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Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive
Feb 26^th, 2007 at 10:44am

I could use some help with Ghost 8.3 and a WD2500B012 external usb drive. My goal is to make this drive bootable and pull images off from it, which I can already do using this tool http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html and several 16GB usb flashdrives, which is nice but I can only get a couple of images onto them.

Is it possible to make this drive bootable? When I use the tool mentioned above on this drive I get an error stating that the "drive is to big".

Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way? However even better still would be to create a network boot disk and access this drive from any desktop or laptop in the building. I do have a network share that I can access my images from but I would prefer using this drive.

Thanks for your time.

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	Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive Reply #1 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 12:59pm scj6771, I'm confused. Are you trying to make your external HD or your flash drives bootable?
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	Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive Reply #2 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 1:03pm I am trying to make the external hd bootable. Thanks.
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	Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive Reply #3 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 1:18pm http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176 I have no experience with this but I'd be very interested to hear whether it works.
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	Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive Reply #4 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 1:23pm The HP tool referenced is 45 MB. HP Drive Key Boot Utility version 7.41.3790.0 http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html cp006049.exe
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	Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive Reply #5 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 1:46pm Sorry, that is the tool I was refering to, my link above is not correct, I am using the tool you mentioned to create bootable usb flash drives but it will not work on my external. I fixed my link above as well. Thanks again.
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	Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive Reply #6 - Feb 26^th, 2007 at 1:48pm Damn.
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Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive
Reply #7 - Feb 27^th, 2007 at 1:32am

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Does you BIOS give you USB HDD access if you boot to DOS?

And, I assume you can select the USB HDD as the *Boot Drive* in the BIOS?

Format the USB HDD as FAT32 first. If it is the only drive that is FAT32, then it will be assigned the C:\ drive letter when booted to DOS.

You need to boot to DOS using a DOS boot disk that has the DOS *Sys* program that is pre-WinME on it--you need to transfer the *system* files needed to make a HDD a DOS boot HDD--so from the A:\ prompt type:

sys C:

The above assumes you have a floppy drive that is A:\ and you only have the USB HDD with a FAT32 partition--if the USB HDD has some other DOS drive letter assigned to it, you would have to adjust the drive letter listed above accordingly.

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Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive
Reply #8 - Feb 27^th, 2007 at 10:00am

NightOwl wrote on Feb 27^th, 2007 at 1:32am:

"Format the USB HDD as FAT32 first. If it is the only drive that is FAT32, then it will be assigned the C:\ drive letter when booted to DOS.

You need to boot to DOS using a DOS boot disk that has the DOS *Sys* program that is pre-WinME on it--you need to transfer the *system* files needed to make a HDD a DOS boot HDD--so from the A:\ prompt type:"

I formatted this as NTFS, can I boot into DOS (using Win98 boot disk) and format this as FAT32?

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	Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive Reply #9 - Feb 27^th, 2007 at 10:19am scj6771 If you have DOS access--that should work--but if the HDD is too big, your version of fdisk may not handle the HDD size correctly.
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	Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive Reply #10 - Feb 27^th, 2007 at 10:27am I hate to bother you with these "on the fly" questions but how can I tell if my bios will give me USB HDD access in DOS? I booted to DOS but I do not see the drive using fdisk. I do see it as a startup option in the bios.
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Re: Bootable WD2500B012 External Drive
Reply #11 - Feb 28^th, 2007 at 1:06am

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how can I tell if my bios will give me USB HDD access in DOS? I booted to DOS but I do not see the drive using fdisk

Fdisk, if I remember correctly, should *see* a NTFS as a *non-DOS* partition. If it does not show up, then maybe you do not have DOS support and access.

But, I would re-format the USB HDD to a FAT32 partition using WinXP's Disk Management, then boot to DOS, and see if a drive letter is assigned, and you can change to that drive.

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