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usb boot on 32gb stick?

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Jonathan1982

Junior Member
Hey guys,

I tried countless way to boot winpe or just a simple ghost.exe (from symantec ghost boot wizard) and each single time I get this :

Error 1962: No operating system found. Press any key to repeat boot sequence



At first I thought my usb *image* was bad.. But I tried it on a 2gb usb key and it worked like a charm!

So I thought it could be because my usb key is too big. Could it be my issue? Any idea what the problem is? I'm looking for a solution because I want to use the big usb key (using the 2gb keys isn't a viable solution for me)

thank you very much!
 
If you're trying to boot to a DOS version of Norton Ghost (or any other DOS utility for that matter), HP used to give away a free utility that would format a USB flash drive to FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS. You can download it from extremeoverclocking.com as Ver. 2.1.8.exe. This file contains the HP USB disk storage format tool HPUSBFW.exe, V2.1.8 which installs the Drive Key, the program that creates a bootable flash drive.

You will also need the required DOS boot files. You can download boot files for DOS 7 (Win 98), including COMMAND.COM, MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, a mouse driver, a CD-ROM driver, etc., from extremeoverclocking.com as win98boot.exe. You can also find boot files for this and other versions of DOS on bootdisk.com.
  1. Extract the files, and Install DriveKey.

  2. Place a copy of Command.com from the above extracted file in yet another folder under the folder where DriveKey is installed.

  3. Place the added files in a folder under the installed program folder required to do more than you'll need until you want to run DOS tasks that may require them.

  4. Place a copy of Mouse.Com in the same folder that contains only Command.Com.
When you run DriveKey, it will ask for the location of the boot files you want to use. For most DOS programs, all you will need is COMMAND.COM, MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS and a mouse driver. Directing the program to that folder will create the bootable drive with only these files.

I have used this utility to create bootable flash drives for DOS 6.22 and DOS 7. It didn't work with DR-DOS.

Softpedia.com has a newer version of the utility, ver. 2.23 that I have not yet tested. You can download it, here, as HPUSBDisk.exe.

Hope that helps. 🙂
 
thank you, I'll try it out tomorrow at work

but I doubt it will solve the issue because I used symantec's tool to do it. And on small usb keys it worked while it didn't on the big one..
 
Are you saying that a Symantec tool didn't work as intended? Shocking!

Sorry, I am not helping. I just had a bad day trying to get Symantec's crap to work, and I just couldn't resist.
 
I belive the boot drive size limit is 4Gig, I was trying to do this sometime back and came across simular problems.
As Harvey mentions it seems they have gotten around this limit or it just limits partition size.

I eneded up just making a bootable DOS6.2 cd that kicks in all the memory (EMS, Ramdrive and what ever else at that time) bells and whistles as I wanted my pendrive back for other things and jst filed the disk away for nestalgic reasons.

Who knows, It maybe the magic disk that dissables Skynet.
 
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