[NatBe]

Thanks, Max Rat, you said:

Originally Posted by MaxRat the Thumb drive will so as a Hard Drive when it is bootable... So you go into Boot Devices and Select Hard Drive Boot Priorities and see if the thumb drive is in the list... if it is select it as the primary boot drive... if it worked on the Boot order it should now be in that list...

I mentioned that, under Advanced BIOS Features, the First Boot Device options has 3 types of USBs listed: USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, and USB-CDROM, in that order. The PC has 6 USB ports. There are 2 in front and 4 in back. The 4 in back: 2 are next to the ethernet cable and 2 are just above that.

Okay: I see this what you wrote again:

Originally Posted by MaxRat do you have a spare thumb-drive? load killdisk to a bootable thumbdrive and zero fill the drive... You can also download Unebootin and the Ultimate Boot CD and nab the ISO and use Unebootin to load the ISO to the thumb drive... it will make it bootable and it had Killdisk on it as well as other various tools...

I have to just find out if any of those 3 will actually work with any of the 6 USB ports. I don't think it should matter which USB port I use, right? And then it is a matter of finding out whether a thumb drive equates to ZIP, CDROM, or FDD in the mind of this legacy PC. It's a generic from about 2005.

Thanks,
Natelle