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December 3rd, 2020 14:00
Aurora R1, BIOS A11, support for USB external drives
I have an old Aurora R1 desktop using BIOS A11. I wanted to be able to boot from an External USB hard drive but the BIOS is not 'seeing' the external drive. The only USB drives shown is my 15 in 1 flash drive. Is there any way that the external drive can be added to the BIOS?
System Manufacturer Alienware
System Model Aurora R1
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU 0
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz, 3334 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Alienware A11, 7/30/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer Alienware
BaseBoard Product 04VWF2
BaseBoard Version A02
Mary G
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December 3rd, 2020 18:00
Reboot the computer and immediately start tapping F12 without waiting for any screen get to the boot menu to select the boot drive--if you have Windows 10. The OS should have been included in your post.
r72019
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December 3rd, 2020 23:00
You don't see the drive in bios but you can see it in windows?? Or do you mean you can see it as a connected device in bios, but the drive just doesn't register on the f12 one time boot menu in bios?
r72019
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December 3rd, 2020 23:00
Also, as an aside, you need to make the usb drive bootable first before you can boot from it. You can use Rufus to do that.
ageless01
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December 4th, 2020 07:00
forgot to mention...
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.18363 Build 18363
speedstep
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December 4th, 2020 07:00
No external Drive will be seen as bootable in bios unless its formatted as such.
One such drive would be usb flash with Puppy Linux or Ubuntu with Casper persistence partition.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-bionic/
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.1/ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
WINDOWS 2 GO is not an option for all drives and All os.
Making windows 2 go is supported but its not free.
Its also not recommended that you use a hard drive.
The Sandisk SSD in the video below works fine.
Not going to get into the 43 steps to get you to F12 booting windows 2 go because it involves having a mac and other stuff. That said what he shows in the video does work.
The process involves using a dell with USB3 ports and Rufus utility and downloading a Windows ISO image from Microsoft. Because everything runs from the SSD, simply removing it from the USB port and rebooting will bring it back to SteamOS without any additional configuration.
Sandisk Drive is
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZTRY5IW
Rufus is here
https://rufus.ie/
ageless01
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December 4th, 2020 07:00
F12 boot menu does not show the USB hard disk. Neither does the BIOS menu