Trying to make Flash drive bootable

[mhaff]

I just purchased a 2gb Corsair Flash Voyager flash drive. It is sweet. File transfer speed is great. However, it came with a utility that is supposed to make it bootable. However, when running the utility it asks me to stick a boot disk in so it can copy the command.com file and the io.sys file. I have yet to see what it will ask for after that. The problem is this. I don't have a boot disk. The manual says that if you are running Windows 2k or XP you need to insert a Win98 boot disk in the floppy drive. Ok, can you see where I'm going here. I haven't had Win98 at home or work for at least 2 years. Also, I am on a new laptop, how many new laptops have floppy drives? That's kinda the point of the flash drive. Craziness aside, can anyone direct me to a location where I can get the command.com and io.sys files? Thanks.

 

[BIS]

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

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[garebo]

bootdisk.com is the place for what you want.
You can also have me or someone else send you what you want via usendit.com. You can use usendit free and they allow you to send files up to one gig. All you have to do is zip the folder and send it to the receivers email addy.
Simple as that, i use it a lot.


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[mhaff]

Thanks for your assistance. I tried that first. However, I've downloaded 3 different files now and they all seem to want to create a floppy boot. Is there something that I am missing?

 

[smah]

Generally speaking, a traditional boot disk will be a floppy. Let it create the floppy, then copy whatever you need to the flash drive.

 

[BionicJohn]

they all seem to want to create a floppy boot. Is there something that I am missing?

Are you saying you don't have floppy drive at all, not even a USB one?

If that's the case, then you're going to have to create the boot floppy on another PC, and then run the Flash Drive Boot Utility from a USB Port on the PC with the FDD.

It can be done without the Flash Drive Boot Utility, but it's not too strightforward, requiring the system be booted from a FDD or CD-ROM and the HDD is disabled so that the BIOS treats the USB drive the only bootable hard drive.

http://support.gateway.com/s/USB/5502664/5502664faq18.shtml

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[eyec]

my flash drive (psion?) has a small utility that makes it bootable also. however, in the instructions it tells you to change your bios to allow it to boot from the flash drive as a "floppy".

if you do not have a floppy it should (on XP & w2K) default to the flash draive as a floppy device.

try it on your and see what happens.