question about external dvd's

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bardos

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i was working on a friend's laptop the other day, who btw had exceeded his trojan limit, (bah) and as his dvd which came with his laptop was toast, we connected an external lite-on DVD (very modern) to the usb port. well, to make a long story short, it was not recognised in DOS, would not serve to boot the comp.

Meanwhile I have an external USB floppy drive which was recognised on that laptop and almost all devices.

So are all external DVD drives like that?
 
i am not sure if it would be the drive or the system... i have a roswill external and i install most of my systems with it ratherthen buying dvd roms.


would it be the drive or does the laptop support usb devices?
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ya could be the laptop itself. it did recognise the external floppy usb...
 
in the bios there must be a "boot from usb" device option.
If there isn't well.. :(
 
i don't think there is that... it did recognise my floppy usb perfectly. i don't have the laptop here. i gave it back to my friend, told him to get a compatible dvd drive for the laptop itself.
 
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