So I'm a little confused are you guys saying that you CAN boot the first OS from usb(not using the cd drive at all)... ?
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i can edit BIOS to change boot order and make USB the first boot. But, how do I make this change PERMANENT so I do not have to pick USB every time PC is turned on? thanks.
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The BIOS allows you to chose USB to boot from as the 1st device, making the Hard drive the 2nd and the CD/DVD the 3rd, but you must edit the BIOS to change the order of the Boot Devices
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With my ASUS UEFI BIOS my boot priority allows me to choose any device that has boot software to boot from. I can boot from an external HDD or a flash drive or DVD.
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Sorry, I replaced the hard drive with an SSD and loaded xubuntu on the machine. I never even booted from the original drive.
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I already have linux installed on my pc, I'd add this drive and install win on it. How do I go to make sure boot OSes boot properly?
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I have not tried to boot from a USB flash drive using a PCMCIA USB card. But I have encountered problems with some older computers/laptops refusing to boot when there is a flash drive in the USB slot (no PCMCIA card). And there was no setting in the BIOS to allow booting from USB. It depends on at what point the PCMCIA card becomes active. The only way to tell with the unit that you have is to purchase and try it.L
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Yes, one can press "F12" just after powering on to show a BIOS boot screen and choose the USB to boot from. (one has to press "F12" a couple of times quickly!"
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What are you trying to install??? Have u tried booting directly from cd??? As soon as it boots on hit f2, f11, f12, or del one of those keys will bring u to bios or a boot menu option from there u should boot from cd :)
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I used a SATA drive for the boot disk and it was running Windows Vista.It did have an IDE CD-ROM drive that worked fine.I think the BIOS allows you to set the IDE drive as the boot, but I no longer have the system with me.My family member went back to their home, out of state, so I have no way of testing.
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I don't have the same dvd drive that you have, but I do have two different drives removed from broken laptops ( 1 - HP, the other not sure who was the manufacturer. By plugging into USB port on my Acer laptop, I can boot to a bootable CD/DVD.
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no. has slot to install. I installed OS with USB ram drive and external DVD as needed.
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i am not sure about your question, i have not used the usb drive, or tempted the usb drive
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Mine didn't come with an Installation CD. My OS is Windows XP Pro. It was just Plug and Play...literally. I'm very pleased with it though. I'd suggest this to anyone.
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This one does not come with an OS. There is a similar model number with the same hardware that does comes with Windows 7, however.
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Yes, as an example I boot Tails from one of these flash drives.The requirement is that the software you are using to install/move the OS to the flash drive sets up the proper boot/partition info so the bios of the PC can read it (as bootable).
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just do a fresh install its better! saves hassle and driver issue's and so on of many issue's, but those issues don't happen alot ! but non the less just get a windows 7 dvd or windows 7 bootable USB drive, Choose in bios to BOOT the windows 7 bootble usb drive install windows 7, it won't take you like 15mins.i'v used this SSD i got like 3 of them ! 1 on desktop! as boot drive for windows 7 1 on a MAC book pro for MAC OSX + Windows 71 on a normal laptop for windows 7 - linux !! and they all work perfectly fine ;)
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It is a USB device. It doesn't care what OS you using as long as the OS has a USB driver!
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Steve, did I understand correctly that you cannot burn any CD on it? Thank you.
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You can install an OS onto it. I have it running Linux in a dual boot configuration right now