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i just boguht an external dvd drive and i cant boot from it. i have tried setting to to boot from both cd drive and removable devices in the bios but neither work. anyone have any suggestions?
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anyone?
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Well really to give any more help you need to give a little more information. like: Does your boot disk work? Is the boot sequence right? Does the bios even recognize the DVD drive?
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Is the DVD drive a USB one? Because I dont think, dependant on the BIOS, that you can boot from USB.
I depends on your motherboard if you can boot from USB, but it is possible. You can load a whole Linux distro on to a USB drive and boot from it... so yeah. Go into your BIOS and check the boot order. See if there is a setting that will let you boot from USB. Good luck.
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linnerd40 said:
well, there is an option to boot from "external devices," and that doesnt work. there is no option to boot from usb. isnt there a way to get a bios upgrade or something? would that let me boot from usb?
edit: i know the dvd will boot from an internal dvd drive because i tried it on another computer with a dvd drive in it and it worked.
