creating a bootable USB flash drive

[Guest surface9]

I recently purchased a nifty 8 gig USB flash drive, and cloned it from

a minimal windows 2000 h/d so as to make it what I *thought* would be

a bootable USB drive. My PC allows for this option, and I did set it

to do that. I used the following command to create the USB drive:

xcopy e:\*.* f:\*.* /s/e/c/h/o/y, where E: is my H/D that has a

minimal windows 2000 on it, and F: is the 8 gig USB flash drive. The

copy took a while but finished OK, and I inspected it windows explorer

and it looks A-OK.

 

But when I try to boot from it, even before anything happens, I get a

black screen with a message saying something about a pariion table and

no boot sequence - what is wrong here? I can follow the same

procedure (xcopy ...) where my target is a brand new, but formatted h/

d, and it creates me a nice BOOTABLE h/d, cloned from my minimal win2k

h/d.

 

How do I get this USB drive to be BOOTABLE? Did I need another

step?

[Guest philo]

Re: creating a bootable USB flash drive

 

 

"surface9" <davsf@neto.com> wrote in message

news:dc1058c5-0c27-4af9-b67c-c5b1246d51a5@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

> I recently purchased a nifty 8 gig USB flash drive, and cloned it from

> a minimal windows 2000 h/d so as to make it what I *thought* would be

> a bootable USB drive. My PC allows for this option, and I did set it

> to do that. I used the following command to create the USB drive:

> xcopy e:\*.* f:\*.* /s/e/c/h/o/y, where E: is my H/D that has a

> minimal windows 2000 on it, and F: is the 8 gig USB flash drive. The

> copy took a while but finished OK, and I inspected it windows explorer

> and it looks A-OK.

>

> But when I try to boot from it, even before anything happens, I get a

> black screen with a message saying something about a pariion table and

> no boot sequence - what is wrong here? I can follow the same

> procedure (xcopy ...) where my target is a brand new, but formatted h/

> d, and it creates me a nice BOOTABLE h/d, cloned from my minimal win2k

> h/d.

>

> How do I get this USB drive to be BOOTABLE? Did I need another

> step?

 

 

Win2k does not support booting from a USB drive

though if you Google for it there have been some workarounds.

 

also: you cannot use xcopy you would need some cloning software

[Guest Steph]

Re: creating a bootable USB flash drive

 

"philo" <wrote> :

> "surface9" <davsf@neto.com> wrote in message

>> I recently purchased a nifty 8 gig USB flash drive, and cloned it

>> from a minimal windows 2000 h/d so as to make it what I *thought*

>> would be a bootable USB drive.

..... ...

>> But when I try to boot from it, even before anything happens, I

>> get a black screen with a message saying something about a

>> pariion table and no boot sequence - what is wrong here?

>> How do I get this USB drive to be BOOTABLE? Did I need another

>> step?

> Win2k does not support booting from a USB drive

> though if you Google for it there have been some workarounds.

 

Unsupported by MS. In addition, IMHO the OP shouldn't even try such

methods, because doing so will reduce the lifetime of the USB device

dramatically. This is due to essential assumptions MS Windows [as

opposed to certain non-Microsoft OSes] makes relative to its physical

boot device.

 

Regards

 

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Steph (no valid e-mail)