button_ripple Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Can anyone give me an idiots guide to making a bootable usb memory stick? I have tried a few things I found on Google but they don't seem to work!! Would prefer something free !
ICT_GUY Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 HP Drive Key Boot Utility - HP Business Support Center Will take a bootable image or Floppy and make your usb key bootable. 1
MatthewL Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Download the files here. The HP one makes it bootable and the other one is the Windows 98 boot disk files which I use. Use this for making mine bootable for using ghost. 1
petectid Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Can anyone give me an idiots guide to making a bootable usb memory stick? I have tried a few things I found on Google but they don't seem to work!! Would prefer something free ! Don't forget to set your bios, enable USB boot, you shouldn't have much trouble then? 1
Hightower Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 We use the HP tool, but our problem is the USB disk is only 1.44Mb. Is there anyway it can be made bootable yet keeping it at a decent size for extra files?
SteveLaw Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Anything in particular you want to boot? If you go for a Linux boot USB stick most of the distros that are set up for this (look to the small ones - DSL, Puppy, Slax or specialst ones like Parted Magic) make the stick bootable as part of the setup process.
Hightower Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Well, we're CC3 so its a CC3 build disk that we copy to USB. It works a treat, but would be handy if it was bigger than 1.44Mb so we could put more drivers on it/other software such as ghost.
somabc Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Unetbootin can build you a FreeDOS boot disk automatically. http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=167328 The current version has built-in support for automatically downloading and loading the following distributions, though installing other distributions is also supported: * Ubuntu (and official derivatives) o 6.06 LTS o 6.10 o 7.04 o 7.10 o 8.04 LTS o 8.10 o 9.04 o Daily CD Images * Debian o Stable/Etch o Testing/Lenny o Unstable/Sid * Linux Mint o 3.1 o 4.0 o 5-r1 o 6 * openSUSE o 10.2 o 10.3 o 11.0 o 11.1 o Factory * Arch Linux o 2007.08 * Damn Small Linux o 4.4 * SliTaz o Stable o Cooking * Puppy Linux o 4.00 * gNewSense o deltah-2.1 * FreeBSD o 6.3 o 7.0 * NetBSD o 4.0 * Fedora o 7 o 8 o 9 o 10 o Rawhide * PCLinuxOS o 2007 o 2008 * Sabayon Linux o 4-LiteMCE * Gentoo o 2007.0 o 2008.0 * MEPIS o SimplyMEPIS 8 o AntiX 8 * Zenwalk o 5.2 * Slax o 6 * Dreamlinux o 3.2 * Elive o Development * CentOS o 4 o 5 * Mandriva o 2007.1 o 2008.0 o 2008.1 * FaunOS o 0.5.4 * Frugalware Linux o Stable o Testing o Current UNetbootin can also be used to load various system utilities, including: * Parted Magic, a partition manager that can resize, repair, backup, and restore partitions. * Super Grub Disk, a boot utility that can restore and repair overwritten and misconfigured GRUB installs or directly boot various operating systems * Backtrack, a utility used for network analysis and penetration testing. * Ophcrack, a utility which can recover Windows passwords. * NTPasswd, a utility which can reset Windows passwords and edit the registry. * Gujin, a graphical bootloader that can also be used to boot various operating systems and media. * Smart Boot Manager (SBM), which can boot off CD-ROM and floppy drives on computers with a faulty BIOS. * FreeDOS, which can run BIOS flash and other legacy DOS utilities. Edited April 30, 2009 by somabc 1
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