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| Thread ID: 94431 | 2008-10-29 02:21:00 | Help with software to make my flashdrive bootable | Aporosa (5671) | Press F1 |
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| 715665 | 2008-10-29 04:15:00 | No, its not an image, the inage is stored on the D partition. The Ghost boot disc, which containers the drivers, or the programmes that activates during the bootup, allowing you to copy the inage from the D to the C, or to make a copy of C and put it on D, is made up of 9 folders and one autorun file. SO I was told that if I want this autorun programme to run off a flash drive at bootup, the flash drive must be bootage, and that you have to actually load a special bit of software onto a flash drive to make it bootable. Mmmm, does that make sense?? | Aporosa (5671) | ||
| 715666 | 2008-10-29 04:28:00 | I would say what they mean by bootable is, it'll need files to boot into DOS . It wont boot into Windows . From the flash drive Unless you can manage to install Windows on it (within Windows first) The autorun . inf file, is probably for a CD . So, somehow, I dont think its going to work, unless you burn all of those files to a cd, then replace that cd, then boot from it |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 715667 | 2008-10-29 04:33:00 | I had a look at the CD and it contains NOT an image, but 9 folders and 1 autorun file. It is this "programme" that makes the image, or copies the image back from the D drive to the C drive. I was told that to get this "programme" to autorun at bootup, I must have a flash drive that is bootable, and supposedly you can get software off the net to do this. Unfortunatly in computing, everything sounds easy until you actually try it... | Aporosa (5671) | ||
| 715668 | 2008-10-29 04:35:00 | Well like I posted before, copy those files and the autorun.inf file to the flash drive, then reboot. Change the bootdisk to the flash drive, see if it boots | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 715669 | 2008-10-29 04:39:00 | Ok, will do it soon and let you know...... | Aporosa (5671) | ||
| 715670 | 2008-10-29 05:58:00 | Ok, I copied the files to the flash drive, I moved the flash drive to the top of the boot list in bios, and rebooted. The flashdrive flashed (that being the little light inside), there was a pause, and then a single line came across the top of the screen "no bootable portion in table". So, I reckon if I could make the falsh drive bootable (I have no idea how to do this), I could sort this beast.... what say you? | Aporosa (5671) | ||
| 715671 | 2008-10-29 06:12:00 | Open the autorun . inf file what does it say?? What file does it point to, so it can run? You may have to format the flash drive (did it come with any programs / utils)? Once you format it copy those folders and file back to it . Then see what happens Unless there's a file (from the files you copied) in the main root folder of the flash drive), I dont think it'll work . It'll need something to boot from (like an exe file or something), and it'll have to work in DOS |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 715672 | 2008-10-29 06:38:00 | Does the ghost program you have installed on the computer, not have a utility for making bootable CD's or floppy's? | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 715673 | 2008-10-29 06:54:00 | No, it doesnt. But I am currently downloading a programme that claims it will do it all, even put the files I need directly onto my flash drive. www.howtogeek.com will let you know. The instructions are all working fine so far..... either that or its melting my HDD. fingers crossed X | Aporosa (5671) | ||
| 715674 | 2008-10-29 08:01:00 | Ummm that may work but as it says its for Ubuntu / Linux. Linux and Windows, arent the same thing Windows files probably wont work in it |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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