I have a laptop and no floopy diskette drive.

How can I make my USB the boot device?

I'd like to be able to use it to recovery/repair and to do other things like run memtest86 or Spinrite or other DOS based programs. I thought there was a way to boot into DOS without a floppy, but I can't remember where it's done by interupting normal boot procedures; I can't find it, so any help here would be nice too.

I was initially trying to run memtest86 and found a few pages of advice on how it's done. ere's what I ended up doing:

1. Formatted the USB drive

2. Used a HP USB Boot Utility to make the USB drive bootable and upload the image onto it. It supposedly even makes the USB act like a floppy...

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/23839.html

3. Changed my boot sequence to make the USB drive first.

Nothing worked. Other methods were so convoluted, but might have been possible if only I had a floppy because they required the extracted files to copy onto the USB. So HOW can you make your USB boot into

- MS-DOS command prompt
- other DOS applications from programs created by self extracting files that would normally go onto a floppy... basically turn it into the floppy?

Also is there any way to tell whether your USB supports having boot data onto it? I heard tis might be a problem as well...

CHEERS!

alot of people use this method
Boot From A USB Flash Drive