Re: Booting Older PC from USB Flashdrive
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:55:10 -0500
You are a bit confused.
Before booting from a CD became common, you were able to BOOT from a floppy
which would install the requisite drivers necessary to "use" a CD in DOS.
Therefore, you could boot from the Windows 98 setup floppy and install
Windows 98 from a CD. But, you could NOT boot from a CD. The hardware just
did not support the function.
The same holds true for USB flash drives. If the hardware doesn't support
the function, you are just not going to be able to do it.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"M" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OPog%23ie7FHA.3592@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My PC does not support booting from a USB drive and their is no BIOS
> update available for the motherboard to enable it. Before the days of CD
> booting being supported by the BIOS if was possible to use a floppy disc
> to boot the CD ROM. I would like to do the same to boot from a USB drive.
> I would like to make or download a floppy and have Googled, tried
> http://www.bootdisk.com/ without success. I will be glad of all
> suggestions.
>
.
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