Intalling Ultimate Edition 2.5 on external harddrive

[Kelmer]

Hey everyone,

I just recently got Ultimate Edition 2.5 from a friend. I am running Windows 7 right now and I wanted to keep that as my default OS to start everytime my computer turned on. When I installed Ultimate Edition 2.5, I wanted it to be on an external harddrive so I could take it with me wherever I went and so it wouldn't take up space on my primary harddrive.

I set it to install on the external harddrive, but it still partitioned some space on my primary harddrive and now my computer wont boot unless that external harddrive is plugged in.

Now I just want to remove it from my comp all together but im not sure how. I tried a system restore on Windows but that didn't have any effect at all.

[Cell]

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The first post should help you out.

[stlsaint]

you need to delete whatever partition ubuntu created on the primary hdd and maybe reinstall windows bootloader back to mbr of hdd. Then you will need to fix the install on the ext hdd. When you do the install do manual parttion scheme so you set and know exactly where the partitions are going.

[JohnTN]

I have Ultimate Edition 2.5 installed on an old USB drive. After having a similar experience as yours, with Ultimate Edition's Grub taking over the boot process and having to restore control to windows, I discovered the key to success.

If you have a computer that allows you to boot from external usb devices and you want each to boot independent of one another, the key is to physically disconnect all the other drives when doing an install to the external device.

You can boot the Live CD/DVD and install it to the external device with no problems at all. Keep in mind any reinstall of a newer version will require the same action. I have several USB HD's running this way and all boot flawlessly when I select them as the boot device from the BIOS. For my HP I simply hit "ESC" during the boot process to address the boot device selection option.

Hope this helps someone

John

[surfzombie]

If you have a computer that allows you to boot from external usb devices and you want each to boot independent of one another, the key is to physically disconnect all the other drives when doing an install to the external device.

You can boot the Live CD/DVD and install it to the external device with no problems at all. Keep in mind any reinstall of a newer version will require the same action. I have several USB HD's running this way and all boot flawlessly when I select them as the boot device from the BIOS. For my HP I simply hit "ESC" during the boot process to address the boot device selection option.

Hope this helps someone

John

I did that last night with a little 80 gig portable drive and everything was working great. I hooked up my other windows drives and could read and access them fine until today. When I started my pc this morning I booted into XP and did what I needed to do there and then I plugged to portable drive in while in windows and of course windows didn't recognize it because I made it all linux but. I restarted my pc and it ignored the portable and went right to windows. I restarted again and hit F11 and selected to boot to the removable drive and it says none detected. So I reformatted it back to FAT32. Then booted linux and chose a shared install split almost 50/50 with the FAT32 pratition so that windows would recognize it but it still won't boot into linux. What do I need to do? What is the proper way to get a totally portable usb to run on any pc so to speak?

[Cell]

Boot from the bios.That way you can choose which drive you want to load.

You don't have to enter the bios to do it.Most have an short cut key.Mine is the ESC key.You have to press it right away after you turn your pc on.


Cell

[surfzombie]

I restarted again and hit F11 and selected to boot to the removable drive and it says none detected. So I reformatted it back to FAT32. Then booted linux and chose a shared install split almost 50/50 with the FAT32 pratition so that windows would recognize it but it still won't boot into linux. What do I need to do? What is the proper way to get a totally portable usb to run on any pc so to speak?

Did you miss this? I am booting from the bios by hitting F11 as mentioned above.

[w8wca]

If you want a 'totally' portable usb, I would suggest you look at PendriveLinux site

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
They also have a USB installer to help it.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal- ... -as-1-2-3/
That is a Windows Program.
There are a lot of howto's and distro's there to choose from.

Or:
If you want to do it from Linux look at unetbootin
here http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

[Cell]

Did you miss this? I am booting from the bios by hitting F11 as mentioned above.

Sure did.

But no matter.If your bios doesn't detect your usb drive its not because of the way its formated.