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中国DOS联盟论坛 » DOS启动盘 & LOGO技术（启动盘室） » Suggestion: make a boot disk like this View 736　Replies 5

Original Poster Posted 2004-05-06 00:00　·　中国湖北荆州电信

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Now USB flash drives are everywhere, and motherboards support booting from USB too, so could a boot disk be made for USB flash drives?
The advantage is that the capacity is much larger than a floppy, so it can hold more stuff and it’s not as easy to break.
The current ones are all 1.4MB in size. I think even making it 10MB would be fine... my USB flash drive is 64MB.
What I did was first install the admin’s boot disk onto a floppy, then use a USB flash drive utility to make the USB flash drive bootable.
Then I copied the files from the floppy onto the USB flash drive, and added some software I needed myself.
I think if you people made one, it definitely wouldn’t be like this — you would surely make an even better and more powerful boot disk.
I’m looking forward to it....

Floor 2 Posted 2004-05-07 00:00　·　中国黑龙江哈尔滨联通

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Then I suggest you put 51's boot disk onto a USB flash drive!

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Floor 3 Posted 2004-05-09 00:00　·　中国福建福州电信

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Yeah, yeah, support

Floor 4 Posted 2004-05-10 00:00　·　中国重庆江北区电信

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Could a boot disk collection be made for USB flash drives?

Floor 5 Posted 2004-05-11 00:00　·　中国上海静安区电信

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USB flash drives are very slow. I put that 17mb compressed win98 on my USB flash drive; not counting boot time, just extracting it from the USB flash drive into the RAM virtual hard disk took me two cigarettes...

Floor 6 Posted 2004-05-11 00:00　·　中国福建厦门电信

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It would be even better if a boot disk could be made just for booting external hard drives. Thanks.

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