Usb boot

[mischief_ash]

I've been trying to make my usb drive bootable.... but nothing works.
The method Raymond suggested in his blog does not seem to work with my pen drive. Its a kingston data traveller 2gb.

Everytime i try Raymond's method, my drive is locked and shows that the drive is corrupted. I have to format it to use it again...

Does anyone else have a similar problem?

[Raymond]

Which method?
Did you try using PLoP?
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/12/09/doing-the-impossible-boot-computer-from-usb-or-cdrom-even-if-bios-not-supported-using-plop/

[mischief_ash]

I don't think I can use the PLoP method until i can make my usb drive bootable.

And i was referring to this article of yours http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...rive-bootable/

Basically when i try to use the command "MKBT -x image1.bin k:" (k is my usb drive) I get strange output and the disk size changes to 0 bytes. I can no longer use my pen drive till i format it.

[Raymond]

May I know what are you trying to put in your USB drive?

[mischief_ash]

I tried with Windows XP cd and then the Kaspersky Rescue disk (made with BartPE). But both time it failed.

[shan]

i read some where that in order to make ur pen bootable u need to foramte it to FAT16.

[mischief_ash]

I'm not certain but i think i tried in both FAT16 and FAT32.

I'll try again in FAT16...

It doesn't work with FAT 16 or FAT 32...

And it seems others too have the same problem. I was going through some of the comments posted on the article i referred above.

Is there any other software (other than makeboot) that can write the required file to the usb drive.