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external hard drive

Ashok_2
Ashok_2 Posts: 807 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
The cd drive in my laptop is terrible and very slow (dispite laptop being alienware), so I bought an external hard drive that works very well, but I needed to reinstall Windows and it was going EXTREMELY slow with the internal drive and was wondering if there was anyway to switch external one as the booting drive.. I checked on the system utilities at startup and it wouldn't allow me, but maybe there is another way?

TIA,

Ash

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  • HighVoltage
    HighVoltage Posts: 27 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    You want to load the OS from the hard drive that is attached via USB to the PC ?

    I don't believe this is possible
  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,448 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It depends if USB can be selected in the boot order in the BIOS.
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • Ashok_2
    Ashok_2 Posts: 807 Forumite
    espresso wrote:
    It depends if USB can be selected in the boot order in the BIOS.
    No it wouldn't let me, is there anyway to change that? The reason I want to reinstall is right now because of a weird problem, I'm on Media Center, but I haven't run the actual media center software in a while and now I can't find it anywhere.. :S
  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,448 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    If it's not an option in the BIOS, no.
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • Ashok_2
    Ashok_2 Posts: 807 Forumite
    espresso wrote:
    If it's not an option in the BIOS, no.
    Thankyou, would you know any other ways I can sort out the Media Center problem?
  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,448 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Have you been through the Malware removal sticky at the top of the board?
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • Ashok_2
    Ashok_2 Posts: 807 Forumite
    espresso wrote:
    Have you been through the Malware removal sticky at the top of the board?
    Yes done that recently.
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