Sorry, yes, you were clear. I read right over the top of it and never
looked back to re-read it.
If you did hook it up as an eSATA drive perhaps your BIOS would be
forthcoming with some more options. ???
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/21/2011 10:51 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> 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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