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How To Boot From USB And CDROM Without BIOS Support

I have written about creating bootable USB disk using free software, but it is of no use if the motherboard or BIOS does not support USB booting, if you are stuck in a situation where BIOS does not support booting from USB or CD-ROM, free boot-manager PLoP would be the best solution for the problem, the easy to use boot manager can work with your existing boot-loader and even without the need to install on hard-disk.

USB Booting


PLoP Boot Manager
can launch from floppy, CD, network or existing boot manager like LILO, GRUB, Windows boot menu and DOS, once launched you can use PLoP to boot from USB and CD-ROM even if BIOS does not support these options.

To use PLoP from existing Windows Boot Manager on Windows 2K, XP and VISTA, Download PLoP Boot Manager and follow the procedure described inside the zip file or at the official website here.

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Thanks

Good tip.

Nice tip !

You saved my day, thanks

Got the boot floppy

Got the boot floppy to work with Fedora 11 via usb boot :)

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wonderful
i love you

first time visiter here at megaleecher

and I love you. this will help with my pII laptop, thanks.

You RuleZ

Thanks so much, this helps a lot on old machines

$rini

Nice work guys...........
Keep going!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool tim

Thanks for the cool tip I will try it out A.S.A.P

* Typo in title ^ * Cool Tip

Thanks for the cool tip I will try it out A.S.A.P

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Thanks!

Got the boot floppy to work with Fedora 11 via usb boot :)

it supports oly for

it supports oly for ntfs
what to do for fat32

Format usb to ntfs, to make

Format usb to ntfs, to make usb bootable ( there is guide in google to do so) when your done just reformat your usb abck to fat32

Thanks.

Now can USB boot my PII.

Marvellous

Just FANTASTIC !!! thanx indeed

Awesome.....

u simply revitalized my machine.... :) thanks a lot..

how can i run plop without

how can i run plop without using loging in windows os,and cd rom

Very Nice

Very nice find... thanks for sharing!

Sadly, PLoP won't boot a USB

Sadly, PLoP won't boot a USB CD/DVD drive though.

Don't Work

this software don't work i have damage to cd but these option not show only black screen show then window open

This Is A Piece Of

This Is A Piece Of Crap

Whenever You Try To Boot Anything To Hangs With A Blinking underline

Whats An Alternative That Works?

Could I use this for my school project?

I've just stubled upon this site, could I just copy the technical articles from the site or do I need some kind of permission?. I'm writing a project for school.

James

THANKS HIGH MUCH

I say : thanks high much
for this great site and high appreciation for the job for every one in the world

I am grateful to you

I love you too

very sincerely yours

rahat khalid

from Pakistan with respect and love for you

Works like a Charm.

Works like a Charm. Installing new win with USB_CDROM within AHCI mode while my MB doesnt support USB in AHCI mode...

Not working for PIII

It is not able to boot from a USB drive, connected via a PCI USB card on a Tomato 810 motherboard.
Processor PIII.

May be it is due to the PCI card being uncompatible.
same drive works fine on my laptop while booting from it.

Plop says booting from USB and correctly detect HP v220 USB drive.
But no progress there on, I formated the drive with NTFS also still the same.

Trying to install OpenELEC on PIII, no cd iso available for this.
Will appreciate any help.

To YOU!

This is to all of you for which this isn't working!
YOU SUCK, you obviously know nothing about computers so suck it, I hope you have to pay a ridiculous amount to fix your pc because u are too stupid to work out how to use a simple bat file... idiots...

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