Comments on: Make a USB flash drive bootable

By: M

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:15:03 +0000

Well… USB sticks can be very large too. 16GB is common now. So, then 15,999 (rounded) will get lost in the process… :S
I know there are other utlities/methods, which don’t require a partition of just 1,44MB… Just can’t remember where/how i did that :(.

And, flashdrive or USB-drive – i don’t know why there should be any difference when using modern tools… It’s just a different drive letter. Technically, it shouldn’t be a problem – by far, most PC’s can boot now, from ANY USB-device.
Well, i think i just have to continue my search – i KNOW it exists :).

By: M

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:16:17 +0000

But, if i use the tool on my 120GB external drive, only 1.44MB remains… So i can’t use the utility to create a bootsector and keep the 120GB for images.
Is there a solution for that? (With this utilty.)

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:56:44 +0000

Hi, I’m also trying to boot DFT from a USB drive.
However no matter how I create it, I always get the “Non System-Disk…” error. The sticks boots fine but the image just won’t boot. Also the “bootable” images from the Hitachi download site refuse to boot and return the error.
Any suggestion?

Thanks
Mark

By: kthejoker

kthejoker — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:16:20 +0000

The value of persistence:

When I first ran the boot utility against a flash drive with stuff already on it, it wouldn’t let me create a “Floppy Image”, only the HP firmware flash device.

So after doing that, I went through these steps one more time, and it let me re-format the drive with the Floppy Image the second time without a hitch.

Not sure why it balked in the first place, but just FYI if someone is following these instructions and gets flummoxed like I did.

By: dennis

dennis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:39:58 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply !! I bet someone could make out well selling preconfigured bootable flash drives. I noticed globally, some seem to be for sale in China, but after a very brief search, I haven’t found any in the U.S. yet. Thanks again. – Dennis

By: dennis

dennis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:10:26 +0000

On page 2 of your instructions for making a bootable USB it says “Save the floppy image to a convenient location,”
I must be missing something here – how do save the floppy image? Where previous to that instruction is the mention of such an image? Thanks for your time – Dennis