You provide the laptop, we provide the heart of the system.
BOOT&GO is a Bootable USB SSD hard drive. It is a preconfigured, preloaded Windows10 installation with everything you need ready to rock and roll. Simply boot your laptop from the USB drive (instruction are provided) plug in your DiCE (or other supported cable) and get busy finding those faults!
On boot up some additional instructions are provided to get you going with your diagnostics as quickly and as effectively as possible.
As well as V1DA 2014D & V1DA 2015, BOOT&GO also contains VDash , Delphi , Haynes Pro, Vol-FCR and the 2014 Electronic Wiring Diagrams (EWD.)
BOOT&GO works on almost any Laptop and Mac (Macs from 2015 onwards) and is powered by your laptop’s USB. USB 3.0 is preferred but not required. Minimum 2GB of Ram is recommended, it can be used with any modern version of Windows. Windows 7 Home, Pro, Windows 8, Windows 10 – whichever you have. (You will be bypassing the internal HDD, so it really doesn’t matter what’s on there.)
BOOT&GO will boot to V1DA ready to run in about 1minute 15seconds on a USB 3.0 port or about 1min 45s on an older USB 2.0 laptop. In fact, on even a 10-year old Dell Latitude laptop with USB 2.0 ports the BOOT&GO boot time is 1min 45s, generally much faster than the laptop’s own hard drive. (Tech these days, pretty impressive stuff.)
Recently a few people have shown some confusion about BOOT&GO, asking if it plugs in in-between the DICE and the laptop. An understandable question… No, BOOT&GO plugs direct into a USB port on the laptop and DICE plugs into another USB port on the laptop.
Recommend minimum specifications for the Host computer
- Must be 64-bit system
- USB 2.0 (USB 3.0 preferred)
- Core2duo, i3 or equivalent processor (Core i5+ is even better)
- 2GB ram (4GB Ram preferred, but it will run on 2GB)
What is Boot and Go? Is it a cable, a lap top, a computer program? I do not understand. I bought a laptop with Vida on it and cannot make it work, two cables many drivers and tons of frustration later. I just want to diagnose my car, a 2001 Volvo XC70.. Does Boot and Go help with that? I cannot tell at all what it is from reading the above.
I would love to send this old laptop and cables and pay someone to make the stupid thing read my codes etc. I am highly computer literate and a mechanic on and off my entire life, I even worked at a Volvo dealer but this…… Any help would be greatly appreciated
Boot&Go is an external SSD. It has Win10, VIDA 2014D, vdash, and many other programs preinstalled on it. The idea is, you provide the laptop, and boot it from our external SSD, bypassing your internal. Install nothing onto your laptop. It is pretty slick. More info on the website about it. But another service we can offer is sending you an internal SSD for a laptop you have. Or you send us an SSD to setup and send back. E-mail: diaglaptops@gmail.com … for more info.