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October 29th, 2003 14:00
USB Boot from external DVD
I am wanting to find an external USB DVD drive (preferably a writer) that I will be able to boot from. The GX270 has a USB boot enabled BIOS and works booting from a memory stick or external hdd, however I have been unsuccessful with my HP dvd300e. HP informed me that the drive is not usb boot compatible. Several other manufacturers of drives have been even less helpful - Sony don't know if their drives are (they're not - I've tested), Iomega suggested I can try it if I like but they don't support it (I took that to be a don't know). As such please answer the following:
Is the GX270 capable of booting from an external USB DVD drive?
If so, do Dell supply such a thing or can you recommend a compatible device?
If not, will there be a BIOS upgrade to enable this in future.
Thanks, Bill.
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December 19th, 2003 22:00
So far you are the only one that said you have successfully boot Windows XP? from an external drive. Can you give me some details on how you did it. Like many others I would like to install Windows XP on an external drive and be able to install/run programs on it. Have you try to plug the drive to a different computer and be able to boot/run programs off it? How did you install Windows on the external drive at first? Did you install it when the external drive is plug as an external? or you install Windows on the drive as an internal drive first then move it to external case? Please give some details. Thanks for your help!
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