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Rainbow and edwin, thanks for the suggestions.

I found no jumpers at all in the laptop anywhere. Good ideas though.
As far as read-only for the HD, if it's possible to do it in hardware without jumpers, then that is what I would want to do. Software wouldn't be good enough as that could be too ...

Normally it wouldn't be an issue, but in our application we need to be able to run with absolutely no working nonvolatile storage in the system. Basically, we want the system to lose all previous data when shutdown.

One thing I was thinking is that we could physically disable the hard drive. Like ...

Optimus wrote:When I remove the HD and boot the laptop, it can't see the HD.

I must have sounded like the stupidest person alive. I meant "When I remove the HD and boot the laptop, it can't see the CDROM."

Thanks for your response, edwin.

That's what I orginally thought might be the case, but when I go into the BIOS setup it says that no CD-ROM is installed. I changed the boot order anyway, since it is still available without the drives, but that didn't fix it. It even comes up with a "No Optical ...

My laptop is a Dell Latitude C810. I'm wanting to boot from a SLAX distro without a HD inserted. When I remove the HD and boot the laptop, it can't see the CDROM.

Generated by: BIOS Wizard 2.10

BIOS Manufacturer : Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A12 licensed to Dell
BIOS ID : Unknown
BIOS ...

I have a Dell Latitude C810 with an nVidia GeForce2 Go integrated video card.

I tried to backup the BIOS as you described, but when I opened it in the Phoenix BIOS Editor it came up as the ACER BIOS for which you gave a link instead of the DELL BIOS that it is. So I tried the same process using the ...