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====USB Devices compatible with Puppy====

Below is a list of USB devices that are known to work in Puppy

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<th style="vertical-align: middle;" align="center"><b><font color="#0000ff">Worked as boot device</font></b></th>
<th style="vertical-align: middle;" align="center"><b><font color="#0000ff">Worked as home device</font></b></th>
<th style="vertical-align: middle;" align="center"><b><font color="#0000ff">Where it worked</font></b></th>
<th style="vertical-align: middle;" align="center"><b><font color="#0000ff">Where it didn't work</font></b></th>
<th style="vertical-align: middle;" align="center"><b><font color="#0000ff">Tested<br />With<br />Puppy<br />Version</font></b></th>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Apacer Steno 512MB</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes*</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Boots on all machines I have tried with usb boot, slower than CD on boot. Plenty of room for storage.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Works on all OS's I have tried.</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Apple iPod Shuffle, 1 GB Model<br />(Not for Music, but it's flash capabilities)</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes*</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Only tried it on one non USB bootable machine.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">*Not tested on bios that allows USB boot.</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Freecom USB Stick FM1 128Mb</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Boots both my Compaq tablet TC1000, and my Fujitsu P7010 with no problems.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Had to use the HP Utility to make it bootable, syslinux didn't work for some reason.</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Kingston Data Traveller 128MB and 256MB USB2.0 </b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Only tried on a few PC's so far. As long as the Bios supports USB Booting then no problem</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">?</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Lexar Jumpdrive 256MB, USB2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Booted on nearly every desktop system tried</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Failed to boot on only one, a homebuilt system using a Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra motherboard.</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Memorex Thumbdrive 512MB, USB2.0 </b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">No</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">?</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">?</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Memorex 1GB TravelDrive USB 2.0 Flash Drive</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Dell Inspiron 600m</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Booting 2.0 was quite slow, as was the first save, formatting the 512 meg filesystem file, but everything else was fine. 1.0.8 works great, though it takes a while to load the save file at boot and save it at shutdown.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">1.0.8<br>2.0 alpha</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>PNY Technologies, "Attache", 1GB, USB 2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">As home device, it has worked on every PC that I've tried it on.<br />Tested as a boot device on Toshiba Satellite 1135-S155.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">-</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">1.0.7<br />1.0.6</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>RedPearl 256MB, USB2.0 made by CnMemory</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Works with ASUS A7V400 mMotherboard - BIOS needs to boot as USB-HDD.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">This failed on a Dell Inspiron 5100 (SYSLINUX version identifier appeared but vmlinuz and image.gz did not load)</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>SanDisk Cruzer micro 512MB, USB2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes, syslinux 3.08</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Booted on every laptop & desktop system tried. Also works well with WakePup on PC's that can't boot from USB</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">-</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>SanDisk, cruzer micro, 1GB, USB 2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Recognized by Puppy</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Not tested as a boot device</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">1.0.7</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>SanDisk Cruzer mini 128MB, USB2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes, syslinux 3.08</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Booted on every laptop & desktop system tried. Also works well with WakePup on PC's that can't boot from USB</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">-</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>SanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB, USB2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes, syslinux 3.08</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Booted on every laptop & desktop system tried. Also works well with WakePup on PC's that can't boot from USB</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">-</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>SanDisk, cruzer mini, 1GB, USB 2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">As home device, it has worked on every PC that I've tried it on.<br />Tested as a boot device on Toshiba Satellite 1135-S155.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">-</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">1.0.7<br />1.0.6<br />1.0.5</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Seitec USB Bar 128MB USB 2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Only tried on a few PC's so far. </td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">AMD Socket 7 500Mhz. I have to find out what the motherboard is but BIOS was supposed to boot SCSI</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Super Talent 128MB, USB2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Has booted every desktop system tried so far.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Failed to boot a Dell notebook (sorry, don't know the model. Will try to find out.)</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Transcend JetFlash 256MB</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">No</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes*</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Does not boot on any system.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Boots on all tried so far with floppy, but you will need to try both WakeUSB and Wake2Pup floppies (search the forum), as sometimes one works and sometimes the other does. In order to mount in Puppy you will need to delete existing partitions and create new one(s), then format using Windows. </td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><b>Verbetim (Thumb Drive), 256MB, USB 2.0</b></td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes*</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">Yes</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">As home device, it has worked on every PC that I've tried it on.<br />* - Only tested with a boot floppy. Not tested on bios that allows USB boot.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">-</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;" align="center">1.0.6<br />1.0.5<br />1.0.4<br />1.0.3</td>
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==Also see==
~[[HowToDetectDevices]]
~[[USB3]]