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Some USB drives not showing in BIOS
I have a GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard. I have an old USB drive that it will boot from just fine. I have two (identical) newer ones, but they will not boot. I found out that the newer ones aren't even ...
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Shuttle FB51 mobo does not boot with external USB drive attached
I am repurposing an old Alienware desktop as a home media server. The PC is based on the Shuttle FB51 motherboard. The BIOS is a Phoenix Version 6.00 PG, release date 12/16/2002. I have loaded Ubuntu ...
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Burn bootable iso image to USB stick using dd: Won't boot (despite USB first in boot sequence)
I have installed Ubuntu on a Lenovo Thinkpad R500 2732, and I must update the BIOS.
On the Lenovo website, I am offered this:
BIOS Update Bootable CD for Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, ...
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External DVD drive is recognized when Windows has started but cannot boot
I wanted to connect my external DVD drive to my old laptop and boot from a CD. But my computer doesn't show the DVD drive in the boot menu.
After trying to change BIOS settings and finally restored ...
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Booting an Asus EeePC from a LiveCD USB stick
I have two identical Asus EeePC netbooks that are both installed with Ubuntu. One of them was sitting on the closet shelf and the battery went completely dead. When I charged the battery and tried to ...
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Can't choose to boot from USB?
I have an Ubuntu setup on a USB, but the problem is I can't choose to boot from USB in BIOS. I can only choose my hard drive, DVD drive and flopy. I have motherboard ASUS P5LD2
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Why doesnt my computer boot when I have my USB bluetooth plugged in?
I have a USB bluetooth dongle that I got from best buy a few years back. I kept it plugged in to my laptop and it used to boot fine. Now about a week ago, I got a new laptop and I cant leave it ...
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How can I remedy a conflict between a USB disk and USB legacy support in the BIOS?
When I enable USB legacy support in my BIOS, it seems to work fine, as long as I don't have a particular external USB disk connected and powered up. If I do have that, the computer locks up during ...
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Boot Linux USB Drive From USB Floppy
I have a USB drive on which I want to install Arch Linux (using the installer, not unetbootin or something similar, as I want the drive to be persistent.) The computer from which I want to boot this ...
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How can one create a bootable Linux USB key that works on Mac (Intel 64 bit CPU) hardware?
I'm trying to create a bootable USB key with Linux (debian) and that can be booted on Macintel hardware.
I have read that MAC's EFI can only boot GPT GUID formatted disks. I'm desperately trying to ...
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Certain thumbdrives keep a system from going out of the boot screen
I have an old r51 which I boot off USB. Apparently, if I have a Toshiba 2GB thumbdrive similar to this plugged in:
... or an old imation 1GB drive plugged in, it won't boot at all - it freezes in the ...
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Why is my PC boot time slow when USB HDD attached?
I have a USB Hard disk that I am using as a secondary drive just for extra storage.
When this is attached and I start my PC the second screen says searching for mass storage dives for about 5 minutes ...
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