Flash Drive Boot

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I teach at a high school having many older systems which use Windows 2000.
These systems are constantly in need of reformatting and reloading. Often,
the CD drives don't work. So, I'd like to be able to put Windows 2000 on a
USB flash drive and boot from the USB port. Is this possible and how do I do
it? Thanks!
 
Doubtful but it entirely depends on whether or not your hardware supports
this since no operating system is involved at this point.

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|I teach at a high school having many older systems which use Windows 2000.
| These systems are constantly in need of reformatting and reloading. Often,
| the CD drives don't work. So, I'd like to be able to put Windows 2000 on a
| USB flash drive and boot from the USB port. Is this possible and how do I
do
| it? Thanks!
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| Alex
 
A 'clarification' to my previous Post....I don't need to 'run' the operating
system from the flsh drive. All I want to do is get to the "Setup" for
Windows 2000 on the flash drive, so I can reload Win2000 onto the hard drive.
Can I 'see' the USB flash drive thru the BIOS...how do I get to it??
 
Same answer. Check the documentation for your hardware.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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|A 'clarification' to my previous Post....I don't need to 'run' the
operating
| system from the flsh drive. All I want to do is get to the "Setup" for
| Windows 2000 on the flash drive, so I can reload Win2000 onto the hard
drive.
| Can I 'see' the USB flash drive thru the BIOS...how do I get to it??
| --
| Alex
|
|
| "Alex" wrote:
|
| > I teach at a high school having many older systems which use Windows
2000.
| > These systems are constantly in need of reformatting and reloading.
Often,
| > the CD drives don't work. So, I'd like to be able to put Windows 2000 on
a
| > USB flash drive and boot from the USB port. Is this possible and how do
I do
| > it? Thanks!
| > --
| > Alex
 
Dave said:
Doubtful but it entirely depends on whether or not your hardware supports
this since no operating system is involved at this point.
Click to expand...
Are you saying that if your computer hardware supports "boot from USB
device", that is all that is needed? So if you can boot the Windows
setup program from the flash drive, then the rest of the installation
will go through without a problem? (Too bad Microsoft didn't arrange
things such that a Emergency Repair Disk could be stored on the same
flash disk!)
 
No, you'll also need to make the USB disk bootable. May be there's something
here.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| Are you saying that if your computer hardware supports "boot from USB
| device", that is all that is needed? So if you can boot the Windows
| setup program from the flash drive, then the rest of the installation
| will go through without a problem? (Too bad Microsoft didn't arrange
| things such that a Emergency Repair Disk could be stored on the same
| flash disk!)
 
Dave said:
No, you'll also need to make the USB disk bootable. May be there's something
here.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Click to expand...
The PE Builder site is very interesting but seems to concentrate on CD
versions. USB-Flash drive are different.

Isn't the "bootable" indicator just a bit in the partition table? If
so, it wouldn't depend on the medium as long as your computer can read
and write blocks like an ordinary disk.
 
Give this a go. let us know how you make out.

http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10806

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| The PE Builder site is very interesting but seems to concentrate on CD
| versions. USB-Flash drive are different.
|
| Isn't the "bootable" indicator just a bit in the partition table? If
| so, it wouldn't depend on the medium as long as your computer can read
| and write blocks like an ordinary disk.
 
Thanks for the hints, Dave and Stubby...I'll give the ideas a shot on Monday
and see how it goes.
 
You're welcome.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks for the hints, Dave and Stubby...I'll give the ideas a shot on
Monday
| and see how it goes.
| --
| Alex
 
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