Need to get Acer Aspire One to boot from SDHC

Don't ask how to hack password. (BIOS Passwords)
Post Reply
Th3_uN1Qu3
BIOS Rookie
Posts: 32
Joined: Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:47 am
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact:

To make a long story short, i have an Aspire One ZG5 that someone ripped the SSD ribbon out of, along with the better part of the connectors. It cannot be fixed even with a hot air rework station as the connectors melt, they probably used infrared or wave soldering on it.

I also have a 16GB SDHC card which the BIOS isn't aware of. Neither of the internal card readers nor a USB card reader (which boots fine in another laptop) will work. It will boot off a USB thumbdrive though. The BIOS is this. I need a way to run Windows from the SDHC card. Either make it boot straight off the card or use a small thumbdrive to run a bootloader that will boot the card. If you need any other info i have Ubuntu Netbook Remix running off a USB drive, and can provide any output you ask for.

Thanks in advance.
edwin
The Hardware Archivist
Posts: 6286
Joined: Wed Mar 20, 2002 7:11 pm
Location: Netherlands
Contact:

You can run Ubuntu from the card but you need to boot from the SSD or from a thumb-drive. More info here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=981951

Somehow I think Windows is not as versatile where it comes to booting from exotic devices...
edwin/evasive

Do not assume anything

System error, strike any user to continue...
Post Reply