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Windows 7 laptop keeps restarting if external hard drive isn't connected
My laptop restarts whenever I try to start Windows without my external HDD connected - after I log in an error message pops up (one of those 0x... errors) but it reboots before I can read what it ...
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Installation of CentOS on external Hard Disk
I installed CentOS on an external hard disk and it works correctly with one of my computers. However, when I boot CentOS from the external disk on my other computer, it throws an error: kernel panic - ...
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How do I get an existing installation of Windows 7 working from a USB 3 external drive?
I'm attempting to copy my existing installation of Windows 7 from my work laptop to an SSD of my own, and boot from it from an external enclosure via USB 3.0. I've used the laptop's internal SATA ...
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How to set an external hard drive to not be bootable?
When I connect my external hard drive to my PC, it tries to boot from it but is unable to do so because there is no OS installed. And rightly so, I only want to use it for dumb storage.
How can I set ...
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How to turn off USB drive activity light on Ubuntu 12.10?
I just loaded ubuntu 12.10 and after I have copied from the USB drive and I eject it the light on my USB drive or the External drive is still on(the blue activity light in USB drive).
I do not want ...
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How can I boot from an external USB HDD if it has 3 partitions, 2 of which should be bootable?
I'd like to use Clonezilla for backing up the C partitions of two separate laptops. My idea was to create two bootable FAT32 partitions on my external USB HDD (next to a main partition for other ...
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booting into a virtual machine from a linux installed on external hard drive
I am running windows 8 and have a linux Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an external hard drive, can I install a virtual machine on windows and run the linux system installed on my external HD?
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Making a Win8ToGo external HDD Failed
I'm trying to boot and run Windows 8 from a Hitachi 320GB SATA External HDD, the HDD already has Windows 8 installed with a 100Mb boot partition. When i try to bcdboot c:\windows I get failure when ...
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boot window 7 from external HD
I run windows 7 using bootcamp on my mac. I have backed up my windows 7 partition using driveimage xml to an external HD creating an exact clone. I would now like to try to boot windows directly off ...
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Multibeast not booting when i connect 2 tb external hard disk.
I have multibeast installed in my mac partition and it is working fine. It shows all drives. But when I connect my 2 tb external drive it is not booting . I get a memory allocation error. Does anyone ...
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How to copy a linux to a portable hard drive
I already have a linux running on my laptop.Is it possible to port the entire system to a portable hard drive by copy all the file to the hard drive with the existing folder structure and reinstall ...
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How to automount a Truecrypt volume before login in Windows 7?
I have an external hard drive containing all my documents, and it is encrypted with a password via Truecrypt. I'd like my desktop computer at home to automatically mount the volume prior to my ...
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Install Windows XP on a removable hard drive
I've got a hard drive connected to my PC with eSATA. I'd like to install Windows XP on it without having to reboot the computer.
What is the best/easiest/quickest way of doing this?
I plan on ...
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Why won't my drive boot over FireWire?
I have a brand new Western Digital MyPassport Studio, which I'd like to use as a utility drive. It will boot my Mac Pro over USB, but not over FireWire 800. Western Digital's support basically told me ...
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Method for Booting Windows XP/7 from an External Hard Drive?
I currently own a Macbook Pro, and got rid of the optical drive to instead use a second hard drive in its place.
This second hard drive contains an installation of Windows 7, which was installed from ...
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Computer won't boot with external USB drive plugged in
I have a old computer which is way past its prime time.
It is still running however, so I installed Server 2003 to setup a file server at home.
Problem is, because it's so old, I can't extend the ...
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Stop external usb harddrive from booting
Whenever I boot my machine with an external drive plugged into the usb I get an error:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot
device and press a key
I've ...
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Install Windows 7 from an external hard drive
How do you install Windows 7 from an external hard drive?
I don't have a DVD ROM drive, so I copied my Windows 7 DVD (which is bootable) onto an external hard drive from another PC. However after ...
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Backing Up Whole System Partition Onto External Source That Will Be Used As Spare System Partition
I am not talking about backing up to 1 file. I am talking about making exact copy of system partition on auxiliary external source that will be used as direct boot and not restoration source in case ...
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Boot Sector Missing in External hard drive
Yesterday I needed to copy some data from my girlfriend's laptop to mine. To do so I just copied my whole data from my external hard drive to my PC and used the hard drive for data exchange. After ...
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Installing Windows 7 from external hard drive?
I built my first gaming rig. It's on the way. My school gives us access to MSDN which has bunch of OS on there and we can download it for free. I don't have any blank DVD discs with me here. Is it ...
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Infinite reboot loop if external drive connected at boot time
I'm having a strange issue with my external hard drive. The external drive works perfectly under OSX and under Windows 7, yet, only if I connect it (power or USB) AFTER the BIOS has loaded (right up ...
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Boot from USB HDD
I've bought a new SSD for my notebook.
The old hard disk (with old OS) is now in an external case which is connected via USB to the notebook.
I hoped that I can simply connect the old HDD via USB and ...
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Skip drive during boot?
Okay so a while back I broke my screen on my laptop, so I cannot access the BIOS because I cannot see it. I have a few external hard drives that I keep connected to my laptop always, but when I reboot ...
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How to boot an MBP from an external HD?
I created a clone partition of my main drive with SuperDuper on an external (USB) drive. How can I boot from it?
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use external hard drive as primary boot device
I have a failing hard disk. Which linux said that I would need to replace.
I'm still saving to buy a new one. And since I have an external hard drive I want to use it as primary boot device where I ...
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e-SATA drive as my main/boot drive
I made a bad decision a year ago and bought a "green" terabyte drive that was an anemic 5400 RPM. After getting tired of waiting ages for things to load, I decided to image the drive to a terabyte ...
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Missing boot manager while booting from USB hard drive
When I boot Ubuntu from my USB hard drive, it says "Missing Boot MNGR". It only boots from CDs and DVDs.
This is an Acer Aspire with Windows 7 boot manager.
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Unable to Boot from USB External Hard Drive
I recently upgraded my main development machine to Windows 7. This involved wiping out my primary boot drive (Windows XP 64-bit) and starting clean. Before I wiped it, I did a direct disk-to-disk ...
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Suggestion for boot manager in external hard disk
I just bought an 1TB External Hard drive with eSATA, USB, FW400/800 (LaCie if you are interested).
I already put the windows 7 installation in a FAT32 active partition so i can plug the HDD via USB, ...
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How to upgrade OS on Mac Mini with external USB Drive?
We have a G4 Mac Mini, circa 2005, running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and we want to upgrade to 10.5 Leopard. We have a Leopard install disk, but the optical drive in this mini is broken. So we ...
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Box not booting with 1TB Segate external Drive
I have a Box running xpsp3, Intel board, 3.2gb P4*2. I recently purchased a 1TB Seagate external Drive, The box will not boot XP when the HD is plugged in, it will sit on the Intel boot screen ...
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grub2 error: out of disk
I'm trying to make a 250G USB hard disk Ubuntu-bootable on a Compaq nc6220 laptop.
I've removed all other disks, so /dev/sda (the USB disk) is the only disk other than CDROM.
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 ...
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Installing Ubuntu to a USB drive
I'm having a rough time getting Ubuntu to run from a 250 GB USB hard drive.
I booted Ubuntu 9.10 from a CD and ran the regular "install" to the attached USB drive. I used the "advanced" option on the ...
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Install Windows XP to USB Hard Drive and Run from It
I wanted to know if there was a way (that worked!) to both Install and Run Windows XP Pro from a USB 2.0 connected Hard Drive. My system does allow to boot from external usb hard drive, but when I ...
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Step by step instructions to make dos “see” and “access” usb hard drives
I am stuck with an USB external hard drive (Maxtor 1 Touch) 750GB that crashed. I have photos and home movies (my son's birth, first birthday etc) that are very important to me.
I am given to ...
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Booting ubuntu from usb hdd: GRUB menu not shown
could anyone help me to boot ubuntu-9.04 from usb hard disk?
This disk contains /boot primary partition. During ubuntu installation I used "Advanced" button and asked to install GRUB to the /boot ...
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Booting from a USB drive that was originally a boot drive
When Win 7 went RTM, I upgraded my laptop from XP. But to protect myself against the possibility of having data inaccessible, I got a new disk and put it in the laptop, and took the old (XP) disk and ...
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Why is my PC boot time slow when USB HDD attached?
I have a USB Hard disk that I am using as a secondary drive just for extra storage.
When this is attached and I start my PC the second screen says searching for mass storage dives for about 5 minutes ...
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Which virtual machine can boot from USB drive?
There are any desktop (not hipervisor) virtual machine software able to boot from USB drive? Which one and how?
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Disable USB drives during boot up?
I have 2 external USB harddrives that are on/active during the boot process. I believe that Windows7 is looking at those drives while booting, which is causes bootup to take longer. Is there a way ...
