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In message <sFZZl.127103$>, fakename
wrote:

> My Dell bios setup has a setting to turn on booting from USB devices.
> Next to this feature is some help notes that indicate clearly that not
> all USB devices are bootable which I tend to believe.

All USB storage devices should be bootable, I don't see why they should be
able to tell the difference.

On Jun 17, 5:33*pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <sFZZl.127103$2p1.102...@en-nntp-08.dc1.easynews.com>, fakename
> wrote:
>
> > My Dell bios setup has a setting to turn on booting from USB devices.
> > Next to this feature is some help notes that indicate clearly that not
> > all USB devices are bootable which I tend to believe.

Correct...

> All USB storage devices should be bootable, I don't see why they should be
> able to tell the difference.

Some are not, for instance Sony's external dvd writer is not....I had
to open an external DSE harddrive case up, shove in an ide dvd reader
and it booted fine...

As far as I can tell all usb sticks are, at least so far Ive not met a
usb stick that is not bootable anyway....

regards

Thing

In message <03df3b94-4fe1-4f46-85c6-
>, thingy wrote:

> On Jun 17, 5:33 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
> central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>
>> All USB storage devices should be bootable, I don't see why they should
>> be able to tell the difference.
>
> Some are not, for instance Sony's external dvd writer is not...

What's different about it? Surely it's basically a common-or-garden PATA or
SATA drive in an external USB enclosure, right?

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

>> In message <03df3b94-4fe1-4f46-85c6-
> >, thingy wrote:
>
>> On Jun 17, 5:33 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
>> central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>>
>>> All USB storage devices should be bootable, I don't see why they should
>>> be able to tell the difference.
>>
>> Some are not, for instance Sony's external dvd writer is not...
>
> What's different about it? Surely it's basically a common-or-garden PATA
> or SATA drive in an external USB enclosure, right?

Was curious about that myself. Any more info thingy

Lodi