Can I boot my F30 from an external floppy drive?

I use Norton Ghost to clone a copy of my harddrive on my PC for use in disaster recovery and it requires a m/c boot from a floppy hard drive when I use Ghost. I want to do the same on my F30 but have no idea if I can can configure the F30 to boot from an external floppy drive. If it is possible can somebody please tell me how to change the boot sequence as I have no experience whatsover of laptops. Many thanks.

Hello
I use Norton Ghost 2003 and I am very satisfied with it. It runs under windows and you can create image file on second partition or even create recovery DVD immediately without using floppy disc. I can just recommend it to you.
Back to your question: with your Qosmio model you can use floppy drive with follow part number PA3109U-3FDD. If I am remember well you can press U button just after switching the unit ON and the unit should boot using floppy drive as first booting device.

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