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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 put it in a USB enclosure.
I have no trouble accessing...
Started by daveh551 on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
When the Press any key to boot to boot into....
Where you have swapped from an IDE/AHCI connection to a USB connection, Windows may have got into a twist.
) , with the USB device connected and set as the active boot device.
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Posted 07 January 2005 - 09:43 PM
UPDATES 2006-12-01: merged Pieter's thread ("Recover from bad flashing with automated NVIDIA VIDEO BIOS flashing procedure) into this one.
2005-09-29: added table
2005-07-05: [ Bay Wolf ] reports that Inspiron 600m and...
Started by ®®® on
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by 3 people.
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Posted 18 February 2005 - 11:58 AM
Alienware BOOT-IT v1.0 (USB Drive Boot Utility ] reports that Inspiron 600m and Inspiron 8500 "have the ability to boot from a USB external floppy drive it, ....
To have a hacked BIOS.
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Will booting linux (slitaz) from my USB damage my original OS (windows vista)
Started by Nish on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Everything is stored in the RAM (if the usb-distribution is done properly), and thus not affecting anything.
Just don't install or do anything to your hard drive .
Running from USB, you should be fine.
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I'm trying to install ubuntu on an usb, the problem is, I don't want to dual boot once done, I want to keep my windows but boot ubuntu using virtualbox and use the usb as my harddrive for ubuntu, but how?
Virtualbox will not recognize the usb as a harddrive...
Started by kristian nissen on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Make one on the USB drive and tell Virtualbox to read your USB drive, but there will be a file on there ending in .vdi, that is your virtual disk still interested, here is a guide I wrote....
In Virtualbox you have to make virtual hard disks.
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Can I attach a USB external drive to a Mac and boot from it?
Specifically, will I be able to install Snow Leopard from an external USB DVD drive on a modern Intel Macbook?
Started by Richard Hoskins on
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Mac 101: Yes, Intel Macs can be booted from an external USB drive
Since the release of the Intel Mac computers, and with Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later, you can start up from an installed system on a USB to work as well as any firewire ....
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There are any desktop (not hipervisor) virtual machine software able to boot from USB drive? Which one and how?
Started by FerranB on
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Not sure if this is what you're looking....
Then the guest will see your USB drive as a IDE drive and will be able to bootVirtualbox can do this indirectly
Configure your USB drive as a raw disk in VirtualBox (page 105 on it.
Of the manual).
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Other operating systems can boot from external USB or firewire drives, but Windows has to my knowledge never had this ability, at least not officially out of the box.
How is it with windows 7? Can it be installed to and booted from an external drive?
Started by Console on
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The downloadable OSUpdate: The VirtualBox based Windows 7 installation on a USB Flash drive article I refer at the start here installs on the ....
Be downloaded in a form that will boot from a USB drive instead of requiring a DVD.
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I have an usb stick with a Fedora 11 live environment on it. It's boot fine 3 PCs where I've tried it.
But I can't get it to boot on a mac (intel). When pressing the alt (or command , I don't remember which one) key during startup I can only choose the...
Started by nambuls on
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As far as I know, it's not possible to create a USB stick that will boot on both Intel Macs and nonI'm not sure you can ....
That is a bit more.
[it is] possible to boot an Intel Mac from a USB flash drive.
USB drives .
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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 that I can disable these drives until after the OS has...
Started by Jordan S. Jones on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Make sure no USB strorage/disable_usb_sticks
You probably have to do this in your BIOS, tell it to not boot from USB devices is allowed to use....
The dialog as well as the GPO and boot/reboot one of your workstations.
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Hi,
My netbook (running on XP) recently encountered "NTLDR is missing" problem. However, since I don't have an external dvd, I need to create a USB boot-up disk to re-install XP. Unfortunately, my other laptop is running Vista.
Is it possible to create...
Started by Erwin on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
The MBR for drive sda (assuming....
Now you’ll need to figure out what partition is the one hosting your Windows .
Once Ubuntu starts compatible boot records.
These steps from Arsgeek.com
Boot into your Ubuntu LiveCD on the offending machine.
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