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O.P. How can I make my USB stick bootable?
Hi everyone,

I would like to know how can I make my USB stcik (2GB, Kingston DT1) bootable?

I want all the complete options in it like 'fdisk' 'format' etc etc when I try to boot from it..

also how to setup my motherbord to boot from USB? my board is Intel D945GNT
02-11-2007 10:49 AM
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RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
Have a look at booting with usb
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02-11-2007 10:54 AM
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O.P. RE: RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
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Have a look at booting with usb


It DOESNT say anything about 'How can I make my USB stick bootable?' or if my motherboard is capable of doing it?
02-11-2007 10:59 AM
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RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
How about you actually do some work for yourself? A quick Google search will tell you the answers for this.

As for if your motherboard supports it, you need to go in to the BIOS (Usually hitting Del, F2, F12, Escape or some other key when your computer is initially turned on - it may display a message like "To enter setup press Del") and see if in the booting options, USB is listed.

I don't have an Intel motherboard - and don't know what kind of BIOS it uses (probably Intel stuff) so I can't tell you where to look.

In regards to making it bootable, it depends on what you want to run off it - what do you want to run off it?
02-11-2007 11:08 AM
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O.P. RE: RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
How about you actually do some work for yourself? A quick Google search will tell you the answers for this.


I did just that before posting here :)

But did not found any SIMPLE solution to it... I am not much of a computer guy :p


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In regards to making it bootable, it depends on what you want to run off it - what do you want to run off it?


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02-11-2007 11:13 AM
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RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
As Chris explained, check your BIOS to actually see if your computer supports booting up from USB in the first place. If it is not, you can't.

If you can select the boot sequence in the BIOS and USB is listed there, then the only thing you need to do is format the USB stick like you would format a floppy disk (or HDD) and making it bootable (aka installing system files on it).
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02-11-2007 11:16 AM
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O.P. RE: RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
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As Chris explained, check your BIOS to actually see if your computer supports booting up from USB in the first place. If it is not, you can't.


Just did a restart, YES! it can boot from USB!

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If you can select the boot sequence in the BIOS and USB is listed there, then the only thing you need to do is format the USB stick like you would format a floppy disk (or HDD) and making it bootable (aka installing system files on it).

Well.... that is what I am trying to know how to make one?
02-11-2007 11:23 AM
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RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
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Well.... that is what I am trying to know how to make one?
Format your USB stick as you would format any other drive and tick "copy system files" or "make booteable" or whatever it is in English in the format dialog.

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O.P. RE: RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
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Format your USB stick as you would format any other drive and tick "copy system files" or "make booteable" or whatever it is in English in the format dialog.

There are those options but disabled, chk the attach picture of it :)

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02-11-2007 11:34 AM
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RE: How can I make my USB stick bootable?
http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php

Take a look at Option 2 about using a disk image to make your drive bootable.
02-11-2007 12:23 PM
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