Format a USB drive to be bootable

[mike_dowler]

OK - you've probably seen this a thousand times, but I can't find anything that solves my problem either on hexus or google...

Basically, I have a USB drive that I would like to make bootable. I have downloaded the HP utility, but it has two problems:

1) I am using Win XP x64, and it won't run

2) In any case, I don't have access to a bootable floppy to get the necessary files.

Can anyone please tell me whether I will be able to make this drive bootable, and if so, how?

[Steve B]

http://www.bootdisk.info/

have a swatch around on that website and u should find some decent guides

[directhex]

"sys z:" in a command prompt

where z: is your usb drive

[mike_dowler]

'sys' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Didn't work

[directhex]

bah, it used to work on win9x

[scrandman]

The HP utility is by far the best option. Don't you have access to another PC that you could run it on?

[RavenNight]

try www.bootdisk.com grab the win98SE one, that works great. Then you are going to need to find a PC that can run the HP utility, load up the win98 bootdisk info and run it.