamsher Shams...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Hi, I have Sony Vaio VGN-N250 with windows vista preinstalled. I have a usb Hard drive on which i want to install windows xp and use it when required on this notebook. i donot know how to do it so can aNYONE GUIDE ME HOW TO

Gaming in Vista 64 -bit
Just download the latest version 4.12.11 Install - it will install java if you need it. Then after the final setup where you choose the shared folder - everything 320GB External USB Hard Drive 4. 200GB External USB Hard Drive basically whether these hard drives are connected via the LAN or via USB, Vista doesnt

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
I have used 4 different brand USB memory drives and an external USB hard drive with both Vista x86 and x64 without any problems. Both of these pen drives work and the drivers install automaticly with Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro and with Windows XP 64 bit Pro but not with Windows Vista 64 bit unless I install

Openning XP backup files in Vista
Now can you guys tell me how to install both using recovery Cds to install vista after I have installed Windows Xp. I will be thankful. XP is not designed to run from an external USB hard drive. Some folks have purported to do it, Google for it, but I have not seen any competent information to show it can be

How do I install external usb hard drive for Vista in a dual boot
Install it internally with a standard 100Mb EIDE or with a faster SATA interface. Install the game of your choice on that drive and play it. EIDE for external drives. We are not talking about some EIDE vs. SATA or drive gainst drive. We're talking about the method of getting data to the computer.

How can i back up the whole operating system?
sarath kumar r.sarathku...@gmail.com windows-vista yes you can boot dual,but before that you must get into the bios setup and change the boot order for usb I bought external USB hard drive, and want to install XP Pro on it , so I get dual boot Vista/XP. Is this doable, and can someone point out some links that

Vista will not boot - work around
Hi, I am not really wanting to upgrade to 11, but will do this if the version 10 recovery disk won't find the HDD on a 1330 XPS laptop - I don't install the program on the hard drive, just do backups using the disk every month or so onto an external HD. Thanks. Andrew.Anyone tried the above combination?

How to install OS in external USB HDD
Windows Vista became unbootable so I had to repair it to make it bootable again. Could anyone help me to install Windows XP in an external USB HDD in the above situation? XP can't boot from an external hard drive, so this isn't going to work for you. It might be able to boot from an external e-SATA drive if your