Thank you, Andrew. I did as you indicated, and when I
issued the inactive command, diskpart said the partition was already
inactive. Since this state went with the problem, I said whatheheck and
changed it to active. However, I haven't yet had a reboot opportunity to
test that. I'll let you know how it turns out.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:40
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - USB HD no
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Start Diskpart
Select the disk and partition in
question Issue the Inactive command to
clear the boot flag
Thanks,
Andrew Fidel
Thank you, those are good ideas. Removing the bootable flag from
the USB drive is especially promising. But I'm not sure where to do
this. Not in the BIOS, certainly, and I can't find anything like that in
the drive's Windows properties (which wouldn't do any good anyway, since Win
loads after the problem). I think you must mean in the
partitioning/formatting process? ----- Original
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Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - USB HD no boot
You could always put NTLDR and associated files
on the drive and point it at the primary HDD in boot.ini. Alternatively
you could try removing the bootable flag from the USB drive. This will
simply save you from yourself if you forget to remove the drive before
rebooting remotely =)
"Albert Duro"
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There is NOTHING in the BIOS to
enable USB to boot or that changes the boot priority of USB. Infact
there is no mention of USB anywhere in the BIOS. It's possible that HP has
issued a BIOS update that would allow this, I've frankly not looked into
it, but I say again, this machine is not capable of booting when a live
USB HD drive is attached.
As for booting from the USB drive, that's all
well and good, but what's the point? I don't want to boot from the
USB HD. All I want it to do is to be there to receive backups and
file copies.
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