No.
The idea of an extensible BIOS has only occurred in the past 2 years. Well it was thought up long ago but it's taken years to get here.
I do use CloneZilla off a bootable CD that I can restore from an external USB drive but so far I don't see it worth the effort to put CloneZilla onto the bootable USB drive along with the backup image. I'm sure someone will try to do that.
Bob
I would like to be able to boot via USB but my bios options are as follows: 1st Boot Device - CD/DVD, 2nd Boot Device - main hard drive, 3rd Boot Device - [Disabled] The OS is Win XPsp3 generic computer with Intel board and cpu (circa 2002) What I want to be able to do is restore my operating system and all installed apps which I have cloned onto a USB thumb drive. This is to be used if the need should arise where I have to reformat my main hard drive. My Dell laptop boot sequence lists USB Storage Device as one of the boot sequences. Is there anyway to put USB device as an option into the Bios and if not how would I go about using the cloned thumb drive.

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