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Can't boot SBS. "Disk read error occured"
"hitesh ughreja" <hitesh.ughr...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:40565aad-85d1-4476-a60e-8f655ca2e43d@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... hello, 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

Dual Boot Installation to External HD
<g> can I somehow use a DI image on the external USB HDD to get everything -- except the latest data (which will be on the thumbdrive and another system -- double backup) -- installed without having to invidually install all of my programs and program preferences. DI can work with your USB drive, but *not* from a

USB Harddrive installation problems
madgamer madgam...@mchsi.com alt computer perhaps I am the dumb one so please excuse me if I am but it sounds to me like the xp got installed on the usb drive. when you install an OS it will install on the first HDD it finds. always unplug any other drive you have in a system except the one you want to install

Booting from a USB hard drive.
John Dulak Jo...@Boogus.com microsoft public win98 setup DJW wrote: John, The original post was because I could not boot using my hard drive C and the internal DVD was faulty (been that way for some time) so I wanted to know how to use the windows 98 install CD with an USB external CD_RW drive.

separate installation at usb drive
David <david_hask...@kyzen.com> wrote: I used an external usb drive to install some programs including MS Office 2003 on a windows xp sp2 machine. If I remove the drive properly, then shut down, when I bootup the computer will hang right before the login screen....I will have to reboot in safe mode to get in - but

Bug#414957: marked as done (Failed Installation to USB Drive)
I received a free 1 gig portable "key chain" USB drive as part of a promotional. I've had trouble using it at work. Because of legacy issues we are using Is there anything else I can do to get this keychain drive to work? Is there some sort of software I can install on it? Thanks in advance for any information.

Bug#252962: Installation report -- failure with USB flash drive
I have a USB2 external enclosure (belkin) that i can put a CD drive in, but is it at all possible to install XP from this drive with absolutely no OS installed just now? Just how 'older' is your older laptop? Does it meet the minimum spec for XP? In particular, has it got plenty of memory? If your USB driver isn't

XP PNP hardware installation does not work
... o usb/84326 usb [umass] Panic trying to connect SCSI tape drive via US s usb/84336 usb [usb] [reboot] instant system reboot when unmounting a o usb/86767 o usb/113851 usb [boot] Unable to boot install cd from USB-CDROM s usb/113977 usb [request] Need a way to set mode of USB disk's write c o usb/114310 usb

Running Linux on a USB HDD
In other word how to install without using neither CD nor floppy drive, usb , just network card. from A local site. I mean instead of reading from CD, I read from remote machine using pxe or tftboot or something like this. I saw somebody doing it with Fedora!! The gool is to install several machines at the same

Bug#252962: marked as done (Installation report -- failure with ...
... a hard drive (manual) fdisk package Package: finish-install Status: install ok unpacked Priority: required Section: debian-installer Installed-Size: 108 .... Package: nic-usb-modules-2.6.22-3-486-di Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: debian-installer Installed-Size: 316 Maintainer: Debian

Installation with external cd drive
I have no idea why someone would do that in a fresh installation. Lack of technical knowledge and experience, most likely... I have a USB drive hooked to this machine also formatted fat32. External removable hard drives are about the only use remaining for the FAT32 file system, on the off chance that they might

USB hard drive docking station
For that, I did the following: 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. when the installer gets the iso image, it gives me all kinds of errors related to modules that were not found and my installation fails.

Repair/re-installation of Windows Media Centre
Colin Barnhorst c.barnho...@comcast.net microsoft public windowsxp general How many of the usb ports are in use already on the computer? Is there anything else I can do to get this keychain drive to work? Is there some sort of software I can install on it? Thanks in advance for any information.

USB stops working after recent Windows Update
For your general information, Windows no longer requires a floppy for installation in any case, since USB, CD/DVD, or other block devices work just as well. If you must have a RAID driver, put it on a CD, and have it in the drive when you start the installation. However, I've never had to install a HD driver when

mounting CD1 is not enough for mirroring and net install
Its currently xcopying the cd to the hard disc just now, so we shall see if that works! It's xcopying it from where? How, without an os? dos boot floppy! that didnt work either..... however i figured out the problem with the cd drive went away if you pushed it in a bit further, a bit of sellotape over the drive

how do I set up outlook express on USB drive?
If i need to re-install XP Pro (via an Image) then i usually boot up to Windows XP Home, run Acronis or Ghost and then re-image the XP Pro drive back. You would be able to do a similar thing with your USB drive 'if' you had a dual boot system. As you don't have a dual boot system you would have to rely upon the

Creating an external, bootable USB Windows XP installation
The part where you were talking about installing XP to a USB hard drive, I didn't understand that part at all. Tom Penharston wrote: Hello to several crossposted groups, I have several new Dell Latitude systems. I need to create an image of the current XP installation and applications. I wish I could simply boot

0x0000007B
You could also use your little USB drive to share files across a network. Here is how you could set it all up: 1. Plug the USB drive into your computer. 2. works especially good for the dumbfuck cable modem installation guy who will log onto the Charter site with his username and pass to setup your account.

Slightly OT : XP installation from USB drive
I've never heard of any bios that supports usb connected drives, so that might stop you. Lots of bios are now able to boot usb. See RUNT linux, for a 128mB key. Puppy linux (32MB, but it was buggy) PTB linux is the only one who deal with no usb bios. but it's a dog My laptop bios supports Cardbus (pcmcia) and i can

Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk
OpenBSD partitions are stored in an OpenBSD disklabel Dos formatted disks do not have OpenBSD disklabels. You can certainly install OpenBSD on the usb drive. If your BIOS allows, you can even boot from it. man fdisk plays with DOS partitions man disklabel plays with OpenBSD partitions They are NOT the same.