Active Boot Disk in USB

[sagar2dumbre]

I have downloaded Active boot disk 4.0.9 Windows edition and it creates an ISO image file.
is there any way so that i can boot my pc with my transcend 4 GB pen drive instead using a CD....
plz reply.....

[Macarenas]

1. Put a bootable floppy disk in your A: drive or create one using Windows.
2. Download mkbt20.zip and unpack to to new temp folder you create.
3. Go to the temp folder.
4. Extract the bootsector from the bootable floppy disk. eg Open a DOS Window and go to the directory where you extracted MKBT. Type:
   
5. mkbt -c a: bootsect.bin
   
6. The boot sectors from the bootable floppy disk have just been saved to a file in the temp folder you created.
   
7. Format the flash drive in FAT or FAT16.
   
8. Copy the bootsector to the flash drive. Open a DOS Window and go to the folder where you extracted MKBT. Type:
   
9. mkbt -x bootsect.bin Z:
   
10. "Z" represents the flash drive drive Letter. So if your flash drive has another drive letter, then change the "Z" accordingly.
    
11. Now you can [grin] "should" be able to copy the utils you need to the pen drive.

[sagar2dumbre]

Now you can [grin] "should" be able to copy the utils you need to the pen drive.

What does this mean ?
i hv to copy ISO image file to the pen drive or extract the ISO file and then transfer the contents to the pen drive ....???

[JonathanD]

So you want to boot the operating system from USB drive instead of your CD drive! Well, this article from Microsoft will put some light on this topic..hopefully
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/usb-boot.mspx