i want to try something for the hell of it, and it required being able to boot into fdisk. however i dont have a floppy drive. Can i do it with a thumb drive?

[Edited on February 15, 2006 at 4:39 PM. Reason : i already googled it to no avail. this was easier.]

2/15/2006 4:36:40 PM

If your computer supports booting from USB drives then yes.

Take a thumb drive and use HP's USB disk storage format tool (google it).

It allows you to format a USB drive as a dos startup disk. So if you have a Dos boot disk with all your files already it can use that to format the drive.

2/15/2006 4:41:57 PM

WORD.. thanks

2/15/2006 4:43:17 PM

i guess ill just have to borrow a computer so i can use a floppy to get the boot files.

2/15/2006 6:17:55 PM

http://www.bootdisk.com

2/15/2006 6:23:24 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=377237&page=1#8093236

Quote :

"You need BIOS support to do it, and that's going to be a huge drawback on older systems. Of course, if the system doesn't come with a floppy with its default configuration, it most likely supports it. You can boot from a USB thumbdrive, but it also depends what you want to do with it afterwards. I've been having a hell of a time with getting Ghost to work properly booting off a USB Stick. Anyways, here's a starting point: http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=370137&page=1#7954876 Quote : "1) Download and Install the HP Flash Utility at http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html 2) Download WIN98 Non-Windows Based Image Files W/ImageApp: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm, extract the .img file from the zip 3) Download Virtual Floppy Drive from http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html, put the extracted img file as the “A” drive 4) Run the HP Flash Utility, FAT file system, Create a DOS disk, use files on virtual A drive 5) Change your USB drive letter to the “B” drive *Note, A or B drive in HP Flash Utility will NOT work, as Windows has some funky write-protection on those two drive letters. 6) Run the Ghost Boot Wizard, Standard, LPT/USB support, Use MS-DOS, Get MS-DOS, (Will automatically get files from virtual A drive), Next, Next, B Drive, Do Not Format, Next, Next, OK, OK, Finish 7) Go into the autoexec.bat file, replace the “if %config% == FROMFLPY goto FLPYBOOT” With “if %config% == FROMFLPY goto GHOSTFND”""

Change steps 6 and 7 to whatever you need to do.

[Edited on February 15, 2006 at 7:33 PM. Reason : .]

2/15/2006 7:32:40 PM