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中国DOS联盟论坛 » DOS疑难解答 & 问题讨论（解答室） » No USB boot support on a laptop, but want to boot the system on a USB hard drive, is there any way View 1,063　Replies 7

Original Poster Posted 2005-11-02 10:58　·　中国上海长宁区电信

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There is a desktop at my company, so I took the hard drive out of my laptop and use it as a portable hard drive. This way I don't have to carry a separate hard drive; it's much lighter than carrying the laptop to work. Using the same hard drive at home and at the office also saves me the trouble of using synchronization software.
But the laptop doesn't support booting from USB devices. If I take the hard drive out of the USB enclosure and install it in the laptop, then after using it I have to remove it again and put it back in the enclosure. What a hassle!

Is there any way to first boot DOS from a floppy drive, and then load Win2000 from the USB hard drive?

Floor 2 Posted 2005-11-02 11:50　·　中国江苏南京教育网

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To be perfectly clear, if the BIOS does not support USB booting, then it is impossible to boot from USB by any other method.

Floor 3 Posted 2005-11-03 11:16　·　中国上海浦东新区电信

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Floor 4 Posted 2005-11-03 13:25　·　中国江苏南京教育网

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Generally speaking, it only depends on the BIOS; if the BIOS supports it, then it can boot.

Floor 5 Posted 2005-11-03 21:07　·　中国四川南充电信

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If it's WIN98, then as long as there is more than 400K of conventional memory left, it can boot Win98 on the USB hard drive! If it's Win2000, then there may be no way!

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Floor 6 Posted 2005-11-04 10:34　·　中国上海浦东新区电信

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Floor 7 Posted 2005-11-04 19:13　·　中国陕西西安电信

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