Bootable USB stick from bootable floppy HOWTO

[darkhelmet03]

I have a bootbale 1.44MB floppy and want to load the information into a USB stick and render it bootable. How is this accomplished? Do you know of a good HOWTO or have done it yourselves before?

[w0qj]

Where's the usual helpful spirit on this forum?


I've actually gone ahead and downloaded teh program as per another fellow's advice on this forum:

"Go here and download the HP USB boot format tool. It worked for me!

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files ... 20306.html

This worked on a non-HP or DiskOnKey device. Also, didn't need a USB 2.0 for it, like the HP site says you need."



But you actually need to make a boot floppy disk first, and then point this HP utility program to this A: boot disk, before the HP program can make a USB stick bootable.

By the way:
a) not all USB sticks are bootable (my new 1 GB USB2 stick did boot, thankfully)
b) if your C: drive is NTFS, your computer cannot see the C: drive after obooting from USB stick.

good luck!

[MadeInJapan]

HP tool worked for me too!

[beerak]

By the way:
a) not all USB sticks are bootable (my new 1 GB USB2 stick did boot, thankfully)

Why please ? The interface is the same, there is not reason for this statement.