Re: How to make an USB stick bootable / Which files + more do I need?

In article <42e68307$0$18010$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
svenCx@xxxxxxx (Sven Claasen) wrote:

> I have a bootable (!) CD-ROM with a couple of MS-DOS programs on it.
> Now I want to move all the stuff to an USB stick.
>
> However as far as I know not only the visible files are necessary to
boot from a CD-ROM but
> something like a boot entry in the CD MBR or something like that.
>
> How do I make an USB stick bootable? Yes, from the motherboards (BIOS)
view a boot from
> USB stick is possible in general.
>
> Sven

There are plenty of recipes out there for USB flash devices.
This is just the first one I looked at:

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=352906

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1676&page=2

Utility for preparing USB flash:
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/21284.html

Warning about (perhaps an earlier version of) the HP utility:
http://fuzzymunchkin.dyndns.org:8080/tdot/usbkeyfob/index.php

"I think you should know that the HP formatting util that rebuilds
the mbr on the fob is buggy and dangerous. I loaded it, pointed
it to my attached fob, and clicked format. It jumped drive
letters to an attached drive and wiped out the fat tables in an
instant. I believe it automatically jumps to whatever is the
first USB device drive letter. I was able to restore the data
thanks to a powerful utility I keep on hand for such disasters,
but others might not be so lucky. I'm don't blame you for this
happening one bit. I just suggest you add a warning to your
instructions to have no other usb attached storage devices other
than the fob for this step."

Terms I ran into: "MBR", "FAT", "active partition", "system files"

HTH,
Paul
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