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05-10-2013, 10:46 PM
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Can't get WintoFlash to work
I have an older Dell Inspiron 700m laptop with a bad DVD drive. I tried re-installing WinXP Pro SP3 by installing the OS on a flash drive using WintoFlash. This laptop has a BIOS boot setting for a USB drive and sees the flash drive but doesn't run it. Anyone have a possible fix? Thanks.
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05-10-2013, 11:34 PM
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05-11-2013, 02:53 PM
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05-11-2013, 03:35 PM
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I also had a similar problem with a Dell. I think my main issue was that the BIOS was not properly configured. I had the primary boot set to removable devices. But there was another setting that I had to change. It was labeled as "Hard disk boot priority" and changed it to USB. Hope you get it figured out.
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05-12-2013, 02:34 AM
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Tried an external DVDRW drive and the laptop wouldn't recognize it, so I guess my only option is to replace the internal drive itself. Don't ever buy used stuff from eBay. The seller on this thing really scammed me.
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05-12-2013, 03:02 AM
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Eject the bad drive and try the external again.
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05-12-2013, 01:37 PM
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Tried that. Still didn't recognize the external drive. Even set it as the slave since it would be the secondary master in the BIOS.
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05-12-2013, 01:43 PM
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Is your external USB? If so, you don't set it to anything in the bios, you just have to make sure USB devices are in the bios boot list.
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