Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Oct 16 10:55:27 CDT 2009
Hi Lembit: Have you looked at this forum: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10806&st=0 ...and check out the following... http://usb.smithtech.us/pe/instructions.htm ...or you could try something like: Try making it active using Diskpart instead of PEToUSB: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/26/using-diskpartexe-as-disk-managemen t-alternative-in-windows-vista-2000-2003-and-xp start -> run -> diskpart type "list disk" without the quotes and press enter. type "select disk n" without the quotes and press enter, where n is the disk number of the USB drive. do the same as above, but replace "disk" with "partition". type "active" without the quotes and press enter type "exit" without the quotes and press enter. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 6:09 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] make USB-stick bootable - statusl I have used the TechRepublic article by Greg Shulz "creating a bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP" that is: I have a PC which can be set in BIOS to boot from an USB flash drive I have a 16 GB USB stick the procedure in above article is: - extract the two files setupldr.bin and expand ramdisk.sy_ from the Windows Server 2003 SP1 - run Bart PE-builder 3.110a using above files - use PEbuilders pe2usb to transfer the files to the stick. issues: - pe2usb -f d: tries to format the stick as FAT for which the 16G stick is too big. - formating the stick to FAT32 and then using the above without -f (no format) does not succeed in transferring the files. - formatting the stick to NTFS allows the program to transfer the files, but the resulting stick does not boot (tried it on 2 different PCs) next: looking for a different method. Saw one that uses an HP utility to format the stick. Lembit _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com