Convert usb to hdd

[Guest]

Please help me to understand (including when to press F12) how you got the USB to be recognized by BIOS since my old PC bios has boot option 1 to 3 listed and let's me choose different modes including different USBs but somehow after the "starting Up..." message there is no progress.!

 

[Pyroflea]

You have to format the USB drive and make sure it's a bootable medium. It's generally an option while formatting.

 

[audiovoodoo]

Not on Windows. There is no option to format as a bootable USB as you got in the old DOS days with floppys. Boot loaders have to be installed post format, I'm not aware of any MS supplied tool other than their rip-off off unetbootin for Win7 installs that offers this functionality.