[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>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:00 PM
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>
>> 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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