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    booting Vaio S 15's old internal drive in an external USB enclosure

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by vitriolix, Mar 3, 2013.

  1. vitriolix

    vitriolix Newbie

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    I have a question about booting my old internal drive in a USB enclosure

    I have a Sony Vaio S 15 that I swapped an SSD in (Samsung 830, love it) and installed Ubuntu on as it is my primary development machine.

    I would like to be able to boot my old Windows 8 disk from an external USB enclosure so I can test stuff in windows once in a while.

    I'm able to boot to the USB drive by pressing the "Assist" button and choosing to boot from the external drive. Trouble is, when I do that it just boots straight into the Vaio's Troubleshoot/Recovery partition. I can't figure out how to make it just boot up to the regular Windows 8 partition.

    Anyone have any ideas?
     
    vitriolix, Mar 3, 2013
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    Are you able to boot Windows 8 off it from using it internally, rather than via the enclosure (or was it ever an internal drive)?
     
    Prostar Computer, Mar 5, 2013
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    vitriolix Newbie

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    Yeah, I was using it as my primary drive, I just pulled it and set it on the desk for a while as I built up my ubuntu box. The other day I threw it in an external enclosure and tried to boot it up
     
    vitriolix, Mar 5, 2013
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    Hmm, not sure why as a USB drive it's causing the problem. I would guess it's the HAL but I thought that was relative to internal connections/controllers. But if it still works internally via SATA then that could be it.
     
    Prostar Computer, Mar 6, 2013
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