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December 6th, 2004 09:00

Boot from USB device

I know that It is possible to boot from a USB device. Does Dell BIOS support that? I looked on the setting and you cannot configure anything for that.

48 Posts

December 17th, 2004 20:00

Later computers may have BIOSes that have the "Boot from USB device" option.

Go into the BIOS setup and look for that option under booting device sequence.

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December 20th, 2004 07:00

I don't have this option. I made update of my BIOS to AO7, the last one.
Thanks anyway.

48 Posts

December 20th, 2004 13:00

What computer platform do you have?

It may not support this feature.

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February 26th, 2006 19:00

Here's how to get your USB Flash Drive (assuming it can autoboot) to work with the Dell Precision M60.

In the BIOS settings:

Page 2 of 7

Boot Order:

- Diskette Drive
- USB Storage Device
- CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
- Internal HDD
- ...

Page 4 of 7

USB Emulation: Enabled (this is required for USB devices to work outside Windows)

Save the settings and go back into Windows (I use XP Pro SP2).

Make sure in Windows you format your Flash Drive with the "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool". This can be downloaded for free from HP's site.

I am currently using v2.0.6 and it works just fine.

To make the flash drive boot into DOS, for example, you need to have DOS somewhere on your computer. I believe HP also has a downloadable pack with DOS (Windows98 version).


Hope this helps out some of you with this particular issue...

BTW, this also works on the M70, except the BIOS options are under different menus.

Regards,

bm

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