|
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Welcome to Windows Vista Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find solutions with any problems, errors or issues you are experiencing with Windows Vista. The Vista forum also covers news and updates and has an extensive Windows Vista tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks. |
| |||||||
 |
| |
11-19-2007
| #1 (permalink) |
| | Boot from eSATA drive I've got an ASUS M2N32 - SLI Deluxe AMD64X2 MB that has an external eSATA and it works well. So, I've been wanting to try to boot from the external SATA hard drive but changing the BIOS hasn't worked. Boot up slows as if it's looking for an external to boot off but then goes to the next boot drive and starts normally. ASUS says it can be done but tech support is useless. Anyone have any suggestions? TIA |
My System Specs |
|
11-20-2007
| #2 (permalink) |
| | Re: Boot from eSATA drive On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:34:55 -0600, "Paul" <pcostanza@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >I've got an ASUS M2N32 - SLI Deluxe AMD64X2 MB that has an external eSATA >and it works well. So, I've been wanting to try to boot from the external >SATA hard drive but changing the BIOS hasn't worked. Boot up slows as if >it's looking for an external to boot off but then goes to the next boot >drive and starts normally. ASUS says it can be done but tech support is >useless. >Anyone have any suggestions? >TIA Drives? If so, move it to the top of the list of drives. |
| My System Specs |
|
11-20-2007
| #3 (permalink) |
| | Re: Boot from eSATA drive In message <faa6k39muaum9af55on0vubk8lbqtuf0ft@xxxxxx> andy <bogusaddress@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:34:55 -0600, "Paul" <pcostanza@xxxxxx> wrote: > Quote: >>I've got an ASUS M2N32 - SLI Deluxe AMD64X2 MB that has an external eSATA >>and it works well. So, I've been wanting to try to boot from the external >>SATA hard drive but changing the BIOS hasn't worked. Boot up slows as if >>it's looking for an external to boot off but then goes to the next boot >>drive and starts normally. ASUS says it can be done but tech support is >>useless. >>Anyone have any suggestions? >>TIA >Drives? If so, move it to the top of the list of drives. to selecting boot drives, sometimes I needed to remove one of the internal drives temporarily, get into the BIOS, save settings, then reinstall the removed drive, go back into the BIOS and change it to get the change to stick. A firmware upgrade appears to have solved the problem, although I haven't spent much time mucking around with boot drives since then. |
| My System Specs |
|
| Thread Tools | |
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Forum | |||
| eSATA drive | Vista General | |||
| eSATA drive ? (also posted on V. gen.) | Vista hardware & devices | |||
| Install VHP x64 from eSATA drive possible? | Vista installation & setup | |||
| eSATA Drive Question | Vista hardware & devices | |||
| Esata drive not recognized | Vista hardware & devices | |||
