How do I access my bios to make my laptop boot off an external hard drive operating system?
| November 6, 2009 | Posted by computer accessory under BIOS |
Hi I have a HP Pavillion dv9000 and I needed some help in configuring the Bios so that It will boot off Windows XP on my external hard drive. I am currently using Vista and wanted to use XP for gaming. How do I get to boot off the external drive’s operating system?
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im not quite familiar with that model but on laptops, you usually have a choice of either pressing F2, F8, F10, or Delete. just try it.
when you open your computer (pressing the on button), repeatedly press the delete key. That will bring you to the bios menu.
usually it is the del key to access the bios – if not try F1 or F2. Your bios may not support booting from a usb device
At the HP screen (the first image that appears after you turn on the laptop) press F1. Put the following boot order: 1 – cd; 2 – USB; 3 – HD.
I think a better solution would be to simply swap the hd with a new one and install Xp on it.
To change BIOS settings, press one of the following while your BIOS is loading (the first thing that happens when turning on your computer). Delete, Escape, or F2. Usually, while the BIOS is loading it’ll tell you what key to use to enter setup. Once there, you’ll need to set USB device before HDD in the boot order. Your system will try to boot from a USB device first. When it’s not connected, it’ll boot from the HDD.
There is one downside to doing it this way. Your system will run slower because the data transfer over USB is slower than directly from a system hard drive. It would be better to install WindowsXP directly on the harddrive and then setup the boot.ini. Just make sure you rename the WinXP folder to something other than the default. C:\winxp instead of C:\windows will work just fine.
not every pc support USB booting. and u cant amend the bios.