Reinstalling 2000 using USB External drive

[Guest codemagician0@gmail.com]

I have a dell Inspiron C600, and I'm almost positive (i checked, and

no support, at least with my bios revision) there is no USB boot

support. Is there a way to boot the USB CD-ROM drive, without USB CD-

ROM support? Is there like a boot floppy (such as, Smart Boot Manager)

that would work the same way?

 

I do not have the CD-ROM drive, either, and the computer was

manufactured in 2001, so it only has USB 1.1.

 

Any and all help would be appriciated,

 

Code Magician

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: Reinstalling 2000 using USB External drive

 

Probably easiest to borrow an IDE CD-Rom to get through the install.

 

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<codemagician0@gmail.com> wrote:

>I have a dell Inspiron C600, and I'm almost positive (i checked, and

> no support, at least with my bios revision) there is no USB boot

> support. Is there a way to boot the USB CD-ROM drive, without USB CD-

> ROM support? Is there like a boot floppy (such as, Smart Boot Manager)

> that would work the same way?

>

> I do not have the CD-ROM drive, either, and the computer was

> manufactured in 2001, so it only has USB 1.1.

>

> Any and all help would be appriciated,

>

> Code Magician

>

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Reinstalling 2000 using USB External drive

 

If the hardware isn't capable of doing what you envision, it isn't going

to be feasible.

 

codemagician0@gmail.com wrote:

> I have a dell Inspiron C600, and I'm almost positive (i checked, and

> no support, at least with my bios revision) there is no USB boot

> support. Is there a way to boot the USB CD-ROM drive, without USB CD-

> ROM support? Is there like a boot floppy (such as, Smart Boot Manager)

> that would work the same way?

>

> I do not have the CD-ROM drive, either, and the computer was

> manufactured in 2001, so it only has USB 1.1.

>

> Any and all help would be appriciated,

>

> Code Magician

>