I have a Sony Vaio Laptop. I'd like to get it to startup from a Cd or memory stick as the CD drive is broken. Can anyone tell me the key command to get it to do this. I went into the bios, but couldn't find the option to boot from an external drive. Only floppy, HD, CD or Network. With my Dell using Vista, I can choose to boot from a memory stick or other external drive. Any help appreciated. Thanks

"'d like to get it to startup from a Cd or memory stick as the CD drive is broken." Why do you want it to boot from a CD if the drive is broken? Why do you want to boot from an external device in the first place? :) "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

CD Drive broken Cheers

I suggest that you byte the bullet and replace the Broken CD drive with a DVD-RW drive.

If the CD drive is broken, then you won't be able to boot from it. So, I ask again. Why do you want to boot to an external device? "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

Hello I'd like to wipe the HD completely, with something like DBAN, and I think I need to boot from a CD or memory stick to do this. But if you can suggest another way, please let me know. Thanks