Bootable usb drive

[mattgmann]

My only floppy drive kicked the bucket:bang head, and before traveling across town to find a new one, is there an easy way to make a USB drive bootable?

I tried it once before, but the program that was recommended didn't work with vista64.

Thanks

[redduc900]

Works w/ Vista x64...

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool Version 2.0.6
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

... then just point the program to the boot files contained within a WinME bootdisk:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

You might also want to give this program a try, although I've never used it...

HP Drive Key Boot Utility Version 7.41

... at the same link as above.

[mattgmann]

thanks for the help, but no luck. I used the app, and it seemed to work. But, no joy on booting. I think I had the right settings in the bios, but not 100%. I think I'm just going to go find a floppy drive....wherever they're sold these days. I'd still like to figure this out though for future reference.

[redduc900]

There's probably two different locations in the BIOS whereas the USB flash drive needs to be set as the first boot device, and first in the boot order / boot sequence (Hard Disk Boot Priority)... both normally under Advanced BIOS Features.

[mattgmann]

does it matter if i'm formatting to fat or fat32? I had a little trouble finding a good DOS disk image. I was using dos 6.22 at first, and am going to try dos 8.0 on a fat32 partition.

[mattgmann]

that did the trick. goodbye floppy drives:) was also able to cure the bad bios flash on both of my 4870s (sadly not the first time i've done this)