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re: Fully working Xp on usb external HD
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 4:25 am
Posted by simps
(113 messages posted)
from this articl
http://www.cwol.com/firewire/firewire-vs-usb.htm
firewire is faster than USB 2.0, hmm i thought conversely
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re: Fully working Xp on usb external HD
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 5:57 am
Posted by dan
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Thanks f the link.
did you try to install xp on firewire external hd for real comparison?
On Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 4:25 am, simps wrote:
>from this articl
>http://www.cwol.com/firewire/firewire-vs-usb.htm
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>firewire is faster than USB 2.0, hmm i thought conversely
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re: Fully working Xp on usb external HD
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 7:49 am
Posted by simps
(113 messages posted)
no, i didn't try that, but may be i'll run some tests in future.
On Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 5:57 am, dan wrote:
>Thanks f the link.
>did you try to install xp on firewire external hd for real comparison?
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re: Fully working Xp on usb external HD
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 11:22 am
Posted by Rich Kurtz
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Dan, what did you have to do to make the external USB drive bootable? Does your BIOS
support it directly or did you have to do some other things to make it work.
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re: Fully working Xp on usb external HD
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Posted by dan
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There are many types of Bios usb support like zip, hdd, fdd etc.
Absolute you need a pc with Bios (Usb-HardDrive) support.
You need tools like
cabsdk
isomaker
cdburning sotware
To install Xp on usb You have to modify some files:
* TXTSETUP.SIF
* DOSNET.INF
* USB.IN_
* USBPORT.IN_
* USBSTOR.IN_
Google is always your best friend with so many ideas.
On Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 11:22 am, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>Dan, what did you have to do to make the external USB drive bootable? Does your
BIOS
>support it directly or did you have to do some other things to make it work.
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re: Fully working Xp on usb external HD
Friday, December 1, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
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Thanks Dan. I did some reading on this and found several good links on how to setup
a bootable USB flash drive or external hard drive. Also check and all 3 of my computers
support booting from a USB device so I think I'll play with this a bit, sounds like
fun.
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re: Fully working Xp on usb external HD
Friday, December 1, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Posted by dan
(379 messages posted)
Have fun!
On Friday, December 1, 2006 at 1:33 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>Thanks Dan. I did some reading on this and found several good links on how to setup
>a bootable USB flash drive or external hard drive. Also check and all 3 of my computers
>support booting from a USB device so I think I'll play with this a bit, sounds like
>fun.
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