Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Mar 15 10:50:47 UTC 2008


Markus Kesaromous wrote:

reboot - then bios will boot off of the USB drive.
> 
> However, windows still will not boot! It gives me a splash screen of windows logo,
> then reboots.
> Is there something in windows that insists that the drive be on same controller
> as it was when first installed?

I've been told, but never confirmed, that windows won't run from USB 
drives. Consider the implications of Windows licencing if it did....




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