----- Original Message -----
Sent: 5/9/2011 4:02:45 PM
Subject: Re: Booting a USB hard drive
On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote:
> Sorry,
>
> I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of
> your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot.
>
> so long
>
> klaus
The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives. The problem
is this particular drive model (Western Digital My Passport Essential.)
Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an old
problem. People solved it under Debian years ago. I just don't know how they
solved it and search engines didn't help.
Peter
IIRC this WD is "special" (in a not-nice way). In order to use it on some O/S other than windoz you have to remove the hidden partition with WDs "special" program and reformat the drive.
Larry
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