zeldalover Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I know about booting from an USB drive using Bart's method. What I want to do is run my computer from an USB hard drive using XP as the operating system. CAN it be done? and how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 (edited) http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/07/can_gigabyte/http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigab...am/index.x?pg=1http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku...acture=Gigabytehttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16815168001The memory controller in the Xilinx FPGA operates at 100MHz (DDR200) and can actually support up to 8GB of memory. However, Gigabyte says that the i-RAM card itself only supports 4GB of DDR SDRAM. Edited February 11, 2007 by Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4v3n Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Perhaps useful to someone. I don't know if it is my boot priority list or other bios settings which makes this strange behaviour:Yesterday when I booted up a Windows 2003 CD with the USB-memory in the usb-port at boot time, it didn't show up as drive to install it to, but when I booted up the Windows 2003 CD without the USB-memory in the usb-port, but put it in after the Windows 2003 setup begun, it showed up as a drive to install Windows to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeldalover Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 Jeremy,I don't want to put anything into the computer. I want to be able to use an Usb hard drive. Don't understand your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 I want to be able to use an Usb hard drive. Don't understand your post. Wow, I totally misread that. I do apologize.Anyway, so just buy an external HDD. I once got a Maxtor FireWire HDD... did that ever suck... but that was way back when... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 The method is described here:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181(Yes, LOONG thread)I tried to sum up most guides/howto in this post:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...181&st=1988jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j7n Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I have successfully installed WinXP SP1 Pro following instructions provided here:http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176except, nLite'ing the installation afterwards (makes the WinISO requirement meaningless). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Also, don't forget the "automated" tool to do that, here:http://www.usboot.org/tiki-index.phphttp://www.usboot.org/tiki-index.php?page=downloadThough I haven't tested latest releases, early ones did work rather well, so that the new improved ones should be almost perfect.Version change(s)1.16integrated driveguard component that selectively makes USB drives seen as non-removable and optionally allows the use of pagefiles on these devices1.13added support for Windows 20001.12added support for Microsoft EWF filter1.11added console output of error-messages to ARCguard - made some changes to simplify USBoot.ini1.10optimized USBoot.ini & USBoot.inf - added output of error messages to ARCguard1.09integrated ARCguard component that will make the use of special versions of ntdetect obsolete in some if not most cases and will allow limited experiments in cross-booting1.06bfixed an error that occurred when transferring an installation without volume shadows1.06incorporated usage of volume shadows to be able to copy an installation from within itself - removed all time limits1.03first version releasedI must find the time to try it with Win2K...jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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