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You can plug your device into the USB PORT. Start the computer and press the F12 key. You will then see options that you can boot the system to. USB storage is one of the options.
The computer attempts to boot from the sequence of devices specified in this list:
Diskette drive
Internal HDD
USB Storage Device
CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive.
Onboard NIC
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Dell-Jesse L
Dell Social Media and Communities
Go into setup (F2 during initial boot screen) and change the Boot menu to reflect the CD/DVD drive being the first boot device. THEN place a bootable CD or DVD disk in the drive and reboot your computer. When asked if you want to boot from the disk, click any key immediately.
You have to change the boot settings in bios (hit F2 as you see the Dell Logo) and in the boot menu look for one that says boot from USB, or external CD drive, and move it to the top of the list so it will boot before the hard drive does.
Try entering the BIOS (usually by hitting F2 or Delete during the boot up sequence) and looking under the boot menu for the USB drive. Some older systems cannot boot from USB. You might have improperly formatted the USB drive. What are you trying to boot into?
Most modern mother board will boot from USB devices as long as the USB is included in the boot list of the BIOS and first in line regardless of OS. Set your BIOS to boot from USB and off you go.
You only have floppy, hard drive and cd-rom options. With some Dell models the USB is seen as a secondary hard drive from within the BIOS so maybe (if your bios supports it) you can change boot order there.
Usually thats not the case so you mainly have to boot from the CD/DVD to install or run a DOS or linux command.
Hello, When you have switched on your PC, strike F2 several times or DEL to enter to your Bios set up. As sson as you're in, set boot rpiority to USB Disk drive as your priority boot sector instead of Hard Disk drive. If you don't have CDROM player/drive, you can use USB as priority boot but you may have another installer for reformatting via USB. Blessings.
When you want to boot to the USB hard drive just have the drive installed, reboot the system, select the appropriate function key to go to boot options (should tell you what to press in the beginning of boot up) and select USB hard disk.
An important thing to note: Most Linux distributions won't boot from a USB hard drive or thumb drive without a special program for unpacking it to the USB Hard disk. Check with the distribution website for special instructions.
most of the newer motherboards have an option to boot from usb, I have 2 1 laptop a Dell XPS 2010 will boot automaticly to USB if it is plugged in and has the option in the bios for boot seqence, and a desktop a dell XPS 720 it will alsi do the same, see if you can find a live copy of XP or the OS of your choise and you can boot from DVDR I have a copy of XP Lite Portable that boots from USB and runs fine
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