Making a USB boot disk WITHOUT a floppy drive!

[Gillbot]

ok, i know it can be done but i can't remember how i did it. I need to make a usb boot disk so i can run memtest but i don't even own a floppy and i have zero blank cd's!

 

[WildHorse]

Why don't you read this and see if it gives you what you want.

Make sure your bios will let you boot from a thumb drive.

 

[Gillbot]

THANKS!

I'll read through that, give it a shot and report back my results!

 

[Gillbot]

Can't get it to work. For now I just want to make a simple 98 (or close to it) bootable USB drive I can toss Ghost.exe and Memtest.EXE onto. Why does that have to be so difficult!!!

 

[n7]

http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

That's what i used recently; works great.


Here's a link to it from HP directly: http://h50178.www5.hp.com/loca...vers/17550/SP27608.exe

I scanned that; it's clean; & it's the same installer.

 

[Gillbot]

Thanks n7, that's EXACTLY what I needed!

 

[archcommus]

Not sure if this would work, but if you have Vista, it provides a nearly fully functioning command prompt in the repair tools when you boot with the DVD. You could try running that, changing to the drive letter of the thumb drive, and then running your program from there.

 

[Gillbot]

Nope, XP only but the link n7 provided worked flawlessly!