On Mon, Dec 19, 2011, at 08:45 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I believe I have successfully done this but not via booting from a "USB
> device" since it's not a USB device.
Why if the dock is connected via USB is it 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 don't have any option to select specific drives in editing the boot
sequence in BIOS. The BSOD mentioned the possibility of needing to
demount the drive, so you're clearly right that the drive letters are
significant.
> 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 have a computer still in service in which I installed what was at that
time a second instance of Windows on a drive that was labelled "F".
It's now the only drive and still thinks it is F. There is no C drive
at all. The PC complains about the boot.ini file needing to be ignored,
but it still boots up since it is the only OS available.
> 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:
I think I successfully demounted the drive, but it's possible I didn't
really. I actually slapped this drive back in the PC and it booted
right up. I just used to to scan. In the end, I will probably just
save this HD and put it in when I want to scan in the future. It's
extremely easy and quick to do with this particular Dell model. But the
whole exercise just got me curious as to how to do it from an external
enclosure.
Joel W.
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