I didn't think you could. I know I never could when I had an external
HD connected to my USB. Anyway, my friend now has an older HP machine
he picked up, with which he is having a problem getting it to boot. He
says the BIOS states the 'boot order' to be USB Device followed by
Hard Drive (c:\). Strangely, so he says, when he put a bootable CD
disk in the CD Drive thereon, the system booted up from there.

Does all this make sense?

Anyone?

Thanks

Gecko