I've got a relatively old PC (circa 2006). The hard drive had problems so I removed it, and now I'm trying to boot a Windows XP installation from a USB external drive. In the BIOS, I set the boot order to Hard Drive -> DVD drive -> Removable storage. There is no hard drive, and there is nothing in the DVD drive, so it should jump to removable storage, which I assume is USB drives? However, I plugged in the USB drive into one of the USB ports, and the PC doesn't boot from it.
I was able to hit "F8" on startup, which runs "BBS Popup", which lets me manually choose what to boot from, but only the DVD drive appears (since there is no HD).
Is there a compatibility issue, or something that I need to change in the BIOS, in order to make the USB external drive bootable in this older computer?
I was able to hit "F8" on startup, which runs "BBS Popup", which lets me manually choose what to boot from, but only the DVD drive appears (since there is no HD).
Is there a compatibility issue, or something that I need to change in the BIOS, in order to make the USB external drive bootable in this older computer?
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram