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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).

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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 Free Software

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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.

thanx

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

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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.

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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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