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‎07-30-2011 03:40 AM

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Hi everyone i have a compaq presario CQ 40-330 TU laptop. Its dvd drive has failed few month ago and as i did not use dvd drive much so i did not replaced it instead i made a bootable windows 7 repair usb with this following procedure http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-repair-windows-7-from-usb-flash-drive-repair-without-installation-... Today i need to boot my pc using the usb drive but to my surpise it failed to boot. So i need your help ASAP because my laptop is now unbootable and i need it fixed quick. What should i do?? When i entered the bios i found out this information Boot option CD- ROM boot < disabled > Floppy Boot < Enabled > Internal Network Adapter Boot < Disabled > Boot order USB floppy ! Internal CD/DVD ROM drive. Notebook Hard drive ! USB CD/DVD ROM drive USB Diskette on key / USB Hard drive ! Network adapter. Please help.....
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‎07-30-2011 05:56 AM - edited ‎07-30-2011 06:07 AM

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Hi. I think I have pretty similar problem on notebook HP Compaq NX6110  with crashed CD-ROM.

 

I've prepared the bootable USB drive using this procedure (with a small modification because I want to intall Windows XP):

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/... 

 

Anyway, in bios setup I change the boot device options so that the "USB hard drive" is set as "the first" and USB Superdrive (slt) is set to the second... I save the settings etc. I restart the computer and in the blue boot menu that appears I can only choose Notebook harddrive and Optical drive (no USB).

 

Any ideas? Is it possible that this notebook does not support USB booting thought there is an option is BIOS?

‎07-31-2011 08:15 AM

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Well after many trial and error i get it done. In boot option i enabled everything and in boot order i put "USB Hard drive" as first and everything USB related to 2nd and 3rd then internal CD/DVD drive then internal HDD. And it worked i was able to boot from the usb repair disk and restored windows with an image i created earlier. @ Gildor you should also do some trial and error to see if something work because since you have USB hard drive in boot option i am sure it will be usable. you should enabled every option in boot option too. Best of luck

‎05-22-2013 06:30 AM

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Hello,
I carefully followed the boot process for the NX6110 and USB key and thank you God
it works! everything must be done in USb in the Bios.
thank you again
Tabarka :generic:

‎05-29-2014 01:24 PM

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I have the same problem.

HP DV7-6b00et win7 H20 Rev 3.5 bios F.1C does not EFI boot from USB

Boots LiveCD - LıveUSB - Boots Win7 RESPAIR CD and RepairUSB.

EFI boot utilites and Grub2EFI utililities on USB does not boot .

 

 

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