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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Booting a computer is most of the time a seamless task. However, bypassing the default OS is sometimes required in order to perform maintainance operations. To do so, resourcing to a boot disk is the common way to go. However, most modern laptops don't come with floppy drives at all! Thus, booting from a CD or from a USB pen drive seems like the obvious approach. Nevertheless, since ME that the MS OSes don't recognize the<br /> &gt; format X: /S<br /> command, thus it becomes hard to create a DOS bootable CD or pen drive.<br /> Hopefully, this wiki will help you to create quickly a DOS bootable usb pen drive.<br /> <br /> ==How-To==<br /> This is a How-To to create a bootable DOS USB drive.<br /> <br /> ===Prerequisites===<br /> *A windows 98 bootable floppy disk image ([http://www.nfist.ist.utl.pt/~guillaume/data_sources/boot98.zip here]),<br /> *Windows-based Format Utility for [http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html HP Drive Key or DiskOnKey USB Device],<br /> <br /> ===Procedure===<br /> *Plug in an empty USB pen drive (move previously its content to a safe place);<br /> *Extract the win98 boot disk's files to a folder;<br /> *Run the [http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html HP format utility];<br /> *From the menu<br /> **select the USB pen drive, <br /> **select the FAT(32) filesystem, <br /> **check the ''Create a DOS startup disk'' option, <br /> **and assign the folder the containing the win98 boot disk's files;<br /> *Format the USB pen drive;<br /> *And ''Voilá''!<br /> <br /> NOTE: You can get your own boot disk image for other MS OSes [http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml here]. You will also require the [http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm WinImage] tool and this [http://nightowl.radified.com/bootcd/Programs.html How-To].<br /> <br /> ==External References==<br /> *[http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html HP Drive Key or DiskOnKey USB Device],<br /> *[http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm WinImage],<br /> *[http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml Windows boot disk images],<br /> *[http://nightowl.radified.com/bootcd/Programs.html Tutorial from NightOwl] that inspired this article.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Windows]]<br /> [[Category:Tools]]<br /> [[Category:Hardware]]</div>

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