Hi all,

Objective of this is to boot your PC with a USB thumbdrive


You need the following

1) ADRC_Data_Recovery_Tools_1.1. It can be found here

http://www.adrc.com/software/data_recovery_tools/index.html

If you dont like the software, I think any of the raw sector read/write software will work just as fine, such as loaddskf and etc

2) A bootable floppy of your choice(I used a WinXP bootdisk)
3) A USB thumbdrive
4) A mobo capable of booting from USB (most modern ones are compliant)
5) To have NTFS support in DOS, you will need to download avira ntfs4dos
http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/11/avira_n...s_personal.html
6) Best to start fresh, so format your thumbdrive

Steps

Part 1

Run ARDC Data Recovery Tools 1.1.exe
Click on Tools -> Raw Copy
Select your source disk -> a:
Select your destination -> your USB thumdrive drive
click transfer

Part 2

Go to your PC bios
Change the boot sequence to boot from USB
In some bios, there are multiple selection, if you unsure which, just set your sequence to utilize all the boot options for USB

eg.

1st boot : USB Floppy
2nd Boot : USB HDD
and etc

Save your entries and reboot.
If all goes well, you will boot up thru your thumbdrive


For NTFS Support
1) Run NTFS4DOS Floppy Wizard
2) Select A:
3) Follow the selections and finish the setup
4) Continue with Part 1 above

or

1) Run NTFS4DOS Floppy Wizard
2) Select X: (assuming X drive is your thumbdrive)
3) Follow the selections and finish the setup
4) Continue with Part 2 above


Reasons for doing this
1) faster boot time
2) no floppy drive and etc

Hope this guide helps

The only drawback is the USB size is limited to 1.44 MB. But like I said, this is a quick and dirty guide.

A better method is bart's mkbt. A guide exists on bootdisk.com. look for method 1

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm