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    External USB Hard Drive Boot

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mujjuman, Mar 29, 2008.

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    mujjuman Notebook Deity

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    did anyone manage to boot off their external USB hard drive?

    i installed Vista on it using VMWare, but its not booting. it just says "no operating system found"

    i have USB boot enabled ofcourse.

    i have F.09 BIOS on dv9500t if that matters.

    this isnt Vista-specific.... i mean did you get ANYTHING to boot using your external hard drive :)
     
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    ok i got my USB HDD to boot with Vista installed on it.... except i got a BSOD (0x7B)

    it could have happened because of a couple of things, but im going to be trouble shooting it for a couple of days instead of working on my intense physics HW :p
     
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