I have a laptop (DELL Latitude CPI A 400). Right now I'm using an external optical drive enclosure + a Samsung 32x Combo drive, DIY'd into a USB external Combo drive. The original optical drive is already broken. How can I boot from the Combo drive?
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Posted 2003-05-24 00:00 · 中国 江苏 南京 教育网
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What's a Combo drive? Combo?
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Right, it's a CD burner + DVD two-in-one.
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Then just set "boot from USB CD" in the BIOS, and that should do it, right?
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The boot options only have:
Internal HDD
CD/DVD/CD-RW Driver
Modular Bay HDD
PCI Slot NIC
Dock II /Port II NIC
Card Bus NIC
Diskette Driver
There is no USB CD boot option
Internal HDD
CD/DVD/CD-RW Driver
Modular Bay HDD
PCI Slot NIC
Dock II /Port II NIC
Card Bus NIC
Diskette Driver
There is no USB CD boot option
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Yours is a laptop, right? Looks like your machine isn't new enough, so it doesn't support USB booting.
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Try upgrading the BIOS.
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