Creating a bootable USB

Creating a bootable USB

December 22, 2008 in Computing
Written by: Dag Jonny Nedrelid

No more floppy? Need to boot with a clean MS DOS prompt? Use a USB flash drive. Or just want a bootable USB flash drive for installing windows?




HP provides a nice tool for creating a bootable USB drive. Here is a compressed zip archive with the tool and a clean set of dos boot files for you to use together with it.

- Update 12th of November 09
Just want a bootable USB?
If you only need to make the USB flash drive bootable in itself without any dos files – eg. for a Windows installation of some type – then WinToFlash is an excellent choice.

WinToFlash will format your drive so it becomes bootable for any windows installation, and it will even copy the installation files from a source to your drive for you if you want.

I used it recently to install Windows 7 on a laptop that had dvd issues.

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