Portege R700-17Z bios not recognising USB devices

Hi,
I'm after some advice about a problem I'm having with my R700, I can't get the laptop to recognise USB hard drives at the boot stage. I'm trying to use Acronis to create an image as I have 40 of these laptops.
The USB CD rom drive is recognised, and so is a Corsair USB pen (which unfortunately isn't big enough), but I have three USB hard drives (a Freecom Tough Drive, Buffalo MiniStation and a Western Digital Passport) and none of them are recognised by the BIOS. USB legacy emulation is enabled.
Am I missing something?
Thanks, Karen

In the past many people have noticed the same problem. External HDD cannot be used as bootable device. Paolo is right, you can use USB stick, USB optical disc drives or old USB floppy disc drives.
In my opinion you should create recovery DVD using Acronis and use this disc for OS installation.

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