Can this laptop boot from USB?
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Yes i believe so but be fore warned i just got a d630 and it will only run off of AC The damned thing wont charge
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I'm sure it can, but you'd need to have an external DVD drive to attach to the ASUS via USB since it has no optical drive of it's own (plus your own Windows 7 disc).
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If your computer BIOS supports booting from an optical drive (and all new ones do) this will work fine. you will probably have to go into the BIOS and set your drive to be the first boot item.
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Yes connecting a USB external DVD is the best way to install an OS like windows or Linux. I recommend W7 64-bit or W8.1 64-bit
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No, it is a bare drive. I used a usb2IDE appliance and Clonezilla, a free OpenSource download.
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That question would be more if you computer supports booting up from an external drive. Any drive is just that a storage device. So this question goes to your computer not the drive you will use.
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yes you can. Setting up the dual boot is a solidly intermediate nerd process and you should be prepared to spend a full weekend at it, even having to restart the process 1/2 way through if you screw up, potentially even more than once. If you don't think you would find this process both frustrating AND enjoyable (and simply frustrating) do not do it, you will be sorry. You will need to spend and some preparation time downloading software and getting either an external cd drive setup of ripping cds to usb sticks. I get my aspire one next week and will be be setting up the same dual boot system after adding a gig of ram, a new wifi card, a bigger drive and a touch screen. Here's the best resource I've found, although I hope to find a much better one. http://leonuys.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/making-my-acer-aspire-one-dual-boot/
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The only thing you should ever have to do to is format them. They worked great on Windows but when I switched to Mac I needed to format the USB. Not sure what you mean by bootable. Their plug and play if that's what you mean :)
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i used it to install windows 7 on a fairly new laptop the other day so i know it is possible, however that computer needs to be able to boot from a usb device. If you can boot from a flash drive, then it can boot from this too granted your media was created right and is bootable. just go into your bios and change the boot device order or if there's a selective boot option go with that rather than change the bios.. Just remember to change the boot order back to the original setting once you're done. Usually i make a bootable flash drive these days, however this installation i used the dvd that came from a store. Hope you get what you want done. i used it to install windows 7 on a fairly new laptop the other day so i know it is possible, however that computer needs to be able to boot from a usb device. If you can boot from a flash drive, then it can boot from this too granted your media was created right and is bootable. just go into your bios and change the boot device order or if there's a selective boot option go with that rather than change the bios.. Just remember to change the boot order back to the original setting once you're done. Usually i make a bootable flash drive these days, however this installation i used the dvd... » Read More i used it to install windows 7 on a fairly new laptop the other day so i know it is possible, however that computer needs to be able to boot from a usb device. If you can boot from a flash drive, then it can boot from this too granted your media was created right and is bootable. just go into your bios and change the boot device order or if there's a selective boot option go with that rather than change the bios.. Just remember to change the boot order back to the original setting once you're done. Usually i make a bootable flash drive these days, however this installation i used the dvd that came from a store. Hope you get what you want done. « Show Less
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To the best of my knowledge yes.Reason I say this is USB boot to flash bios works fine
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I guess you can, but make sure to visit the Toshiba website before doing that and check if the win7 drivers are available for that laptop. Also remember this laptop does not have a CD drive, so you will have to either get an external CD/DVD drive to install Win7 or have a way to install it from a USB memory stick.
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If you install a boot loader on it and use it in a computer that can boot from a USB connected drive, yes. I used it to create my Lenovo disaster recover drive and it boots fine.
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I had issues with at least two major PC brands whereas depending on the USB port I use USB flash drives, the unit is not recognized by the BIOS/UEFI, or it detects but later can't be open by the install application/boot loader. Sounds silly, but try to use a different USB port and see if that works for you.
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If you are trying to ask if you can turn it into a boot drive where you can load OS's from then yes you can. You will have to download specific software that will wipe the drive and then install the OS onto the drive to be installed on your computer.
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if you have the bootable installation disk or USB, there'll be a prompt that will ask you: install the OS, restore from Time machine or enter Disk utility. Good luck!
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I don't know if it can, best bet is to buy the real version of windows 7. My computer 2010 toshiba laptop rejected the boot because it was not a real version of the windows 7 program
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yes, you can boot from a USB flash drive and run or install a linux distribution. I have not install yet one but I succeeded to boot with a live USB (opensuse, mint, ubuntu and android x86). For that, indeed, you will have to adjust some parameters in the boot menu.