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Free Utility To Make Your USB Pen Drive Bootable

USB Storage DeviceIf you are an fairly advanced computer user, at times you may need to boot from devices other then the default hard-disk, mainly to troubleshoot virus infections and other critical operating-system related issues, I had shared tips on how to make bootable cd for performing advance system tasks on windows. Today I will share few utilities enabling you to create bootable USB pen drives with ease, you need to have Motherboard/BIOS with USB boot support for this to work.

MakeBootable is an free and simple-to-use utility to make your Pen Drive act as a boot-up disk without erasing any data on the device. It consists of a single executable file and requires no installation, However the utility will only work on USB device's using Phison’s chip solution and FAT file-system only (you can re-format your drives to FAT easily).

Bootable USB

Direct Download : Make_bootable.zip (465Kb)

If the above utility fails to recognize your USB drive you can download and use the HP USB Format Utility and HP USB Boot utility, They work with other brands of flash drives as well, The best software for creating bootable flash drives with the most extensive support of drives and advance options would be "FlashBoot" from PrimeExpert but its not free and costs around $31, you can download and try the demo version.

FlashBoot

There are quite a few other manual methods to make usb devices bootable as discussed here, once you succeed in making your USB drive bootable using any of the method discussed above, You need to change the boot-up setting in the system BIOS as described below to boot using your portable device:

  1. With your device inserted, restart the machine.
  2. Enter the BIOS setup menu to change the boot device setting.
  3. If the boot-up files are created in the USB drive, select USB-HDD or USB-ZIP (preferred). If the boot-up files are created in the floppy drive of your device, select USB-FDD (for Pen Drive that supports security mode).
  4. USB Boot BIOS Setting
  5. Save and exit the BIOS setup. You should be able to boot up with you USB device.

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Pen drive Bootable

Pen Drive Bootable Free Software

Many times, when you are facing a critical windows problem and y

MakeBootable is a free software which lets you convert your pen drive into a bootable media, After making your pen drive bootable with makebootable you can use your pen drive like a windows xp bootable cd.
Makebootable is so easy to use, as it make your normal USB pen drive a bootable media in one click.
But there is a limitation, you will need to format your pen drive with fat file system in order to make your device bootable.
Convert to FAT and use MakeBootable
1. Backup the existing files on the drive.
2. Perform a FAT format
3. Now Run Makebootable.exe to make your USB portable device bootable.
After making your pen drive bootable, go to your BIOS and select USB Device as First Boot device in the boot device priority.

Making your 8Gb USB drive FAT & losing space...

Instead of making the entire 8Gb USB drive FAT and losing all of that expensive space, format PARTITIONS onto it, and make the first one FAT, mark it "bootable", put your boot sector, MBR, etc. on there, and put everything that doesn't need to go there onto the rest of the thing, (which you DID format as NTFS, didn't you?)

This has worked for me ever since there were FlashDrives big enough to "outrun" the limits of the current file-systems, and they still work today;
Why give up all of that "dollars-per-Gb" space when you can keep & use all of it?
Just figure up ahead of time how big the "boot partition" needs to be, & make the rest NTFS...

I don't know why anyone's having to put ANY FAT-partitions on an 8- or even a 32-Gb USB FlashDrive; My primary systems all use HDDs with nothing but NTFS on them, so the first time I made a "pen-drive" bootable, I formatted it to NTFS, and it's always worked well...

The only reason I made ONE with a FAT-booter is for my older machines, that can only run Win95 or Win-3.11, and which can't "see" NTFS, and I need to boot them in order to fix something on the disk to make it boot normally again.

When in doubt, "RTFM"!

bhavesh kumar vekariya

this utility is really good and it work iseley and use ful.

make booteble pen drive

booteble pen drive

thanx

It works for me ......and really simply way to make bootable pen drive..

Useless link

Fake links, don't try to cheat in a cheaper way. Your link is pointing to nothing.

Download link..

Pls. keep your frustration to yourself, the original website seems to be out of the business the links were working when the story was posted months ago, I have found the pendrive boot utility from internet and corrected the links above.

THANKS...

THANKS...

Bootable Pendrive

The software is realy good

It's a useful Software

It's a useful Software but,This program does not support FAT32 and NTFS file system.and latest pen drive doesn't support fat file system in winxp so give me right suggestion.what should i do.

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mjm,

i HAVE NOT INSTALLED 'MAKE

i HAVE NOT INSTALLED 'MAKE BOOT" BUT THE ARTICLE IS QUIET HELPFUL IN MAKING USB DRIVE BOOTABLE ..THANKX

rohan

when we make a bootable usb disk then and make the setup of XP after that, can we format the pendrive and use for data travelling?

Manan!! Thanx!!

I am really really thenk to you

This software with article have provided mr the best way to boot my PC without the CD.

Article is amazing!

Thanx!!!!!!!

HOW TO MAKE BOOTABLE PEN DRIVE & CD WITH NTFS PARTITIONS

HELLO................... SIR
PLS TELL ME HOW CAN I MAKE A BOOTABLE PENDRIVE
& HOW CAN I MAKE A BOOTABLE CD WITH NTFS PARTITIONS

how to bootable pen drive

HELO ,
this software is good but drawbag in software not availbile option NTFS .

Eng. RAVI VERMA

fools

forget the usb lets all have an orgy:))

Thanks very

Thanks very much.........................

THANK YOU..............

THANK YOU..............

hi

hi

usb xp bootable

how to a creat xp bootable pendrive

post me a pendrive

thanks.

thanks...

thanks for the apps, no virus found.

havent tried it yet, just did the download

more power to this site...

thanks again

help

please i need one of you pen drive. please can you give me one of you pen drive . please!!!! this is you p.o boxtt8 tema new , accra , ghana . this my email: eaboah2012atsailormoon [dot] com . please help me . please!!! .

help - get a life

how about i send you my 18 year old virgin bride instead......, i need my pen drive!

or maybe with the money you pay for an internet connection with (or internet cafe) could go towards a pen drive..... then when you have the pen drive you can shove it up your................

thanks

subir
thanks for the apps, no virus found.

havent tried it yet, just did the download

more power to this site...

thanks again

question

if i want to boot windows xp from usb drive..i need to put all files form WINDOWS XP CD and make USB stick bootable, like u said...It's OK???

Jasmin,

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GHG

Great Turotial - Thanks

hmm this article is well explained.

keep up the good work

You are great............

Thanks friend............... you are great........

Good Work

Good Work

GOOD WORK

NICE........................

WTH!

I used the HP boot thing on my 8 GB flash frive now it boots but says its got 3,64 GB!!!!!!!!!!!

Shrunk flash drive

It's not the utility that has done this. It's the FAT file system that has a limitation on the size of a partition. Max 4 Gb, I believe.

USB compatibility

How can you find out wether a usb drive has Phison’s chip solution

Really good.

I am planning to buy a license software

thank u

thanks budy

Limitation of FATfile system

Now, you can create FAT file system upto 32Gb or even more with tools/applications

If at first...

If at first, you don't like the version of the USB-bootable s/w you've got, just "Google" for another - It's all over the FREE internet, there are over a thousand titles in every language on earth (almost) out there, all for free;
...Just run them thru a malware checker first!

i liked it

thanx for it good job

booteble pendrive

HELLO................... SIR
PLS TELL ME HOW CAN I MAKE A BOOTABLE PENDRIVE

not working

it is not working what a bull shit software it is

for help

thanks bro...

now can u tell me step of xp installation from pandrive

can u tell me how to install

can u tell me how to install from pendrive

bootable usb pen drive

Thanks friend............... you are great........

from zaki usmani

Can't unzip it

"The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid or corrupted." :-(

make usb Bootable

Am Gurpreet Singh Chauhan & i Downlaod A USB BOOTABLE

This program only support

This program only support fat file system but latest pendrive doesn't support fat file system in winxp so....what should i do.

Plzz.. help me...

Bahoat din se pareshan hoon bhai koi hai jo mujhe ye bataye ki pen drive bootable kaise banti hai.. mujhe pen drive se xp instal karna hai.. plz help me...

aarigatha(Thank you)

aarigatha(Thank you)

Jimy Mody...thanx

Nice ...but I would like to have something for NTFS!!

how to make pan drive bootble

any one help me for install window via pan drive
please give us formula

Softwar to make usb bootable drive

Can you give me some software to make usb bootable driver
Thank you.

bootable flash disk dont load hdd drivers

hi i am also trying to use flash disk to boot my aspire one laptop as my laptop dont have a built in cdrom so i need to boot it through flash disk but the trouble is the when it boot my pc it takes me to the command prompt without loading the hdd driver and i am not able to use norton ghost from command prompt to clone my partitions and cant install any other operating system since it dont load disk driver then os cant find any disk to be installed, and also i cant do new partitions aswel, kindly help me and all other peoples who have the same problem. one more thing that the link provided above "Some of these Programs (makes the disk more useful) " dont work.if it is possible that to make a bootable flash disk which loads all necessary drivers just like if your are booting with win98se cd from cdrom then it will be awesome.Thannks and i will be desperatly waiting for your reply.

bootable pendrive os

how to create bootable pndrive os win xp tell me website please

really make boot disk i

really make boot disk
i cant't trust

Make Bootable Pendriver OS

now can u tell me step of xp installation from pandrive

Make bootebal pan driver

HELLO................... SIR
PLS TELL ME HOW CAN I MAKE A BOOTABLE PENDRIVE
& HOW CAN I MAKE A BOOTABLE CD WITH NTFS PARTITIONS

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