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中国DOS联盟论坛 » DOS启动盘 & LOGO技术 （启动盘室） » Can a USB flash drive be used to boot instead of a floppy disk????????????? View 4,823　Replies 15
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Original Poster Posted 2003-08-18 00:00　·　 中国 河南 鹤壁 联通
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My floppy drive isn't very good
writing to it over and over, reading from it over and over
I can't stand it
I have a USB flash drive
Can I make it become A: when booting?
Floor 2 Posted 2003-08-18 00:00　·　 中国 山东 济宁 联通
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Your motherboard needs to support USB booting, then it will work. First use the SYS command to transfer the system files to the USB flash drive, then COPY the boot disk files from here to the USB flash drive.
Floor 3 Posted 2003-08-18 00:00　·　 中国 河南 鹤壁 联通
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The following is a quote from ZCCSD at 2003-8-18 11:45:52:
Your motherboard needs to support USB booting, then it will work. First use the SYS command to transfer the system files to the USB flash drive, then COPY the boot disk files from here to the USB flash drive.


The three points you mentioned
I don't understand any of them at all!!
Floor 4 Posted 2003-08-18 00:00　·　 中国 河南 鹤壁 联通
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There is no
usb--hdd
usb--zip
in the BIOS
Does that mean it just doesn't support it??????????????????
Floor 5 Posted 2003-08-18 00:00　·　 中国 广东 深圳 电信
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Explain it more clearly! Issue 15 of Computer Enthusiast talked about how to turn a USB flash drive into drive A:
I still can't understand it
Floor 6 Posted 2003-08-18 00:00　·　 中国 福建 福州 电信
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You need at least an 845D or newer motherboard to support USB flash drive booting, or you can try upgrading the BIOS yourself, maybe it will help.
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Floor 7 Posted 2003-08-18 00:00　·　 中国 吉林 吉林市 中移铁通
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If you're going to flash the BIOS, then you'd better use a floppy.
<- 刷新一下换个MM
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Floor 8 Posted 2003-08-18 00:00　·　 中国 湖南 长沙 电信
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The moderator should pick out the best boot disk.
Recommend it for everyone to use
Floor 9 Posted 2003-08-19 00:00　·　 中国 广东 广州 天河区 电信
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As long as the BIOS supports it, it's fine. My ASUS kt133a can do it too.
Floor 10 Posted 2003-08-19 00:00　·　 中国 湖南 长沙 电信
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Then what if my USB flash drive itself isn't bootable?
Floor 11 Posted 2003-08-20 00:00　·　 中国 广东 深圳 电信
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USB flash drives are definitely supported, the problem is you have to format it into the form of an A: drive, use the umsd tool to format it into FDD format. (If formatting under xp, please create the directory XP_Bootable under C Then go online and download a boot disk IMG, and use winimage to extract it to the USB flash drive (if you have a boot disk you can also copy it in from a floppy, but command.com and io.sys have to be copied first) ****haha ha, when you boot from it, it's a 128Mb floppy disk, haha)
Floor 12 Posted 2003-09-12 00:00　·　 中国 广东 深圳 南山区 电信
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USB flash drive boot:
1、Hardware support
2、BIOS support
3、USB Disk support
适合的，就是最好的！
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Floor 13 Posted 2003-09-12 00:00　·　 中国 北京 联通
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USB flash drive boot:
1. Hardware (motherboard) support
2. BIOS support
3. USB (USB flash drive) support
Floor 14 Posted 2003-09-13 00:00　·　 中国 江苏 苏州 电信
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Can a non-bootable USB flash drive work too? I haven't tried it, and where can I download umsd tool?
Floor 15 Posted 2003-09-13 00:00　·　 中国 江苏 苏州 电信
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Also, it seems my Patriot USB flash drive came with a tool of its own
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