ISO images on USB.

We ignore the floppy drive but when we are in dispar, that is the disk we miss the most!

To place any ISO image on your USB, you need to make sure that original structure is retained.

You can use any disk imaging software. Disk image is an exact copy of a physical disk (floppy, CD-ROM, hard disk, USB, VHD disk, etc.) or a partition that preserves the original structure.


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just decompress it using 7zip to a the device you wish to boot from and presto, just make sure the mobo supports booting from USB.

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exc said:
i want to make a flash drive that will boot the seatools (for DOS) program found on maxtor.com.

1) format the usb drive to FAT.
2) download and install seatools floppy creator to a virtual floppy drive.
3) extract the boot sector via mkbt to a .bin file.
4) copy the bootsector in .bin file via mkbt to the flash drive.
5) copy the files installed in step 2 to the thumb drive. the drive is now bootable after applying correct BIOS settings.

are these steps correct? if so i'm having trouble with mkbt copying the bootsector to the flash drive. i get a "file system ID is incorrect" error. keep in mind that both the virtual drive and the thumb drive were formatted to "FAT," and that my windows xp system is NTFS. how do i overcome this error? thanks!

January 7, 2008 7:11 PM

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i don't have a floppy drive and nor do i want to waste a CD-R. so i'm trying to make a bootable flash drive containing seatools for DOS.

the technique i researched says to copy the bootsector and files from the bootable disc to the flash drive. is this right?:

1) install Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1 (http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html) and use it to mount a blank 1.44MB image created via WinImage (http://www.winimage.com/download.htm). format the resulting virtual disk to "FAT" using windows explorer.
2) create the seatools bootable media onto the virtual disk.
3) extract the bootsector from the virtual disk to a .bin file via MKBT 2.0 (http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/).
4) format the USB drive to "FAT" using windows explorer.
5) copy the bootsector to the flash drive using MKBT.
6) copy the files from the virtual drive to the flash drive.
7) change BIOS settings to boot off of the flash drive.

the problem i have is with step 5. MKBT gives me the "different filesystem ID error," where FileSys="FAT16." why am i getting this error when i formatted both the virtual drive and the flash drive to FAT? does this have to do with the fact that i'm running windows in an NTFS filesystem?

thank you all in advance!

Large Hard Drive support

These days you might want to remove the Dynamic Drive Overlay. This maybe becuase you have upgraded to a newer system that supports the full capacity of your hard disk or you have upgraded your current system's BIOS to support the full capacity of the hard disk.

Also, Operating system these days bypass the BIOS limitation, (examples Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4).

The simplest method of removing the DDO from a hard drive is to use SeaTools to DOS to completely zero-fill the drive. This will erase everything on the drive, including the master boot record and the dynamic drive overlay.

Since Seagate Seatools boots to its own operating system you can use it regardless of the OS installed on it!

When removing the Dynamic Drive Overlay, it is important that you only have the hard drive(s) with a DDO installed connected to the system. You might want to try setting the BIOS parameters (example: Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, or Secondary Slave) to where the drive is connected from Auto-Detect to None or Not-Installed. Save the settings and exit. Power off the computer. This step will tell the BIOS that there is no device or drive attached to the port.

If you are not sure or dont want to take chances, you can remove the power cord of the other hard drive.

USB Power: Theory vs. Reality

USB ports do not limit current.a USB port can never be counted on to limit its output current to 500 mA, or any amount near that. In fact, output current from a port often exceeds several amperes since multiport systems (such as PCs) frequently have only one protection device for all ports in the system.

USB ports rarely, if ever, turn off power. So no matter what dialog takes place between a USB peripheral and host, a 5 V supply (at either 500 mA or 100 mA, or even maybe 2 A or more) will be available.

More on this PDF file by Maxim Integrated Products holds a U.S. patent on all forms of USB Lithium-battery charging.

http://powerelectronics.com/ar/Maxim.pdf

http://powerelectronics.com/mag/power_charge_battery_faster/