booting with a external USB...ntldr??

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rbt

I am haveing a problem booting an travelmate 361e with a external USB
DVD drive..

Boot doesnt seem to pick up the dvd even with all the fiddling in the
bios

Ive noticed

there seems to be 1394 support in the bios but no USB?

does anyone know
....will and external firewire device work FORSURE?
....will a external floppy-drive work instead?
.....can i add the usb to ntldr??
....would i coinsider wingrub

tx
 
What exactly are you trying to do? Are trying to boot Windows off the
USB drive? Most experts agree that you can't do that. Go in the BIOS
and put the USB device after the hard drive in the boot order.

John
 
you picked it, your a expert...

its a '02 lappy with no physical floppy, cd and no usb boot option in
the bios..

it has a firewire (1394) option and Im windering if its true too boot -
I think the acer branded usb floppys may boot being proprietry AND usb
is back-compat to fire

what is thoughts on the questions posed - i posed them like that to
keep the charity-posts out..
 
You are getting cryptic now. You already know that if the BIOS doesn't
support booting from a device, the device is "unbootable". If it says
it can boot from a firewire device then get yourself such a device if
you want to boot from it. I don't know if you can adapt a USB device to
use or boot from the firwire port.

John
 
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