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At the "BIOS Update Disk - InstallShield Wizard" box, click Next. Several
setup boxes will briefly appear as the files are extracted and the notebook model is identified. As these processes complete, the boxes will close automatically. The BIOS Update Disk Setup will launch. At the "Information" window, insert a blank 3½ floppy diskette to the floppy disk drive (A and click OK. |
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Alright, rather than USB.
What about Memory sticks? |
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Sean wrote:
At the "BIOS Update Disk - InstallShield Wizard" box, click Next. Several setup boxes will briefly appear as the files are extracted and the notebook model is identified. As these processes complete, the boxes will close automatically. The BIOS Update Disk Setup will launch. At the "Information" window, insert a blank 3½ floppy diskette to the floppy disk drive (A and click OK. so its not asking for a "storage area" as you wrote. Does this have anything to do with your previous posts in this thread ? Rick |
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Sean wrote:
Alright, rather than USB. What about Memory sticks? still no clue... I only have minimal USB and no memory sticks; Sony uses those alot in their VAIO models, I hear... anything about in on their site ? Rick |
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Ive checked with Sony and they agree its possible.
Guess theres only way to find out. As for the USB, as long as it is compatible to read bootable disks. So to boot from a USB port this would have to be an option on the BIOS, right? "Rick T" wrote: Sean wrote: Alright, rather than USB. What about Memory sticks? still no clue... I only have minimal USB and no memory sticks; Sony uses those alot in their VAIO models, I hear... anything about in on their site ? Rick |
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In ,
Sean had this to say: So to boot from a USB port this would have to be an option on the BIOS, right? Sorry to just jump in here but, if your BIOS allows it, try to enter setup on boot and do a few things. First enable USB Legacy support if it's not already enabled. Second make sure your USB jump drive type device is plugged in, check to see if setup sees it as a hard drive. Does it? If it does then you should be okay. What's it calling it? Drive 2 or some-such? Good because that's what we'll be using here. Next check and see if you can enable your computer to check that drive in an order similar to this: A; CD ROM; HDD 2; HDD 1. Done? Good. Now make/copy a startup disk. Take the whole contents of that disk and put it at the root level of that drive. (I think that was your original goal for this operation but I can't be sure.) Don't put the contents into any folder, just go in through the OS and copy/paste the files to the root level of the drive. If it's drive F: then the contents would simply go in F:\ okay? Now make sure that the stick is in place. Remove any other disks from the CD or Floppy that might be bootable or cause problems when you try to boot. Reboot. The computer should, if all goes well, look for bootable information first in the floppy drive, then in the CD drive, then in the USB drive, and finally in the regular C: drive (unless, of course, you've labeled C: as something else but we'll hope that you haven't) and when it finds bootable content it will boot to the USB drive. Err... I hope... I should add that this is theory and will only work if your hardware and BIOS support this sort of stuff. Galen -- "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes |
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