Booting from External Enclosure.

[Hypochondriac]

I want to be able to boot off a drive in an external enclosure. That way if the internal dies I can still use external until i get a replacement. I used a utility to copy all the files from the Internal to the external. The problem is when I try to boot from the external i get a stop 00007b error. I reformated the drive but still get that error. Any ideas how to fix it? Motherboard is a P4M80-M4. Enclosure is a nexttech. I belive the board allows you to boot off a usb. Thanks

 

[Samstoned]

how did you load the OS to the USB drive
what OS are you trying to boot
on boot MB should have option to boot from device press ??
I think one one of my machines it's F9

 

[Hypochondriac]

Os is XP used a backup utility it made a clone of the internal. I don't have to press a button It will say booting from Cd. Then it accessess the external. The windows logo shows but doesn't load i get the stop error. Safe mode doesn't help either

 

[Nodsu]

You cannot boot Windows from any USB device unless you do some very serious hacking.

If you want a simple bootable extrernal option, get an eSATA encolusre instead.

 

[Hypochondriac]

Thanks I was under the impression you can boot off a external drive if you made a clone of the internal. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Samstoned]

nope (ECho on)
must have the usb set to be bootable from install time
or can try the recovery disk method to try and fix the HAL error