topic Re: booting from external cd drive... in PCs & Accessories https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163592#M112427 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Those picturebooks were something else.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:04:58 GMT kee-lo_ 2005-04-28T15:04:58Z booting from external cd drive... https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163589#M112424 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>hi guys...<BR /><BR />my mate has a sony vaio fxa35/d and the internal cd drive has broken. he wants to reinstall the operating system and has an external usb cd/rw drive. is there any way to force the laptop to boot from the external drive?<BR /><BR />cheers for your help guys<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:03:59 GMT https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163589#M112424 mrgame_cat 2005-04-28T01:03:59Z Re: booting from external cd drive... https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163590#M112425 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Linux Live distros (free) will allow your mate to copy the CD's contents to the hard drive. <BR /><BR />You will need to make these from a working PC.<BR /><BR />If you make an MS-DOS Boot CD you can then set your HDD to be active, or you can use the Microsoft Windows XP Boot Image, get it from <A href="http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=wxp10.zip" target="_blank">http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=wxp10.zip</A> and uncompress this on to the CD, then burn it.<BR /><BR />Hopefully you will be able to get a working OS on your mates computer. Remember that because Sony are bad at supporting external USB devices natively in the BIOS, you will need a boot disk or Linux to overcome this limitation.<BR /><BR />Of all the Distros out there, I recommend trying Knoppix Live (Linux-Tag), which uses the excellent HotPlug service.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:18:44 GMT https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163590#M112425 jammold 2005-04-28T02:18:44Z Re: booting from external cd drive... https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163591#M112426 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Indeed there are no BIOS updates ( for none of the computers ) that enable you to boot from a USB device.<BR /><BR />( the only time that was ever inported was on the C1MHP, and that was only for a Sony floppy drive via i-link)<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:11:10 GMT https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163591#M112426 mvanwambeke 2005-04-28T06:11:10Z Re: booting from external cd drive... https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163592#M112427 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Those picturebooks were something else.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:04:58 GMT https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163592#M112427 kee-lo_ 2005-04-28T15:04:58Z Re: booting from external cd drive... https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163593#M112428 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Shame they are not being produced any more, they were really nice machines!:smileysad:<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:06:25 GMT https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163593#M112428 jammold 2005-04-28T15:06:25Z Re: booting from external cd drive... https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163594#M112429 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>They had Transmetta CPUs too<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:08:14 GMT https://community.sonylatvija.com/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-external-cd-drive/m-p/163594#M112429 kee-lo_ 2005-04-28T15:08:14Z