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Originally Posted by Footbag
I need to get a new USB drive. But are older systems compatible? USB boot is a bios setting, correct?
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Bingo! It depends how old the machine is an if they have brought out any bios revisions. Being that you need Windows in most cases to flash bios most of the time this may be difficult if these machines got hosed or had a hard drive failure.
I would make a wild guess and say anything over than 6+ years might not have the usb boot feature. I just found something interesting. Seems you can boot into a CD that will boot from USB without BIOS support. Sounds kind of crazy to me, but it might be ideal for some:
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action...parentID=10682