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Booting from SSD connected by USB

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TI 2013. Build 6514. Lenovo M82 with Win 7 64 bit OS. Experimenting with trying to boot the OS from a SATA SSD connected via a USB cable. Computer detects the SSD after booting normally from an internal drive, can be formatted, etc. By when either I restore a recent full C drive image onto the SSD using the Acronis boot disk, or clone the SSD from the working fine C drive, it won't boot the OS. No problems with selecting boot from USB in the BIOS.

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Hi Jacob,

it is Windows limitation: It is unsupported to boot Windows from external devices

Thank you,