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formatting a laptop with USB
Name: Ben Mather Date: August 29, 2003 at 07:34:42 Pacific OS: windows XP CPU/Ram: 850Mhz/256 Mb
Comment:
HELP!! I'm trying to format a p3 laptop, but unfortunately it only has a USB cd-rw drive, and no floppy. I know that it's not the ideal setup, but if anyone can help as to how I go about doing this, it would be extremely appreciated. I have tried changing the boot order, but the CD drive isn't recognised in BIOS. A friend suggested a BIOS upgrade, but as far as I'm aware they are only usable on a floppy.
Once again, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Name: efabes Date: August 29, 2003 at 09:34:36 Pacific
Reply:
The BIOS needs to support USB for this to work. I doubt a P3 BIOS would (even with an upgrade). Search for the BIOS upgrade and see if USB support was one of the updates.
I read of a way to run a flash from a hdd partition. I will see if I can find it again. Or maybe someone here already knows how?
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Response Number 2
Name: efabes Date: August 29, 2003 at 09:40:35 Pacific
Reply:
Also, if you can update the bios, you will need to copy the atapi drivers to the hdd and add them to the config.sys and autoexec.bat.
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