SinghSuperStud

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Hi,

have a Siemens Amilo laptop with a duff DVD drive.

Have tried bartPE and a few other methods to try and get the USB to boot but no luck. The laptop supports USB boot and the key I prepare works in another computer but just not here!!!

Is there anything else I can try?

And before you ask - the network card seems to be duff too so I can't do it over the network

Tidgy

prob a stupid question, but have you changed the bios?

SinghSuperStud

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Yes - have made it boot from USB but no joy.

It sees the USB device in the boot menu but it won't boot from it - whereas another PC works fine with it.

JackClark

Try a different USB key.

SinghSuperStud

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tried two different keys but no joy

jura11

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Much easier way is borrow from your friend external DVD Drive or just buy at this time is cheap.



Jura

SinghSuperStud

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plugged in an external DVD drive via USB - can boot from it but then the setup application shows a black screen (or is very very slow to progress) after the 'press any key to boot from cd' message

jura11

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Hi there you can have look at this http://www.amilo-forum.com/topic,230...lo-Pi2540.html






Jura

SinghSuperStud

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tried that link but nothing much apart from fitting a new internal drive and I don't really want to order one and I'm sure PCWorld won't have them in stock