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sandangel333
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 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:14 am Post subject: bootable external harddisk |
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| hello guys, i was wonderng if there is anyway, i can use my thumb drive to act as those bootable CD? because i wanna reformat my laptop to some other OS... because i do it often, buying CD will cost a bomb to me.. so i was wondering if i can use a thumbdrive since it is always able to delete and put new OS to reformat..
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:24 am Post subject: Re: bootable external harddisk |
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| sandangel333 wrote: | | hello guys, i was wonderng if there is anyway, i can use my thumb drive to act as those bootable CD? because i wanna reformat my laptop to some other OS... because i do it often, buying CD will cost a bomb to me.. so i was wondering if i can use a thumbdrive since it is always able to delete and put new OS to reformat.. |
if your bios supports usb booting you surely can do it. If not then your screwed.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Has to be quite old for it not to support usb boot.
To answer the OP's question, just google "install [OS] from flash drive" and you should find results. If it's for XP, there's a good one on an EEE site somewhere.
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sandangel333
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:30 am Post subject: |
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i followed this website the instruction
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will this work? because i tried and i reboot my computer... but there is no setup which aid me to reformat my laptop...
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| It depends what operating system you're going to want it to have on it. For instance, if you want Windows XP, this is a tutorial a number of people have followed. There are countless others. If it's a Linux distro you're looking for, some have downloads specifically for USB drive, others you can use unetbootin with a tutorial to have the ISO load as if it were the CD.
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