You might want to see what would be involved getting Hiren's Boot Utilities onto a USB drive. It's been so long there may already be a USB version. If you see how he did the different directories you might be able to figure out how to add your own utilities to the menu.
lopaka --- On Fri, 2/20/09, Christopher Fisk <chr...@mhonline.net> wrote: From: Christopher Fisk <chr...@mhonline.net> Subject: Re: [H] Looking for Booting utility To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 6:08 AM On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: > I'm looking for a utility that will allow me to install it onto a USB drive and select a floppy, cd or dvd image to boot from. > > I'd like for it to be able install directly to the USB, then you would use a utility like linux dd or windows rawwrite to create images of floppy disks, or just take an ISO file and boot from that. > > > Best setup for it would be to be able to just drop the images into a directory on the USB drive, boot from the USB drive and get a selection list where you select which image you want to boot. > > > Anyone know anything that'll do that? As I expected, I was likely asking for a bit too much here =) That said, I did find the Super Grub Disk, which allows you to install the grub boot loader to a ThumbDrive, then using grub I can boot floppy images. I now have Ghost, Partition Magic, Spinrite, NTPasswd Reset and memtest all on a single USB Thumb Drive. I will be adding a Bart PE Environment as well as a knoppix install using a regular filesystem (assuming I can fit both into a 2GB Flash). Unfortunately, for me the Super Grub Disk doesn't work on my laptop, not too big of an issue other than it added about 2 hours of troubleshooting to my testing. Once I tested on a desktop here in the office everything fell into place quickly. Super Grub disk has a lot of MBR utilities built in, can repair broken MBR's, edit them, etc. Very nice program for techs. Christopher Fisk -- Peter Griffin: So if I walk through you, does that mean that we've, you know, done it? Ghost: Geez, what's with you and the gay jokes? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
