making a cruzer micro bootable in Windows XP

[abrand]

Is there a way to make a USB 2.0 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Micro bootable just like a hard disk ?

Thanks

 

[MrChad]

I believe this will depend on your motherboard.

 

[gaidin123]

Any usb key that shows up as a mass storage device (most of them) can be made bootable but as stated your motherboard must support booting from some form of usb device.

See my post in this thread
🙂

Gaidin

 

[LiLithTecH]

Originally posted by: abrand
Is there a way to make a USB 2.0 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Micro bootable just like a hard disk ?

Thanks

You certainly could not boot ANY Windows OS past Win3.11.

There are alot of *NIX options though.
Like this:

Flonix i-usb v1.2
Based on Damn Small Linux, with a GUI interface and requires only 64mb.

 

[silverpig]

Flashlinux is another one.

One thing to consider thoug: flash has a limited number of read/write cycles so special considerations have to be made.

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: LiLithTecH

Originally posted by: abrand
Is there a way to make a USB 2.0 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Micro bootable just like a hard disk ?

Thanks

You certainly could not boot ANY Windows OS past Win3.11.

There are alot of *NIX options though.
Like this:

Flonix i-usb v1.2
Based on Damn Small Linux, with a GUI interface and requires only 64mb.

If the FlashDrive is big enough, I don't see why you couldn't boot a stripped down version of Windows such as BartsPE. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/