Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PMS Witch who wrote (74474)	3/7/2011 3:14:47 PM
From: ILCUL8R	1 Recommendation Respond to of 110631

PMS, Thank you very much for a succinct and lucid explanation of booting from an USB external drive. For years I have used XXCLONE coupled with a drive sled. The trick is to cold boot the machine with the drive installed and its sled locked in, and to make sure it is recognized in the BIOS as a 2nd drive. Then, I can select (via BIOS) which of the two drives to boot from. The process can be reversed to remove the sled and boot only from the first drive. Using this process I can keep 1 or 2 known good and working clones of C: for safety's sake. Also, I have both an XP Pro installation and an XP Home OEM installation for this machine and I can select via the above process which version to run. I had hoped to find a simpler solution for a friend via the external USB drive but it appears not to be so. It seems the USB drives are a good way to back up selected files or to provide additional storage for the content of things such as ripped CDs or DVDs, but not to operate the machine. Again, thanks . . . . Dick