Non Bootable USBWatch
 

Hi i have the player below

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I cant for the life of me figure out why any computer i plug it into wont boot from it yet its regonised as a generic har disk and uses the standerd usb hard disk driver . Ive allready cretaed an active partition and dumped my drivers and windows instalation there but nothing its not showing up at BIOS level on any computer .

Can anyone suggest what to make my player bootable ? I had no problem with the player i upgraded from

Try to see if you can install DOS on it first.

Install dos on the player ? im pretty sure it would explode when it discoverers the processor architecture Im just trying to use it as a bootable windows install disk . Really all that should happen is i create an active partition and it should be viable in the BIOS .

I just dont know why it isnt showing up as a Usb HDD in the BIOS . Any ideas

Not all motherboards can read or boot from external HDD from BIOS though. I know this as I have a number of clients who has HP computers and a number of clients who have older/no branded computers. The newer HP ones can see it from BIOS but the older/no brand computers will not see the external HDD from BIOS.

If you've formatted it as a bootable disk from Windows, then yes, the computer 'should' boot from it, PROVIDED the motherboard supports external hard drive boot. Just check the motherboard settings as well and if you can, try updating the BIOS to see if that also helps.

Hope that helps.

But thats the thing , My other computers have no problem booting from my previous player Its just this one that fails to be regonised even by VMWare .

It must be something with teh player , But it uses the generic usb HDD driver