Booting from ESATA drive on Qosmio F50-10Z

Hi,
is it possible to boot from an external drive using the ESATA port?
I have BIOS 1.60 installed but I don't see an option for ESATA?
What about a USB drive? Laptop is a Qosmio F50-10Z
Thanks

I think its not possible to boot from eSATA. The BIOS must provide such functionality.
I never tried this but I think this is not possible.
As far as I know it must be possible to boot from an USB device.
The BIOS does support this so try it.

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