You can boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

Here is how I had success on the few I tried.

1. Start with the PC off.
2. Insert the pen drive to one of the USB ports.
3. Turn on the PC and go into the BIOS.
4. In the BIOS make sure to enable "Legacy USB" support.
5. In the Boot Sequence section of your BIOS you should have some USB boot devices listed. If not, save and exit. Reboot and go right back in to the BIOS. If it still does not list any USB devices in the boot order, you may be out of luck.
6. If you have a listing for "Boot other devices" or "Try other devices" make sure it is enabled.
7. In the boot order I set all devices to USB devices, (USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD, etc...,) Save and Reboot
8. If it didn't work, I changed the order, to try all the USB devices as the first boot device at least once.

Answered by Raksha , an ibibo Master, at 9:58 PM on August 05, 2008

boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

1) Before we can make a USB device bootable, we do need to get our hands on a bootable floppy. Open the Windows Explorer and right click the A: drive. Choose "Format..." from the upcoming popup menu. Check the option "Create an MS-DOS startup disk".

2) After creating this bootable floppy, we will now extract the bootsectors from this floppy using Bart's MKBT. Refer here to download: www.nu2.nu/mkbt/

Open a DOS Window and go to the directory where you extracted MKBT.

Type mkbt -c A: bootsect.bin (A: - floppy drive)

Once the command prompt returns, you will have a bootsector stored in the file "bootsect.bin".

3) Format the pendrive in the same format you formatted the floppy disk (which is FAT!).

4) Now in DOS command window,

Type mkbt -x bootsect.bin G:

Make SURE that you set the right drive letter here! G: is the pendrive letter in my system. Replace it accordingly.

5) Once the drive is bootable, it would be nice to have some essential files on it, for the computer to make sense. Copy all the files of the A: drive to the thumbdrive. Naturally the boot floppy used to extract the bootsectors from should be in that A: drive.

6) Now shutdown/restart your PC and go into the BIOS. Depending on the BIOS of your computer, you can set the USB stick as a boot device. (i.e. set as a first boot device). For more methods to create a bootable pendrive,

: www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Answered by Madhurima , an ibibo Master, at 1:03 PM on August 05, 2008

You can boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

Here is how I had success on the few I tried.

1. Start with the PC off.
2. Insert the pen drive to one of the USB ports.
3. Turn on the PC and go into the BIOS.
4. In the BIOS make sure to enable "Legacy USB" support.
5. In the Boot Sequence section of your BIOS you should have some USB boot devices listed. If not, save and exit. Reboot and go right back in to the BIOS. If it still does not list any USB devices in the boot order, you may be out of luck.
6. If you have a listing for "Boot other devices" or "Try other devices" make sure it is enabled.
7. In the boot order I set all devices to USB devices, (USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD, etc...,) Save and Reboot
8. If it didn't work, I changed the order, to try all the USB devices as the first boot device at least once.

Answered by Satya ~ , an ibibo Master, at 3:24 PM on August 01, 2008

You can boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

Here is how I had success on the few I tried.

1. Start with the PC off.
2. Insert the pen drive to one of the USB ports.
3. Turn on the PC and go into the BIOS.
4. In the BIOS make sure to enable "Legacy USB" support.
5. In the Boot Sequence section of your BIOS you should have some USB boot devices listed. If not, save and exit. Reboot and go right back in to the BIOS. If it still does not list any USB devices in the boot order, you may be out of luck.
6. If you have a listing for "Boot other devices" or "Try other devices" make sure it is enabled.
7. In the boot order I set all devices to USB devices, (USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD, etc...,) Save and Reboot
8. If it didn't work, I changed the order, to try all the USB devices as the first boot device at least once.

Answered by Yash , an ibibo Master, at 7:03 PM on July 31, 2008

You can boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

Here is how I had success on the few I tried.

1. Start with the PC off.
2. Insert the pen drive to one of the USB ports.
3. Turn on the PC and go into the BIOS.
4. In the BIOS make sure to enable "Legacy USB" support.
5. In the Boot Sequence section of your BIOS you should have some USB boot devices listed. If not, save and exit. Reboot and go right back in to the BIOS. If it still does not list any USB devices in the boot order, you may be out of luck.
6. If you have a listing for "Boot other devices" or "Try other devices" make sure it is enabled.
7. In the boot order I set all devices to USB devices, (USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD, etc...,) Save and Reboot
8. If it didn't work, I changed the order, to try all the USB devices as the first boot device at least once.

Answered by Hemant Singh , an ibibo Master, at 12:19 PM on July 28, 2008

You can boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

Here is how I had success on the few I tried.

1. Start with the PC off.
2. Insert the pen drive to one of the USB ports.
3. Turn on the PC and go into the BIOS.
4. In the BIOS make sure to enable "Legacy USB" support.
5. In the Boot Sequence section of your BIOS you should have some USB boot devices listed. If not, save and exit. Reboot and go right back in to the BIOS. If it still does not list any USB devices in the boot order, you may be out of luck.
6. If you have a listing for "Boot other devices" or "Try other devices" make sure it is enabled.
7. In the boot order I set all devices to USB devices, (USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD, etc...,) Save and Reboot
8. If it didn't work, I changed the order, to try all the USB devices as the first boot device at least once.

Answered by R.P. Singh , an ibibo Master, at 11:33 AM on July 28, 2008

You can boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

Here is how I had success on the few I tried.

1. Start with the PC off.
2. Insert the pen drive to one of the USB ports.
3. Turn on the PC and go into the BIOS.
4. In the BIOS make sure to enable "Legacy USB" support.
5. In the Boot Sequence section of your BIOS you should have some USB boot devices listed. If not, save and exit. Reboot and go right back in to the BIOS. If it still does not list any USB devices in the boot order, you may be out of luck.
6. If you have a listing for "Boot other devices" or "Try other devices" make sure it is enabled.
7. In the boot order I set all devices to USB devices, (USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD, etc...,) Save and Reboot
8. If it didn't work, I changed the order, to try all the USB devices as the first boot device at least once.

Answered by .... ..... , an ibibo Master, at 9:58 AM on July 28, 2008

You can boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

Here is how I had success on the few I tried.

1. Start with the PC off.
2. Insert the pen drive to one of the USB ports.
3. Turn on the PC and go into the BIOS.
4. In the BIOS make sure to enable "Legacy USB" support.
5. In the Boot Sequence section of your BIOS you should have some USB boot devices listed. If not, save and exit. Reboot and go right back in to the BIOS. If it still does not list any USB devices in the boot order, you may be out of luck.
6. If you have a listing for "Boot other devices" or "Try other devices" make sure it is enabled.
7. In the boot order I set all devices to USB devices, (USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD, etc...,) Save and Reboot
8. If it didn't work, I changed the order, to try all the USB devices as the first boot device at least once.

Answered by Rocky , an ibibo Master, at 1:52 PM on July 25, 2008

hi there

You can create Bootable Pendrive through Windows OS (XP) itself. Follow these steps:

1) Before we can make a USB device bootable, we do need to get our hands on a bootable floppy. Open the Windows Explorer and right click the A: drive. Choose "Format..." from the upcoming popup menu. Check the option "Create an MS-DOS startup disk".

2) After creating this bootable floppy, we will now extract the bootsectors from this floppy using Bart's MKBT. Refer here to download: www.nu2.nu/mkbt/

Open a DOS Window and go to the directory where you extracted MKBT.

Type mkbt -c A: bootsect.bin (A: - floppy drive)

Once the command prompt returns, you will have a bootsector stored in the file "bootsect.bin".

3) Format the pendrive in the same format you formatted the floppy disk (which is FAT!).

4) Now in DOS command window,

Type mkbt -x bootsect.bin G:

Make SURE that you set the right drive letter here! G: is the pendrive letter in my system. Replace it accordingly.

5) Once the drive is bootable, it would be nice to have some essential files on it, for the computer to make sense. Copy all the files of the A: drive to the thumbdrive. Naturally the boot floppy used to extract the bootsectors from should be in that A: drive.

6) Now shutdown/restart your PC and go into the BIOS. Depending on the BIOS of your computer, you can set the USB stick as a boot device. (i.e. set as a first boot device). For more methods to create a bootable pendrive,

: www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Answered by Reeta K , an ibibo Master, at 4:28 PM on July 23, 2008

You can boot using a pen drive on some mainboards. The BIOS must support Legacy USB, and it must be enabled. I have had success on a few different mainboards. The easiest way to make the pen drive bootable, is to install the drivers for the Pen Drive to a Win98 system. After Win98 sees your pen drive, you can open a command window and sys the pen drive or make a "system disk" from within Win98.

Here is how I had success on the few I tried.

1. Start with the PC off.
2. Insert the pen drive to one of the USB ports.
3. Turn on the PC and go into the BIOS.
4. In the BIOS make sure to enable "Legacy USB" support.
5. In the Boot Sequence section of your BIOS you should have some USB boot devices listed. If not, save and exit. Reboot and go right back in to the BIOS. If it still does not list any USB devices in the boot order, you may be out of luck.
6. If you have a listing for "Boot other devices" or "Try other devices" make sure it is enabled.
7. In the boot order I set all devices to USB devices, (USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD, etc...,) Save and Reboot
8. If it didn't work, I changed the order, to try all the USB devices as the first boot device at least once.

Answered by jaivir , an ibibo Master, at 6:34 PM on July 22, 2008