PCMCIA Hard Disc Drive - Can this be a bootable drive?

G

Guest

Can a 170MB PCMCIA HDD be a stand alone bootable hard drive? If so how do I
set it up? The laptop I would like to do this on is a toshiba 1400-S151 with
XP-Pro installed(C:\). Windows Explorer shows the HDD Card as E:\ I do not
know how to, or even if I can have a HDD boot option at startup. Any help is
greatly appreciated. thx, fc...
 
J

jeffrey

Hi,

You need to check in your notebook bios and see if there is an option in the
boot order for this be allowed.

Jeff
 
J

jeffrey

Hi,

No, if your BIOS or mother board does not support this option, then you can
not boot from an external device. This a feature that has to have the
hardware able to read an external device. I doubt BIOS updates will include
the feature, but you can check the manufacture`s site and see if it in any
future BIOS updates. Other than that, you have to boot from the internal
HDD.

Jeff
 

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