Is it possible to boot from a usb thumb drive instead of a SSD?
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Yes, one can press "F12" just after powering on to show a BIOS boot screen and choose the USB to boot from. (one has to press "F12" a couple of times quickly!"
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Yes, pressing F12 and choosing USB BOOT. I recommend OS 8.1 64Bits if you have more than 2GB (DDR 3 memories).
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Yes. I am running my OS on this drive. I had to switch to legacy boot mode to get it to work.
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I may be mistaken, but windows will either not allow or not recognize partitions on a thumb drive. There may be 3rd party software to trick it, or circumvent this.If I am mistaken please do let me know.
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yes, you can. You can install a esata ssd. Or install a docking station and Disk Drive Bay Adapter with hard drive
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You can chose your own operating system. Then just load it on , we used a windows OS. Yea, you can use a SSD that fits your size and needs. Really easy unit to use .
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BIOS must support boot from USB device.Important to note: If Windows OS, you may run into HAL or MBR problems if the hardware is significantly different.
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That would depend on whether or not your system bios supports using a usb drive as the systems primary drive or if you have a utility installed on your primary drive that will let you select between multiple operating systems and supports usb drives. Chances for both are likely to be no, but this is for all usb drives, not just this one.
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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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Yes as long as you don't have more data on your drive than the SSD capacity.
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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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Claudia Vera,No special BIOS setting is needed; if you install a Solid State Drive into the system and install an O/S onto it, you can set it as the boot device and run from the SSD. Please note that proper installation an SSD or other component - internal or external - that does not damage the system will *not* void your warranty.
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Yes, all of the USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports work. You can boot from either of them.
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Try Clonezillla. It's always worked for me and is free. It will clone your entire boot drive.
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I think a better option would be to set the 256GB as the boot/work drive and setting an external drive or Raid setup as storage.
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A posting on Lenovo's forums says that it will boot from an mSATA drive, but you may have to turn SecureBoot off. http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaCentre-Desktops-Home-Servers/Installing-mSATA-SSD-as-secondary-drive-in-Lenovo-A730/td-p/1346889
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Claudia Vera, No special BIOS setting is needed; if you install a Solid State Drive into the system and install an O/S onto it, you can set it as the boot device and run from the SSD. Please note that proper installation an SSD or other component - internal or external - that does not damage the system will *not* void your warranty.
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It depends on how big the USB drive is. Windows XP is a pretty big OS compared to Linux. It also depends on whether or not the BIOS supports booting from USB.