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    Question on creating a bootable usb drive

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by gman901, Aug 15, 2010.

  1. gman901

    gman901 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a 2 gb flash card that fits into usb stick which I want to use to flash my 256 SSD using the latest firmware from Dell. I was able to extract the files to the cleanly formatted usb drive, and set the boot order to be usb first. When I reboot with the usb drive in, the system just boots into Windows 7. What do I need to do to make the usb drive with the firmware on it bootable?
     
    gman901, Aug 15, 2010
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    danyune Notebook Evangelist

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    make it so it doesn't even use the hard drive i think
     
    danyune, Aug 15, 2010
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    Bushman87 Notebook Guru

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    You can use other more user friendly ways to do this. But I found this guide to be quite useful: How to Make/Create a Bootable USB Flash Disk Windows Vista Installer - UnlockForUs . The bootsect program is a couple of KB's and can be downloaded off the internet, or you can find it in the boot folder on your windows 7 (Vista bleh...:-D) cd or your image. I would say you need to know have an average level of using computers, but most of the instructions are shown quite well to you in the guide. So + rep the guide guy. :)
     
    Bushman87, Aug 16, 2010
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    Thermogenic Notebook Guru

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    There's a program called unetbootin that works like a charm. It's really made for Linux, but works with Windows 7 with no issues as well - just make sure that your disk is formatted NTFS.
     
    Thermogenic, Aug 17, 2010
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