Help! Booting from USB Hard Drive...

Faithless · 25 Feb 2007 at 15:40

Guys, I think what I am trying to do is not what I keep finding solutions for.

I have a laptop that can read USB Hard Drive as a bootable drive, which is fine. But the USB Hard Drive I have as WinMCE on it (as in, the install files).

I did an nLite of WinMCE and got the created files onto the USB Hdd, now I want to re-install WinMCE from my USB Hdd. #

All I can find is instances where the OS is actually already installed on the USB Hdd. I want to install FROM the USB Hdd (as if it was a CD-Rom).

When I choose USB HDD in the BIOS, it goes to boot from it but says ntldr is missing.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Rebelius · 25 Feb 2007 at 19:09

why don't you just burn the image to a CD?

Faithless · 25 Feb 2007 at 21:39

Cos its 1.8gb and I dont have a DVD-RW drive in the laptop and Daemon Tools won't work either.

MikeHunt79 · 8 Mar 2007 at 00:05

You may have to repartition the USB drive to do this.... it is possible tho.

bledd · 8 Mar 2007 at 00:17

why is it so big

the normal 2cd's are about 790 mb or something

mine is about 200mb (with mce)

dont add loads of crap to the disc

MikeHunt79 · 8 Mar 2007 at 23:37

perhaps he's trying to install steam or photoshop or something like that along with windows?

Anyway, another option is to buy a USB external DVD-drive enclosure... I use one of these for laptop which has a broken optical drive - it works a treat.