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Is it possible to boot to a USB hard drive 1.1. or 2.0? we were just using a brand new maxtor 40gb usb drive on this laptop and it was working great so i was thinking of picking one up but was wondering about booting to it....
just so everyone knows too office depot has em for $104 for the 40gb and $160 for the 60gb!!!!
It is possible to boot to a usb hard drive providing your bios supports it.
This was a recent topic:
http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin...4&goto=newpost
you can boot from a usb drive hard,cr rom cd r-rw possiably even dvd,dvd plus or minus r-rw might work and it doesn't need to be a newer unit I just set up a old real old dell latitude LT laptop pentium 1 maybe 266 even its a real slow laptop and its a stripped down model no cd rom drive or floppy drive built in,there external attachments and I didn't have either floppy or cd rom drive although I was able to find a floppy drive the correct one for the unit.but no cd rom but had access to a usb cd-r-rw and the latitude laptop had a single usb port I was able to format the had and do a clean install of 98SE on it using the usb cd-r-rw as the cd rom drive to do the setup with.you can also find some good info on usb booting at WWW.bootdisk.com you can even down load a couple of versions that might work good for any application I made a combination of myself and a relatives thinking and the files at WWW.bootdisk.com and it work the very first try on a real old dell latitude LT laptop 4gig harddrive pentium processor neomagic 128xd video chip and low ram and it fired up though the dos bios and loaded the usb booting right off with out a single problem and loaded into windows setup for 98.
as I was the one who startedthe original post he is refering to.
to make a long story short you can with the right boot disk boot up on usb on any machine but to boot from a usb hard drive it would have to be in the bios I think. I could possibly upload the floppy bootdisk I used but not sure of the legalities of that as some of it comes from WWW.bootdisk.com and other sources.but it does work great.or try their suggestion
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev...b/usb-boot.mspx
and
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev.../usbcompat.mspx