[Sparky2675]

OK, I could do it that way, but what about what I have already built.

What is supposed to be in that MSDOS.SYS file?

Is that the problem?

Thanks in advance and for all you have done to help.

I am still going to try the THIS Method.

[datarunner]

hi all

tried this method and all seems ok. however i cannot get this method to work with AMI bios's. tried using both xp sp2 and w2k3 sp1 sources but still no joy on ami bios.

anyone else get this?

regards

[ell]

Well, I've tried this several times, each time I end up with just a blinking cursor on boot on a pent 4 desktop with xp . I made my pe files with xpsp2 and used my micro cruzer 2 gb flash drive. Formatted fat32. Heres a jpeg of my usb drive, anybody help me figure this out? I'm determined to get this to work!

[grandgroove]

Wow, this is my first post! It's good to start off with a happily working USB flash drive.

I followed the instructions and set up my UBCD4Win customized build to an Ativa 4GB so-small-you'll-likely-lose-it-often drive ($20 @ Office Depot - Click here for product description).

The first boot proved successful! I have the usual task of adding custom drivers for some of the items on here.

BTW, I'm using a Sony Vaio UX380N as my test PC. This thing is simply amazing, and I have some things to try and add that may be new to the forum. I'll definitely post on it.

Thanks again! I truly think this is one of the best projects I've worked on in a long time. I help friends and family with PC issues, and I pretty much carry around this flash drive and a couple others to do everything.

Until next time ... sayoonara!

[spewk]

Wow I am just about to smash my head into a brick wall over this crap....

I have a 2 GB jump drive, but the build is too big to fit on it .
I'd really like to understand what I'm screwing up on here.

I HAVE to get this stupid EeePc fixed.

Can anyone offer any tips on how to get all this crap onto a jump drive ?

I assume the iso has to be extracted to the jump drive for anything to work.

I'm really at the end of my freakin' rope here, so if anyone can help that would be great.

[pcuser]

@spewk, please start your own thread and explain your issue better that you have here. For example:

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Can anyone offer any tips on how to get all this crap onto a jump drive ?

We have no idea what crap you're referring to or what instructions you're following.

[spewk]

pcuser, on Apr 16 2009, 02:58 PM, said:

@spewk, please start your own thread and explain your issue better that you have here. For example:

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Can anyone offer any tips on how to get all this crap onto a jump drive ?

We have no idea what crap you're referring to or what instructions you're following.

I'm trying the first approach on page one, using XP Sp2, and a 2 GB drive.

Sorry if i missed something in the other pages, but I'm under the gun here....

The resulting build is what's giving me the problem, it ends up being too large for a 2 GB drive.


Is it really supposed to end up being that large ?

[rdsok]

to repeat @spewk, please start your own thread

That means do not post it here but in a new thread... also explain exactly the steps you are using to build

[MikeGreenburg]

How to: Boot BartPE from USB drive. (Very Easy)

Step 6.
To copy the BartPE image to usb, from a command promt window navigate to c:\pebuilder3110a
Then type pe2usb -f x:
Where x is the drive letter of your empty flash drive.

When this step is done you are ready to boot off the flash drive.

http://www.mikegreen...walk%20thru.txt

[nerv]

For what it's worth, I can confirm that the initial procedure in this thread works on my 8GB Imation Pivot USB drive.

One question though: this USB drive has a 'readonly switch' and I always like to 'protect' it whenever I put it in a "possibly hostile PC" for rescue purposes.

However, if I boot with the drive readonly, it will hang after the WinXP loading progress bar disappears.
With the drive being writable, it will continue to load BartPe.

What could cause the hangup? I mean, BartPE will boot fine from a CD too...

I've already disabled the creation of a bootlog.txt
Further I'm fairly unfamiliar with Grub but willing to follow any lead

Insights greatly appreciated!

[cdob]

nerv, on 12 September 2009 - 01:46 PM, said:

this USB drive has a 'readonly switch'

PE expect a CD read only, and support a read only CD.
PE expext a writable hard disk (USB drive), and fail at write protected hard disk.
Use fbwf. http://www.ubcd4win.com/...indpost&p=67539

[hecresper]

Thanks for a great post. I've been trying to get BartPE on an external USB hard drive for "ages".

However, I ran into a "brick wall" with the HP Formatting Tool because it kept formatting the whole drive(120gb worth) into one big FAT32 partition. PEtoUSB didn't like that.

I got around that by using a DOS floppy and creating a small 2GB partition on the external USB hard drive. PEtoUSB did it's thing, copied grub4dos files over, edited the config.sys accordingly, and voila! I can boot BartPE off the external USB HD, almost.

I saw the usual loading screens for BartPE, but right after the Windows XP splash screen, the computer displayed a STOP error(aka BSOD). The error # is 0x0000007B.

I'm still looking for answers on how to fix the STOP error, but if someone here ran into that and fixed it, I'm all "ears".

Still I'm very happy to have made progress with BartPE and an external USB HD with the instructions provided here.

[hecresper]

Duh!

I don't know how I got it working but it now works.

I erased all the files off the external USB HD root's, ran BartPE's own pe2usb -f e:, then tried it and it booted into BartPE.

I guess the 100th time is the charm in my case.

[Brian Freeman]

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This post has been edited by Brian Freeman: 07 December 2009 - 02:27 AM

[Brian Freeman]

Doesn't work. The link to grub4dos is dead, and there was no explanation for where to find the files that grub4dos must load.

The "bare" UBCD is a great product. The support I've tried to follow for workarounds always seems to end up like this.

Any RAPID help would be appreciated.