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I've seen computers booting from USB starting 2004, I'd be surprised if that one does. Bios updates usually don't appear more than 2 years after the PC is out. You could try "Plop boot manager" on a cd but I don't think it'll work. XD yeah i though it might be an imposable venture. but i'll check out plop boot manager...it sounds like a good tool to have in the arsenal even if it doesn't work for this

well i'm booting knoppix from my jump drive, the USB is boot able, i've been using it on my laptop and other computers and it works fine and no the BIOS doesn't detect USB i just thought since the BIOS was close enough to the date when USB was introduced as a booting option they might have had and up date to include that kind of booting

so i inherited an old sony VAIO PCV-RX260DS from a friend...now im not a big fan of sony when it comes to things i want to customize because they tend to remind me of apple, XD anyhow its older and obviously doesn't support booting from jump drive so i asked sony via email if they could help me out...apperently they didn't want to answer me and said "sony does not support booting" ...moving on. is there even such a thing as third party BIOS...if so enlighten me. can i get my BIOS up to date and have it allow me to boot from my USB jump drive (i love knoppix on a stick, XD) i'm new to BIOS up dating...but hey we all have to start somewhere (just a heads up) btw i ran a BIOS test and this is what i got, just in case it helps you help me BIOS CAPABILITIES TEST REPORT =============================== Generated by: BIOS Wizard 2.10 Date: June 16, 2009 Time: 21:10 PnP Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.0 PCI Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 2.1 PCI IRQ Routing Table : BIOS currently supports this feature Enhanced Disk Drive Specification : BIOS currently supports this feature DMI Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 2.3 ACPI Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.0 APM Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.2 Booting From CD-ROM : BIOS currently supports this feature Supports ESCD : BIOS currently supports this feature Can be Updated (flashed) : BIOS currently supports this feature Can be Shadowed : BIOS currently supports this feature BIOS Chip in Socket : BIOS currently supports this feature Supports Selective Booting : BIOS currently supports this feature Supports LS-120 Booting : BIOS doesn't support this feature Supports ZIP Booting : BIOS doesn't support this feature Supports Network Booting : BIOS currently supports this feature BIOS Manufacturer : Award Modular BIOS v6.0 BIOS ID : 08/17/2000-i810-CUW-AV BIOS Date : 08/17/00 BIOS OEM Signon : ACPI BIOS Revision 1001 BIOS ROM Size : 512K Chipset : Intel Whitney 82810E rev 3 Super I/O Chip : Winbond 83627F/HF found at port 2Eh

Well you could always do reverse integration.Remove the bloat,install service packs etc and remake WIM and later use vLite to open that wim nope...didn't workout, but if i could combine the iso's of the recovery disks into one that might work...i'm gonna look into it, XD

just like most people my computer was shipped without an OEM disk, and i made the recovery disks...but every time i do a "clean install" i don't want to take an hour or two just to remove all the bloatware (mostly norton) from my computer. i thought since vista installation is really not an installation rather imaging from the disk to the hard drive that i could use windows pe to get my c: drive into .WIM format (windows image format) but vlite doesn't like this kind of format, or rather just this file, i haven't had time to really test anything till now since i was busy with finals and getting my diploma and all that jazz (bye bye high school! XD) posable problems i have identafied: 1) vlite just doesn't do that 2) vlite would like to have it in an .ISO format (but at 17 gigs i'm gonna have to go an remake the image) 3) i didn't make the image bootable from within imagex 4) my computer just doesn't like me and HP is out to get me (ok that was a joke) anyways thanks for any insight into my project, thanks much, -alexander the great