ghosting to usb hd and booting from it

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Peter

Does Ghost or another program allow me to copy the files from my HD to
my USB drive and if needed boot from the usb drive?

Thanks,
Pete
 
Peter said:
Does Ghost or another program allow me to copy the files from
my HD to my USB drive and if needed boot from the usb drive?
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Booting from the clone on a usb drive requires more than just a
copy of the original internal drive, and so the imager cant do it alone.

The system needs to be able to boot from the usb drive too, not all can.
 
Rod Speed said:
Booting from the clone on a usb drive requires more than just a
copy of the original internal drive, and so the imager cant do it alone.

The system needs to be able to boot from the usb drive too, not
all can.
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Can you name one PC (make and model) that can boot from
a USB hard drive (as opposed to a USB floppy drive or a USB
flash drive)?

*TimDaniels*
 
Previously Peter said:
Does Ghost or another program allow me to copy the files from my HD to
my USB drive and if needed boot from the usb drive?
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Gost has not influence on whether your USB device will be bootable.
That depends on your BIOS.

Arno
 
Timothy Daniels said:
Can you name one PC (make and model) that can boot from
a USB hard drive (as opposed to a USB floppy drive or a USB
flash drive)?
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No difference between the two, other than the Int13 unit (00/80).
Windows cannot boot from USB though. Bart's PE has a USB hack.
 
Timothy Daniels said:
Rod Speed wrote
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Let us suppose Windows XP or Windows Vista.
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Then you have a problem, and thats nothing to do with the PC, everything to do with what XP or
Vista can do easily, once you have a PC that can boot a USB with another OS like say PE on it.
 
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