I got a cheap laptop recently and I want to put Linux on it. It's going to take some time working on getting everything under Linux functioning just the way I want it, so when I'm not tinkering with the Linux setup to get it fully functional, I want to be able to fire up XP for those times I need something I haven't yet setup Linux to do.
I could put Linux on another partition of my internal HD and then make a bootable image of that partition and restore it onto a fresh HD when I'm done configuring Linux, but since I have a 40GB IDE drive and an IDE/USB adapter, I would prefer to be able to plug the drive into my laptop's USB port and run XP whenever I need to during this period (eventually I want to move completely over to Linux).
I tried doing this already with Acronis imaging software and it made an image of my XP setup and copied it onto my 40GB IDE drive that was connected via USB just fine. I then boot from the USB. My laptop's BIOS allows this, but for some reason it shows the 40GB IDE drive as a USB 1.1 device rather than 2.0, even though my laptop's ports are 2.0.
The IDE/SATA adapter I'm using is a Scythe Kama Connect. Anyway, while data transfer is annoyingly slow at USB 1.1 speeds, I think this only affects the bootup process and then USB 2.0 kicks in (not sure on this) once I'm into XP.
Well, I get so far as the Microsoft Windows XP logo and the blue boxes animation just below it as Windows XP loads and then shortly into that I get a BSOD. This may have something to do with having different hardware (the HD) than what XP had on record during initial install.
That's as far as I've been able to get. If anyone has any suggestions on how to successfully boot XP from external IDE via USB, and if anyone knows why the BIOS shows the drive as only USB 1.1, I'd appreciate some tips/suggestions to get things working.
Otherwise, I'll end up having to create another primary partition on the laptop's HD, install Linux on it, get it the way I want, image it, then restore it onto a fresh disk.. I'm not sure if this will create any complications, so this too is an area I'd appreciate some feedback.
Thanks!
I could put Linux on another partition of my internal HD and then make a bootable image of that partition and restore it onto a fresh HD when I'm done configuring Linux, but since I have a 40GB IDE drive and an IDE/USB adapter, I would prefer to be able to plug the drive into my laptop's USB port and run XP whenever I need to during this period (eventually I want to move completely over to Linux).
I tried doing this already with Acronis imaging software and it made an image of my XP setup and copied it onto my 40GB IDE drive that was connected via USB just fine. I then boot from the USB. My laptop's BIOS allows this, but for some reason it shows the 40GB IDE drive as a USB 1.1 device rather than 2.0, even though my laptop's ports are 2.0.
The IDE/SATA adapter I'm using is a Scythe Kama Connect. Anyway, while data transfer is annoyingly slow at USB 1.1 speeds, I think this only affects the bootup process and then USB 2.0 kicks in (not sure on this) once I'm into XP.
Well, I get so far as the Microsoft Windows XP logo and the blue boxes animation just below it as Windows XP loads and then shortly into that I get a BSOD. This may have something to do with having different hardware (the HD) than what XP had on record during initial install.
That's as far as I've been able to get. If anyone has any suggestions on how to successfully boot XP from external IDE via USB, and if anyone knows why the BIOS shows the drive as only USB 1.1, I'd appreciate some tips/suggestions to get things working.
Otherwise, I'll end up having to create another primary partition on the laptop's HD, install Linux on it, get it the way I want, image it, then restore it onto a fresh disk.. I'm not sure if this will create any complications, so this too is an area I'd appreciate some feedback.
Thanks!
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