• Booting off of USB drive on Pentium 4 era motherboard?
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So I've been planning for a long time to turn my pentium 4 rig into a server for hosting a wordpress based website (learning purposes), My main problem is that my last IDE hard drive broke and the motherboard doesn't support SATA, A new (used) hard drive costs about as much as a sata controller but I really don't wanna spend any money on this. I remembered you can make bootable USB drives, but would it work on such an old motherboard? And most importantly, will the slow transfer speeds be a problem? I'm not expecting or indeed requiring any kind of blazing speeds but the USB memory I have is 16 gigs and peaks out at about 5MB/s write, 15MB/s read. Would there be any other problems? I don't have time to do anything now or indeed to any kind of my own research into the subject but I figured I'd throw up a thread and check for answers in the morning. Thanks in advance.
It might work. I think some of those older did support booting from USB drives. Not sure if using an USB drive constantly is such a good idea tho, can't imagine they'd live long.
If the bios supports it. Look in the bios to change to boot order to USB. Also, check for a bios update. Sometimes they add the ability to boot using USB in a new bios revision. On my old PC a new bios revision allowed it to boot from USB.
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