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I'm so tired of this...
I wrote to Teac and they said and I quote "There is no drivers required for internal IDE drives, as the drivers are the generic IDE drivers within Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, and even Windows Vista. You can confirm if the drive is working by booting up from the drive with a bootable disc inside (ie Windows 98 or XP

Install Vista from one partition to another
I have recently purchased a Dell XPS laptop with Vista Home Premium. I have already in the past 6 week had to restore the system back to it's factory setting. After completion I always click the Safely Remove Hardware and click the external drive. When it gives me the go ahead, I unplug it.

Can I install Windows XP Professional and Laptop with vista
Installing XP on a computer with Vista preinstalled requires boot reconfiguration (and associated knowledge). Evidently you have an USB CD drive - keep in have an external USB drive. the laptop come with windows vista OS. i want to install windows XP in other partition, ie i want to make it dual boot. i can't

Problème avec clé usb
Is there any way I can achieve it? You can use diskpart to set the disk's 'bootable' flag, but (unlike format /s) you'll still need to an operating system to the disk. Windows basically doesn't support booting from an external drive (you can get XP to do it with BartPE, but Vista is only supported by WinPE,

Trying to get my new laptop to recognise an external drive.
You can boot from a disk imaging program disk and image to an external drive. You can boot from a Linux disk and copy files to an external drive, or you can remove the drive, install it in I need to copy stuff over to my usb drive but it won't give me access This is a laptop so I cannot use the drive elsewhere.

'file could not be copied' trying to recover from a corrupted regi
RC White r...@grandecom.net microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Hi, Earl. it says "ACPI x86 based PC". Does that mean I have a 32-bit Yep. There is nothing wrong with the printer - it works fine on my laptop with Windows XP and other devices (camera, external drive) work fine on the USBs,

Boot Problem
I've used all kinds of encryption software over the years and use lots of external drives now that get mounted late, sometimes hours after I boot. Neither should effect what Vista "sees" at all. Assuming you boot into Vista, regardless what you mount should AFTER the drive is mounted encrypted or not cause a window

Vista Networking Corrupting my Data!
Andrew McLaren and...@fakeaddress.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi Eric If you want to do a clean install of Vista (not a bad idea) you'll need to boot up from the DVD. If your internal DVD doesn't work, you'd need to get a bootable external DVD drive (and, the BIOS on your laptop must

URGENT: VISTA NOT LOADING ON DISK OR DVD!
I do crazy things on my laptop running vista and never have a problem. If you have the CD to restore vista and have backed up any important files then do this. Even if your hard drive crashes all your data is right there on the external drive. You can copy files to new or existing hard drive or prepare a load

Allan/Janice - A Question
Kerry Brown ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m microsoft public windows vista general Use the utility Acer supplied to make a set of recovery media. Thanks for the replies, but I know how to use it, as a recovery/reinstall, I want to be able to remove the files to disk/or external drive then I want to delete these

in lieu of swapping out hard drives
If your version of Ghost doesn't do the Vista MBR, use the DOS version of MBRWiz to save the good MBR and later restore it after recovering with Ghost. The whole restore process could take as little as 15 minutes. DOS Ghost could restore from a USB or FireWire external drive and possibly from a USB memory stick or

Maxtor External drive and vista... Maxtor won't help me!
What I do on notebooks is use a small USB external drive called a Firelite ( 40.0 Gigabyte ). I set the destination to it and then once the image is created I'm currently using Vista on my desktop PC (it's great) and I am considering also purchasing it for my laptop. The problem is that my laptop is a couple of

Registry File Failure, is there a way to backup?
The system makes images on the hard drive, of all the discs it will write. On a Compaq laptop with only CD writing capability, I aborted the process after not see the external DVD-writer for creating the recovery discs unless I first disabled the internal CD drive and booted with the external drive plugged in.

Accessing Laptop Hidden Partition
How is the external hd connected to the laptop? Usually you can pull the usb plug until the laptop has booted completely, then attach the external drive. vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse found penguin patterns on mousepad. Partition scan in progress to remove offending incompatible products.

XP install boot cd can't recognize my new laptop internal Disk dri
Malke notrea...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista security Jechon wrote: my son recently lost his laptop case with my disk for vista and don't Then boot with it and it will be able to see the Windows files. If you are using the usb thumb drive or the external hard drive, right-click on its icon (on

True Image 10
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 (Grinning) I was just thinking about one of these laptop drives, the parallel drive. About a year (or more) ago, the drive went bad and I replaced it with a

How to make a hard disk bootable?
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 works very well, too. Use the working Windows Explorer to copy the

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
All of the disk (except for swap) sits on the master Server (which has a bunch of external drive sleds), and all of the Client machines boot via Gig-E. .... (FYI, the other machine I *could* try it on is a laptop; I actually did intend to use FreeBSD as the primary OS on it at one point, but had zero luck with

Complete PC Restore
I have a laptop I'd like to use it on but it only has a 60GB drive... guess I have to go off and read the WHS forums to see if I can get away with a 60GB HD... if not, I've got a GX240 The other cool feature is how WHS handles storage and the simplicity when adding/subtracting an internal or external drive.

XPS 410 / 9200 - 4th Drive? (and Linux)
If it's a USB external device and the BIOS supports booting it, you'll still likely find it frsutrating to get this to work. Some have, in my opinion, it's not worth the pain even if you can get it to work. How can I use my laptop (vista or XP) to install SBS on the external drive? Install Virtual PC 2007 (or