[dba-Tech] make USB-stick bootable - 1st fail

Thank you, Jon,
wow, there they hide format options.
Now I formatted it w. NTFS and then ran the pe2usb without the -f, so it 
would not try to format it with FAT.
this worked for transfer, and it shows that it has MBR, but it won't boot, 
although I can set the bios to boot from it.
So now I'm installing WinXP on it.
curious whether that will work

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tydda Jon - Slough" <jon.tydda at lonza.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] make USB-stick bootable - 1st fail


> Hi Lembit
>
> If you go to Device Manager, then find the disk drive under "disk drives", 
> right click on it and go to properties, then choose the Policies tab, and 
> maksure that "Optimise for performance" is selected, rather than "optimise 
> for quick removal". That will let you format as NTFS.
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:55 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] make USB-stick bootable - 1st fail
>
> I have now gone through this exercise.
> everything was as expected, except for the last step, where the BartPE has 
> to be put on the stick with the command
>
> pe2usb -f d:
>
> here it tells me the stick is too big (it is 16 G) and it is FAT32 and it 
> cannot be formated to FAT or FAT16
>
> also, when I try to format it in explorer, it only allows FAT32
>
> now what? any idea?
>
> Lembit
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:21 PM
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>
>
>> Check this out - #2:  http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=931
>>
>> Rocky
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:00 AM
>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>> Subject: [dba-Tech] make USB-stick bootable
>>
>>
>> what's the easiest way to make an USB-stick bootable (to put WinXP on 
>> it)?
>> I have found a website which seems pretty complicated, using an HP
>> software
>> and pulling some files from a win server sp1 and cooking it all ... :) is
>> there some easier way?
>>
>> thank you
>> Lembit
>>
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