[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

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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
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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

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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-----
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>
> 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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