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usb boot option?

Chris2030

Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:48:38 pm

I have usb boot option on both my Dell and Sony machine's, despite enabling and kept at 1st, wont boot from usb optical.......any ideas why?

In Sony setup displays enable usb but displays option of Floppy?

On Dell wont boot from usb?

Thanks.

Wolfman

Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:09:12 pm

Hi Chris,

when you boot, there should be a small message on the screen for you to select "Boot options", on my HP PC; its the "Esc" key, on my laptop its "F12", do you have something similar?.

Chris2030

Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:07:24 pm

Hi Wolfman you are correct.........I get that option on my Dell F12 key.

But when pressed only see internal optical, HDD, and onboard NIC??

Thanks.

Wolfman

Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:24:55 pm

Hi Chris,

when you set up the boot order in BIOS, did you save your settings with the F10 key on exit?.

Chris2030

Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:38:27 pm

Of course Wolfman I do save and exit.

Wolfman

Fri Apr 24, 2015 6:02:01 pm

Hi Chris,

did you format the USB stick to FAT32 before you created your bootable stick?, are you pressing the key as soon as the PC starts?:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7171

Swarfendor437

Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:18:23 pm

Hi Chris, did you see my other reply regarding PLOPBOOT Manager? I suspect the BIOS's don't support booting from USB other than Floppy. I have an MSI Mobo that won't do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N51B0gi-g0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7b4F6QJhVM

You can even boot from Floppy!:

https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

Wolfman

Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:52:44 am

Check out Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWO3vif7hTw

Look at the links on the right!.