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Original Poster Posted 2007-08-02 09:16 ·  中国 上海 浦东新区 电信
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I have looked here for many times, wanting to find the method of making a bootable USB drive. Later I saw a post about making a bootable drive, tried it, but it didn't work.

Method: 1. Download mdos71bd.zip
2. Copy it to the USB drive, can't boot, carefully check, find that WINIMAGE software is needed, download winimage, install it well
3. Start winimage, select the removable disk G:
4. Select read into disk
5. Restart, prompt missing operating system. Ended in failure.

My system is xp sp2
My computer has no floppy drive.
Is there no way except finding a CD-ROM to boot?
Please help from the experts
Thanks a lot for such things
Floor 2 Posted 2007-08-02 15:30 ·  中国 山东 烟台 电信
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I also want to know
I also failed when I did it
Floor 3 Posted 2007-08-03 08:31 ·  中国 山东 烟台 电信
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Why hasn't it been solved?
Floor 4 Posted 2007-08-05 16:49 ·  中国 湖南 长沙 浏阳市 电信
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It can be done with usboot. I recently succeeded, but I don't know how to do many things. Let's exchange ideas when we have time. My QQ number is 254837518
Floor 5 Posted 2007-08-09 20:33 ·  中国 湖北 潜江 电信
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You can use software like USBBOOT to make a bootable disk. It's best to try several such software. There are many of them. Search online for "USB bootable disk" and you can find things like HP's and many others.
Floor 6 Posted 2007-08-10 11:37 ·  中国 上海 东方有线
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It depends on what kind of bootable disk you want to make. Generally, you can use USBOOT to make a bootable disk, but it can't load the CD-ROM and USB flash drive. If you want to make a powerful multi-functional DOS bootable disk, then there are many troubles. I used Shen Jie's MSDOS7.1 floppy disk version, and there were many problems on my USB flash drive. I contacted him personally and he said he didn't have time to modify it, sigh.
Floor 7 Posted 2007-08-11 10:44 ·  中国 广西 南宁 电信
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It should be no problem. I also use a USB flash drive to make a bootable disk.
Floor 8 Posted 2007-08-11 22:04 ·  中国 湖北 潜江 电信
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I think that if you want to use DOS, you need to learn more by yourself. It's not good to just use others' things. Moreover, U disks still have some things not unified in today's era. At least the boot of U disks is not unified. So in many cases, making a U disk boot disk needs to be modified by yourself according to the actual situation. Have you used my U disk system? You can give it a try. It's in the multimedia section. At least my system includes a lot of things. Maybe the software you want is in it. Please give it a try.

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Floor 9 Posted 2007-08-12 08:59 ·  中国 安徽 宿州 泗县 电信
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My MP3 can be made into a bootable disk with Usboot, supporting USB drives and optical drives.
Floor 10 Posted 2007-08-12 21:12 ·  中国 湖北 潜江 电信
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I have also made my mobile phone into a bootable USB flash drive, and there is a GEEXBOX installed in it, which means that media files on the computer can also be played on the mobile phone. It's very interesting.
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