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Want to install WinPE on a USB hard drive (with the hard drive cable unplugged), but my motherboard doesn't support booting from USB, so it didn't succeed
(Additional note: I also tried to install XP independently (with the hard drive cable unplugged) and it failed.)

Is it true that it won't work if the motherboard doesn't support booting from USB?

Yes~
There is another way you can try. After installing winxp on the hard drive, install a WINPE, use ghost or your todisk to clone to the USB hard drive, and then boot into DOS and use grub.exe --config-file="title find and load NTLDR of Windows NT/2K/XP;find --set-root /ntldr;chainloader /ntldr;" to start and try.
You can also delete the XP files, and change /ntldr to the PE boot file.
grub.exe should be able to solve the problem. I haven't practiced for a long time because of work, and I don't have time to play with your updated version of TODISK.

It should be okay through the hard method (sectors)

My intention is:
First install the independent PE of the USB hard drive on my computer that does not support USB boot (unplug the hard drive cable), and then take it to the computer that supports USB boot to boot this USB hard drive (to maintain his computer!)
That is to say, make the WINPE CD into a WINPE USB hard drive

GRUB does not support USB, and it is useless to use GRUB commands, right?

Does DOS first drive USB and then GRUB.EXE is also not supported?

Just tried on a machine that supports USB device booting, still can't install XP!

Just got a USB external hard drive, not very familiar with it, how can I install WinPE or XP on it?

When installing WinPE, it failed.

When installing XP, always when it's about to install, it says:

"The computer's boot program cannot access this disk"
(The real hard drive has been unplugged)

Searched a lot on the Internet, but didn't get any substantial results...

[ Last edited by GOTOmsdos on 2007-1-21 at 09:35 AM ]

Installing WinPE is simple~ Write grub to the MBR of the USB primary active partition, configure the menu.lst in the root directory, and copy the WinPE files to the USB. You can also check relevant posts on the Wuyou Forum.

I have tried it many times, and all have failed

I'm also trying to install PE on a mobile hard drive, but the method of using the hard drive plus PE is not successful. Who can give some guidance!

Using NTLODER + GRUB + PELODER
or NTLODER + PELODER
Instructions for converting to Lao Mao Tao:
Installing WinPE to a USB removable hard drive

Compared to USB flash drive installation, the installation of a USB removable hard drive is much simpler. Generally speaking, as long as the motherboard supports USB removable hard drive boot, it is almost always in USB-HDD mode.

Directly use WinPM (download address: Paragon Partition Manager 7.0 Simplified Green Server Edition, Paragon Partition Manager 7.0 Simplified, Green, Yingzheng Tianxia Dedicated Server Edition) to partition a primary partition on the USB removable hard drive and activate this primary partition. Then format this primary partition to NTFS format (NTFS is recommended). Rename SETUPLDR.BIN in the WXPE folder of BootCD.ISO to NTLDR and save it to the root directory of the active primary partition of the removable hard drive. In addition, NTDETECT.COM in WXPE also needs to be copied over. Then copy WINNT.XPE, WINPE.IS_, XPEMENU.INI and the external program folder in the root directory of BootCD.ISO to the root directory of the removable hard drive together.

Give you for reference, hope to reach you~

http://bbs.wuyou.com/viewthread.php?tid=82943&extra=page%3D2

Actually, I can't figure out if it has been installed yet? Because I still can't see the boot screen for a long time when booting...

Wuyou now has opened specialized sections for U disks and mobile hard disks. Go to GOTOMSDOS to have a look.