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    Sleekbook 15-b003ee not booting from CD or USB !

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ahmadka, Jun 19, 2015.

  1. ahmadka

    ahmadka Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys .. I have an old HP Sleekbook which I'm trying to run some diagnostics tests on at boot time, however I'm having trouble trying to get the laptop to boot from an external CD drive, or from a bootable USB. I've tried both on all 3 USB ports, but the laptop still just boots from the internal hard drive. I've gone into the BIOS and have set CD and external USB/HDD options are higher priorities but still it doesn't work. I have also enabled Legacy mode in BIOS and have set the same boot options for Legacy too, and still not working ..

    Any suggestions ?
     
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  2. t456

    t456 1977-09-05, 12:56:00 UTC

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    Set the secondary hdd's SATA port to 'none' in the BIOS, if that option is available. If not, remove it temporarily.
     
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  3. ahmadka

    ahmadka Notebook Consultant

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    No such option is available in the BIOS I'm afraid. Also, I don't have any secondary HDD installed in the laptop, if that's what you're thinking.
     
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    t456 1977-09-05, 12:56:00 UTC

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    Try both FreeDOS and MS-DOS, sometimes one's accepted and not the other. Could still remove the hdd, of course, but that's bit much for a simple diagnostic ... tried the one-off boot-time override key? It's F7 on my Clevo, don't if it's the same on a HP.
     
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