Make a USB jump disk bootable

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I have a program that needs to run from a bootable, removeable drive. The
computer I need to run it on has no floppy. It can boot from a USB jump disk.
How do I get XP Pro to make a jump disk bootable?

Thanks for any input.
 
Jerry said:
XP Pro has nothing to do with it. Making it bootable is a BIOS option.
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I believe the OP is asking how to create a bootable jump drive not how to
boot from the jump drive
 
Well I followed the instructions at the colorado edu site and just wiped out
a hard disk...not sure why. I'll post this just as a warning to others.

I ran fdisk and thought I was telling it to create a new partition on my
thumb drive. When I heard the hard disk spinning instead I tried to stop it
but ...1 %...2%...
is enough to kill.

I setup the BIOS with my usb drive (removable) drive as the first boot
choice.
I had the usb in (per instructions) when I booted from my CDROM with an old
win98 CD. I was here:

3. Run fdisk
4. Use fdisk's "Set Active Partition" (option 2) to set the primary
partition on
the USB Drive to ACTIVE.
This step assumes that a primary partition already exists on the
USB Drive.
If this is not the case, use fdisk to create one. As noted in step
# 1, fdisk
will not allow for setting the the partition to ACTIVE unless the
drive the
partition is on is the FIRST in the drive sequence.

When option 2 didn't appear to do anything, started over by removing both my
hard disks, booting from CDROM, and then running fdisk. (removing the disks
so as to not accidentally write to the hard disks.) However fdisk wouldn't
run; complaining that no hard disks were found. So I put the hard disks back
in, started over and chose fdisk create partition-- I hoped on the usb drive.


The disk wiped out was disk1 - a grub bootloader, solaris 10x86 partition
scheme.
Windows XP x64 was on my second disk and wasn't hurt.

By the way, I'm needing a bootable thumb drive, because my Sun-U20
workstation has no floppy and the BIOS needed updating. A procedure which
requires running a "flash" script from a bootable floppy.
 
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