BIOS Boot Option – How to Add Removable Disk (USB Drive) Boot Option in BIOS

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The DVD drive on my HP Pavilion a1509in (Intel P4) is not working. To install any OS I have to use my USB drive.

In the BIOS boot options menu it shows only:

Floppy disk
CD/DVD drive
Hard disk drive

I've checked everywhere in the advanced setup menus to see how to enable a USB boot option but I can't find anything. Any ideas?

Best Answer

After many workarounds on my PC I just found the another way to boot from a USB disk drive, using some open source tools:

  • Install Easy BCD.
  • Add the Eacy BCD BIOS extender entry to the boot menu.
  • The Easy BCD BIOS extender menu redirects to plop boot manager if you choose the boot option during boot up.

  • Now you have the option to boot from a USB disk drive as shown below:

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This will be helpful for many old computers which do not support USB boot in their BIOS.

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