Tomcheck Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 (edited) Hi, i've been working on a bootable USB Stick for weeks now and finally got a simple and working solution. First of all, there is a program with which i tried to reach my aim for a quite long term. It's called "Bootdisk2bootstick". I dont know whether it does work or not, but i didn't manage to create a bootable stick with it. Here's the working solution: First of all you need a USB Stick with lets say at least 64 MB, this program to emulate a floppy drive http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#download and this little tool, which will work not only with hp sticks but with every USB stick http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,...escription.html 1. Format your USB stick with fat 16 2. launch the floppy emulation program and emulate a virtual floppy drive and mount an empty 1.44 inch disk. -----> under the point "driver" click "manual", then "install" and "start". then switch to "drive0" choose a drive letter and a directory where to put the image -----> file. select "ram" and 1.44 inch disk. 3. right click on your floppy drive in windows explorer, click format, and then create a dos boot disk. 4. now install and open the HP utility ----->select your USB Stick and fat 16. also select "quick format" and "create a dos startup disk using dos system files located at"... and select your floppy drive here. 5. now press start and you should have a bootable ms dos boot stick. I aditionally downloaded drivers for my german keyboard, for mousesupport and NTFS, as well as the norton commander clone volkov commander. You may download some dos drivers and tools here: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/util_e.html If you want your dos to load some drivers or tools directly after booting, you have to copy the drivers contents on your created stick and create a textfile named autoexec.bat in the root directory of the stick. in this file you write the paths of the drivers .exe or .com files. For Example: Keyboarddriver\keyb.exe You can copy any content on your stick, until it is full. For example bios flash software, virus scan software and so on. I hope this works for you, too. It's much more comfortable than burning boot cds and much faster to boot up. Edited November 2, 2008 by Tomcheck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoffa Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Yeah thanks dude, just needed it for some work ! Works great :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dan Gouda Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Good and inventive suggestion! It worked also with mine! Thanx! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chupacabra Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 Hi there, Does anybody know if With this usb stick I can run the CRISIS RECOVER tool from Phoenix bios? I'm asking it because i'm planning to mod or edit my bios file to defeat the whitelist wireless card. If for some reason I get a bad CRC with the modded bios file, when flashed ,it will brick my laptop. When its bricked, the only way to recover the laptp is thru a USB Floppy disk drive, and a Phoenix bios Crisis recover tool, but i dont have it, but i have a usb stick, thats why i'm asking it. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teraphy Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 I always considered a bootable USB stick to be a floppy disk and a CD replacement. I don't know exactly how a modded BIOS for a wireless would brick the laptop, but I guess you have to think as long as the USB will be recognized after the laptop becomes bricked then it seems like there should be no issue. My two cents anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzpulp Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 All these steps aren't necessary. If you notice, the bulk of the steps are creating the necessary dos files. Instead, just follow the directions in this post: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....ost&p=42636 . You only need to look at steps 1-4. The link to the "HP USB formatter GUI" is dead so use this link instead: http://www.notebookforums.com/attachment.p...mp;d=1176485379 . If the Phoenix program runs in DOS then you should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 So far my lappie doesn't want to boot from USB stick - must see if it can be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 you have to go in bios and select your boot device to be usb at top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 No USB on the list so far. Just network, HD and optical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Gotcha - needed just another reset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exile1975 Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 on my machine i also have to enable "legacy usb device" to boot from a usb device. kinda odd but it might help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest helper96 Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 Here you can also afind a very good guide on creating a bootable USB flash drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aVatar Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 Rly Thx , i spent 6 h looking for the solution , everything else broken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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