USB drive bootable?

[spp_itim]

Friends,
How to make an USB thumb drive bootable?

[wizrulz]

Originally Posted by spp_itim

Friends,
How to make an USB thumb drive bootable?

the main point is BIOS on the motherboard should support booting from one of its USB ports, then you can set up a bootable USB drive.

>>>>Directions
>Make the USB drive the first in the drive sequence.
>Boot the computer from the boot floppy/CD into the command prompt With the USB Drive plugged in.
>Run fdisk
>Use fdisk's "Set Active Partition" to set the primary partition on the USB Drive to ACTIVE.
>Exit fdisk.
>Reboot the computer from boot floppy/CD into the command prompt with the USB Drive plugged in.
>At the command prompt enter the following command: dir c:
>Format and copy the boot files to the primary partition.
>Run fdisk /mbr
>Restart the computer and choose booting from the USB Drive. If all goes well, you should see a C:> command prompt.
>Change the computer settings back to what they were before step # 1.

SOURCE:http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html

[ax3]

checkout digit mag (december) pg 62 ............. 4 detailed solution .........

[spp_itim]

Thanks bro
It solved my prob. Even I did not follow the link u suggested.

[codename_romeo]

december issue has the detailed solution

[Vishal Gupta]

And most pen drives comes with a bundled software, which can also format the pen drive and can also make it bootable!
My Transcend pen drive has the software, which is called "MFormat"