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eSATA2 / eSATAII Drives disappear after Vista Upgrade
Get that external drive and you will be glad you did! Cheers.... "AS" <A...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message Again, I had already created 17 BACKUP DISKS and if I have to start over, well some blood will be spilled tonight (and it will be my laptop's and Vista's...) Please tell me all is not lost.

install windows xp through external USB CDrom drive
Colin Barnhorst c.barnho...@comcast.net microsoft public windowsxp general Have you actually tried to boot with an OS on the eSATA external drive? The problem is specifically about how to boot from an eSATA drive via an ExpressCard SATA connector on a laptop. Everyone is clear that it works with eSATA ports on

install windows xp through external USB CDrom drive
You can boot Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X, any Linux flavor you want, Solaris, and so on, all on a Mac simply by creating a partition on the built-in drive. You're probably somewhat But because you may have problems booting from an *external* drive (and this is a laptop), you're not going to get a Mac?

Dual Boot with external usb Drive..
Boot DVD #1 to reinstall XP. Otherwise you now have a boat anchor. ( Even if you do get Vista to work, I'd recommend that everyone buy their restore media - just to have it. Then I connected the external drive to another machine and burned the contents of the Users folder to a couple of DVDs.

XP install boot cd can't recognize my new laptop internal Disk dri
A usb/firewire external drive enclosure works very well, too. Use the working Windows Explorer to copy the data to the rescue system's hard drive and then burn the data to cd or dvd. 2. Often XP/Vista will not boot with a slaved drive that has a damaged file system. In that case, boot the target computer with

How to make a hard disk bootable?
In the vista NGs there has been several comments about that "feature". MS has never supported booting from USB drives. Why would they change now <g> And think about it: a USB drive with I've not used imaging software much, due to the small size of my external drive, and the USB 1.1 only ports on the laptop.

Allan/Janice - A Question
I haven't used Vista yet, but on XP I can read all the useable files from the laptop HDD (if they are still there) and copy my data to any other drive connected to my desktop I do, however, have a 320GB external Toshiba USB HD - but this isn't recognised when booting up. Could I transfer the files onto here?

Ximeta NDAS external drive via Ethernet
If Windows will not stay stable enough in Safe Mode to do this, pull the drive and slave it in a computer running a working install of XP/Vista. Depending on the target drive's characteristics, you may need a drive adapter; ie, laptop-to-IDE or a SATA controller card, etc. A USB/firewire external drive enclosure

Encryption Can Save Data in Laptop Lapses
The problem is specifically about how to boot from an eSATA drive via an ExpressCard SATA connector on a laptop. Everyone is clear that it works with It is about how to do it on a laptop with an external drive and the resulting discussion is about problems of accomplishing that with an ExpressCard eSATA port.

After backup disc #17, Vista tells me backup "failed"
It is about how to do it on a laptop with an external drive and the resulting discussion is about problems of accomplishing that with an ExpressCard eSATA port. When I boot, I get the grub menu and choose Windows. I then get the Windows boot-loader where I can choose between Windows2000pe, WindowsXPpe and the

Vista experience on a T60
Carey Frisch [MVP] cnfri...@nospamgmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Windows XP cannot be installed on an external drive. then boooting with that installation but then it automatically restarts.. Please help if anyone have solution of this. One Quick thing .. My Laptop supports the boot from USB HDD.

Cloning Win98FE prior to SE upgrade
I don't have drivers for my HP printer, my Western Digital Dual Option external drive, my Canon Scanner, my Asus A8N-SLI-Deluxe motherboard and its And, everyone who sees my lovely Vista laptop goes "wow" and then plugs in their USB Key, and goes "ohhh... oh yes, they said on the news it was full of problems"!

Worth installing Vista on old(ish) laptop?
Can this be done via usb external drive?? "peter" <pe...@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:uulH8521HHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... Vista is a different animal from Hi, Is there a way to create a dual boot laptop that gives me a choice of which OS I want to load. I still have programs that only work with XP.

IGFX
Special Note To Users Ready To UpgradeĀ To VISTA - If you're thinking about doing a Vista upgrade, that's another fantastic reason to get this software. What this software does is to make an "image" (exact copy) of your hard drive. Now, this image can be created on another hard drive, an external drive,

Easy Transfer Error in Vista 64 Ultimate, trans from Home premimum
You can boot a Mac into what's called "target mode", where it just acts like an external drive -- which means I can hook my laptop to my desktop with a firewire cable, boot the I'll be waiting for Windows Vista if I get a PC and I'll build it myself, if I get the Mac I'll probably go with the 20" IMac again,

Backup & Restore
I couldn't get it to run on my Xp laptop. Mere hours before I was to leave for Dallas, the hard drive died. I had another drive from a defunct Dell with XP already I was able to get a recovery image dumped from there to a different external drive. Now I have to wipe the replacement and install the image...not

Login Process Initialization Failure Error Message - HELP!
... but she is probably going to have to hook up an external drive that has XP installed and try to use it as a boot drive, so she can then wipe the internal drive and install XP. His new laptop came with Vista, and he decided he'd best keep it and learn it, because many of his clients have and will have Vista.

XP install boot cd can't recognize my new laptop internal Disk dri
When I tried to use it in Vista, Vista rejected the program. A display popped up saying the program could not be installed (or used, I don't recall which) in The main drive (C drive) would not boot and he replaced it with a new drive. Having done that, he found he had an unused USB external a case into which he

Which XP to use
... Affairs recently lost data on 26.5 million veterans and military personnel stored on a laptop and external drive stolen from the suburban Washington home of a VA employee. The portable computers are usually protected by passwords needed to boot them up, but the data on their drives are still accessible.

Vista crashes,how to backup in safemode?
Yes it can be done, if it is a USB connected external drive which I think you mean. The term is dual boot. And you require programs named dual loader or boot manager Separate hard drives is the correct way rather than partitions. You also have to make changes in BIOS. There are known problems with Vista in that in