No Good title...but help me anyways....

Forum: USB booting
Topic: No Good title...but help me anyways....
started by: stumpadoodle

Posted by stumpadoodle on Sep. 03 2005,04:22

Alright so i'm just wondering...I got this ol' laptop of mine from my aunt for free cause she said the hardrive was fried...and boy was she rightO_o;

It's a Pentium III 650mhz 128 mb Winbook SI so it runs DSL just fine

I was just wondering if it would be possible to get a usb enclosure for this old 4 gig HD I salvaged from a pentium one piece o' crap, hook that up usb to my laptop, install DSL on it and boot from that? Cause the internal HD on this laptop sounds like a beaver is friggin gnawing on it alot of the time, it gives me a hell of alot of errors and i don't wanna buy a new one. I figure hooking that other one up usb would work just fine but im not completely sure...

Posted by nothsa on Sep. 03 2005,18:16

Yes, provided your BIOS supports booting from a USB HDD. It's iffy with a laptop that old, but if it has the option in the BIOS then it'll probably work.

Posted by stumpadoodle on Sep. 03 2005,18:17

alright cool! If not I could probably always update the BIOS right?

Posted by nothsa on Sep. 03 2005,18:21

Updating the BIOS might add the functionality, but only if the manufacturer put that into the BIOS update. If they didn't, you're SOL

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 04 2005,21:31

Keep in mind that computers of that vintage did NOT usually have USB2.0 ports.

Instead, they only had USB1.1 ports.

For an external USB hard drive, this means very SLOW data transfer speed.