I have found (by accident) that if you try to install BartPE to a HD,
and WindowsXP is "not" already on the HD, the installation will fail...
(Read that as installing BartPE to a blank HD from the BartPE CD
does not work...)
The Bart-PE HD install only works when it is setting itself up as a
multi-boot install, with XP on a FULLY working BOOTABLE XP HD.
(I never tried to "add" Bart-PE to multi-boot on an HD where the
original full XP was crippled or damaged in advance...)
Being a different install, AFTER the full version of XP gets damaged
the Bart-PE one still works for trouble-shooting... (Or data recovery...)
I ass-u-me this same thing would happen if an external HD was used,
even if you tried to "trick" the BartPE installer into thinking XP was
already on the external drive...
OTOH, If Windows XP (full version) "can" be made bootable from
an external HD....... (I never tried that...)
This all theoretical and I might not be thinking it through enough...
Rick Glazier
From: "Wayne Johnson"
Bart has even included a plugin for installing to HD. I don't
know if Bart's HD plugin hard codes the drive letter or not when
installing to HD as it was NOT designed for external HDs but rather
to as a replacement for Recovery Console.
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