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| Thread ID: 74434 | 2006-11-22 18:42:00 | USB HDD made bootable | zainka (11508) | Press F1 |
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| 501164 | 2006-11-22 18:42:00 | I have an external USB disk which I want to make bootable . First, please NOTE that, my motherboard does support booting from USB devices, also my usb hdd shows up in the "boot order" table if connected at power on, and I can select it if wanted, but it wont booot . Ahh, one more thing, partition 1 (FAT32) is also made active . Problem is . How can I make first partition a system partition while formatting??? Both win2k and WinXp lack this feature, Format command does no longer support the /S option (or it is hidden using another tag), and the sys cmd is not provided any longer either . Conclusion, Microsoft sucks, or, the feature is not needed anymore by their opinion . When using winHex to read usb hdd (physical access) I see that there is a MBR recorded with some boot code (i . e . not only the partition table and disk id), and also the VBR for partition1 does also contain some boot code (however, i do not have the neccessary scills needed to decode it) . I have tried to copy neccessary MSDOS 7 . 0 or 5 . 0 (both tried) files to root with no success, this most possible because the VBR is not set correctly according to these OS . From winhex I can see that one of the strings in the VBR botcode will if boot fails say that Ntldr is missing, which I thinks indicates that this VBR boot code expect a win2k/winxp OS . Thus, I beleive the problem is that the partition is not formatted correctly to be able to use a msdos operative system and thus it wont boot . For now i think that the mbr is correct . If anyone can help with advices or tools to format partition with system files correctly (ie . fix VBR to ask for MSDOS), I would be very happy . I have some PC programs on this HDD (will have, atleast) which I need to run in MSdos enviroment, and also, It needs to be portable to therefor an external usb disk . Thanks in advance Vidar (Z) |
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| 501165 | 2006-11-23 04:50:00 | I have an external USB disk which I want to make bootable . First, please NOTE that, my motherboard does support booting from USB devices, also my usb hdd shows up in the "boot order" table if connected at power on, and I can select it if wanted, but it wont booot . Ahh, one more thing, partition 1 (FAT32) is also made active . Problem is . How can I make first partition a system partition while formatting??? I have tried to copy neccessary MSDOS 7 . 0 or 5 . 0 (both tried) files to root with no success, I have some PC programs on this HDD (will have, atleast) which I need to run in MSdos enviroment, and also, It needs to be portable to therefor an external usb disk . DOS? Real DOS and USB don't work . So thats out . Just install Win98 (which then gives it an O/S which it wants) on it and boot into a commmand prompt then run your DOS apps . |
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| 501166 | 2006-11-23 04:58:00 | Check this link out. www.weethet.nl |
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