LabView on U3 USB thumb drive

[Britoa]

If you are cloning a drive to another drive and hoping windows activaction will travel, you are mistaken.  Windows XP locks itself to your hardware when it activates, allowing minor changes, and completely spazzing when you change the hard drive (I had a similar problem when my hard drive started to die, I had cloned it to a new drive, and windows refused to accept it, because all HDs have their own serial numbers)  You will need an activationless XP, because your motherboard will be changing, and it will not like that either. 

Good luck

Alexis

[PaulatSTL]

Britoa, thanks that is just what I needed, really. I was just starting to wonder about this issue myself. Now here is the rub, I was able to take the cloned drive and attach it in place of the original drive (take other drive off of the IDE cable and put the cloned drive on the IDE cable). It would start asking if I wanted to go into safe mode, last known good load, or normal loading. I found that only safe without promts would work. Once loaded it would install new hardware and ask for a restart. After restarting it would run fine. I even did several restarts and no problems. But if I put this drive in the USB case, well all heck broke out. Again I would get the safe mode and so on. No matter what I selected, it would crash before total loading of the system. Would always either lock-up or freeze while loading Windows/system32/drivers/Mup.sys.

One more test, and that will be to load windows directly to a Hard Drive, but I might fall back to one of my W2K installs. MattH, what OS do you have loaded on yours?

Thanks guys for help on this project.

Paul

[PaulatSTL]

Well after much heartburn and messing up a computer that hopefully I will be able to repair with a copy of a Ghosted image, though been awhile and will have to see how much I have lost. I ran into a bit of trivial infomation. And I quote a site that sells external HDD cases with USB interfaces.

Updated October 12th, 2004::

Yes. The NexStar 2.5" Hard Drive enclosure can function as a boot device, assuming your computer supports booting off a USB device.

To use the NexStar as a boot device, make sure you have a bootable partition on the drive and an OS installed. If you do not, boot off your Windows CD and install an OS onto the drive. Windows' installer will be able to provide a drive letter for the USB drive.

Please note, due to certain hardware and software limitations of Windows versions based on the NT system (Windows NT/2000/XP), it is not possible to boot Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP off a USB drive. This is partially caused by Windows reinitializing the USB bus during the boot up, essentially disconnecting the USB device and causing Windows to crash. Windows 98/ME are the only versions that will support booting off USB.

So, I suppose MattH must be using W98E for the OS. Sure wish I knew this before, would have saved a lot of grief and hair pulling. Well once I have everything back up to par, will embark on this angle of attack of my desire to be able to go out and use LabView via external drive. Oh and I do realize that it wont be 8.2.1, it will only run on W2K, XP and Vista so it says on the system requirments section of the specs. Now need to see if the old 7.1 will run on W98E, otherwise this has been one fruitless mad capper.

Paul

Message Edited by PaulatSTL on 06-20-2007 10:01 AM

[MRedRaider]

Paul:

I am sorry that you are having problems with this, but I assure you I am and others have booted XP from an external device. In an earlier post I linked to:
http://pcs.suite101.com/article.cfm/pocket_sized_windows

futher witness that it can be done.

[LakeLogic]

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