Here is what I said (in part):
"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."
Is this not clear about the USB attachment?
Of course I use the dock principally via the eSATA interface -- when I
read and write data. But I seem to have zero options to boot that way
and maybe have the option to boot via USB. The question was about
booting.
When I get a Round Tuit, I will look around some of the other dialogues
in the BIOS menus and see how the drives are labeled. That might hold
some clues.
But there are no fires to put out. My workaround is just to open the
case and slap the drive in and run the machine. I've just scanned two
rolls of slides that way. Thanks for trying to help.
Joel W.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011, at 06:27 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> To end the confusion: I assumed your SATA drive was attached as an
> eSATA drive in the dock. You had not previously mentioned it was
> attached via USB. If your dock provides eSATA attachment it should be
> used since it's far faster than USB 2.0. If I had a dock that only
> provided USB 2.0 I'd swap it out for one that does eSATA since the speed
> difference is very significant.
>
> Sorry, since it really is a USB device I have no idea why it's not
> working.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> On 12/20/2011 10:04 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> > 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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