HOW TO MAKE USB BOOTABLE

First When My PC Became Slow And My DVD writer Gone Useless i was in a big trouble of formatting and installing windows xp  but than i got a idea to use windows xps ghost image to restored .....BUT

I had no recovery Image file and ghost requires floppy drive or cd rom to be used and i had none of them !!!

What to do than so i came to conclusion to make win xp ghost image on some other pc and use it on mine  BUT

another of those old BIG BUT here again that HOW TO RESTORE GHOST IMAGE WITHOUT BOOTiNG THROUGH CD OR FLOPPY??????

So i found this way to make my USB drive Bootable.. and gusess what  it uses only 1 to 2 MB disk space and REMAINS BOOTABLE even after formating..

Isn't that sound un Believable ?????

JUST A FEW REQUIREMENTS AS BELOW

1. HP FORMAT TOOL [Get it HERE]

2. NORTON GHOST  - DOS VERSION

3. USB DRIVE

4. PC WHICH SUPPORTS BOOTING FROM USB [ALMOST ALL NEW PCS DO SUPPORT]

JUST FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS WITH WATCHING THE VIDEO WITH IT


1. START WINDOWS ENABLER IT WILL SHOW ICON IN SYSTEM TRAY & INSTALL THE HP FORMAT TOOL..

2. CONNECT USB DRIVE  RIGHT CLICK ON IT AND SELECT FORMAT

3. NOW CLICK ON THE WINDOWS ENABLER ICON ON SYSTEM TRAY TO TURN IT ON

4. NOW ON FORMATE DRIVE PAGE SELECT QUICK FORMAT AND CREATE MS DOS START UP DISK

5. THAN FORMAT THE DRIVE

6. GO TO START -> SELECT RUN -> TYPE CMD IN THE RUN BOX & PRESS ENTER  COMMAND PROMPT WILL SHOW UP

7. TYPE IN FOLLOWING COMMANDS ONE BYE ONE AND PRESS ENTER

                    CD\

                    MKDIR C:\DOS

                    XCOPY G:\ C:\DOS /H

       
NOW CLOSE THE COMMAND PROMPT

8. START HP USB DISK FORMAT TOOL FROM DESKTOP SHORTCUT

9. GIVE VOLUME LABLE GHOST

10. SELECT QUICK FORMAT  AND  CREATE A DOS STARTUP DISK

11. SELECT USING DOS SYSTEM FILES LOCATED AT  ........  BROWSE TO THE FOLDER C:\DOS

12. START FORMATTING

13. WHEN FORMAT FINISHES CLOSE HP TOOL

14. NOW COPY THE GHOST.EXE FILE ON THE PEN DRIVE ITS DONE

EVEN AFTER FORMATTING YOUR PEN DRIVE IT WILL REMAIN BOOTABLE..

SO YOU CAN USE IT AS A BOOTABLE GHOST DEVICE AS WELL AS NORMAL STORAGE DEVICE IN DAY TO DAY PURPOSE...

15. NOW GO TO BIOS AT STARTUP AND ENABLE BOOT FROM USB DEVICE AND SET IT THE FIRST BOOT DEVICE

16. NOW BOOT FORM USB AND COMMAND PROMPT WILL COME JUST TYPE IN  GHOST AND PRESS ENTER THE NORTON GHOST WILL START



ENJOY...

GUIDE CREATED BY DR. MOMIN SOHIL