Satellite A20: BIOS update to support USB booting

Hi,
Does anybody know if there's a BIOS version for a satellite A20 which supports booting from USB devices (other than from the floppy drive, since that's already supported)
The reason i need this is because my cd drive is bust. And i'm a student, so i can't afford a new internal one, but i do have an external one... So i want to use that one for the recovery process...
I don't know if i can ask this, but can't i somehow tweak the bios that it WILL support the external dvd-drive, i know this is not recommended, at all, but i'm really really desperate :(
Can someone help me?

Sorry but Mike has understand you very well. If you want to install OS using external USB connected CD/DVD drive you need the right driver because at booting process it is not visible for your system.
Please talk with your friends at the university. Any of them must have enough know-how how to do this. If possible try to obtain external USB FDD and create somewhere W98 start disk. Start your notebook using this disk and load MS-DOS driver for external CD/DVD drive. It must be somewhere on the net. After loading this MD-DOS driver the external drive should be visible for the system and you will have access to it to start recovery CD or Microsoft installations CD.
Other way you can remove HDD from your notebook and connect it as external to other PC. If possible create two partitions and copy I386 folder to second partition. Put it back and start notebook using W98 start disk. You should be able to access second partition and start installation from second partition.
As I said talk with your friends and I am pretty sure one of them will be able to help you.

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