Tecra M3: Plans to support USB HDD Boot?

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  Hello world

  Hard drive problems seem never to end for me.

  I have a satellite M30-604. Recently my Hitachi HDD crashed. Now, I am trying to boot from an external hard drive via usb, but I can't.

  (a) I use a ViPower 3.5 "(model VP9258T) enclosure external usb 2.0"
  (b) with a Seagate 200 GB hard drive.
  (c) I used the recovery cd to install windows on the seagate
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  (e) the internal hdd crashed is deleted (it's internal hard drive space is empty)
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  I think it should work, but when I turn on the computer, after a while, he says: "0201: failure IDE #0"
  and gives me the options to run the program installation or start-up.
  When I choose boot it gives me the window with "boot in safe mode" screen, 'last known good configuration' etc, but nothing of the work options (it restarts and gives the same again).

  Any ideas please?

  [Edited by: admin on 26 May 05 16:30]

  Hello

  My research on this subject has led me to believe that it is not possible to boot an operating system of attached USB HDD XP. I read several posts on various usenet groups on this issue, and the consensus of opinion is that it is simply not possible.

  Several suppliers of BIOS claim allow a USB HDD to be suitable for start-up purposes but I still have to attend such a machination succeed with XP.

• Satellite A200 (PSAE3) - USB - HDD boot option do not always exist?

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  I want to start another OS from USB - HDD, but sometimes my BIOS do not offer this option to boot?

  any idea how I can fix this problem?

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  Boot from USB HDD is not possible, that the BIOS does not provide an option

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  My laptop is Qosmio F20-155.
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  I was trying to install two operating systems (Linux, Windows Vista CTP) on my external hard drive (USB 2.0, Firewire). And I can't seem to-because he doesn't seem to be a way to specify the support of USB devices in your boot sequence. It seems that the configuration of the BIOS is limited to these 5 icons of basic (no text below the same you know what they represent) - that seem to hold to drive HARD, CD/DVD, network, etc., but none of the USB hard drives (I don't think the FDD account)?

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  You n writing t nothing on you laptop but as far as I know it of not possible to boot from the external USB HDD.
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  I have Toshiba Tecra 8000 (simple 266 MHZ)
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  As far as I know, you need a supported drive to boot from external USB drive.
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  Don t compare with FDD and external HDD. They are two different external devices.

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  Satellite U400 supports devices to boot according to the user manual:
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  If the USB drives are not supported.

  But you're absolutely right Re: 3 to and a larger capacity is reality today, but Satellite U400 is older model laptop and not newer ;)

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  Hi Hypotaksen,

  Thank you for using the Community Forums of Lenovo!

  BIOS backwards

  Under the Startup tab

  Change Boot mode in legacy

  USB boot must be enabled

  Under Security

  Secure Boot should be disabled

  In case the above options are grayed out in your BIOS, got to the tab out and change OS optimized defaults to other OS

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