topic Booting from a USB CD drive in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-a-usb-cd-drive/m-p/153147#M118263 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I bought my c1xn notebook from a friend that had tried to upgrade his OS to XP - but he cocked up. I have managed to format/repartition the hard disk, and have downloaded the XP boot disks form the microsoft site (allows an XP boot from 6 floppies).<BR />The problem I have is that there is only one USB port on the notebook - the floppy is USB and I can boot up from this - but I can't boot up from my external cd/dvd drive (Pioneer) - which means that I can't complete the XP install.<BR />Can anyone help?<BR />PS - Pioneer don't provide a dos driver for the dvd I have.<BR />Many thanks<BR />Melv<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:08:10 GMT MELV 2005-01-14T17:08:10Z Booting from a USB CD drive https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-a-usb-cd-drive/m-p/153147#M118263 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I bought my c1xn notebook from a friend that had tried to upgrade his OS to XP - but he cocked up. I have managed to format/repartition the hard disk, and have downloaded the XP boot disks form the microsoft site (allows an XP boot from 6 floppies).<BR />The problem I have is that there is only one USB port on the notebook - the floppy is USB and I can boot up from this - but I can't boot up from my external cd/dvd drive (Pioneer) - which means that I can't complete the XP install.<BR />Can anyone help?<BR />PS - Pioneer don't provide a dos driver for the dvd I have.<BR />Many thanks<BR />Melv<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:08:10 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-from-a-usb-cd-drive/m-p/153147#M118263 MELV 2005-01-14T17:08:10Z