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They work with Most other brands of flash drives as well. Method 2 - Try these 2 USB Flash Drive Utilities by HP/Compaq. Method 1 - The fastest and easiest utility to create a bootable USB drive. References to 'A:' drive lines in the autoexec.bat and/or config.sys files you copy to the drive after you make it bootable may The flash drive must have bootsector area. The flash drive must contain the boot/system files.Ĥ. The USB flash drive must support booting from it in general.ģ. Some older bios's may refer to your flash drive as a USB floppy or USB zip.Ģ. There may be anywhere from 0-3 items to change in the BIOS to make this possible assuming your BIOS supports it.
The PC has to support booting from a USB flash/pen/key drive. Note that flash drives are often also called thumb drives, keychain drives, pendrives, etc.Ī FEW THINGS YOU NEED TO CONSIDER IN ADVANCE.ġ. For starters this is still a developing science and most people have had good luck with at least one of these methods.
