Utility to make USB flash drives bootable
Damien Stolarz,
Oct. 11, 2004 02:22 PM
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URL: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html...
I found a couple of links for creating bootable flash drives that I found useful.
How to boot from a USB device ... has good instructions, and this worked for me, and took about 20 minutes.
Then I found this utility:
HP bootable flash utility
And it worked for me as well, and took about a minute.
The cool thing is, the HP utility is reported to work with many other flash drives - I have a no-name USB 2.0 thumb drive, made it bootable with the HP utility on a 1.1 USB bus, and then used it to boot a Via EPIA-M2 computer by setting the BIOS to "boot from USB hard drive".
Although I'm quite comfortable with the command line and a 2 page FAQ, running a GUI and clicking "make bootable" sure speeds things up.
Damien Stolarz,
is an inventor who's made different kinds of computers talk to each other for a decade. He co-founded Blue Falcon Networks to architect and develop networking software. In 2002, Damien created Robotarmy, a high-technology consulting firm.
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USB Flash Disk
2007-05-30 01:27:25
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USB Flash Disk
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USB Flash Disk
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bootfiles
2005-12-24 01:40:42
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bootfiles
2005-12-24 01:58:24
menglis3
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Floppyless
2005-11-30 03:15:28
ice_berg_
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Floppyless
2005-12-01 11:24:24
EricFitchett
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Thanks Mr. Stolarz
2005-11-25 04:03:00
rubenrmz
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Thanks Mr. Stolarz
2006-01-26 05:55:39
holiday
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How make USB thumbdrive boot disk and Read\write to NTFS partition
2005-08-22 14:39:19
rezak
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Quick and easy - err well I thought so until I typed the directions...
2005-08-19 04:49:05
Frapster
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This works with *ANY* bootable disk/OS and possibly with any USB Device
2005-07-22 06:19:43
nakkii
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Transcend JetFlash 256 and DOS files
2005-07-14 11:38:36
toominator
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Using the HP software
2005-05-25 08:01:26
aawaitz
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Nogo on PNY
2005-05-12 02:42:44
Remmik
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Works with Sandisk
2005-03-18 01:19:51
theRentz
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Doesn't work with LEXAR 128 + VIA EPIA TC
2005-03-01 13:15:40
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Doesn't work with LEXAR 128 + VIA EPIA TC
2005-03-23 04:39:08
Dayman
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Fdisk may work
2005-03-17 14:34:18
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HP Software
2005-01-29 08:26:37
LanBoss
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Worked for me
2004-12-21 10:44:02
IguanaC64
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not HP only!
2004-10-12 15:05:19
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No dice...
2004-10-27 17:02:49
chillyman
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No dice...
2005-01-01 08:07:57
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HP only
2004-10-12 08:58:50
kschneid
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HP only
2005-09-04 15:36:13
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HP only
2006-01-28 18:26:28
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HP only
2005-10-10 03:20:22
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HP only
2005-09-11 20:39:57
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HP only
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HP only
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