USB boot disk is in a constant state of flux and has been since 09/01/2013, with changes every week or so. Stop by often to see the current changes.
This site is “speekit” friendly. This is a google chrome app add on. Just hi-light the text an click the speaker icon next to the address bar. some misspelled words helps “Speekit” sound correctly.
Step Two
You should have read step one “boot USB”. Here in step two we will set up a very simple test USB bootable drive. There will be a complete demo in steps 3. USB drives are different inside. So some will work where others will not. I want to make this as easy as possible and still get this right on the first try. So stick close to the format below. After that you can experiment with other combinations.
You will need a USB formatter so down load “rufus”, Rufus is a small fast easy file to download with no hidden gimmicks. You can get it here at http://rufus.akeo.ie/ and place it on your desk top. Once installed, double click the icon to launch the program. You will see something like the picture to the right. The versions have been changing often so you version may be different. Check to make sure that your version has a box choice that has the word “FreeDOS”. (Forth line from the bottom.) A few of the older versions did not. You may have to click on the down arrow in the box to see all of the options. See picture below.
Start with a well known brand, and good working, USB drive that is under 32 meg in size. It is best to select 4 gig USB-drive for your first test. So plug in a 4 gigs in to your computer and Launch Rufus. Rufus will populate most all of the boxes of information about your USB drive. Your information will be different then mine. Make no change to the top line. Use the drop down menus on the next 3 lines so as to match the picture below. Type “Freedos” in the New volume label box or what ever name that you want for your USB drive name. Move to the forth line from the bottom and Select “FreeDOS” from pull down menu. Then click that start button. And in a few moments your drive becomes a bootable drive.
Leave the USB drive pluged in and shut down windows. Restart your computer. Using the appropriate “F” key(s), move to the “Boot Device menu” and select the correct USB device.
What you will see when the USB drive boots up? You will see 6 or 8 lines of text about freedos that is not going to mean very munch to you. The last line You will see will be C:\>. Take your keyboard and type “dir” and press the ENTER key. (do not type in the quotes) You will see a list of file names. And that’s about it for this step. This is a bare bones file system. So it is very boring. But this is enough to tell you that your USB drive is working. At this point you are over the hard part. Now comes the fun part. Go to step 3 “add content”.
Note: Your text will be some different then this picture. my computer shows three drives, C:, D:, E:. The most of you will just have 1 drive with windows NTFS file system on it. In this case you will just see a C: drive displayed. The contents in the c: drive is all of the data on the your USB drive. BUT WAIT!! All my windows stuff was on that C: drive and now it is all gone! Not to worry your widows is just fine. Restart your computer and start your widows like you normal do. You will find your windows works just like it did. With most computers you can leave your USB drive plug in and just select windows instead of the USB flash drive.
Just hi-light the text an click the speaker icon next to the address bar. some misspelled words helps “Speekit” sound correctly.
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USB drive that is under 32 meg in size. It is best to select 4 gig USB-drive for your first test. So plug in a 4 gigs in to your computer and Launch Rufus. Rufus will populate most all of the boxes of information about your USB drive. Your information will be different then mine. Make no change to the top line. Use the drop down menus on the next 3 lines so as to match the picture below. Type “Freedos” in the New volume label box or what ever name that you want for your USB drive name. Move to the forth line from the bottom and Select “FreeDOS” from pull down menu. Then click that start button. And in a few moments your drive becomes a bootable drive.
Take your keyboard and type “dir” and press the ENTER key. (do not type in the quotes) You will see a list of file names. And that’s about it for this step. This is a bare bones file system. So it is very boring. But this is enough to tell you that your USB drive is working. At this point you are over the hard part. Now comes the fun part. Go to step 3 “add content”.