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BootPe from a USB Hard drive


thebigob1

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managed to wrangle a 40 gig. USB HD today, trying to install BootPe on it and not having any luck. I've followed the instructions for both a flash drive and a hard drive and tried mixing the 2, still not having any luck. Anyone know how to do this?

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If this is a PE install, presumable to fix broken computers, I don't see where you're going to need to put a file greater than 4GB in there. If that's absolutely necessary, make another partion and format that as NTFS. Then access it once you're up and running in PE.

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  • 3 weeks later...

i have a portatil computer toshiba satelite A-30 and in BIOS option there is only one option for bott ( boot from USB ) , and i have tried booting from USB-stick i have do anything wron i have revised more than 50 times everything , , so i think i cant boot from USB-stick , so i ask , , can i boot from a USB-CD-rom o from a USB-floppy unit ?

toshiba satelite A-30 .... anyone know ?

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1) Read these:

http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...SB/USBfaqs.html

http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...B/USBstick.html

2)

so it will not work under a NTFS system? What if i wanted to save a file bigger than 4g?

if the USB drive is seen as "Fixed", nothing prevents you from multipartitioning it, once booted NTFS filesystem is fully supported, you will need just a minimal FAT16 partition to boot from

3) idf the USB drive is seen as "Removable", you can use the Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver to make it "seem" "Fixed":

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14292

jaclaz

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