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

Lembit Soobik lembit.dbamail at t-online.de
Thu Oct 15 09:39:23 CDT 2009


right now it has screwed up the winxp on the original HD.
it went through the install (from a slipstreamed winXP sp3 to the usbStick,
but at the second reboot it would not start win again.
not with or without the stick.
tells me now it is missing a filed named hal.dll in windows\system32
trying to get that with an Acronis boot disk

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max Wanadoo" <max.wanadoo at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] make USB-stick bootable - 1st fail


> Lembit, when you get this working, any chance of posting exactly how
> it is done. I would like to do this with XP and Vista and Win7
> (evenutally)
> max
>
>
> On 15/10/2009, Lembit Soobik <lembit.dbamail at t-online.de> wrote:
>> 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>
>> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
>> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>> 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>
>>> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
>>> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:21 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] make USB-stick bootable
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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