fireflyte
Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:03:42 pm
Hi,
I am enjoying having Zorin 9 on my little college laptop but I thought it might be fun to use the newest version on my bigger, more powerful home laptop.
Thing is, it's got Windows 7 on it and came with no installation disc so I can't afford to remove that or attempted a multi-boot.
So I thought a solution would be to install the newest Zorin on an external USB Hard Drive. (Not a flash-drive/SD but an actual HD).
When I want to boot to Zorin, simply, connect the external HD and when I want to boot to Windows, just, disconnect the external and boot as normal.
Seemed straight forward enough..
So I removed the internal drive (temporarily for safety) and installed Zorin from the DVD drive onto the external drive which seemed to go OK.
I made sure the BIOS was set to boot from the external drive but when I tried to boot it failed. I was just left with a black screen with a flashing cursor.
Can anyone help, please?
I am enjoying having Zorin 9 on my little college laptop but I thought it might be fun to use the newest version on my bigger, more powerful home laptop.
Thing is, it's got Windows 7 on it and came with no installation disc so I can't afford to remove that or attempted a multi-boot.
So I thought a solution would be to install the newest Zorin on an external USB Hard Drive. (Not a flash-drive/SD but an actual HD).
When I want to boot to Zorin, simply, connect the external HD and when I want to boot to Windows, just, disconnect the external and boot as normal.
Seemed straight forward enough..
So I removed the internal drive (temporarily for safety) and installed Zorin from the DVD drive onto the external drive which seemed to go OK.
I made sure the BIOS was set to boot from the external drive but when I tried to boot it failed. I was just left with a black screen with a flashing cursor.
Can anyone help, please?