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Sorry to say it didn't work. Whether the boot flag is on
or off on the USB drive, the server hangs on boot-up if the drive is attached
and running.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:55
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - USB HD no
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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.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:40
AM
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - USB HD no
boot
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?
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Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:49
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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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