I believe I have successfully done this but not via booting from a "USB
device" since it's not a USB device.
I regularly clone my boot drive to an eSATA drive. I normally don't
(anymore) test to see it the drive is actually bootable after the
cloning but I have done so. I think the first time I did it I played it
safe and swapped the clone for the C: drive. That, of course, works
fine with no reconfiguration. The second time (and I'm stretching my
memory here) I believe I just went to the BIOS and selected the
appropriate drive to boot from from the list of 3 SATA drives shown. Of
course, the BIOS doesn't give you a drive letter to play with. But if
you check the BIOS before adding the third drive you'll see what your C:
and D: drive are called there.
I didn't do anything other than wait for the boot to finish and then
immediately shut down because I was concerned about what might be
happening to C: drive references on the cloned drive which was at that
time not operating as C:. But AFAIK, what you're trying to do should work.
I suppose it's possible you have something in the boot sequence that's
referring to C: and, of course, the drive is not C:
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/19/2011 3:49 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Joel,
>
> I use a similar setup consisting of a Dell Dimension 4700 running XP/SP4, an
> eSATA card, and a single eSATA drive in a powered, fan-cooled enclosure.
> However, I use the drive as a photo storage drive, to contain all of my
> image files. At present, I have no interest in placing a bootable drive in
> the enclosure, but will keep watch for your comments if you find a way to
> make it work.
>
> I would suspect that the eSATA path presents a different interface, for
> which the "Boot from USB device" command is not prepared to deal with.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Wilcox"<jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion"<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 2:08 PM
> Subject: [OM] [OT] Booting from an eSATA drive
>
>
>> Do any of you Windows adepti boot occasionally from an eSATA drive in an
>> enclosure or dock? I have a HD which I can boot from when it is in the
>> PC itself. When I move it to a dock, connect it to the PC by USB,
>> select "Boot from USB device" in BIOS, it starts to load Windows and
>> then crashes. The blue screen message suggests to look for viruses, to
>> demount the drive, and maybe something else I can't remember. I have
>> demounted the drive, so that's not the problem, nor are there viruses at
>> issue. Won't completely load in any mode (safe, normal, etc.) though it
>> tries. The version of Win I am trying to load is XP/SP4. It is a
>> mirror of what is on the regular boot drive, so it was not built
>> originally on the drive when it was in the eSATA dock. I sort of
>> suspect this is where the problem may lie.
>>
>> I normally use this dock with an eSATA PCI card. There is no BIOS
>> option to boot through the card, so the only option that appears close
>> is to boot via a USB device, and the dock also has USB support. The PC
>> is a Dell GX Optiplex 240, which has SATA support, no problem, but is a
>> pretty old machine. Real workhorse, though.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions (other than getting a Mac, running Linux,
>> etc.).
>>
>> Joel W.
>>
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