 IanPremium
join:2002-06-18
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| Way to force boot from USB Flash drive? I am wondering if anyone knows a way for me to force an older PC to boot from a flash drive.
It's an HP m7769n media edition PC. The DVD drive has been acting a bit flaky so I want a way to rescue it, should I need to, with a bootable USB flash drive.
In the boot options of the BIOS, I only have 4 options; floppy group (there isn't one), CD-Rom group, Hard drive group, and network group.
Neither my USB external hard drive, or the flash drive show up as hard drives in the BIOS. However, if I actually unplug the internal hard drive, it will boot to the external USB hard drive. I have a Linux install on a partition on it, and it will boot that. So it seems that booting to USB is sort of recognized as possible. Any ideas?
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 KilroyPremium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI | Depending on the age of the machine it may or may not recognize USB as a bootable location.
Try pressing F9 when the HP logo is up and see if you can select the USB. A USB device will need to be connected on and when you try this.
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 misiek
join:2000-12-25
Round Lake, IL | reply to Ian
Are you familiar with PLOP Boot Manager?
»www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html
With a DVD drive that's acting up, your mileage may vary, but it's a free option and who knows, It may actually help. |
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IanPremium
join:2002-06-18
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said by Kilroy:Depending on the age of the machine it may or may not recognize USB as a bootable location.
Try pressing F9 when the HP logo is up and see if you can select the USB. A USB device will need to be connected on and when you try this.
Ahah! Smacks forehead. Couldn't see the Flash drive in the list of hard drives in the BIOS, but if I hit escape (not F9) for the boot manager on boot, it was an option to boot from that (I used a live Ubuntu). Worked like a charm.
Thanks.
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