Dell Dimension 4550 can't boot off of USB drive.
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Posted by on July 2, 2008, 5:22 pm
Please log in for more thread options I created boot floppy on my SanDisk Cruzer 1G USB with the HP Drive Key Boot Utility. It's an image of a regular 98se boot floppy from bootdisk.com. It works on everything but my Dells. When I boot my Dell Dimension 4550 it says Disk I/O error Replace the disk, and press any key There is a setting called Hard-Disk Drive Sequence that says 1 USB Device 2 System BIOS boot devices I have that set on 1 Then there is a Boot Sequence setting that has 1 IDE CD-ROM Device 2 Hard Disk Drive C: 3 Floppy device (not installed) I've tried many permutatons of these settings and I still can't get it to boot. I've flashed the newest BIOS A08 and still no joy. I've downloaded PenDrive Linux and that boots fine. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Ben Myers on July 2, 2008, 8:34 pm
Please log in for more thread options a bootable USB stick with the Win 98 stuff on it. There are how-tos out there on the internet, but Micro$oft does not make it easy. Like PenLinux and other live Linux distros do... Ben Myers On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:22:27 -0400, alizeruos@wqw.rr.com wrote: | |||||||||||||
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Posted by surajram on July 2, 2008, 11:13 pm
Please log in for more thread options The Win98SE Boot disks dont have a USB driver in the bood disk itself.
So you wont be able to boot off a USB drive unless your motherboard can be set to emulate a floppy drive using a USB drive (I've seen some Asus m/bs do this). I guess this is why it works on all your machines, but not on your dell.... Maybe you can try installing grub or another bootloader and try. | |||||||||||||
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>I created boot floppy on my SanDisk Cruzer 1G USB with the HP Drive
>Key Boot Utility. It's an image of a regular 98se boot floppy from
>bootdisk.com. It works on everything but my Dells. When I boot my Dell
>Dimension 4550 it says
>
>Disk I/O error
>Replace the disk, and press any key
>
>There is a setting called Hard-Disk Drive Sequence that says
>1 USB Device
>2 System BIOS boot devices
>
>I have that set on 1
>
>
>Then there is a Boot Sequence setting that has
>
>1 IDE CD-ROM Device
>2 Hard Disk Drive C:
>3 Floppy device (not installed)
>
>
>I've tried many permutatons of these settings and I still can't get it
>to boot. I've flashed the newest BIOS A08 and still no joy.
>
>I've downloaded PenDrive Linux and that boots fine.