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Booting To External Usb Hard Drive (Not Flash Drive)

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    Posted 07 November 2012 - 12:12 AM

    Can anyone point me to information about putting UBCD4WIN on an external USB hard drive? The UBUSB tool threw an error after it was done with the Format step. I tried direct disk copying (dd.exe) a UBCD4WIN flash drive to the USB hard drive. But then, even when I explicitly chose the external USB hard drive as the boot device, it still booted off the laptop's internal hard drive.

    Any pointers or links would be good to have. I took some time to google, but didn't find anything (just kept getting articles on flash drives).
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      Posted 07 November 2012 - 01:07 PM

      Paritiotion, set active and format the USB hard disk.
      Copy UBCD4Win files to USB hard disk.
      rename \I386 to \minint
      copy \minint\setupldr.bin \ntldr
      copy \minint\setupldr.bin \bootmgr
      copy \minint\ntdetect.com \ntdetect.com
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        Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:43 PM

        Thanks for the pointers. I'll try again soon. But, don't I need to do something to make the disk boot to what I copied to it?
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