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#41 Guest_®®®_*

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Posted 27 December 2005 - 03:42 PM

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The only drawback, as mentioned, is that you have to flick a switch for FDD mode, but a small price to be able to boot from the stick, even if the memory is limited. (standard floppy drive)

Does this mean that with USB-FDD emulation mode enabled you're only allowed to put 1440KB data on the stick. Which would be a shame considering that my idea was to get rid of all old Floppy Disks and my customized BootCDs (heavily modified Bart's ModBoot) aka 100 MBs of tools ...

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#42 Guest_Peter JD_*

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Post icon Posted 10 January 2006 - 09:27 PM

Thank you for the great post!!!.... my stupid.... camera formated the 2gig SD stick down to 1 gig the HPUSBFW.EXE file did the format right back to the 2gig where it belongs. Thanks!!!

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#43 Guest_Kelly_*

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Posted 11 May 2006 - 04:45 AM

I bought by husband a no name USB flash drive at 4GB and it is not working.

On first use, the Flash drive worked fine.. then after one save.. the product became different.

Now the Flash Drive says it needs to be formatted and has a capcitity of 1024GB. I tried doing Disk Management Format.. which is did.. then I also tried a format tool from this thread.. it told me the drive volume was too large.

Im back where I started... a useless 4GB flash that registars at 1024GB and wont format??

any help???

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 12:37 PM

Kelly, on May 11 2006, 10:45 AM, said:

It is possible that it is one of the "fake" ones.
Expecially if it was a "bargain" or possibly bought on e-bay.
However if this is the case, you are "lucky", most of the fake ones are 64 Mb or 128 Mb.

See here for info on these fake ones:
http://www.everythingusb.com/forums/
http://www.everythin...hp?&forumid=109

To determine EXACTLY the capacity of your stick, apart from using a Hex/Disk editor, you can use this FREE utility to make a copy of the entire stick as a file on your hard disk:
http://www.roadkil.net/DiskImg.html

the size of the file will be the actual capacity of the stick, the following values are possible:
64 Mb stick -> 65.536.000 bytes
128 Mb stick -> 131.072.000 bytes
256 Mb stick -> 262.144.000 bytes
512 Mb stick -> 524.288.000 bytes
1 Gb Stick -> 1.048.576.000 bytes
2 Gb Stick -> 2.097.152.000 bytes
2 Gb Stick -> 4.194.304.000 bytes

See also my pages:
http://home.graffiti...SB/USBfaqs.html
http://home.graffiti...B/USBstick.html

And the 911CD forum:
http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?
for more utilities to format it.

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 03:41 PM

Guest_®®®_*, on Dec 27 2005, 09:42 PM, said:

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Yes. Unfortunately the FDD mode is exactly that, the emulation of a 1.44MB floppy drive within the flash ram drive so you can only get 1.44MB of data on it. The U320 mentioned has a switch for FD or HD mode. The FD mode is the 1.44MB partition and the HD mode is the whatever else bit, 128MB, 512MB, etc.

You could try what I've been playing with. I use the U320 in FD mode to boot with the USB drivers mentioned previous (ref computing.net) in this thread. Then plug a second USB stick in such as 1GB into another port and use that for tools etc.

Cheers,

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Posted 23 August 2006 - 06:51 AM

Found an updated HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool:
HPUSBFW v2.2.0 (fileversion says v2.1.9 though).

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Posted 13 September 2006 - 09:50 AM

Hi,

Very nice topic. Unfortunately i didn't found nothing regarding SD Memory Card.

I'm looking for how to boot from an SD Memory Card

In fact i configured my BIOS "First boot from" to "CardReader" and copy my Unattended WinXP to my SD Memory Card (4GB)... Tested, computer NOT boot.

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NB: This memory card reader is an internal reader NOT an external USB reader

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Posted 23 September 2006 - 09:53 AM

What kind of laptop are you using?
Try using Toshiba SD Card Format Tool available at Toshiba US download site...

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Posted 02 October 2006 - 05:31 PM

Hey, I'm running a Dell XPS M1710, and I've made a "boot disk" out of an SD Card. However, there doesn't seem to be an option to boot to the Card in the BIOS. Am I going to be unable to boot from my SD Card, or is there something I can do?

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Posted 03 October 2006 - 01:51 PM

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However, there doesn't seem to be an option to boot to the Card in the BIOS.

THen it likely will not work.

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 03:34 AM

For those of you BIOS flashing your Video grahpics cards, this is an essential tool to recover from a bad flash.
This works on a Dell Inspiron 9400/E1705 (as I have been through the bad flash)

Step one get a USB flash drive/key. size no matter I use a 4GB one.
Step two get this file HP USB formatter GUI. If you need the command line version grab it HERE.
Step three Now grab this file, dosw98 these are the boot files needed to make the USB drive bootable. Extract the files somewhere.
Step four Run the app HPUSBFW select FAT32, and select 'create DOS startup disk' and 'Using DOS system files to create it', point it to where you extracted the DOSWIN98 files from before.
This will format your USB drive and destroy any data on it, will also make it bootable by making it look like a hard drive (C:) and will boot before the main boot drive.
Step five Now grab 79x0bios extract this to the root directory of the USB flash drive.
This contains the original ROMs for the go7900GS, go7900GTX, go7950GTX and Quadro FX 2500M.

Now should your BIOS flash go bad you can now do this.
Step one Do not panic.... yet
Step two insert the USB flash drive in a USB port.
Step three reboot
Step four type this in after the usb flash drive LED's stop flashing nvflash -4 -5 -6 nvflash xxxxyyy.rom (xxxxyyyy = original ROM to flash to)
This will reflash the BIOS even though the video card is not working.
It does rely on that the machine still boots (no reason why it shouldn't)
Test the above methods before trying a BIOS flash just incase I made a blunder in my instructions.

I use the USB flash drive to hold all my modded BIOS and the other that were made by 5150_joker and Yolda.
It's a very handy thing to have.

For those that havn't got a USB flash drive have a look here for a VERY good guide on how to make a bootable CD

Feel free to add any comments and suggestions.

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Posted 14 November 2006 - 01:22 PM

Nice guide man...Newer guides needed to be made with the abscence of floppy drives in most computers...Wish this wasnt the case but the bootable usb will only boot before the HD if set as such in the bios (same with any bootable device used)...So everyone check your bios now...One of Hp's usb boot programs (they have 2 i know of) lets you select function your drive key as a harddrive and mapping it to C: in dos but the bios still sees it as a bootable usb...Good luck with your future vid card modding pieter
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 07:45 AM

®®®, on Jan 8 2005, 03:43 AM, said:

Currently i use the SWISSBIT Twist 256 MB USB2.0 (Hi-Speed) Drive with USB-FDD, USB-HDD, USB-ZIP Boot capabilities (Legacy supported BIOS). You can create 2 partitions with their tool (SecureLOCK, download HERE ), one can be "secured" and only be accessed with a given password, the other one can be written and read without passwort.

The link is not valid any longer. Neither is the one they printed on the manual that came with the Swissmemory USB memory stick I just bought, which did not have the software loaded on it, despite the fact that the box and manual both say it is there.

Can you send me the software directly to me at "s w i s s m e m o r y (nospam) @ b r u t e f o r c e t e c h . c o m" (remove the extra spaces and the "(nospam)") or provide a link to somewhere I can download it from you? I would very much appreciate it.

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Posted 15 July 2007 - 08:46 AM

Hi everyone....

Ya'll seem to knw a few interesting links :thumbsup:

I hav a 512mb "axiz" mp3 player/flash disk...

the filesystem is corrupt,it's write protecting itself !

i can't format it! :unbelievable:

is there any software that could maybe help me sort this out?????
:interesting:

any suggestions,PLS email me!

blademaster39@gmail.com

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Posted 02 October 2007 - 09:29 AM

hello all,
i found this interesting thread, but i m still a bit confuse here is my prob:

i have a toshiba 5200 satellite
i got i cannot straightly use my pen drive to boot,
what's the quickest way to make run my os from my pen drive on this laptop?

i got lost reading about formattin, about dos configuring etc...if someone simply wirte me down step by step what i ve to do to make it work.

thank's all.

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Posted 02 October 2007 - 10:44 AM

It seems that it's not possible due to incorrect USB boot capabilities of 5200 series BIOS. Like i posted in the first post it's possible to boot from USB connected Floppy Drive, but any kind of USB flash drives doesn't work. Haven't found a simple solution yet

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Posted 03 October 2007 - 08:04 AM

hello,
thanks' for the reply, i read somewhere there is some dos boot cd u can use to load usb driver and later boot from the usb driver no matter on the machine limitation...but honestely i m not that techy to get it...

acrtually my prob is the hd of the laptop is broken but i wanted use the laptop to view movie etc, i have a usb hd and pendrive, i m in need to find an os loading from the cd (if no usb is possible) able to play movies and mp3 and image...
any suggestions?

thanks for the attention.

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Posted 03 October 2007 - 12:07 PM

USB HDs are also not supported by the BIOS of the 5000 series. No USB-CD, no USB flash, no USB everything. Except USB Floppy Drive. I know it sucks and that's why i complained years ago a couple of times to Toshiba Support... but they are not willing to fix it.
i don't have solution except rplace your original HD with a Hitachi 7K60 or higher (pay attention to 7200 rpm)

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Posted 08 October 2007 - 12:35 AM

hello.
i got a solution.

i found a bootable linux distr working perfectely, in add if u want boot from usb and not cd they offer a mini cd boot loading for u the usb and letting u boot from usb later on.
http://www.slax.org/download.php

in personal situatioon i was looking for an easy way to have a multimedia station out of my laptop with the dead hd, without have to load a fully os and i found this one wich boot from cd and is so quick and small and work greatly:
http://www.geexbox.o.../downloads.html

in both cases i didn't had to set anything at first and everithgin was working, for sure with module etc u can find more drivers etc for better hardware tuning

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#60 Guest_Guest_*

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Posted 19 March 2008 - 10:38 PM

Ive bought a U320 (this supports CDrom emulation not fdd emu)

only problem is, you cant write to the cdrom after formatting and it uses a standard win 98 bootdisk image.

You can open format_dll.dll with resource hacker etc and replace the files, but its very time consuming finding out which resource is which file etc.

dont suppose anyones heard of a tool to write to this device in cd emulation mode?