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USB Boot Disk

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countymounty

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Jan 24, 2003
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What is the easiest way to boot off of a USB Memory stick. I would like to create a USB Boot disk including chkdsk and other disk tools onto a USB memory stick or flash drive whatever you want to call them. Is it possible & what is the easist way of doing that?

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1) Format your USB Key with FAT
2) Format a floppy disk in Windows XP with the "Create MS-DOS startup disk" switch

3) Download usb_format (You can get it here or do a google search for it.) Once you got it, run it, select

4) Create a DOS Bootable disk (using "DOS system files located at" your floppy drive)

There ya go... I wrote those for a friend about 6 or 8 months ago but that works.

Cheers
Rob
 
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You can use BartPE to boot to a USB key as well, I've never done it but from what I understand it is not nearly as easy.

Cheers
Rob
 
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