Booting by SD card is Possiple ?

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    xnohat

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    Hi everybody,
    I have a AA1 ( with 8GB SSD ) and 12GB SD card. I want to Install Windows Vista on this SD card, but I can't find BIOS option to set FirstBoot from SD card ( Storage Expansion in Front of AA1 ).
    How I can boot from SD card ?
    Thanks Advance,

    p/s: Sorry for my English, I'm Vietnamese user :oops:
     
    xnohat, Oct 10, 2008
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    JimK

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    You can't boot from SD. You can boot from USB, but Windows doesn't like to install to USB. There's a fix for it, but I'm not sure what it is.
     
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    Not fully truth ;) I've been told of when I said the same... There is a way of booting from SD but you have to use GRUB loader to start from from there... There is couple of threads about it on this forum...

    viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4895
    viewtopic.php?f=44&t=3105
     
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    Possibly not a good idea unless you SD card is 233x or 300x. If not it will be very very very slow.

     
    PGH_One_User, Oct 10, 2008
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    DiSK

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    SD cards are rated by class, aren't they?

    Class 2, 4, and 6. Plus the SanDisk Extremes.
     
    DiSK, Oct 11, 2008
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