Kool Tool To Make Your Thumb Drive Bootable
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HP has a kool little utility to make your thumb drive into a bootable device. Download it here.
The utililty is designed to work with an HP product, but it works with others. I tested it on my older PNY 64Mb USB 1.1 Attache and also on a 512MB Kingston Data Traveler II+. Both worked fine.
You will need an MSDOS boot disk - Win98 is what I used - to provide the files for copying. Or you can make an MSDOS boot disk by formatting a floppy in WinXP. When you run the utility, it will ask you to tell it where to find the boot files.
Put all of your DOS-based command line utilities on there and you’re ready to go.
Ken works for Connective Computing providing network, desktop and info security support services to a wide range of clients.
4 Comments
Marlon-David Sias
April 3rd, 2007
at 5:09pm
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html The above link for the boot download does not work
Lloyd Welch
November 26th, 2007
at 10:12pm
404 OBJECT NOT FOUND did not help
electronixTech
February 15th, 2008
at 8:13pm
HP has updated their web pages and the new link to the utility can be found at this url http://preview.tinyurl.com/ywhobo which has been tinyed so it’s long length won’t break when linking.
Jim
Jeff
April 28th, 2008
at 1:14am
When you say “Put all of your DOS-based command line utilities on there and you’re ready to go ” , do you mean everything? Such as AutoExec etc: as well?