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    Bootable USB Flash Drive Made Easy

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by HEL80inVA, Jan 7, 2007.

  1. HEL80inVA

    HEL80inVA Newbie

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    I spent hours trying to make a bootable USB flash drive. I tried the suggestions posted in this forum as well as some tips from other sites, but nothing seemed to work.

    I stuck with my quest and came across the following link that made it very easy to create a bootable USB drive. The link is:

    http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/34/5

    I hope this helps others out.
     
    HEL80inVA, Jan 7, 2007
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  2. jetstar

    jetstar Notebook Deity

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    The article seems to be helpful. Thanks for sharing!
     
    jetstar, Jan 7, 2007
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  3. chrisyano

    chrisyano Hall Monitor NBR Reviewer

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    Thanks for sharing your findings. BTW, did you try the bootable CD method outlined in the sticky above?
     
    chrisyano, Jan 7, 2007
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  4. WarTowels

    WarTowels Notebook Consultant

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    Not working for me, I'm getting NTDLR Missing errors.

    Followed the instructions exactly as far as I know.

    -Towels
     
    WarTowels, Feb 25, 2008
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  5. Wirelessman

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    @HEL80inVA: It is actually much easier and simpler just to press F12 at booting and select booting from USB drive than to make the modifications in the current BIOS.

    Also I find that the link does a poor job giving details about the process of making the actual USB drive bootable with the DOS files and getting the actual flashing files in it, and how to execute the bat file.
     
    Wirelessman, Feb 25, 2008
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  6. WarTowels

    WarTowels Notebook Consultant

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    F12 dosen't seem to do anything.

    However, I had been pressing ESC. to choose which HDD to boot off of, and I choose my USB drive and that's how I'm getting the Missing NTDLR.

    Same goes if I set in my bios to boot from the USB key first.

    -Towels
     
    WarTowels, Feb 25, 2008
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  7. Wirelessman

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    The key could be different, in mine is F12, whatever key works is fine and easier than modifying the BIOS. When you made the USB bootable, which location did you get your DOS files from?

    What I'm trying to say is that you should not have gotten the system loading the NTDLR, the booting process should bring you directly to the DOS prompt.
     
    Wirelessman, Feb 25, 2008
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  8. WarTowels

    WarTowels Notebook Consultant

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    I followed these instruction:

    http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/34/5

    And used the files from there as well.

    System boots, shows my spash screen, and then I hold ESC to bring up the harddrive selection. Then it goes straight to Missing NTDLR, as if I had an unformatted hard drive I was attempting to boot off.

    -Towels
     
    WarTowels, Feb 25, 2008
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  9. Wirelessman

    Wirelessman Monkeymod

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    When you boot, what does the BIOS windows say at the very bottom?
     
    Wirelessman, Feb 25, 2008
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  10. WarTowels

    WarTowels Notebook Consultant

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    I'll let you know in a few, I have to disable my splash screen.

    EDIT: During where the splash screen normally is. Bios scans for USB drives, and locates both my external USB drive, and the Thumb USB Drive.

    EDIT2: I followed this guide: http://www.gamebeat.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1057

    Which failed also, but then I tried a different USB drive, and it works like a charm now.

    -Towels
     
    WarTowels, Feb 25, 2008
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