Making A Bootable Flash Drive Paragon?
Jun 15, 2010
I just made a backup of my HD with Paragon to an external drive. That went as advertised. FIne and dandy.I now say to myself "SELF"? what will I do if my PC becomes completely hosed and will not even boot.I know. I will have a nice doorstop.Now my question is can I make a bootable flash drive to restore my backup I see the option is there but I have seen more than once researching with Google that this will not work. Seems to me doing this with CDs would require a dozen in my case. My computer does not support DVD.
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Sep 12, 2009
I am trying reflash my bios and do not have a floppy drive available easily. I believe my mother board supports flashing with in windows but incase it fails is it possible to put the bios on a cd r instead of a floppy disk and flash it from there?if so how do I make a boot cd to allow such?
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Feb 10, 2006
this might seem a lame question here but can someone please tell me how to make a Bootable CD so i can boot my computer from this bootable CD and reformat my C drive without using my windows cd.
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Jan 8, 2009
I have this sony vaio laptop, and the good people at sony decided not to give this drive the ability to boot from a usb device (external dvd or floppy)Unfortunately the DVD drive that was built in BROKE, and I need to install windows on this laptop using a brand new hard drive.I can't boot from the windows dvd, I can't boot from a floppy, the drive is totally empty so I can't put anything on it.I CAN however, connect it to another computer and format it, I thought I could make it into a MSDOS bootable drive (like when you format a floppy) but windows does not allow it on a drive this size.
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Aug 15, 2009
I've been trying to solve this for a few days now and I'm not having any luck. I don't have access to a PC running a windows OS or I'd just set up the flash drive there.
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Aug 3, 2007
does anyone know how to make a boot disc on a cd for windows XP...seems a tower I have has it's OS corrupted so I need to boot it up with the cd...which I can't seem to find right now
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Jan 13, 2006
I use WinXP Professional edition with Service pack 2.Now I wan to make an XP bootable CD incorporated with SP.So that,I can install XP with Service Pack 2 directly from the CD.
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Apr 5, 2005
I want to know if any one can tell me how to make an XP boot disk that will ask me for my raid controller drivers (F6 function during windows install) during the booting process? I am running an ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe MoBo. Installed SnapShot imaging software and made a backup image of my raid drives (stripped). Need to boot into dos and be able to see NTFS files & drives?
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Aug 16, 2007
My sony vaio came with a recovery option basically its a small partition on my drive that i can access if i press f7 before i boot.it basically restores my PC to "factory Settings" as if were right out of the store with all drivers and preinstaled software.i want to make a similar disc for my desktop. i want to have it on a disc though and not a partition. dont care if its dvd or cdr .anyone know of a 'how to guide'
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Dec 18, 2007
A 4gb flash drive and I was wondering if it would be wise to install WinXP on it. How do you make it bootable? Could you create a BartPE disk on it and use that?
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Aug 1, 2005
This in plain non-techie English? My Microsoft Camera and scanner Wizard no longer comes up when I insert the FLASH-CARD from my HP digital camera in the FLASH-DRIVE on my PC. Nothing happens now, It worked great for 2 years.How do I get the wizard back so I can unload my camera using the flash-card in the flashdrive?I have WXP-Home/SP2. I downloaded some XP security updates but don't know if they caused the problem.
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Aug 7, 2008
I cannot boot windows, I think my boot file is corrupt and would like to know if I can use a boot cd instead of a floppy.I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what i need to do.
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Apr 9, 2010
what are the steps to create partition using Paragon Manager?
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Nov 18, 2009
how to create bootable pen drive for Xp in windows 7. I am using Windows7 and want to create a bootable pen drive for XP in Windows7
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Jul 18, 2008
all the data is intact I'm currently on a live distro of linux on my ipod.I was messing with the partitions ONLY ON MY IPOD on paragon partition manager.it prompted me to restart to finish and it seemed to lake a LONG timeit gave an error message saying if the part was bootable to redo LILOnow it won't boot windows and I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIX IT!!!
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Sep 6, 2008
My external drive has always been "E" and I have several desktop shortcuts that relate. Recently I inserted a flash drive containing home movies and after viewing and a reboot later I noticed that my external drive is now shown as "New Volume F". I would like to change it back to "E"
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Apr 20, 2006
I had a problem with my windows. When ever I plug in my Flash drive (i got a few: kingston data traveller 1gig, pendrive 128mb,etc) onto my usb port. Window will be able to detect the drive had been plug in. I can see the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon on the right side of my task bar. But i cannot see the drive appearing in "My Computer". If I double click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon and try to view the external drive information, I can see that its already detected and being assign with drive E: . Even if I open a windows explorer and type in E: , it will throw me an error "Cannot find 'file:///E:/'. Make sure the path or Internet address is correct". But if I were to restart my computer, then i can see it for the first time. If I disconnect it (thru the "Safely Remove Hardware") and plug it back in (or plug another flash drive), I cant see the external drive. Causing I had to restart my computer multiple time a day.
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Jul 5, 2010
make a USB DRIVE bootable for ghost image
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Jan 14, 2007
EASY way to copy my hard drive to a bootable CD? I think the HDD I have now is dying, and I would like to have a hard drive I can just pop in which has all the information I have now. I have heard horror stories about Norton Ghost, so I'm hesitant there. I also bought a product called Drivecopy...BEFORE I learned that it is not compatible with XP Pro. Ghost and Drivecopy are both PowerQuest products. I have been told that if you simply copy one drive to another it will not be bootable because of some hidden/missing files that Windows uses. I have also heard that most products which are SUPPOSED to do what I want will only work on drives the exact same size and will duplicate my smaller partition if I go to a larger drive. There MUST be an easy way, but I'm stumped.
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Sep 29, 2007
My Inspiron 6000 recently crashed and the dell tech support told me it was the hard drive. I ordered the new one and after putting it in, I still get the same message I got with the old one: "Internal HDD HARD error! No bootable devices--Strike F1 to try reboot, F2 to enter set-up utility"
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Feb 17, 2006
I want to back up my C drive while it is new and running good. I have 120 GB in C and 120 In my New volume. I also have Norton's 9.0 and I was wondering if just copying my C drive to my new volume is that considered a "backup? If not can anyone give me any good insight on how to back up my Drive please.
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Jan 19, 2007
I have 5 or 6 different bootable floppy drives, partition magic, norton ghost, etc. I want to make them all bootable off a single CD, thumbdrive, etc. with a simple multimenu in dos. I've created the bootable thumb drive, and I've messed with the [menu] commands and such, but I can't get it to work. Is there a way to make a simple boot option to say, use this config.sys and this autoexec.bat?
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Dec 15, 2006
I tried to run a knoppix (live linux distro) cd and changed the boot order (F2 setup) to boot from cd. Ok... the cd still wouldnt boot, so I went into F2 again and made all devices non-bootable except the cd player. When I tried this method... I was informed that my cd drive isnt a bootable device. I checked a few settings but couldnt find anything in regards to this. Im just trying to boot from my cd player.
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Jul 14, 2005
On our WinXP systems (SP1 & 2), when users attempt to us usb flash drives, sometimes the O/S tries to assign an already used network drive letter to the device, making it unaccessible. Of course, the non-admin users can't use drive manager to change the drive letter. Is their a way around this problem?
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Jun 29, 2010
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Feb 19, 2009
Win XP Pro, USB 1.1 in front, 2.0 card added to PCI slot.I can put in a jump drive or a flash memory card reader and hear the XP bong, it does the new software found and says it's available, but It does not show on 'my computer'.I can go to manage, disk drives, and see it. I can right click and assign a drive letter, but still does not appear on 'my computer'.I can still open it after assigning a drive letter in 'manage' and read/write files from a new window.I'm suspecting BIOS? It was a machine I upgraded to XP Pro.
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Jul 5, 2010
I'm using a sandisk cruzer to try to install windows on my new rig. I've got a legit windows key, and serial number. Just lost the CD a long time ago, and don't have a sata Drive. Now, there is windows XP on my current sata harddrive but it is incompatable with the system (it was installed on another system.) So sense I don't got any DVD/CD burners, or any way of buying one for a month. I looked into making my USB flash drive bootable. I've used the HP USB Disk Formating tool to format it with FAT32, and dos Windows 98 files (Command,IO.sys,MSDOS.sys) thinking this would make it bootable. Tossed A version of windows XP I downloaded SP3, onto the drive, appatempted to boot it, but when I boot the flash drive with my gigabyte X38 DS4, it just loads windows 98 for half a second and brings me to a DOS C:. which was similer when I tried to install windows 7 from my USB drive where as that brought me 2 windows ME dos screen. It seems not to autorun so I don't really know how to partition my disk, format, and install a fresh coppy of windows.
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Jan 17, 2007
Someone has a Dell GX620 box and when they put a thumb drive into the box it does not show up. You hear a little ding as if it is being recognized but nothing happens. I do not see any yellow marks in the device manager. When I took the same thumb drive and put it into another box it shows up.
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Oct 8, 2008
i did a repair of xp pro and now i cant get to my flash drive.it shows in my computer but when i click an error message says cant access h:or please insert disk.
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Feb 16, 2008
How can I unformat a flash drive? I formatted it to make it bootable to try to run feather linux which didn't work. Anyway, I am trying to get it back to where it was before. I tried HP's usb format utility, but it doesn't see it as it won't even show up in my computer. it does show up as a storage device to unplug but that is all.
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Jan 31, 2006
I purchased a us modular flash drive from tiger direct. I'm running xp home edition. I'm on cable and a friend of mine is on dial up, but he's also using windows xp home. His computer is only about 2 yrs old. Anyway, he ask me if I'd copy the free programs ad-aware and spybot, since it takes him so long to download anything, which I did. I gave him the drive, but when he tried to access it, he said it gave him an I/O error. His computer wouldn't read it. I brought it home and plugged it in and it works fine on my machine. On his he said it'd show up as a drive (H:), but when he tried to open it, it gave the error. You don't have to install any drivers (at least you didn't on mine. It came with no cd. Will this drive only work on my machine or what.
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