On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Joe Brandt wrote:
> On Saturday 11 April 2009 09:49:40 am Eben King wrote:
>>
>> So the XP installer complains there's no XP-compatible partition available,
>> but it won't say what it wants. Good design, folks. Anyone know what it
>> wants? I tried making it "bootable" and also setting the same flag for
>> partition 6, no go. I deleted and recreated the partition using XP's own
>> utility, no dice. Does it need to be primary? The first, $DEITY forbid?
>> Can I make it like it wants it, then use gparted to move it to where I want
>> it?
>
> I have attempted to boot Microsoft from an external drive. I learned that it
> drops the usb stack during the boot process and picks it up later, thus making
> it impossible to boot from an usb device. Unless they have fixed that within
> the last couple of years you are out of luck even if you come up with a
> workable partition.
Yeah, I ended up swapping drives, mounting the 3xx GiB drive internally and
the 80-ish GB drive in the USB case. Worked until I hosed the bootloader.
FTR: fdisk x -- f reorders the partitions so the number matches the position
on disk.
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