Re: [ActiveDir] OT - USB HD no boot

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:56:49 -0800

Thank you, those are good ideas.  Removing the bootable flag from the USB drive is especially promising.  But I'm not sure where to do this.  Not in the BIOS, certainly, and I can't find anything like that in the drive's Windows properties (which wouldn't do any good anyway, since Win loads after the problem).
I think you must mean in the partitioning/formatting process?
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Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - USB HD no boot


You could always put NTLDR and associated files on the drive and point it
at the primary HDD in boot.ini. Alternatively you could try removing the
bootable flag from the USB drive. This will simply save you from yourself
if you forget to remove the drive before rebooting remotely =)



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There is NOTHING in the BIOS to enable USB to boot or that changes the boot
priority of USB.  Infact there is no mention of USB anywhere in the BIOS.
It's possible that HP has issued a BIOS update that would allow this, I've
frankly not looked into it, but I say again, this machine is not capable of
booting when a live USB HD drive is attached.

As for booting from the USB drive, that's all well and good, but what's the
point?  I don't want to boot from the USB HD.  All I want it to do is to be
there to receive backups and file copies.


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