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Alright first let me tell you the story on how this happened... My buddy and I like to film a lot of videos. We store them on a harddrive. This hard drive is not usually plugged because my motherboard only supports 1 plug(2 devices), I usually have my main hard drive plugged in and my DVD Drive. Well he wanted to watch a few videos so I said alright, I will plug in the hard drive. So I did. I had to mess around with the jumpers a little before it worked. After he left I went to plug my DVD drive in and for some reason when I plugged both of them in(primary hd and dvd drive) it would only recongize the DVD drive. So I messed around the jumpers and I swear I tried every combination of everything. It didnt work. Well, I had to leave and when I got back I tried it again. I JUST plugged in my primary hd. *sizzle the IDE Plug just started smoking out of no where! Now nothing works and nothing shows up. This isnt the worst part though. I have an external hd plug thing. I plugged a different hd into that and it worked(somewhat, read problem). I tried to plug my Primary HD into it but it didnt show up at all. I think I fried my HD! That would really really suck. It has EVERYTHING on it.

Problem:
Alright, since Im pretty sure that my primary hd is f'ed up. I was wondering how to get the external hd to boot to windows. It gets to the Windows screen and just freezes. It contains the Windows 7 beta on it. I am so glad I saved the hd that it was on for when Windows 7 comes out. So again does anyone know how to boot Windows 7 from an external hd?

If it's a bootable drive, try booting from USB storage from BIOS.

I have tried that. That isnt the problem though. It starts to boot and then just freezes when the loading bars come up. Well in windows 7 there is no loading bars but you know what I mean.

Alright I got it to work. I took the IDE cable from the External Hard drive and plugged it into my computer and it worked. Plus my primary hard drive works. Now I am just going to go and buy another IDE cable since the one I got from the external Hd is about 2 inches literally.

For future emergencies just make a bootable BartPE CD and keep it at hand.

I dont have a CD Drive! I couldn't plug it in.

I believe that Windows has an architectural limitation that it cannot 'knowingly' boot from a non-fixed drive without significant alteration (registry edits and/or drivers to convince it that the drive is some form of generic SCSI/RAID unit)

ahh, maybe thats why. Who knows.

Anyway, I got a new cable and its back to normal and everything works fine!

Thanks everyone for the help.