basic question re creating USB memeory stick boot

[RegEdit]

Got a PC here that has a failed CD drive. Want to run diagnostics from USB memory stick. Can I simply copy all of the files from my diagnostic boot CD over to a USB memory stick in order to boot from it?

 

[phaZed]

No, you will need to make the USB partition bootable.. I would recommend giving SARDU a try (Many use it here).

Additionally, you can check out:
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

to see a bunch of different methods including the manual method

 

[Xander]

Unetbootin is another one for putting ISOs onto a flash drive.

 

[grayfoxcomputing]

In order for the USB to boot to something, you need an ISO file of a bootable image. You didn't mention which tools you're using so I can't really specify a process.

Sardu lets you create a bootable disk if various ISO's that you download from within the program.

pendrivelinux.com has a few utilities (including links to Sardu) that allow you to create a bootable USB disk which will run one or several ISO images.

If you want to run Windows-based utilities from a bootable USB, I would suggest visiting UBCD4Win.com and downloading the utility. I use it a lot. It's still XP-based but it will run the typical tools (MBAM, SAS, Spybot, etc).

 

[RegEdit]

I tried the first method on this page http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm but it failed. The SARDU link required some registration to download so I am giving Unetbootin a shot. I used Img Burn to extract an ISO from my Hiren's boot CD. We'll see if this memory stick boots.....

Thanks for this info!

 

[Mr.Mike]

I tried the first method on this page http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm but it failed. The SARDU link required some registration to download so I am giving Unetbootin a shot. I used Img Burn to extract an ISO from my Hiren's boot CD. We'll see if this memory stick boots.....

Thanks for this info!

Let us know if it works.

 

[iisjman07]

I used a method Hak5 devised; they made a video tutorial on it