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How
To Make A Pen drive/USB/Flash/Key Boot-able
Here is a post on how to make a Pen
drive/USB/Flash/Key Boot-able in easy ways here i have i have 6 methods to do
this task and is also boot-able to vista and 7 so here is these :-
THINGS YOU NEED TO CONSIDER IN ADVANCE
1. The PC has to support booting from a USB
flash/pen/key drive. There may be anywhere from 1-3 items to change in the BIOS
to make this possible assuming your BIOS supports it. Some bios's may refer to
your flash drive as a USB floppy or USB zip. Of course there are exceptions,
perhaps some are covered here.
2. The USB flash drive must support booting from it in general.
3. The flash drive must contain the boot/system files.
4. The flash drive must have bootsector area. This is done with special
utilities.
5. References to "A:" drive lines in the autoexec.bat and/or
config.sys files you copy to the drive after you make it bootable may result in
errors.
6. You "may" have to format your floppy disk first in WinXP before
you create a bootdisk as XP may "not" like working later on with a
disk formatted otherwise.
7. Included below is a bootable ISO of DOS 7.1 which may be used with some of
these methods if you do not have a 1.44 drive.
Method 1 :-
Make your flash drive bootable using Bart's
mkbt util:
Download pages http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/
| Alt: mkbt20.zip to Direct
download
Steps:-
Put a bootable floppy disk in your A: drive
or create one using Windows.
Download mkbt20.zip and unpack to to new temp folder you create.
Go to the temp folder.
Extract the bootsector from the bootable floppy disk. eg Open a DOS Window and
go to the directory where you extracted MKBT. Type:
mkbt -c a: bootsect.bin
The boot sectors from the bootable floppy
disk have just been saved to a file in the temp folder you created.
Format the flash drive in FAT or FAT16.
Copy the bootsector to the flash drive. Open
a DOS Window and go to the folder where you extracted MKBT. Type:
mkbt -x bootsect.bin Z:
"Z" represents the flash drive
drive Letter. So if your flash drive has another drive letter, then change the
"Z" accordingly.
Now you can [grin] "should" be able
to copy the utils you need to the pen drive.
Method 2 :-
Try these 2 USB Flash Drive Utilities by
HP/Compaq. They work with Most other brands of flash drives as well.
hpflash2.zip HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Formerly
called hpflash1.zip
HP Drive Key Boot Utility Version 7.41
Download
"I would put a little extra in there." Says a fan who emailed me with
no name:)
For the downloads section I use nLite to make and create the image file as you
can import the service packs and do some tweaking to the install files.
http://www.nliteos.com/download.html
Steps :-
1. Install the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and run the program.
2. Select the Device and the File system from the drop down menus and click
start.
3. Close the above program and install and run the HP Drive Key Boot Utility.
Selecting the appropriate drive letter. Click Next.
4.Select the circle on the top that says create New or Replace Existing
Configuration. Click Next.
5. Select the circle labeled Hard Drive. Click Next.
6. Select Create New Filesystem. Click Next.
7. Select the circle labeled HP Firmware Flash Package. Click Next.
Click Finish
Method 3 :-
Third Party Links
Boot off USB by floppy, CD, or NT boot menu when your
computer doesn't support it
"I use it to boot off of USB by floppy when the computer doesn't support
it - although in this mode it cannot save changes made to the setup." said
Josh.
Method 4 :-
A Bootdisk.Com Visitor Suggested
Here is my another method for creating dos bootable USB sticks using windows
format.
1. From Win98 DOS-Prompt type "SYS {USBDriveLetter}:" or "FORMAT
{USBDriveLetter} /U /S". If from WinXp then from start->run command.com
execute format.exe copied from win95 or win98.
OR
2. Simply by enabling copy system files in windows explorer format window. By
default it is disabled for non-floppy drives. To enable it use windows enabler
program from http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/speedload/Enabler.htm
an whoila it works.
Method 5 :-
Another Bootdisk.Com Fan Suggested - Thanks Keith
First if you don't have a physical floppy drive (and don't want one) you can
use the [free] "virtual floppy driver" from here:
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html
With that you get an A: drive and can manipulate a floppy image as if you were
using real floppy. You can then use that image to make a bootable CD. It's not
that user friendly but once you get how it works it does work perfectly.
Even cooler you can use a "raw write" utility like dd for windows to
write the floppy image directly to your USB thumb drive. Even without that
famous HP utility to do the magic this will make your USB thumb drive bootable.
The 'dd' ported to Windows is located here:
http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
Another trick you can use with that dd utility involves MS VritualPC (which is
free). You can create a virtual machine/virtual hard drive, set it up the way
you want then use dd to "raw write" the virtual hard drive image to
the thumb drive; this will make the thumb drive identical to the image,
including bootable (again, no HP utilities required).
Of course, your thumb drive will effectively have the capacity the size if the
image in question (your 1GB flash drive will effectively be 1.44 Megs).
Method 6 :-
Don Wrote below, or see this link from Justin:
http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345
bootable USB guide, here we assume that you are using either Vista or Windows 7
to create a bootable USB.
Steps :-
1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the
data from the USB as we are going to format the USB to make it as bootable.
2. Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this,
type in CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter.
Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories > right
click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the
following command:
DISKPART and hit enter.
LIST DISK and hit enter.
Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will
show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no
is Disk 1.
4. In this step you need to enter all the
below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self
explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do.
SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk
number)
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT
Don’t close the command prompt as we need to
execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.
5. Insert your Windows DVD in the optical
drive and note down the drive letter of the optical drive and USB media. Here I
use "D” as my optical (DVD) drive letter and "G” as my USB drive letter.
6. Go back to command prompt and execute the
following commands:
6.1. Change directory to the DVD’s boot
directory where bootsect lives:
d:
cd d:\boot
6.2. Use bootsect to set the USB as a
bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I’m assuming that your USB
flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer:
bootsect /nt60 g:
(Where "G” is your USB drive letter)
7. Copy Windows DVD contents to USB.
You are done with your bootable USB. You can
now use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on any computer that comes with USB
boot feature (most of the current motherboards support this feature).
Note that this bootable USB guide will not
work if you are trying to make a bootable USB on XP computer.
And you will use other software's to do this
task use google to find them.
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