Laptop USB Boot

mot19 · 23-March-08, 12:22 PM

i know i havnt been here in a bit, but i have to return to the original pimps for some help. I have a Dell Inspiron 2600 with a blown internal cd drive. I have an external I/O Magic USB drive but the laptop doesnt say ANYTHING in the bios about a USB boot. It doesnt detect the dvd drive, but im sure theres a way via Boot Disk or something that i can see the usb drive and then run setup from the usb dvd. Any advice?

Dex · 23-March-08, 01:18 PM

Welcome back bro, you could try something like UBCD, that might have something useful on it if your BIOS doesn't naturally support booting from a USB location.

s1ugh34d · 23-March-08, 02:21 PM

PXE boot, is that an option, necessarily the 100MB or GbE network is a lot faster than a 30MB/s USB drive. And most hardware supports it natively...

mot19 · 23-March-08, 02:22 PM

i cant use the external dvd at all, ive been playing with msdos bootdisks trying ungodly ammounts of usb dvd drivers and ive got the driver to load in config.sys and detect the dvdrw but i dont know how to assign it a drive letter now.

23-March-08, 12:22 PM		#1 (permalink)
mot19 Apex Tech God	Laptop USB Boot i know i havnt been here in a bit, but i have to return to the original pimps for some help. I have a Dell Inspiron 2600 with a blown internal cd drive. I have an external I/O Magic USB drive but the laptop doesnt say ANYTHING in the bios about a USB boot. It doesnt detect the dvd drive, but im sure theres a way via Boot Disk or something that i can see the usb drive and then run setup from the usb dvd. Any advice?

23-March-08, 01:18 PM		#2 (permalink)
Dex Retr-hoe Reviewer	Re: Laptop USB Boot Welcome back bro, you could try something like UBCD, that might have something useful on it if your BIOS doesn't naturally support booting from a USB location.

23-March-08, 02:21 PM		#3 (permalink)
s1ugh34d Apex Tech God	Re: Laptop USB Boot PXE boot, is that an option, necessarily the 100MB or GbE network is a lot faster than a 30MB/s USB drive. And most hardware supports it natively...

23-March-08, 02:22 PM		#4 (permalink)
mot19 Apex Tech God	Re: Laptop USB Boot i cant use the external dvd at all, ive been playing with msdos bootdisks trying ungodly ammounts of usb dvd drivers and ive got the driver to load in config.sys and detect the dvdrw but i dont know how to assign it a drive letter now.

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