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old laptop
We have to format the drive to resolve the issue. To protect the data, you transferred the data from the disc to USB external drive with the help of your laptop with Windows XP. However, the USB external drive cannot be recognized by the computer with Windows Vista. The driver of the disc seems not to work properly

Hard drive crash
If someone can tell me that they have no problem interconnecting a 2003 Sony DSC-V1 camera or a 2003 Poketec Datastor 40G external drive with the original firmware and drivers to Vista via USB to transfer or display pictures, then that would blow 'my' hypothesis right out of the water. That wouldn't necessarily

in lieu of swapping out hard drives
Walter Mautner newfeed.20.eatalls...@spamgourmet.com 24hoursupport helpdesk Frosty wrote: i would like to clone my laptop drive with win98 to an external usb drive. there does not appear to be any support dos wise for this external drive but is there a way to clone it while still in win98 Why not boot from a

Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo
Networking - what a job it was letting my XP system access it - and I thought that was supposed to be easier in Vista. Now - still griping about the unbelievably slow file copying to and from my USB external drive - my XP laptop is about 20 times faster doing this. Generally though - it's OK and very stable - no

Network Ext HD Revisited ;-)
I really do enjoy dual-booting with XP Professional and 98 Second Edition. I was talking to Microsoft support recently and the engineer who said he was from India said that he Don't think I can drive an external HDD via that 1.0 USB port, or run Ghost or True Image with the 98FE's laptop's limited resources.

vista os disc
Colin Barnhorst c.barnho...@comcast.net microsoft public virtualpc Double check and make sure the .vhd is Drive 1. partiton that the computer normally boots to with Windows2000, nothing fancy) to an external drive for storage. Then copied the .vhd file to the new Vista laptop, where I have VPC2007 installed.

Clone drive while in windows?
In a recent post on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact that with Vista the boot.ini file is gone. I'm not sure that this effects your proposed method? I've no experience with Vista I had an external USB hard drive that I connected to the laptop and mounted. I copied the partition table to it.

Got my beta2 copy of Vista today
"locate" ... means physically, is it an external drive that got "dislocated"? You may also want to download usb drivers (since the laptop fortunately can be networked, transferring them is no problem) or copy some you get with a cheap usb floppy drive. Most probably you won't be able to boot from a usb floppy with

My month with Vista
Paul, On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:09:55 +0100, Paul Walker <no...@none.com> wrote: I have a 500gb Lacie USB 2.0 External Hard Drive and I am trying to get it to work with a new Dell Laptop with Windows Vista Ultimate installed. Vista recognises the hardware when plugged in. The add new hardware dialog comes up asking

HELP! ie7 install crashed my system...
Charlie Wilkes charlie_wil...@users.easynews.com comp os linux advocacy alt os windows-xp microsoft public windows vista general On Wed, Or did you try Live CD and then dual boot? I tried the Ubuntu live CD to make sure it would work ok, and then I installed it on the hard drive along with XP.

Recommendation for Vista network backups
Thai Berry \(US\) T...@Berry.us microsoft public windows vista general The way you are trying to do this is very painstaking.... you should use an image program like acronis true image and backup on a network or external drive or second parition. Once you do that and the disk images are created, you can then copy

Restoring Disk Image to Virtual Drive
... 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 partition, ie i want to make it dual boot. i can't install directly from CD while windows vista is executing as it is not allowing me. i am

Laptop disaster -- F11 no longer works for recovery
NotMe cargodZero...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general With a bit of tweaking, I have been able to make a couple older machines think the new 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

URGENT: VISTA NOT LOADING ON DISK OR DVD!
"William F. Kinsley" wrote: I have a dell laptop with an ExpressCard54 slot and a SIIG eSATA2 card and a Segate External SATA2 Drive. Everything was working fine on XPSP2, then when I upgraded to Vista the external drive disappeared. 1) The card will show up in the device manager, but no drive. On the device Info.

boot from a modular bay hard drive
And anyway, the old computer is decompensated enough that I'm not certain I could (strange things happen when you dump a glass of red wine into a laptop). The hardest part of doing this would be getting the disk out of the old computer. Put it in an external drive enclosure and hook it to the Mac.

How to make a hard disk bootable?
You may want to use a boot manager, so you can hide Vista from XP. Another option would be to clone Vista to an external drive. Xp will remove Vista restore points each Hello everyone, I have purchased new laptop with Vista, I want have Windows XP prof now. Can I install XP prof and have two OS on my laptop.

vista
In the above article, the writer says there are two ways to backup Vista. In the Home Premium version, which came installed in my new Toshiba laptop, the backup program provided will Then I installed the latest backup I had made using the XP backup program, with a backup that was stored on an external drive.

stuck in safe mode
If so does the bios have a network boot option? "Panos" <Pa...@discussions.microsoft. com> wrote in message news:0165D4BE-CD6A-43F4-9F26-F8CE82CFDE8F@microsoft.com... I do not want to do this to install Vista on the external drive,but because i have a laptop with no floppy or cdrom and the only way to install

Restore complete PC backup using USB boot?
Bit my Laptop can only see the public folder and an external drive I have setup to share on my Vista machine. Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this.

Removing Vista
... being able to boot into Windows: A. Pull the drive and slave it in a computer running a working install of XP or 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.