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Re: external harddrive enclosures
Posted by John Doue on April 1st, 2004


John Biltz wrote:
John,

Your mention that firewire drives are bootable got me. I have been using
one for nearly two years, and in my experience, it gets recognized
during Windows boot, not at the bios level. Could you amplify on that,
am I missing something ?


John Doue

Posted by Lewin A.R.W. Edwards on April 1st, 2004


Requires BIOS support. IOW unlikely to be supported on a machine that
doesn't have Firewire built-in (as opposed to on a PCI/CardBus card).

USB hard drives are bootable too, with appropriate BIOS.


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