How/Can I boot from a USB Drive

if you found no USB boot-related items in the system BIOS, you may be out of luck. Your system may simply lack that capability. Your best bet is probably to visit your system vendor's Web site and inquire about a BIOS upgrade; a free or (usually) low-cost do-it-yourself process that may be able to add support for newer hardware to an aging system. If your system vendor can't or won't help, try visiting the Web site of your motherboard vendor; or if that fails, then try the support sites of your BIOS vendor. If USB boot support can be added to your PC through a BIOS update, one of those sources will be able to help.
 
even some new boards only allow USB CD-ROM Drives or USB Hard drives, probably be pretty hard to boot from a USB Flash Drive. (Although your iPod may fall under a USB Hard Drive).
 
I don't know if this would work but if I could boot from my iPod and I installed windows on it could I boot from my iPod on any computer (take Windows with me lol) it would be cool :cool:
 
I don't know if this would work but if I could boot from my iPod and I installed windows on it could I boot from my iPod on any computer (take Windows with me lol) it would be cool :cool:
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No, windows would format the drive NTFS which an ipod or any MP3 player wouldn't like. You'd format the HDD inside the MP3 player and possible never be able to use it again.
 
No, windows would format the drive NTFS which an ipod or any MP3 player wouldn't like. You'd format the HDD inside the MP3 player and possible never be able to use it again.
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what you can have windows on FAT32 or maybe it's jest FAT, in fact I’ve dun it with ME
 
what you can have windows on FAT32 or maybe it's jest FAT, in fact I’ve dun it with ME
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Doesn't matter what it formats it to, MP3 HDD format != windows format.
 
I don't get what you mean. on the me the drive format when windows was installed was FAT\FAT32 on partition
 
Once the drive has been formatted NTFS/FAT32/FAT16/FAT/WHATEVER it doesn't matter. In most cases you can't reformat it back to the type of file system that was originally on the MP3 player. You'd format it and it would forever be an external HDD in the form of an Ipod. In some cases, you can re-install the software and it will work again, only a few I know of that it SHOULD work.
 
i dont think you can boot from ipods because to run a ipod on your comp you need to install the drivers ... so if you try to boot from your ipod the bios wont contain a driver to controll it
 
Once the drive has been formatted NTFS/FAT32/FAT16/FAT/WHATEVER it doesn't matter. In most cases you can't reformat it back to the type of file system that was originally on the MP3 player. You'd format it and it would forever be an external HDD in the form of an iPod. In some cases, you can re-install the software and it will work again, only a few I know of that it SHOULD work.
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My iPod mini is currently formatted in FAT32. I formatted it my self with the DOS command [FORMAT [DRIVE LETTER]:] (drive letter = iPod mini). I formatted it jest for the heck of it when I learned about all the DOS commands hehehe, when I opened iTunes it said "a new iPod has been found would you like to ad your music library to it" I said yes and every thing works fine. O and the music is located on the iPod in the hidden folders [drive letter:\iPod_Control\Music\
maybe I don't quite get what you mean but iPods are designed to read Windows format, they can read [txt] (text) files :)
i don’t think you can boot from ipods because to run a ipod on your comp you need to install the drivers ... so if you try to boot from your ipod the bios wont contain a driver to control it
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well you mite be rite, I don't really know about that one,
but if any one uses a external USB\Fi-Wi hard drive I would like to know, is it classified as a [Mass Storage Device] like a USB jumper drive\my iPod].
O and not that it means any thing but iPods don't need software to work on Windows Me and UP (I don't know much about BIOS sorry if I’m talking trash) :o
 
Well I have a question if I wanted to run windows off my iPod could I boot form a floppy then start windows from there? O and does the windows os have a start file or something like run.exe
 
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