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 Post subject: Boot Disk Programs...
PostPosted: Tue 05-12-2009 7:42AM 
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Does anyone know of a boot disk program that you can use to allow a PC to boot to A USB drive? My BIOS does not natively support this technology, even the most recent release (1.80 released in mid 2005). It will, however, boot to an SD card for whatever reason. So if I can find some kind of boot protocol that will act as a stepping stone to booting to a USB drive, it would be awesome.

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PostPosted: Tue 05-12-2009 8:10AM 
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There's a tool called Emergency Boot CD (http://www.prime-expert.com/ebcd/). Once you boot the CD, I know there's an option that lets you choose which drive to boot to; however, I'm not sure if it would recognize the USB drive. Might be worth a shot, it's only a blank CD. :)


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PostPosted: Tue 05-12-2009 9:21AM 
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My issue is I don't have any type of optical drive. The only options available to me are solid state or hard disk. If that can be put on an SD card, then it might work...

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PostPosted: Thu 05-14-2009 11:27AM 
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Is there any option for PXE? Network booting has been used LONG before booting from a USB device. Out of curiosity, what are you trying to boot?

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PostPosted: Thu 05-14-2009 3:30PM 
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There is an option for PXE, but I have no idea how to use it. I am trying to use a recovery disc for my laptop (which was designed without an optical drive). The laptop is supposed to be sold with an external DVD-Rom drive, but this was a display model and so it didn't come with one. Since I have no optical drive, and the type of drive supported in my docking station is incredibly rare and old, I think I am SOL for any type of boot.

I have tried to make an image of the disc and write it to my USB drive, and that much is done. Since my BIOS is 4 years old (even the latest update), there is no support for booting from a USB drive.

All I want to do is force my computer to boot to this recovery disc, whether it is an image (2 GB) burned onto some other type of portable media, or a mapped network drive (I have no idea how to boot to a network drive), i don't care. This laptop has not been formatted in ~4 years, and it desperately needs it.

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PostPosted: Thu 05-14-2009 4:06PM 
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Hmm, looks like you "might" be able to use this on a sd card to boot from USB. There's no promises though, there might be a slight chance the boot image will only chain load a linux kernel, but it's worth a shot.

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PostPosted: Fri 05-22-2009 8:12PM 
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Perhaps I'm missing a key part since I've never tried to do this from a SD card, but is there something stopping you from using a small linux distro like DSL, Puppy linux, or Deli Linux?

If nothing else, I've got an external USB CD-drive that you can borrow and I'll be back in Rolla on monday. Or if that's out of the question due to BIOS problems, I've also got a SyQuest reader/disks (1.5GB-parallel) or a zip drive and a few disks that are open too, but those are here in STL so let me know before Sunday if you need them.

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PostPosted: Thu 09-10-2009 3:49PM 
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Holy Crap!

After 4.5 months of struggling to figure this thing out, I have finally successfully formatted and reinstalled Windows XP on my finicky laptop. Heretic, thanks for the PXE suggestion. I did some research and found an excellent way to "host" an installation from another computer. It didn't work out exactly like I wanted, but it was close enough.

I couldn't use the recovery disk because it has no normal boot sectors. I am not sure how this disk is even supposed to work for recovery. But with my renewed enrollment in the MSDNAA stuff, I was able to get a new copy of Windows XP Tablet Ed. So far, this has worked, and I'll reinstall all the Toshiba Software later.

Thanks for the help everyone.

P.S., if you are wondering about a Step-by-Step guide to do this, look no further than here.

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 Post subject: Re: Boot Disk Programs...
PostPosted: Thu 09-10-2009 10:39PM 
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ShadowCat38 wrote:
Holy Crap!

After 4.5 months of struggling to figure this thing out, I have finally successfully formatted and reinstalled Windows XP on my finicky laptop. LB, thanks for the PXE suggestion. I did some research and found an excellent way to "host" an installation from another computer. It didn't work out exactly like I wanted, but it was close enough.

I couldn't use the recovery disk because it has no normal boot sectors. I am not sure how this disk is even supposed to work for recovery. But with my renewed enrollment in the MSDNAA stuff, I was able to get a new copy of Windows XP Tablet Ed. So far, this has worked, and I'll reinstall all the Toshiba Software later.

Thanks for the help everyone.

P.S., if you are wondering about a Step-by-Step guide to do this, look no further than here.

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PostPosted: Fri 09-11-2009 12:57PM 
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ShadowCat38 wrote:
LB, thanks for the PXE suggestion.

heretic wrote:
Is there any option for PXE? Network booting has been used LONG before booting from a USB device.

Wait, what?

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PostPosted: Fri 09-11-2009 6:22PM 
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thats what I was pointing out

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PostPosted: Mon 09-14-2009 5:45AM 
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Yea, I dunno what I was thinking, or reading. Credit now goes where it is due.

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