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boot from USB Hard drive on Sony Viao

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sicohne

sicohne

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Jun 30, 2003
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I have a copy of my windows cd on my usb Hard drive which I need to boot from as windows has become corrupt and needs reinstalling. If I set the bios to boot from USB it works with the floppy drive but not the HDD. Am I missing something obvious?
 
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Having the Win Installation CD on the HDD is a good idea but will not make the drive bootable.
You'd need to install Windows onto the drive first.

TomCologne
 
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