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steedj · 12-11-2004

I have a external USB 120GB Hard drive that I can read and write to with out any problems. I have two systems with Windows XP and both have the BIOS option to boot from USB. I have not been sucessfull at booting. I have used GHOST to clone a OS and also formatted the drive as a floppy with no luck.

Any help one be appreciated

**xtacydima** · 13-11-2004

Did you enable floppy emulation in BIOS for the USB boot device?

steedj · 13-11-2004

I believe I did try the floopy mode. I just updated the BIOS on my ASUS P4P800 Deluxe and will try it again. My other PC does not have the floppy option.

steedj · 13-11-2004

Now working-On my ASUS based system I set the BIOS option "Emulation Type" to Hard Disk and it booted. Don't have that type of option on my other PC, but I don't really need it.

greatvictor · 28-09-2006

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Originally Posted by steedj

Now working-On my ASUS based system I set the BIOS option "Emulation Type" to Hard Disk and it booted. Don't have that type of option on my other PC, but I don't really need it.

I have a 160GB Samsung USB HDD(IDE HDD with USB Casing) clonned from Win2000 Server. This HDD when connected to original machine on IDE port boots well. However when connected via USB on the same machine(from where it was clonned) it doesn't boot.

BIOS identifies USB HDD and also selects to boot from the same. I get choose operating system option and hardware profile option too. Booting starts however at the end i receive message on Blue Screen INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

Can you help me ?

I read the post on http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=114361 which describes FDD emulation as HDD. But I have not formated my USB HDD as FDD.

12-11-2004	#1 (permalink)
steedj New on Forum Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3	USB Boot Hard Disk I have a external USB 120GB Hard drive that I can read and write to with out any problems. I have two systems with Windows XP and both have the BIOS option to boot from USB. I have not been sucessfull at booting. I have used GHOST to clone a OS and also formatted the drive as a floppy with no luck. Any help one be appreciated

13-11-2004	#2 (permalink)
xtacydima Moderator Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA Posts: 3,885	Re: USB Boot Hard Disk Did you enable floppy emulation in BIOS for the USB boot device? __________________ My Rig: Antec P160 P4 3.0E GHz running WinXP w/SP2 Scythe SCMN-1000 Heatsink w/Arctic Silver 5 Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 (550W power supply) ASUS P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard 2GB RAM - Corsair XMS TWINX2048 (2x1GB) 3200C2Pro CL2.0 ATI RADEON X850XT AGP 2 - WD 37GB Raptor's (in RAID 0) via onboard Promise controller Western Digital 250GB SATA HDD on Primary SATA channel Western Digital 150GB SATA HDD on Secondary SATA channel Lite-On LTR-52246S 6S0F (IDE1 Master) Lite-On JLMS XJ-HD166S DS1C (IDE1 Slave) *NEC 3500AG 2.TC Quiet* (IDE2 Master) Lite-On SOHW 1673S JS07 (via USB 2.0 to IDE & set to Master)** Found a Solution here helpful? Like the forum's? Well then, what are you waiting for JOIN NOW!!!

13-11-2004	#3 (permalink)
steedj New on Forum Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3	Re: USB Boot Hard Disk I believe I did try the floopy mode. I just updated the BIOS on my ASUS P4P800 Deluxe and will try it again. My other PC does not have the floppy option.

13-11-2004	#4 (permalink)
steedj New on Forum Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3	Re: USB Boot Hard Disk Now working-On my ASUS based system I set the BIOS option "Emulation Type" to Hard Disk and it booted. Don't have that type of option on my other PC, but I don't really need it.

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