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    Boot from firewire drive?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by waveking, Dec 9, 2006.

  1. waveking

    waveking Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, recently I bought WD dual option 250 GB external disk to compliment the storage of my Inspiron 6000.

    My question if my laptop can boot off this firewire drive? Then I can use my drive as an emergency recovery disk.
     
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    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    Try it! I don't know if firewire is supported, I know that USB is. I think you either press f2 or f12 when booting. Sorry I haven't had my e1505 in quite some time. Did the WD come with a USB interface/cable too? I am a fan of DVD/CD boots though.
     
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    waveking Notebook Enthusiast

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    yeah, the drive can be hooked up via USB or firewire both. I was assuming the laptop can boot off USB, but was not sure about firewire... specially because when Partitionmagic booted the computer to execute my partitioning tasks on the external drive using firewire... it could not even detect the drive in windows command line mode :(
     
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