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    Step 1: Getting some bootsectors

    To be able to boot rom a device we need so called bootsectors.
    The simple explanation is this: When the PC starts, the BIOS will scan the indicated storage devices and look for these bootsectors. They contain information for the BIOS to be able to start from this device. Bootsectors can be found on all bootable media (harddisk, floopy disk, CDRom, etc).

    Option 1 - Using a floppy disk formatted in Windows

    Before we can make a USB device bootable (specifically refering to USB thumbdrives!), we do need to get our hands on a bootable floppy. In all current Windows versions (including Windows 2000 and XP) we can do that by formatting a floppy disk.

    Open the Windows Explorer and right click the A: drive.

    Choose "Format..." from the upcoming popup menu.

    A window appears with some option: Check the option "Create an MS-DOS startup disk".
    Verify if Windows is indeed formatting the right drive! Usually it should show "Format 3½ Floppy (A".
    Once you're sure about the drive, click the "Start" button - Windows will now format the disk and make it bootable.


    Windows - Creating a bootable floppy

    After creating this bootable floppy, we will now extract the bootsectors from this floppy using Bart's MKBT.

    Open a DOS Window and go to the directory where you extracted MKBT.
    Type mkbt -c a: bootsect.bin as shown below (yellow text).
    C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

    D:\Downloads\mkbt20>mkbt -c a: bootsect.bin
    * Copy bootsector mode (-c)

    D:\Downloads\mkbt20>

    Note: Here "a:" represents the drive that holds the newly made bootable floppy!

    Once the command prompt returns, you will have a bootsector stored in the file "bootsect.bin".

    Do not close this DOS window yet, we will need it again in step 3!

    Option 2 - Using images of bootable floppies

    On the Internet you can find a lot of bootable disks. Take a look at the BootCD.info website.
    You will find plenty of floppy disk images and tools to write these images to floppy disk.
    Most of these disks are specialized, for example direct network access, packed with handy tools, etc.
    Follow the instructions there on how to make a bootable floppy.

    One of the best network enabled bootdisks is "Bart's Network Boot Disk".
    I highly recommend this disk for the advanced user!

    Tip: Some .BAT files refer to the A: drive directly - this CAN cause problems during boot!

    Step 2: Preparing the Thumbdrive

    Format the tumbdrive in the same format you formatted the floppy disk (which is FAT!).
    So if you used the option where we created a bootable floppy in Windows, the format the thumbdrive using FAT or FAT16.
    You can try NTFS or FAT32, but I have to say that both faioled on the thumbdrives I tried.

    Right click the drive letter of the thumbdrive and select the option "Format...".

    Select the proper format (FAT) and click "Start".

    Step 3: Copy the bootsectors to the ThumbDrive

    Thanks to MKBT by Bart (visit his website for more fun tools!) we can now easily copy the bootsectors onto the USB thumbdrive.
    Download the file either from his website (to get the most recent version, or to take a look at his other cool tools) or download version 2.0 from our website (see our downloads page).

    Open a DOS Window and go to the directory where you extracted MKBT (if you haven't done so in step 1, or in case you closed the DOS window in step 1).

    Type mkbt -x bootsect.bin G: as shown below (yellow text). Make SURE that you set the right drive letter here!
    "G:" represents the thumbdrive! So if your thumbdrive has another drive letter, then change the "G" accordingly!
    C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

    D:\Downloads\mkbt20>mkbt -x bootsect.bin g:
    * Expert mode (-x)
    * Warning different filesystem ID
    Size=0bytes OEM="(=_[sIHC" VolLabel="NO NAME" FileSys=""

    D:\Downloads\mkbt20>

    !! AGAIN: MAKE SURE YOU SELECT THE RIGHT DRIVE LETTER !!
    Here "G:" represents the thumbdrive!

    Once the command prompt returns, you will have a bootsector on your thumbdrive.

    Step 4: Copy files to the thumbdrive

    Once the drive is bootable, it would be nice to have some essential files on it, for the computer to make sense.
    Copy all the files of the A: drive (from Step 1, either option 1 or 2) to the thumbdrive.
    Naturally the boot floppy used to extract the bootsectors from should be in that A: drive.

    Tip: if the boot floppy has a *.BAT or a CONFIG.SYS file, you might want to check if it uses absolute paths (ie. A:\...) or relative paths (ie. \...). Any reference directly to the A: drive might cause issues during boot!

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