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    What is an external sata boot drive

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by ohiorebel, Feb 28, 2009.

  1. ohiorebel

    ohiorebel Notebook Enthusiast

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    What is an external sata boot drive? Does it really exisit Or is it a myth.

    It seams my GX620 might be able to external boot, but so far it can't pull it off.
     
    ohiorebel, Feb 28, 2009
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    ryujin 2B or not 2B

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    is there not a setting in the BIOS to configure boot device? have you not tried this?
     
    ryujin, Feb 28, 2009
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    ohiorebel Notebook Enthusiast

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    My esata drive is connected to the "esata port"and is powered seperatly on my notebook. The bios is configured to enable AHCI mode. According to the bios the drive is recognized as a esata drive. The drive will function normaly in XP as an additional but it will not act as boot drive

    I also change the boot priority from the 160 gig internal drive (running XP Pro) to the 320 drive. The 320 drive (external enclosure) has a copy of the internal hard drive partition(to include XP pro) on it. I copied the entire partition to the new drive. Shouldn't this external drive boot up? All I get is a blinking cursor.




    My goal is to run windows 7 on the external drive. Windows seven is currently on the internal drive and works as a dual boot. But I would prefer to relocate it to the external drive
     
    ohiorebel, Feb 28, 2009
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