How do you make a USB flash drive bootable?
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Thrax show us how in eight easy steps (well, maybe ten).
There are many tutorials out there, some to greater success than others, but Icrontic is here to give you the definitive answer
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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
You download them. Several common ones are linked at the end of the article.
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.
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
Is there a solution for that? (With this utilty.)
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 .
The HP app wont install, it has to be extracted.
It seems to have its own option for creating a virtual floppy disk, so VFD not needed anymore?
Either way your 'real' steps at the end don't include a reference to VFD, so why did I download it?
The image I need, DBAN, is an ISO now which this method doesn't seem to handle... It only looks for .img
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