I'm having an aggravating time with this. I need to create a bootable flash drive, so that I can update the firmware on my SSD drive (it won't work from within Windows, and the instructions say to boot from a bootable flash drive).
While I can find any number of pages that show me how to do that (mostly by using partdisk and bootsect.exe), they don't work for me. Which makes sense - all that does is put a boot sector on the drive. They then say to copy the contents of the Win 7 DVD (they all presume I want to install Win 7 from a USB drive). Since I don't need the Win 7 DVD, I have no OS on the flash drive. When I try to boot, it tells me "No BOOTMGR found". So I need to make a bootable flash drive, and - from it - then execute this 2M DOS file to flash the firmware. Anybody have a set of directions that doesn't rely on copying the contents of the Windows DVD? :-) This is the process so far: DISKPART and hit enter. LIST DISK and hit enter. Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1. 4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do. SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number) CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) ASSIGN EXIT BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: (Where “H” is your USB drive letter) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
