Need to boot from USB device with my Portege 7020ct

Hello!

I need help!

situation: me and my girlfriend go on a long trip on Tuesday. We have to work, so we bought a second hand portege 7020ct.
However, there is no CD or diskette drive. Win98 is installed but no drivers for the modem. infrared can locate other computers, but is not able to connect.
so the rare thing I have is a usb connector.

I want to install win2000 or at least put some data on the hard drive.

So I need to use my external cd drive or usb key. the problem is, the system (usb port) find the external hard drive and the USB, but I need to install drivers to prepare! But how? --> no internet, no floppy drive, no internal cd, without infra-red...

What can I do?

I tried to get into the bios to see if it is possible to boot from the usb slot, maybe get the external drive runnin and then install win2000.
but I can´t know how to get into the bios! .. .but I m don't know if it will work.

How do I enter the bios?
Anyone have any idea what I can do? How can I get drivers in the system?
How can I get the disc runnin external or USB?

Please, I beg you! I need help very quick, cause tomorrow is my last day...

Thanks to everyone in advance
Deko

Hi Deko,

The key in the power up takes you to the BIOS settings.

Installing the drivers could be difficult. I have a 7010CT and there is no option to boot from USB (only floppy - HDD - CD - lan). I don't think that Windows 98 supports USB sticks without additional drivers. I upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 by using a PCMCIA cdrom external and from the installer of Windows 98. Maybe you could try to use a network card PCMCIA to try to find a disk for the Portege.

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