So the answer is that my old 80GB Maxtor One Step external USB drive boots right up into VistaPE on my new Q6600. So what the heck is wrong...
I already tried the other FreeAgent and it doesn't work, either. I just realized that the power supply for my Old Maxtor is at work so I won't be...
I already tried my other FreeAgent. Is that sufficient to answer your question? I do have an older Maxtor (80GB) external drive. If you think...
If I am reading the info here http://www.purviancecs.com/acronis.htm "Troubleshooting: Why won't my Flashdrive or USB Hard Disk boot?"...
Well, I don't know if it is possible but I know it didn't work. I tried it and it still gives the Missing MBR Helper error message. I had a brief...
I have tried a newer (I think) version of grldr. I have flashed my ASUS P5E motherboard BIOS from the shipped version of 0607 to the latest...
Speaking of working hard. As a result of this I have done some research on Nightman and I now find the fact that the English in some parts of the...
O.K. then I guess I will just boot from the CD on my old machine since that works fastest. Thanks for the info.
Things are looking up! :) The Vista DVD with no SP1 that my friend sent me arrived in the mail yesterday. I used it to create a new build. I...
That is one of the ones that I had downloaded. The reason I didn't think it was the right one was because it did not have a grubinst_gui.exe in...
I have had no luck finding a newer version of Grub4DOS than the one in Winbuilder. All of those I have found and downloaded appear to be older....
My testing methodology: 1) Push computer power button and timer start button at the same time 2) When desktop appears push timer stop button 3)...
Attached is a screenshot of the root of my 500GB FreeAgent external USB drive. It does not boot on my new Q6600 with 4GB RAM. The error I get is...
Thanks for the suggestions MudCrab. I'll let you know what I discover when I get home.
I didn't copy from the flash drive but I copied the same files to the 500GB that I did to the external and I installed Grub to the 500GB the same...
I should have been more specific. What happens when I try to boot to my 500GB external drive is that I get an error that grhlb can not be found. I...
I just had the weirdest experience... SOMETHING ACTUALLY WORKED!! :D I successfully booted to VistaPE on my new 1GB flash drive. Thanks to...
So if I can somehow get my hands on a Vista DVD without SP1 on it can I use my license number to make the VistaPE CD? [EDIT: I see that Mark was...
I do appreciate all of your help Mark. As painful as it was I did learn a lot, in the process.
Well, that certainly explains all of my hair pulling. Thanks very much for the valuable information! I'll need to pick up a new flash drive on...
Well, apparently I just wasn't patient enough. I left it opening up in safe mode over night and when I got up this morning I was able to format it...
Disk Director can't see the Flash Drive on the new computer or the old one. I only have one. It locked up in Safe Mode analysing the Flash...
I just noticed that Disk Director doesn't even see my flash drive as a drive anymore. It shows up in explorer but not in DD. I know it did earlier...
SIGH! I am growing weary. While waiting for suggestions on how to solve the not seeing the partitions problem I decided to go ahead and get my USB...
I don't know if this is important but I can ping long before the grammatically poor popup tells me the network is ready. [EDIT: More scientific...
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