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I was looking at the forum and can not find otherwise.sorry if posted wrong but i need help.I have a pentium 3 and does has cd drive BIOS dont support boot from USB I can do something whit WinSetupFromUSB ?

please hellp

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I have a pentium 3 and does has cd drive BIOS dont support boot from USB
my hhd is clear

Which boot options are left?

Can you boot a real floppy? Boot PloP from floppy.

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I have a pentium 3 and does has cd drive BIOS dont support boot from USB
my hhd is clear

Which boot options are left?

Can you boot a real floppy? Boot PloP from floppy.

I have only an ide-usb reader for the hard disk,boot options :network, hhd, floppy,cd rom

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I have only an ide-usb reader for the hard disk,boot options :network, hhd, floppy,cd rom

I don't understand. :unsure:

Is that ide-USB reader a bootable device or not?

List the devices you have connected (or connectable) to that machine:

  1. Hard disk drive
  2. Floppy disk drive
  3. CD or DVD disk drive

PLoP can boot from all 3 of them, of course if you ONLY have an internal hard disk there is NO way you can get PLoP on it unless you take it out and copy PLoP to it while it is connected temporarily to another running machine.

The Siginet's app is a "wrap around" the actual PLoP bootmanager:

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

That can run BOTH as "hdinstall":

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#installhd

or "no install":

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#noinstall

But SOMEHOW you need to have it on that machine.

jaclaz

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USB2IDE-25-35-unit.jpg

I have a tool the "ide-usb"

i try installing windows xp in the hard drive with ide-usb adapter but does not start in pentium 3

let me know if there any program have the option to allow booting from the hard disk ;managed to find the usb and install windows xp or linux

now you understand

the problem is that i dont have: floppy or cd drive, ok?

and the bios has no option to boot from usb

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i try installing windows

xp in the hard drive with ide-usb adapter but does not start in pentium 3

Do you like to run windows from internal IDE hard disk?

Do you like to run windows from external USB-IDE hard disk?

Do you have another machine?

Attach USB IDE hard diks to another machine.

Partition and format the drive, example letter E:

Prepare XP installation files to letter E:

winnt32.exe /makelocalsource /noreboot /syspart:E: /tempdrive:E:

Attach hard disk internal at pentium 3 machine.

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Well, miracles are outside the reach of most of us, or at least outside mine. :blink:

As said:

PLoP can boot from all 3 of them, of course if you ONLY have an internal hard disk there is NO way you can get PLoP on it unless you take it out and copy PLoP to it while it is connected temporarily to another running machine.

In other words we do have a program that may be able to add USB boot support to your PC (PLoP), but you have to find a way, ANY way to load and run it, you need "something" that is bootable on that machine, that can be a floppy or a CD, or another hard disk (previously prepared on another machine).

jaclaz

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