Just been doing the same thing lately... Making a USB Boot drive to run a quick program that tests a bunch of units. Trying to get NIC drivers to load right now; fun. HPUSBFW.EXE is the name of the HP Utility, seems to work pretty good. I would think copying the drive would work OK, probably just need to mark the partition as Active. -Sam
________________________________ From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: USB Boot drive Frustration Our desktop group has asked me to help them create a USB drive to boot from in order to install their images. They have one I did for them last year, and they need to have several more for a roll out. I had a disk crash a month ago and have not reinstalled the software I used to create one. I am now so frustrated, that I cannot think straight! Last year, I believe I just used the HP storage disk format utility, and put an XP disk in the CD drive for the boot files, and it worked. This year, I have tried several different methods I found online to no avail. The first question is whether anyone knows a method that actually works, and the second is, does anyone know a diskcopy utility that will duplicate the working USB to the others? The ones I found do not support USB drives. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
