Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef:
I am thinking of a great deal of possibilities with my IDE/ATA=>USB adapter.... provided that the target OS is capable of understanding that it is being booted from such device... (I don't know if any of the Windows would be able to do that).
No, USB-driver stack isn't low-level enough for loading WindowsNT/2000/XP.
Win9x may actually boot OK.
I've even booted WinXP successfully in RAM, using a special method: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10482&st=0
Sounds like bad news. Few available BIOSes seem to provide such a support for USB, at least that I know of....
This seems like a very good USB support on his machine, indeed.
Bernd
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