Comments on: How To Make Bootable USB

By: Quatalojh

Quatalojh — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:41:07 +0000

I purchased a SanDisk 16GB USB Flash and am attemping to load WinXP to it and make it a bootable WinXP environment. I am using a Win7, and have opened a command prompt. After remembering a few old dos commands such as (c: D: W: cd\ cd cd.. format) and so on.. I used the command prompt to format my USB W: to NTFS, using, FORMAT W: /FS:NTFS , which took about 3 hrs on the USB drive, and then I used Win7 Manager to copy the XinXP CD to my USB, All seem to work up to this point, so I restarted the computer as to boot from XPCD install disk which worked and proceeded to to Fresh install WinXP to my USB preserbing the new NTFS that I had just created. Setup seemed to wok fine allowing Setup to copy and extrct the files it needed, and then the system rebooted to allow the USB to load and continue to finish XP setup, however, after restart, the computer successfully sees the USB drive and attempts to boot XP setup but fails and hangs in a bluescreen of death. I believe I am on the right track, but now am upset and confused. AM I perhaps missing Bootsect.exe or NTLDR and if so how do I get them to my USB? And to make things worst, if I remove the USB drive and try to reboot system without USB, win7 is now saying that it is corrupt and will not load. HELP?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:32:48 +0000

@Antzman
It seems you are attempting to execute the command on a non-elevated prompt. Launch the Command Prompt with admin rights and then try executing the command.

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:22:40 +0000

it says setup is unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:20:31 +0000

never mind about my previous comment, figured it out, but ran into another problem, on booting and the installation page(collecting Information page really) where you select partitions, I deleted all and created one big partition and on clicking next it says the setup is unable to read/install on this partition or something like that…help fellas?

By: Antzman

Antzman — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:58:13 +0000

i get this…H:\>BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
access is denied.

Please HELP.

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:55:24 +0000

Can anyone get it to work in the following conditions, my OS on my desktop which Im using to create a bootable usb is a Win7 Ultimate 32bit, the disk I have with me is a 64bit version…HELP!!!! ASAP

By: ankitdixit

ankitdixit — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:56:15 +0000

i tried all the above steps and worked perfectly fine except the last step BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (H being my usb drive letter)
response from the cmd prmpt TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.
COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECTS:
ACCESS IS DENIED.

By: Sb Dewan

Sb Dewan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:35:23 +0000

bootsect.exe/nt60 this step doesnot work for me

By: fahad

fahad — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:16:34 +0000

May God bless you… One of the chronic problem of notebooks is solved by you… Thanks a lot dude!

By: Armand

Armand — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:40:17 +0000

there is one nasty mistake in guide wich made me a lot trbl.

D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

correct is D: CD BOOT
(space after D:)