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Not able to boot from pendrive

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sravan
sravan Original post #1
Mar 26, 2008 at 6:31 PM
I copied the entire contents of xp Professional installation cd into my pendrive.I changed the first boot device as USB FDD in the BIOS .But the system is not booting from pendrive.Same is the case with LInux LIve CD
Help me plz
Gigacore
Mar 26, 2008 at 6:38 PM
its because you cant boot an XP or Linux Live CD from a copied files. The CD contains boot image file, and it wont be copied to the pendrive. And there was tutorial in this forum on how to create a XP live CD, but not how to boot it from pendrive
sravan
sravan #3
Mar 28, 2008 at 6:04 AM
hi
plz help me in this issue.
b_man
b_man #4
Mar 28, 2008 at 6:12 AM
Go here:

*www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Please share your experience with us all. I tried Method-2 cause i have a HP lappy.
sravan
sravan #5
Mar 28, 2008 at 6:29 AM
Thnk u for ur reply
sravan
sravan #6
Mar 30, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Help me plz in this regard
sravan
sravan #7
Mar 31, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Any one help me plz
sravan
sravan #8
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:13 AM
Any one help me plz
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imageek #9
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:15 PM
One more thing your BIOS should be able and set to boot from pendrive , if the pendrive is bootabe