Setting windows to boot to your usb drive

[lambchop]

This one really stumps me. I am not noob when it comes to computer settings. I have tried setting this on two different computers, one a pentium 3 and the other a pentium 4.

For the pentium 4:

I had the USB drive plugged in but the only thing that it detected was the removable drives, cd disk drives, then the hard drive

Pentium 3:
Pretty much the same story. I am going to check for updates on the older pentium 3, a dimension xps T500, and I'll put the service code for the pentium 4 into dells support site, but really when did they start implenting a boot to usb into the bios?

 

[meldrige]

you don't set windows to boot your USB drive

try physically unhooking every bootable drive in your computer, to see if it will boot from USB.. if not then a setting in the BIOS is not right, or your motherboard is not capable.

 

[lambchop]

you don't set windows to boot your USB drive

try physically unhooking every bootable drive in your computer, to see if it will boot from USB.. if not then a setting in the BIOS is not right, or your motherboard is not capable.

Wow, thank you! Don't know what was so hard about that recommendation but everybody else I have talked to never really game anything close to that. I'll try that on 2 of my computers to see if I can get that to work.