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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"!

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pls pen drive bootable xp windows

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can you make microsoft office 2010 bootable off a flash drive with this program

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

to make bootable pendrive

Please tell me which Pen drive will support this software. Transcend or Kingston.......

Both la~

As long as its was pen drive and can use

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plz give me, pendrive bootebool softwer send my mail. thanks

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

Its not working

Dear Brother

I am follow all instruction like -

format with fat file system and also run makebootable.exe. after this massage shown "Your device is bootable" and also setting in CMOS first boot device is USB Key.

but no booting with USB massage.

Please give me suggestion

Thnx and waiting for replly
Aslam

how 2 make a bootable pen drive

how....dude?

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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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

boot able pen drive through command

you else you need to change it

Format the Pendrive or USB drive in NTFS format first.
From the start menu right click on the command prompt and select “Run as administrator“.
Now type the following commands (Press enter key after each command).
diskpart. This is to open the disk partition program.
Now to show the list of drives type list disk.
You can see disk’s listed there. Note down the disk number of your pendrive eg. Disk .
Now type SELECT DISK X (where X is the number you noted down for the pendrive from step 5)
Now type CLEAN.
Now type the following commands by pressing enter after each one.
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1 (Assuming your pendrive/ USB drive is 1).
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
ASSIGN
EXIT(Now the disk partition program will exit). Now we need to give some more commands.
Now insert the Windows 7 Installation DVD and to your DVD drive.
Here i am assuming DVD drive as G and Pendrive as I.(Change it accordingly).
Now type G:CD BOOT
Now type this command BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 I: to update your USB drive with bootmgr code.
Finally copy all the contents from the Windows 7 DVD to your Pendrive. Make sure you don’t cause any errors.
Plug / Insert your pendrive to your PC and restart the system.
Now Enter the Bios system accordingly by pressing the key delete.(This may vary some times it will be F2 or F12. It depends on the type of your system. Any how during the start up your system will display which key to press to enter the Bios).
Now select the USB/ Pendrive as the first boot driver.(Set the first boot priority to USB drive.).
Now save the settings in Bios and restart and you will be able to Install Windows 7 using that pendrive.
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HELO ,
this software is good but drawbag in software not availbile option NTFS .

Eng. RAVI VERMA

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Hell yeah!!!

Thanks very

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

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

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

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hello plz send bootable pin drive softwear

hi

hi

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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!!! .

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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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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

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

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pls tell me can 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

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

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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.

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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

Read more: http://www.megaleecher.net/Make_Bootable_USB#ixzz2j5buld9M

Thanx a lot............. its

Thanx a lot............. its a great help

Bootable USB Drive

Will it work for system having Win-XP with NTFS partition

install xp by usb drive

Hello sir please tell me how can i make bootable usb drive i want install xp sp2 by usb drive.........i am using windows 7

please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....please.....

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software download

Dear sir, i want to download and use "Make Bootable Software (Zip)". But while downloding it stops with an error. I want to install Windows7 on my laptop. Plz. help.

try RMPrepUSB for free USB

try RMPrepUSB for free USB format tool, runs on XP/Vista/Win7 32 or 64bit

thanq

i was in head break about making an USB drive bootable
checked many sites but couldnt solve the problem
alas!!! i read this happy now
its better and easy way to make it bootable..........THANX A LOTTTTT

nice

nice

check it

thanks

HELP..............

Pls tell me how to make XP bootable usb drive step by step

Only lame asses nag instead of reading and trying to understand

tipyng wouthit eroors iz s0 hrad too doo isntit

djeez never swa a sadder bunch of n00bs in my life....

be gratefull for the man's attempt to wise up your dumb asses, but no...piss and moan.
if you don't understand what the man is explaining here.....then maybe...just maybe...your to stupid to do it?
accept it, get wiser, or hire your local nerd to do it for you....

don't expect to find the exact workflow and method described for your situation on your hardware.... that's impossible...

@poster : great job man!, read it ...tried it....up and away in a sec....
useful links and useful point-outs on ho to make this working!

just created a bootable usb stick, with the options: install windows XP and Windows 7 + drivers...th most valuable tool for an admin who's doing a little work on the side ;)

keep it up...

You're

You're

Bootable PEN DRIVE

Your idea is make pen drive bootable is whole wrong. THis is all wrong ..........................Retry again.

usb bootable is a fantastic software

this softeare is very usefull for computer technicians it save over time

formatet with pen drive

very good

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nada

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your program was really good thx poporo of dark ro

Nice

I am finding this tool from many time ...............

Finlay found ........

Thank very much

Flashboot is an awesome

Flashboot is an awesome software... It helps me very much .. I will give it 10/10 and ***** stars

hi

how to make a usb bootable pen drive for window xp and window 7...???

What you want?

you want bootable for format or make for boot without formatting?

i want to make bootable pen drive.

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its not working in i-ball

its not working in i-ball pendrive..........
plz help me

bootable usb

i boot xp from usb successfully but when i install office 7 that time coming error massage
how can i install office 7

you can try the win7 usb

you can try the win7 usb download tool

make Bootable USB

i am try but i am not create for USB Bootable. so plz help me.
thanks

prendrive trouble

The USB pendrive that which i use is not working properly.{with memory of 32GB flash disk}
the basic problem is the in the properties is showing the used space,
but when the drive is opened the data is not visible in that...

bootable

i want to mak my pendrive bootable ...?
what should i do?
i dnt know anything about this..help me

Thanks

Thanks for your post

making the router as the firewall

how to make the firewall as the computer pc ?

Going

I am going to try

utility doesn't work

This utility does not work in either Windows 7 or XP. I does not see the USB drive so the first step cannot be completed. Sorry it is useless.

english

emon

Bootable USB Flash Drive

Thanks for this excellent utility!
Works like a charm!

Cheers

very very bast

i am try but i am not create for USB Bootable. so plz help me.
thanks

how i can make a bootable

how i can make a bootable pendrive??????

How can i make my Pendrive Bootable

thnx for your post as i really wanted to create a bootable pendrive so thank you very much.....!!

how to make a pen drive bootable

pls help me to make my pendrive bootable

pan drive boot software

sir
my cd/dvd writer no work. pan drive via HDD OS install any computer support. plz help me?

pan drive boot software

sir
my cd/dvd writer no work. pan drive via HDD OS install any computer support. plz help me?

Thanks

Thanks for the great post..........very helpful ... thanks

pandrive totaly not ateach booting

you are soft wear not work my drive booting windo 7 home basik so help sir....................

my laptop is not booting

recently i got a error that my os is not geinune so i tried installing windows using usb pendrive but t was also not possible so i directly copied all the files to E drive then i installed but after 3 days it is showing an error that os missing so what do i do now...

Its not booting

my laptop has affected with some virus and its not booting :(

win xp usb key

If really want to boot from usb and want to successful installation of windows xp ( not other os) pls use WinSetupFromUSB 0-2-2. very very handy tools without no headache .
I am use this several time without no problem.

bootable DVD

HOW MAKE THE BOOTABLE CD/DVD

my pendrive doesn't show up

my pendrive doesn't show up in the dialog box :(

Thanks

Thanks a lot, it worked. But how to convert ISO file to bootable normal file?

Do you mean this -

Do you mean this - http://www.megaleecher.net/Get_Linux_On_USB

pan drive boot software

sir
my cd/dvd writer no work. pan drive via HDD OS install any computer support. plz help me?

Read more: Free Utility To Make Your USB Pen Drive Bootable http://www.megaleecher.net/Make_Bootable_USB#ixzz2Uk3m6h8f

pan drive boot software

sir
my cd/dvd writer no work. pan drive via HDD OS install any computer support. plz help me?

Read more: Free Utility To Make Your USB Pen Drive Bootable

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