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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootableslipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
Ant wrote:
Hello! Is it possible? I know it is slow due to USB2 speed, but it is only for quick testings and don't want to mess with my internal hardwares (HDD has an old Windows XP Pro. SP3 installation that has hard lock ups with videos -- need to figure out if it is my softwares or hardwares) in my current computer. Also, it doesn't help that I have disabilities (can't even use a screwdriver). Thank you in advance. Yes, but it requires remastering. Look for "BootBusExtender" as a search keyword, for the changes needed to make it possible to boot WinXP from a USB hard drive. Example here. http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. Paul |
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootable slipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
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... snip http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. LOL! ....glen |
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootableslipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
On 07/06/2012 20:27, Paul wrote:
Ant wrote: Hello! Is it possible? I know it is slow due to USB2 speed, but it is only for quick testings and don't want to mess with my internal hardwares (HDD has an old Windows XP Pro. SP3 installation that has hard lock ups with videos -- need to figure out if it is my softwares or hardwares) in my current computer. Also, it doesn't help that I have disabilities (can't even use a screwdriver). Thank you in advance. Yes, but it requires remastering. Look for "BootBusExtender" as a search keyword, for the changes needed to make it possible to boot WinXP from a USB hard drive. Example here. http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. Paul Heheh - spot-on there, Paul! I tried it once and gave up as it was getting to be far too much like hard work.. Definitely not for the faint-hearted! -- Rob |
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootableslipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
On 6/7/2012 12:27 PM PT, Paul typed:
Is it possible? I know it is slow due to USB2 speed, but it is only for quick testings and don't want to mess with my internal hardwares (HDD has an old Windows XP Pro. SP3 installation that has hard lock ups with videos -- need to figure out if it is my softwares or hardwares) in my current computer. Also, it doesn't help that I have disabilities (can't even use a screwdriver). Yes, but it requires remastering. Look for "BootBusExtender" as a search keyword, for the changes needed to make it possible to boot WinXP from a USB hard drive. Example here. http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. Ha. I already have those! :-P "Disconnect any other hard disk drives (internally) from it" ... Is this really required? Again, I am disabled to open case and go inside my computer. :-( -- "... Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennae bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. 'Stop.' 'Go.' 'Walk here.' 'Drive there.' All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. 'Here's your change.' 'Paper or plastic?' 'Credit or debit?"' 'You want ketchup with that' I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know?" "Yeah... yeah I know. I don't want to be an ant either. Thanks for kinda, like, josteling me there... I've been kinda on zombie autopilot lately. I don't feel like an ant in my head, but I guess I probably look like one..." --Waking Life movie /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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On 6/8/2012 3:48 AM PT, Rob typed:
Heheh - spot-on there, Paul! I tried it once and gave up as it was getting to be far too much like hard work.. Definitely not for the faint-hearted! And risky, from its complexity, from what I read. Ugh. -- "Did the ant fall off the toilet seat because she was ****ed off?" --unknown /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootableslipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
Ant wrote:
On 6/7/2012 12:27 PM PT, Paul typed: You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. Ha. I already have those! :-P "Disconnect any other hard disk drives (internally) from it" ... Is this really required? Again, I am disabled to open case and go inside my computer. :-( This is purely up to you. I've had enough "accidents", like needing do a "fixmbr", to consider it easier to just disconnect any disks I don't want damaged, than to clean up a mess later. You can probably work your way out of any problem later, using brain rather than brawn. It's a lot easier for me to pull the cables, because the side is always off the computer. I'm just waiting now, for the connectors to wear out. Note that, not even the BIOS settings for disks work. There is a "disable" per drive in a lot of BIOS setup screens, but stupid Linux will re-enable the drives, and then they can get written to by GRUB during an install. So the computer is pretty defenseless in that regard. Only the "write protect" jumper on the old SCSI drives, works worth a damn. That would stop anything from writing, but still allow you to read drives. It's the kind of thing, you could connect up a switch and place it on the front panel. Paul |
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootableslipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
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Ant wrote: On 6/7/2012 12:27 PM PT, Paul typed: You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. Ha. I already have those! :-P "Disconnect any other hard disk drives (internally) from it" ... Is this really required? Again, I am disabled to open case and go inside my computer. :-( This is purely up to you. I've had enough "accidents", like needing do a "fixmbr", to consider it easier to just disconnect any disks I don't want damaged, than to clean up a mess later. You can probably work your way out of any problem later, using brain rather than brawn. It's a lot easier for me to pull the cables, because the side is always off the computer. I'm just waiting now, for the connectors to wear out. Note that, not even the BIOS settings for disks work. There is a "disable" per drive in a lot of BIOS setup screens, but stupid Linux will re-enable the drives, and then they can get written to by GRUB during an install. So the computer is pretty defenseless in that regard. Only the "write protect" jumper on the old SCSI drives, works worth a damn. That would stop anything from writing, but still allow you to read drives. It's the kind of thing, you could connect up a switch and place it on the front panel. Paul To give an example of the strange things that can happen, consider my Win2K install attempt yesterday. The disk had a single primary partition, with C: containing Win2K. I wanted to install a second copy of the OS, clean, with no CODECs in it. So I could reproduce a problem with "dvdplay.exe". When I went to install, instead of making a new complete partition, marking it active, the installer decided instead, to keep the existing C: as the "boot" solution. So the first partition remained the one with the active boot flag. The OS installed into a second partition, with the letter "E:". So my new install wasn't on C:. The first partition handles the boot duties. The second partition doesn't have a complete set of files either. The pagefile and hiberfil are on the first partition. Quite possibly the boot.ini is as well. This made things annoying when installing drivers, because I'd have to remember that my new partition was E: and not C:. The installer also made the second partition, a "logical" partition in an extended. So the partition table had a FAT32 primary partition for the original C:, plus an extended in which a single logical partition E: was located. I could undo that with Partition Magic, without breaking anything. But I stopped there, and didn't attempt to make the second partition the booting partition. Wasn't worth the trouble, and I was afraid of messing up a partition drive letter dependency along the way. So all sorts of things can happen when you do an install, and what happened there, wasn't what I wanted at all. But since that wasn't a long term setup, it won't be around to annoy me for much longer. And it didn't break the original C:, which still works. Paul |
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootableslipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
On 6/8/2012 6:21 PM PT, Paul typed:
You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. Ha. I already have those! :-P "Disconnect any other hard disk drives (internally) from it" ... Is this really required? Again, I am disabled to open case and go inside my computer. :-( This is purely up to you. I've had enough "accidents", like needing do a "fixmbr", to consider it easier to just disconnect any disks I don't want damaged, than to clean up a mess later. Ah. I remember I did that with my Debian new installation to a new SSD, and it wrote Grub to to my PATA/IDE HDD! No, I did not want that. You can probably work your way out of any problem later, using brain rather than brawn. It's a lot easier for me to pull the cables, because the side is always off the computer. I'm just waiting now, for the connectors to wear out. Heh. Note that, not even the BIOS settings for disks work. There is a "disable" per drive in a lot of BIOS setup screens, but stupid Linux will re-enable the drives, and then they can get written to by GRUB during an install. So the computer is pretty defenseless in that regard. Only the "write protect" jumper on the old SCSI drives, works worth a damn. That would stop anything from writing, but still allow you to read drives. It's the kind of thing, you could connect up a switch and place it on the front panel. Ah. -- "Ever watch ants just crawling around? They walk in that single straight line, a long, a long, long mile of ants. Sometimes they will walk over and pick up their dead friends and carry those around. I'm pretty sure it's because they can get in the carpool lane and pass up that line." --Ellen DeGeneres /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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On 6/8/2012 7:47 PM PT, Paul typed:
To give an example of the strange things that can happen, consider my Win2K install attempt yesterday. The disk had a single primary partition, with C: containing Win2K. I wanted to install a second copy of the OS, clean, with no CODECs in it. So I could reproduce a problem with "dvdplay.exe". When I went to install, instead of making a new complete partition, marking it active, the installer decided instead, to keep the existing C: as the "boot" solution. So the first partition remained the one with the active boot flag. The OS installed into a second partition, with the letter "E:". So my new install wasn't on C:. The first partition handles the boot duties. The second partition doesn't have a complete set of files either. The pagefile and hiberfil are on the first partition. Quite possibly the boot.ini is as well. This made things annoying when installing drivers, because I'd have to remember that my new partition was E: and not C:. The installer also made the second partition, a "logical" partition in an extended. So the partition table had a FAT32 primary partition for the original C:, plus an extended in which a single logical partition E: was located. I could undo that with Partition Magic, without breaking anything. But I stopped there, and didn't attempt to make the second partition the booting partition. Wasn't worth the trouble, and I was afraid of messing up a partition drive letter dependency along the way. So all sorts of things can happen when you do an install, and what happened there, wasn't what I wanted at all. But since that wasn't a long term setup, it won't be around to annoy me for much longer. And it didn't break the original C:, which still works. Ugh, how annoying. -- "The tiny ant dares to enter the lion's ear." --Armenian /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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glee typed: "Paul" wrote in message ... snip http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. LOL! Naw. piece of cake. Casper does all of the hard work for you. Glen just likes to rant and show how ignorant he can be. Some people are like that for some reason. :-( Boot and Run Your Computer from a USB Drive -- creates a fully bootable copy of a Windows system drive that can boot and run directly from an external USB drive. (Note: Requires computer with BIOS support for booting from USB hard disk type devices.) http://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/benefits.aspx -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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"BillW50" wrote in message
... In , glee typed: "Paul" wrote in message ... snip http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. LOL! Naw. piece of cake. Casper does all of the hard work for you. Glen just likes to rant and show how ignorant he can be. Some people are like that for some reason. :-( snip Paul made the statement, you ignorant troll. All I posted was an LOL to Paul's comment. Still haven't improved your reading comprehension, I see. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ |
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootable slipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
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glee typed: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , glee typed: "Paul" wrote in message ... snip http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. LOL! Naw. piece of cake. Casper does all of the hard work for you. Glen just likes to rant and show how ignorant he can be. Some people are like that for some reason. :-( snip Paul made the statement, you ignorant troll. All I posted was an LOL to Paul's comment. Still haven't improved your reading comprehension, I see. I know Paul said it you arrogant ass! And you didn't offer to help, but just laugh like a ranting fool who has nothing to do but to harass people and to say people said things they didn't like an evil little worthless troll that you are. I never kill filed anybody in my life. But you are bucking the limit and I might make an exception. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro. SP3, with its bootable slipstreamed CD, into an external USB2 HDD?
"BillW50" wrote in message
... In , glee typed: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , glee typed: "Paul" wrote in message ... snip http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. LOL! Naw. piece of cake. Casper does all of the hard work for you. Glen just likes to rant and show how ignorant he can be. Some people are like that for some reason. :-( snip Paul made the statement, you ignorant troll. All I posted was an LOL to Paul's comment. Still haven't improved your reading comprehension, I see. I know Paul said it you arrogant ass! And you didn't offer to help, but just laugh like a ranting fool who has nothing to do but to harass people and to say people said things they didn't like an evil little worthless troll that you are. I never kill filed anybody in my life. But you are bucking the limit and I might make an exception. Promises, promises... killfile me so you will stop your trolling, please! I laughed at Paul's joke... can't you even see the smiley he included indicating his joke? Geez, you're sad. Funny, an arrogant ass like yourself calling someone that. You trolled me for a week or more over the Office update site and updates, which you were dead wrong about, and you still went on and on even when confronted with the facts. So please, killfile me.... I'd consider it an honor coming from you. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ |
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glee typed: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , glee typed: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , glee typed: "Paul" wrote in message ... snip http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. LOL! Naw. piece of cake. Casper does all of the hard work for you. Glen just likes to rant and show how ignorant he can be. Some people are like that for some reason. :-( snip Paul made the statement, you ignorant troll. All I posted was an LOL to Paul's comment. Still haven't improved your reading comprehension, I see. I know Paul said it you arrogant ass! And you didn't offer to help, but just laugh like a ranting fool who has nothing to do but to harass people and to say people said things they didn't like an evil little worthless troll that you are. I never kill filed anybody in my life. But you are bucking the limit and I might make an exception. Promises, promises... killfile me so you will stop your trolling, please! I laughed at Paul's joke... can't you even see the smiley he included indicating his joke? Geez, you're sad. Funny, an arrogant ass like yourself calling someone that. You trolled me for a week or more over the Office update site and updates, which you were dead wrong about, and you still went on and on even when confronted with the facts. So please, killfile me.... I'd consider it an honor coming from you. You always get things wrong. I was not wrong about supplying a list of updates for Office 2000. And when I try to help somebody, you try your best to cause problems by harassing, belittling, lying, and using every dishonest means at your disposal. But that is what a low life like you do anyway. So no news there. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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"BillW50" wrote in message
... In , glee typed: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , glee typed: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , glee typed: "Paul" wrote in message ... snip http://www.techspot.com/community/to...-drive.116114/ You'll probably be a lot older, and have gray hairs, before you get that working :-) But, it's possible. LOL! Naw. piece of cake. Casper does all of the hard work for you. Glen just likes to rant and show how ignorant he can be. Some people are like that for some reason. :-( snip Paul made the statement, you ignorant troll. All I posted was an LOL to Paul's comment. Still haven't improved your reading comprehension, I see. I know Paul said it you arrogant ass! And you didn't offer to help, but just laugh like a ranting fool who has nothing to do but to harass people and to say people said things they didn't like an evil little worthless troll that you are. I never kill filed anybody in my life. But you are bucking the limit and I might make an exception. Promises, promises... killfile me so you will stop your trolling, please! I laughed at Paul's joke... can't you even see the smiley he included indicating his joke? Geez, you're sad. Funny, an arrogant ass like yourself calling someone that. You trolled me for a week or more over the Office update site and updates, which you were dead wrong about, and you still went on and on even when confronted with the facts. So please, killfile me.... I'd consider it an honor coming from you. You always get things wrong. I was not wrong about supplying a list of updates for Office 2000. And when I try to help somebody, you try your best to cause problems by harassing, belittling, lying, and using every dishonest means at your disposal. But that is what a low life like you do anyway. So no news there. Your troll-fest wasn't about your list of updates.... it never was, though that's all you seem to be able to recall... it was about the Office Update site and the location of Office update downloads *prior to* Office 2000. You still have that reading comprehension problem. I suggest you seek some professional help if you cannot take corrections without resorting to name calling and slander, which has been you modus operandi every time someone questions your statements or corrects you. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ |
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