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/