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Dipen01

Youngling
hi..

just purchased a 256 transcend Jetflash pendrive...had problem making it as a bootable and even couldnt apply password to it.. i mean i need a utility which asks password before accesing the pen drive....

i hope i was clear with my doubt...

BTW i got it for 1350 (2 yrs company warranty)..is it justified..or am in loss

thanx..
Dipen
 

saROMan

QA Juggler
Well try this soft ...

FlashBoot 1.3.0.124 (August 3, 2005) -

is a tool to create bootable USB disks, USB Flash Memory keys and cards mainly. With bootable USB Flash Memory key, you may boot every PC with USB ports, regardless of non-present or broken devices, because there's no need for any extra devices. You don't have a media size limit of 700 or 800 MB anymore, and buy a big or a small disk depending on your needs. Just after boot, on every PC, you may save your files to the same device from which you booted, or restore them back.
There's no need to reformat (reburn) the boot disk, you just copy files and folders, and there's no need for extra hardware for such operations. Of course you may do some things you can't do under your OS: copy/modify system files (they are busy when OS is running), reinstall OS, repartition your main hard disk etc.

FlashBoot - is a tool that makes USB disks bootable. It was specially designed to work with USB Flash devices. It is used to reformat flash disk (that's optional) and transfer system files to it.
You have many options for your choice:
- convert BartPE bootable CD-ROM to bootable USB disk.
- transfer DOS kernel only (you may get the files from installed Windows 9x, from Windows 9x setup folder, or use built-in FreeDOS).
- convert floppy disk to USB Flash disk (a diskette or an image file may be used).
- convert a bootable CD-ROM to USB Flash disk (again images are supported). There are some technical difficulties with supporting any type of CD-ROM here, see details below. But there should be no troubles with the most real cases. You may convert Knoppix and EBCD, for instance.
- create Windows NT/2000/XP password recovery disk.
- create disk with NT/2000/XP bootloader. It would be useful when you have mistakenly configured it, and boot.ini file was left on unreachable disk (NTFS).
- duplicate USB flash disk. Just creates a copy of existing disk USB flash disk, different sizes of source and destination medias are OK.
Types of convertible CD-ROM's include so-called 1.44-floppy emulation bootable CD-ROM's and no-emulation CD-ROM's based on ISOLinux.
FlashBoot is designed to be compatible with most of the BIOSes. Some of them require USB disk to be partitioned (USB-HDD mode), some of them require superfloppy format (USB-ZIP mode). You may choose disk format type between partitioned disk and superfloppy, when formatting your USB Flash disk with FlashBoot (if you choose to reformat). You may write the output to image file, transfer it to another PC and write it to physical device there (either with FlashBoot or with any other suitable tool, for example, with Linux dd command)...

Info here : *www.prime-expert.com/flashboot
 
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Dipen01

Dipen01

Youngling
lolzzz.. saroman u rock.. :wink: thanx a lot... BTW any utility with the help of which i can keep a password to my full disk or atleast a folder or partition...
 

infra_red_dude

Wire muncher!
well if you are using it under windows, then the CD which comes with the jetflash package contains that software alongwid windows98 drivers. install the security software from that CD (btw, if you are using the jetflash m, which doubles up as an mp3 player, then you'll hafta use a third-party folder protection software)
 

tuXian

In the zone
use knopperdisk the USB implementation of Knoppix - A bootable Linux Distro.

*knopperdisk.knopper.tk/
 
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Dipen01

Dipen01

Youngling
thanx a lot.... is this knoppix good i mean havent used linux earlier so are there any more options or this knoppix is enough and good...


any idea abt keeping password for disk or any folder in it.. coz that jetflash utility is confusing .. i mean am not able to implement it well...

pls letme know if there are other good utils for USB

thanx...
Dipen
 
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