USB drive bootable?

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wizrulz

GUNNING DOWN TEAMS
spp_itim said:
Friends,
How to make an USB thumb drive bootable?

the main point is BIOS on the motherboard should support booting from one of its USB ports, then you can set up a bootable USB drive.

>>>>Directions
>Make the USB drive the first in the drive sequence.
>Boot the computer from the boot floppy/CD into the command prompt With the USB Drive plugged in.
>Run fdisk
>Use fdisk's "Set Active Partition" to set the primary partition on the USB Drive to ACTIVE.
>Exit fdisk.
>Reboot the computer from boot floppy/CD into the command prompt with the USB Drive plugged in.
>At the command prompt enter the following command: dir c:
>Format and copy the boot files to the primary partition.
>Run fdisk /mbr
>Restart the computer and choose booting from the USB Drive. If all goes well, you should see a C:> command prompt.
>Change the computer settings back to what they were before step # 1.

SOURCE:*ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html
 

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
And most pen drives comes with a bundled software, which can also format the pen drive and can also make it bootable!
My Transcend pen drive has the software, which is called "MFormat" ;)
 
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