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Making a bootable USB drive with Win 98/ME dos

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 12:51 PM

Anyone know of a good tutorial on how to make a bootable USB drive from a bootable floppy disk?

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Posted 06 June 2008 - 03:36 PM

QUOTE (Solar @ Jun 6 2008, 01:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Anyone know of a good tutorial on how to make a bootable USB drive from a bootable floppy disk?

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Why don't you do one with linux? There's already one out there.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
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Posted 06 June 2008 - 05:03 PM

linux won't help for the situation i need to have done... i need to run a dos application at boot...
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Posted 06 June 2008 - 08:04 PM

You'll need a utility that will copy the boot sector of your floppy, http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/
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Posted 07 June 2008 - 02:06 AM

ahh i tried that one, it does a great job of ripping the boot sector but won't allow me to install it on a usb device... grrrr ..
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Posted 07 June 2008 - 05:16 AM

Try this link to PenDrive Downloads

They have a program Make_bootable.zip (465kb) I don't know if it can only be used for there drives or others but it's worth a try.

also here is a tutorial for doing it, listing 5 different method Boot From A USB Flash Drive

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