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    usb dvd/cd-roms

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by macgregor98, Feb 4, 2008.

  1. macgregor98

    macgregor98 Newbie

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    I want to put a second hard drive in the bay that would have normally held the cdrom is there a external cdrom that is bootable/not requiring an OS to recognize it that i could use.
     
    macgregor98, Feb 4, 2008
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  2. GrandAdmiral

    GrandAdmiral Notebook Evangelist

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    I would say yes, as long as your computer supports USB booting. To test this, connect a flash disk or portable hard disk (Using USB) to your computer, open your BIOS and check your boot options to see wether the flash disk or hard disk shows up.

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    GrandAdmiral, Feb 4, 2008
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  3. powerpack

    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    But also if this is just for if you run into a problem could you not just pull the HDD and put the CDROM back in then fix the problem? I mean if you can't boot from USB.
     
    powerpack, Feb 4, 2008
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  4. macgregor98

    macgregor98 Newbie

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    true. but all the laptops i am looking at have a bay for a HDD and a optical drive. I want to dual boot with vista/linux and dont want to have to do pull out the drives.
     
    macgregor98, Feb 5, 2008
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  5. bhxtyrant

    bhxtyrant Notebook Guru

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    Could just get a single large HDD and dual boot using partitions ;)
     
    bhxtyrant, Feb 6, 2008
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