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Slightly OT : XP installation from USB drive
This happens regardless of whether the device is connected via USB, firewire or parallel port. It has happened with a DV video camera, USB drive, printer, video card and NIC. The same devices install without any problem on other computers I have running XP Pro and W2000. On those machines the devices install

USB CD-ROM Installation
I then found that my external USB hard drive had been partitioned by Linux and files installed. I had to use Partition Magic to get my USB drive back to It seems from your post that maybe the partition manager got confused between a non-existent SATA drive, the IDE drive and an attached (I presume) USB drive.

Problem with XP installation
Please help if you can One thing to consider, has a drive letter on the computer been changed in Disk Management in control panel??, this also happened with a customer of mine that had to change a drive letter for a usb device, *I was getting an error 16 whatever, on the install of Quick Books* after hours of

delete wont delete the message
The BIOS appears that USB drive can be placed in the boot order list. Does this mean that Windows Vista can be installed in an external USB HDD? No. I don't know whether XP will boot from an e-SATA drive - and I expect you'd need to provide drive controller drivers (F6) during installation.

linux fc5 installation issue (usb drive)
ausics.net> wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, KAdwhammy wrote: I set my bios to boot, first, from a usb device and this works. boot = /dev/sdb # image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/sdb2 label = /dev/sdb2 read-only Looks fine to me # I'm able to go into this Slackware installation using Wolvix and it works fine.

Installation on a USB Drive
The installation process was like butter. No problems. I installed the mbr onto the external drive. Two linux partitions: 1GB swap (sdb1) and the root (sdb2) ext2. I've seen the following problem on other posts, but haven't found a solution. I set my bios to boot, first, from a usb device and this works.

Re. Suse 9.1 pro installation problem
First of all it wouldn't be bootable in a USB external HDD >>even if the drive contained a non-corrupted bootable version of >>the XP OS. Why can't you simply install that HDD as a secondary HDD in >>your PC, boot to your new HDD and see if you can access the >>data on the problem HDD that way?

External drive, installed Slackware & the panicked kernel
... I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Santanu Why don't you follow what is said there: http://di.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s04.html#usb-copy-easy It's working just fine for me.

USB hard drive docking station
I don't know how to do it, it is an unsupported configuration by Microsoft and as far as I am concerned it isn't possible to boot a full Windows installation on an external USB hard drive. I have never even tried to do this and to tell you the honest truth I wouldn't even bother trying, so don't expect a recipe

Creating Custom Installation
Hardware: IBM Netvista X41 (228353U) Problem Device: Fujifilm FinePix 2600 Zoom Digital Camera Problem Occurence: Various models of IBM Netvista Machines USB Version: 1.1 OS: Windows XP Home Problem: Windows XP Is Unable To Install this device (Fujifilm USB Drive Unit). Error Message: Windows has encounter a

USB Drive required for every application installation
We are allowed to install anything we want as the computers have hardware and software that restores the boot partition to its original state after a reboot. I would like to put my profile on my USB drive, have a batch file download and install Mozilla, etc. Any ideas? After manually creating your profile on the

Installation on a USB Drive
Install probes hw looks at clock, keyboard, time zone, country the asks WHERE to put installation software ie grub, "/" partition etc. Only IDE drive is shown as selection to install on. Since I don't want to touch the only IDE hard drive I Must use bootable USB drive. BIOS is set up to boot from floppy USB drive,

grub inside and outside USB-Flash
I connected my Sata drive up again so that I could go onto the net to find a cure. I then connected the IDE drive up again and altered some BIOS settings, but still no joy. After a while I gave up and put back the Sata with Windows. I then found that my external USB hard drive had been partitioned by Linux and

Bug#468217: installation-reports: On Acer Extensa 5220 the Delete ...
Cameron Patrick came...@patrick.wattle.id.au linux debian bugs dist linux debian maint boot Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Test Unfortunately the USB modules weren't loaded so it didn't find the USB drive or the ISO located on it. When I loaded them by hand ("modprobe ehci-hcd;

Installing Debian from USB pen drive
3) No extra flags/settings have been used during the installation. I've warned you at the top. I was VERY disappointed of TurboLinux. The last time I used it was several But wait, things get even worse, my Zip 100 USB Drive isn't detected and as a result, I have to set it up manually. Then off to setup CUPS,

Filter Driver Error (partsys.mgr)
Unfortunately the USB modules weren't loaded so it didn't find the USB drive or the ISO located on it. When I loaded them by hand ("modprobe ehci-hcd; Version: 1.2004.02.08-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-b...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Petter Reinholdtsen

External drive, installed Slackware & the panicked kernel
John John audetw...@nbnet.nb.ca microsoft public windowsxp general As far as I know you will also find it difficult to install and boot Vista on an external USB drive, you can ask the folks in the vista.general or the vista.installation_setup groups and see what they have to say about it. It doesn't matter that you

Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk
Pat Glenn wrote: I have just noticed that, after a new install, my drive letters are all mixed up My hard drive (which should be 'c') is labeled I while USB drives are lettered C, F, G, and H and CDROM's are D and E. Basically, all I need to do is exchange drive C and I. The hardware recognizes the hard drive as

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
(People have also used this CDROM, to install Linux, but there is a trick to the boot command - knoppix nopcmcia ide2=0x180,0x386 ) http://i1.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/cf/d1/480f_1.JPG 5) Once Windows is installed on the replacement hard drive, then you can work on extracting your data files from the dead drive. A USB

separate installation at usb drive
When the installation wizard prompts you as to where you want to install Linux, you can tell it what partition you like (if it didn't select the correct one for you). Select a partition on your USB drive. You may need to create partitions on the drive at this time before it will allow you to choose it as an valid