How to make a USB stick bootable..?

Vimes

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Hello

Rather than keep using a floppy I would like the option of using my USB stick to boot to when flashing my motherboard or running other utilities.

But how do I make the USB stick bootable...?
 
Depends what you want to boot from it?
Also it depends on your motherboard's BIOS, as to wheather it has an option to boot from USB..?
 
My Gigabyte P35 DS3 motherboard does support booting from a USB device and I wanted to boot up to the equivalent of a Dos prompt.
 
Barts PE lets you put windows on a USB drive for rescue use, i've also used an HP utility ('HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool' free on the HP web site and works with any usb drive) for creating a bootable ODS stick, basically google is your friend, it all depends on what you want to boot to though and what you want to do once you're up and running!

Still can't beat a floppy as tbh a lot of older boards don't support bootable USB and those that do can be picky about the type of USB stick that will boot. for example I have a 512/4GB/8GB/16GB Pen drives, the first two will boot fine on my old P4C800 but the 8GB and 16Gb units won't. YMMV :)
 
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