thebigob1 Posted December 29, 2005 Share Posted December 29, 2005 managed to wrangle a 40 gig. USB HD today, trying to install BootPe on it and not having any luck. I've followed the instructions for both a flash drive and a hard drive and tried mixing the 2, still not having any luck. Anyone know how to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getwired Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 What exactly is failing/what is the error? Does your system support boot from USB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigob1 Posted December 30, 2005 Author Share Posted December 30, 2005 my laptop can boot usb devices, but when i plug in the usb hd, i just get a blinking cursor when it tries to boot from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mats Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Wich filesystem do you have on the usb disk. I have seen this when i forgott to reformat the disk to fat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigob1 Posted December 31, 2005 Author Share Posted December 31, 2005 i formatted it to ntfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mats Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 Thats your problem. I hade the same issue with ntfs. When i switched to fat it worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigob1 Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 so it will not work under a NTFS system? What if i wanted to save a file bigger than 4g? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueSpear Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 If this is a PE install, presumable to fix broken computers, I don't see where you're going to need to put a file greater than 4GB in there. If that's absolutely necessary, make another partion and format that as NTFS. Then access it once you're up and running in PE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radimus Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 BTW, you can also have ghost or whatever you are using for your image to break it into smaller pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcfly000 Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 i have a portatil computer toshiba satelite A-30 and in BIOS option there is only one option for bott ( boot from USB ) , and i have tried booting from USB-stick i have do anything wron i have revised more than 50 times everything , , so i think i cant boot from USB-stick , so i ask , , can i boot from a USB-CD-rom o from a USB-floppy unit ? toshiba satelite A-30 .... anyone know ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 1) Read these:http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...SB/USBfaqs.htmlhttp://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...B/USBstick.html2) so it will not work under a NTFS system? What if i wanted to save a file bigger than 4g?if the USB drive is seen as "Fixed", nothing prevents you from multipartitioning it, once booted NTFS filesystem is fully supported, you will need just a minimal FAT16 partition to boot from3) idf the USB drive is seen as "Removable", you can use the Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver to make it "seem" "Fixed":http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14292jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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