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RJK
Ages ago I made an old 256mb USB pen drive bootable, using HP's
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...=us&mode=3&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839
....( I think that was the utility )
"HP Drive Key Boot Utility"
....and used a 1.44mb floppy whose contents got placed onto the pen-drive,
and then I could boot from the USB pen drive, and run the dos *.exe prog's
that I'd put on it as wel,l of course.
Recently I've been trying to do the same sort of thing,
i.e. (XP Home ed. BTW) ...formatted a 1.44mb diskette as a boot-up floppy |
copied memtest's mt200.exe (precompiled *.exe), onto it
.....and used the HP utility - and fine ...I've got a bootable USB pen-drive,
and memtest is running.
My question is, on a PC with XP Home ed. running, when I plug in the USB
drive, two drive letters appear for it :-
B:\ and H:\
...H:\ being the next available drive letter on that system box, and B:\ I
guess is to do with ancient stuff where A:\ and B:\ are the same drive
unless two floppy drives are installed. ( My first PC had two 360k 5 1/4"
floopy drives and no hard disk ! )
....on the pen drive B:\ is 1mb in size, and H:\ is 1.44mb (which is the
bootable floppy image I suppose).
Have I got something wrong somwhere, having ended up with two drives on the
pen-drive ?
....and if so, how do I delete them i.e. repartition it etc ?
TIA
regards, Richard
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...=us&mode=3&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839
....( I think that was the utility )
"HP Drive Key Boot Utility"
....and used a 1.44mb floppy whose contents got placed onto the pen-drive,
and then I could boot from the USB pen drive, and run the dos *.exe prog's
that I'd put on it as wel,l of course.
Recently I've been trying to do the same sort of thing,
i.e. (XP Home ed. BTW) ...formatted a 1.44mb diskette as a boot-up floppy |
copied memtest's mt200.exe (precompiled *.exe), onto it
.....and used the HP utility - and fine ...I've got a bootable USB pen-drive,
and memtest is running.
My question is, on a PC with XP Home ed. running, when I plug in the USB
drive, two drive letters appear for it :-
B:\ and H:\
...H:\ being the next available drive letter on that system box, and B:\ I
guess is to do with ancient stuff where A:\ and B:\ are the same drive
unless two floppy drives are installed. ( My first PC had two 360k 5 1/4"
floopy drives and no hard disk ! )
....on the pen drive B:\ is 1mb in size, and H:\ is 1.44mb (which is the
bootable floppy image I suppose).
Have I got something wrong somwhere, having ended up with two drives on the
pen-drive ?
....and if so, how do I delete them i.e. repartition it etc ?
TIA
regards, Richard