I recently purchased an HP computer and none of
the HPs in the store take a second HD. Also, booting
from a USB port does not show up in the boot menu.
I looked at the bios and could not figure out how to
boot from a USB port. The computer I bought is
a a1730n.
I thought I could buy a computer where I could
run Linux without repartitioning the HD, but I guess not.
the new hard drive is it a IDE or SATA
USB external depending on the mb it may not have support for USB boot device
(rare) but usb boot device would say in bios USB-HDD, USB-CDROM, etc
Also in bios for IDE Primary make sure it set to both, IDE Secondary Set to
moth, and IDE Primary slave - Auto detect instead of none...
.
Re: Unable to boot from a XPe NTFS CF ... No reason to worry about USB boot capable BIOS.... It is also possible that the BIOS on your device fails to properly enumerate USB bootable devices.... the SDI2HD to make sure it was a NTFS partition and active. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded)
Re: external hard drive and a "error loading OS" ... You'll need to enter your BIOS settings.... what you are looking for is the boot order.... you'll have to disable the USB boot support.... the BIOS to recognize a USB device).... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
Re: boot2 cant boot from USB? ... boot2 tries to read from the disk directly, without BIOS... to boot with the message "invalid slice" and i got a prompt like: ... tried FreeNAS which enables the user to write an image to an USB... It appears to me the boot2 program fails to read from USB. ... (freebsd-questions)
Re: booting with a external USB...ntldr?? ... You already know that if the BIOS doesn't support booting from a device, ... If it says it can boot from a firewire device then get yourself such a device if you want to boot from it. ... I don't know if you can adapt a USB device to use or boot from the firwire port. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Master/Slave (S & M?) ... > I want a way to occasionally boot from the new slave HD without opening ... Can I do this thru the BIOS?... low level, DOS like support, for USB keyboards and mice. ...drives.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
