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Author : Rich Burnham
Date
: October 2005
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: http://CodeBeetle.Com
Boot your BartPE/WinPE from a USB Flash Disk Drive!
Also supports USB HardDisks.
PeToUSB is a GUI Win32 application that will partition, format
and makebootable to XP/W2K3 a USB Flash Disk (UFD). A lot of
utilities that say they can do this, actually can't.
PeToUSB does not make the device DOS bootable, it makes it 'XP'
bootable (ie: the bootstrap code will look for NTLDR).
A lot of improvements have been made since version 2. Check
the change log for details. But in short its more compatible
with more devices, and easier to use with more functionality.
New Features/Changes:
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Rewrites the MBR code just in case its corrupted.
This option can be disabled if desired.
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On Removable media, the partition is completely rewritten.
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Backup/Restore MBR.
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View disk information.
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Assign drive letters.
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Automatic notification of device arrival/removal.
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Now supports WinPE builds as well.
To make a UFD bootable requires it to be formatted to FAT16,
the partition set as bootable AND the volume boot sector id
to be set to 0x80. If all this is done the UFD should be
bootable on any system whose BIOS can boot to USB-HDD. Some
UFDs partition tables have been set to a starting offset of
32 sectors, this will not be bootable under USB-HDD. It seems
that USB-ZIP requires this, USB-HDD requires offset of 63
sectors.
If your UFD still won't boot after this type of format then
either your UFD's chipset isn't capable or the BIOS on the
system you are trying to boot is either set incorerectly or
incapable of booting to UFD.
But PeToUSB does more than just make a UFD bootable. It will
also copy all the required files from a successful BartPE build,
to the UFD. The all that remains is for you to boot the stick
on a system.
Instructions
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Build you BartPE/WinPE installation. No need to check the
'CD Record' box.
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