W 10 Pro booting from 2.0 USB external drive

[jenny2017]

  Hello ladies and gentlemen,

 

               I was just wondering if anybody has tried that before? It happened a year ago when I accidentally restored my 64 bit OS PC at home by using the image of my 32 bit notebook. After a reboot, the program wasn't not just working well, it was genuine and all programs worked well.

 

  But something occurred yesterday, where I had to think twice how that could happen. After cloning the hard drive that got way too hot, something with Acronis went wrong and having two bootable drives in the PC, the PC didn't boot anymore. I was then using a CD with Macrium rescue on it to get it started and restore the machine from an external drive, which was on my old hard drive I  had taken  out of my notebook. ( With a still functioning OS version of W 10 Pro. 

 

  I had three bootable images and accidentally chosen my external drive to boot from which still has the W 10 Pro, 32 bit version OS on it. The PC booted from the USB connected external hard drive with the 32 version of W 10 on it and all worked fine.

 

How is that even possible when you have two connected drives with the same ( cloned) OS on it?  

 

  

Edited December 11, 2017 by jenny2017

[JSixpack]

It's a bit difficult to understand your post as you have two bootable drives in the PC, you have three bootable images, and you have two clones.

 

First, you can't boot from images. And you can boot from only one bootable disk. If your BIOS is working correctly, and the bootable disks are indeed bootable and if the BIOS finds that disk kosher (sometimes it doesn't, for some unfathomable reason, then you'll boot from the bootable disk listed first in order of boot priority. I don't see why this could not have happened in the case mentioned.

[jenny2017]

13 minutes ago, JSixpack said:

It's a bit difficult to understand your post as you have two bootable drives in the PC, you have three bootable images, and you have two clones.

 

First, you can't boot from images. And you can boot from only one bootable disk. If your BIOS is working correctly, and the bootable disks are indeed bootable and if the BIOS finds that disk kosher (sometimes it doesn't, for some unfathomable reason, then you'll boot from the bootable disk listed first in order of boot priority. I don't see why this could not have happened in the case mentioned.

Thanks for taking the time to answer. Sorry, I didn't mean to boot from an image as all installations are bootable versions. What seemed strange to me was that i could boot from a only via USB attached external drive that had the fully functioning operating system from my notebook still on.

 

   I could only get in the boot menu by using my Macrium emergency bootable media. ( And that's exactly when it gets very complicated) Not the Bios, the Window screen then was asking me with what partition I wanted to boot.

 

  For whatever reason was it not possible to go the ordinary way to boot from my Macrium rescue thumb drive, whatever I was trying. The system, it's an older Lenovo Think Centre PC and the hd got bad because of a too slow running fan at the CPU.

 

P.S. It might be a bit complicated because i was using Acronis 2015 to clone when Macrium couldn't be used, but all backups are done with Macrium. 

 

  I'm finally back to normal, but still don't understand why a thumb drive won't be seen on it? Any ideas? 

 

   

 

  

Edited December 11, 2017 by jenny2017

[JSixpack]

14 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

Thanks for taking the time to answer. Sorry, I didn't mean to boot from an image as all installations are bootable versions. What seemed strange to me was that i could boot from a only via USB attached external drive that had the fully functioning operating system from my notebook still on.

 

   I could only get in the boot menu by using my Macrium emergency bootable media. ( And that's exactly when it gets very complicated) Not the Bios, the Window screen then was asking me with what partition I wanted to boot.

 

  For whatever reason was it not possible to go the ordinary way to boot from my Macrium rescue thumb drive, whatever I was trying. The system, it's an older Lenovo Think Centre PC and the hd got bad because of a too slow running fan at the CPU.

 

P.S. It might be a bit complicated because i was using Acronis 2015 to clone when Macrium couldn't be used, but all backups are done with Macrium. 

 

  I'm finally back to normal, but still don't understand why a thumb drive won't be seen on it? Any ideas?  

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I think we may be getting to the real issue now. Is it that the computer wouldn't boot from a particular (bootable) thumb drive? Which is NOT a clone, image, or backup but rather Macrium rescue media?

 

If so, then first is that thumb drive recognized in the BIOS and can you set it as first in the boot priority order? If not, you aren't going to see it in the Windows boot menu (where it doesn't have to be first in the order). 

Edited December 11, 2017 by JSixpack

[bendejo]

14 hours ago, jenny2017 said:

W 10 Pro booting from 2.0 USB external drive

 

Oh, I remember you.  Looks like you're still trying to run that dodgy hardware.

 

 

Edited December 11, 2017 by bendejo