Greetings TOM!   
      
      
    RW> BR>> I recently upgraded to USB 3.0 which works great once Wins 7 Pro   
    RW> BR>> is running, but the BIOS won't recognize the USB 3.0 drives as   
    RW> BR>> bootable. I have an Intel DH55HC Mobo with the latest BIOS   
    RW> BR>> update. Doc's at Intel say USB 3.0 is supported at the BIOS   
    RW> BR>> level ... one note says to enable the xHCI bit but I don't have   
    RW> BR>> that option in the BIOS setup :( The USB 3.0 hardware is   
    RW> BR>> provided by a PCIe card. When I had a SATA port card in that   
    RW> BR>> slot it booted fine.   
      
    RW> BR>> Anyone else booting from USB 3.0 drives?   
      
    RW>> I'm still stuck with v1.0 USB ports...but, I did buy a PNY 8gb   
    RW>> memory stick that came with instrucions on using it to boot a   
    RW>> system. I may have to review that procedure and see if it's   
    RW>> plausable to do on v1.0 USBs.   
      
    TW> I would not expect any problems as the only difference is the Speed   
    TW> capabilites. It would jsut boot slower.   
      
   That's what I figured.   
      
    TW> I have a couple of Boot flaxh drives that I have installed LUNIX for   
    TW> testing on. I had the best luck with Puppy Linux but LINUX is not for   
    TW> me.   
      
      
   Heh. I have 3 linux CDs and I wouldn't want to be stuck with any of those   
   three as an OS...my 1st one was Red Hat v5.2 - I used it for a while, but   
   got too frustrated with it crashing all the time, I reformatted the drive   
   it was on and went back to W98. Then I got Lindows, v4.5 and it was better   
   than Red Hat and even worked like Windows, but it also got to be a pain to   
   use, so again I went back to W98. Then came Knoppix 3.2...what a mess that   
   was and so I upgraded W98 to W2k and lived happily ever after until I   
   finally installed XP.   
      
    TW> To many tines you are forces into a convoluted command line   
    TW> proceidure to make somethign work.   
      
   That was OS/2 for me. OS/2 seemed simple enough on paper, but it drove me   
   crazy trying to learn its command lines, which resembled DOS commands, but   
   were so convaluted, I gave up on it.   
      
      
       Have a day!   
      
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