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USB flash drive with CD-ROM partition

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Goi

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Hi,

Are there any USB flash drives with CD-ROM partitions that can be re-sized/re-written to with an CD-ROM ISO image? I know U3 drives have CD-ROM partitions but I'm unsure whether it's possible to overwrite the CD-ROM partition with my own ISO image.

Thanks!
 
awesome question but why?

just use daemon tools.. or you want to boot off it with out the motherboard supporting usb boot? I had to bust out my usb dvd burner to get win 7 installed a netbook yesterday *usb booting didnt work with my usbwin7 thumb drive*
 
^This. Unless you want an OS on the drive in the form of an image, I can't think of any reason why you would want a special partition specifically designed to store ISOs.
 
Exactly. I want to put a Live-CD like partition on the drive to boot off of. Something like Knoppix or Bart PE, which means LUN0 needs to be CDFS. I assume this requires the USB controller firmware to have implemented this function. Just not sure if there are any off the shelf drives that support this.

How would you use daemon tools to achieve this?
 
Goi said:
Exactly. I want to put a Live-CD like partition on the drive to boot off of. Something like Knoppix or Bart PE, which means LUN0 needs to be CDFS. I assume this requires the USB controller firmware to have implemented this function. Just not sure if there are any off the shelf drives that support this.
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A lot of Live CD distributions are availble as or can be made into bootable USB drive versions as well. In particular Google suggests this pretty standard for Knoppix and can be done with Bart PE as well.
 
There are certain restrictions that require the use of a CD-ROM partition rather than a USB mass storage partition for this bootable drive.

So are there ways to accomplish this?
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
^This. Unless you want an OS on the drive in the form of an image, I can't think of any reason why you would want a special partition specifically designed to store ISOs.
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Because it would make booting CD images much easier. As it is you have to copy the contents of the image to the drive, and do some voodoo to make it "bootable" because apparently a computer is too dumb to be able to just boot from the damn drive!
 
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