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December 5th, 2006 16:00

External Hard Drive

Hello Out There:
I have a Dell Dimension 8300PC with a 120GB hard drive.
I have added a external Seagate 120GB hard drive.
I have used Norton Ghost to copy the C drive to the F drive-----No problem.
Can anyone tell me what to do to be able to boot from the F drive?
I have tried everything I can think of with no results.
It starts to boot and I see the Windows flag and then goes to a stop error of 0X00000007B.
 
Thank You
alf2016 
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    rickmktg

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    Posted December 5th, 2006 20:00


    alf2016 wrote:
    Hello Out There:
    I have a Dell Dimension 8300PC with a 120GB hard drive.
    I have added a external Seagate 120GB hard drive.
    I have used Norton Ghost to copy the C drive to the F drive-----No problem.
    Can anyone tell me what to do to be able to boot from the F drive?
    I have tried everything I can think of with no results.
    It starts to boot and I see the Windows flag and then goes to a stop error of 0X00000007B.
     
    Thank You
    alf2016 
     
    In the future, by using the Advanced Forum Search on the bottom of this page, you can quite easily find the answer to this often asked question.
     
    Not possible to boot from external hard drive.
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    kjharris

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    Posted December 6th, 2006 17:00

    As you have been told, the 8300 cannot be booted from an external drive. Why do you want to do this?

    Ken
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    jec4312

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    Posted December 6th, 2006 18:00

    I created an image of my c drive on to an external drive using Acronis, and Acronis gave me the opportunity of creating a boot cd which I did. I guess that should I ever need to use the image, I would have to insert the boot cd first - hope I'm not wrong on this. Did you create such a cd with Norton?
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    kjharris

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    Posted December 7th, 2006 19:00

    No, I used Acronis True Image to make the boot CD and the image(which is on my external HD). I have never used the boot CD and the image to restore my HD--hopefully I will never need to.

    Ken
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    YNEVE

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    Posted October 3rd, 2016 14:00

    no boot in seagate external drive connected to USB

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