04-06-2014, 04:08 AM
Hello!
Most every PC made in the last ten years will boot from a USB CD-ROM or flash drive. If I can find similar units that WORK for the Gateway, I'll buy them.
The ones I have had belts that had stretched. I cut them down, glued them back together, and reassembled the drives, but they still don't want to work right.
For REALLY old machines, a utility called Plop Boot Manager can be burned only a floppy or CD to boot from USB. I have an ancient Dell Latitude laptop that requires Plop to boot from USB...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Most every PC made in the last ten years will boot from a USB CD-ROM or flash drive. If I can find similar units that WORK for the Gateway, I'll buy them.
The ones I have had belts that had stretched. I cut them down, glued them back together, and reassembled the drives, but they still don't want to work right.
For REALLY old machines, a utility called Plop Boot Manager can be burned only a floppy or CD to boot from USB. I have an ancient Dell Latitude laptop that requires Plop to boot from USB...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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