Boot from USB Drive.

[Montek]

Can somehow boot from USB drive, and how?

 

[Juno]

go to bios and change the boot to usb?

 

[vailr]

There's a Hewlett-Packard utility for enabling USB drives to be bootable.
Do a Google search for it.

 

[Shimmishim]

here you go.

posted by an ocz rep

http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31878

 

[lopri]

I think this topic needs to be stickied.

 

[Montek]

But can i somehow boot if my bios does not support boot from USB devices?
E.G. Maybe there is some software i can write on floppy disk that will install some program that will actually allow booting from USB drive, i mean i need this not as boot disk, but for example to boot OS from USB or install OS from USB.

 

[covert24]

just burn the OS from the flash drive to a cd and be done with it.

 

[covert24]

just burn the OS from the flash drive to a cd and be done with it.

 

[Montek]

Problem that CD does not work, and its theorietical question, i need way to boot from USB.

 

[vailr]

Originally posted by: Montek
But can i somehow boot if my bios does not support boot from USB devices?
E.G. Maybe there is some software i can write on floppy disk that will install some program that will actually allow booting from USB drive, i mean i need this not as boot disk, but for example to boot OS from USB or install OS from USB.

That would be possible, but more complicated than having the bios directly support bootable USB.
Find a generic DOS USB driver (Google search)
Boot from the floppy to a DOS prompt.
Run the USB driver for the driver to be present in memory.
Run the Win98 file: smartdrv.exe (Google search).
On the USB drive, (where the i386 folder has already been copied from the WindowsXP install CD) run i386\winnt.exe (not winnt32.exe)
The Windows installer screen should then begin the install process.
Note: if the HD isn't already formatted, you'll need to format before installing Windows.

 

[bigpow]

easiest way is to use that HP USB formatter - vailr is the man

set to boot, use DOS image floating around the net (if u don't have a floppy drive anymore)

 

[simondedalus]

well i think this can help you .......
http://www.weethet.nl/english/...e_bootfromusbstick.php
for god's sake don't hail it as spam..

 

[simondedalus]

you have not informed if it is helpful or not.....