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you are an angel!! i'll wait for that tutorial!

sorry, to be clear, both options were OFF (startup disk and quick format) sorry again, i don't understand, so you say i have to do nothing (step 1 was only downloading the util), copy bootpart to usb stick, format the stick (which was step 2, so isn't diskpart and anything else gone now?), now there should be dos on it (how? i didn't copy the files or format it the right way) other things i tried meanwhile are my own steps with the exception of formatting to ntfs and adding boot.ini file (although i don't know i added the lines right in boot.ini), all with no success... my own feeling says i just haven't got the combination right, there's probably a simple thing i'm missing while looking the situation over...

i got a jetflash 512mb usb2 key in bios configured as hispeed and am trying to get bartpe working. i did the following (using instructions in this thread): - downloaded and installed the hp utility (SP27608.exe); - formatted the usb stick (fat), options 'create dos startup disk', 'quick format' off; - i copied the by pebuilder created build dir to the usb stick; - renamed the i386 dir to minint; - copied ntdetect.com from minint dir to root dir; - copied setupldr.bin from minint dir to root dir; - renamed setupldr.bin in root dir to ntldr (no extension); - copied winbom.ini from minint dir to root dir. whatever bios setting i use, emulate usb as floppy/hdd/cdrom/auto and setting the first boot priority to the usb device, it won't boot. i think it has something to do with the partition not being active, wrong bootsector or no mbr, because if i use the in this thread mentioned other tool from hp (cp004916.exe) with the ability to create a linux boot disk, it boots from usb into the linux which the hp tool installed on the stick. at least proof booting from usb must be possible! for the linux boot, whatever usb emulation i set in the bios, it boots everytime! so it has to be something with the formatting or files copied wrong or whatever. please help!