Its not bootable... how do you make it bootable?

Using an 8GB memory stick with a 3.91 gb partition formatted to FAT.

Yes, that was my bad. I didn't have a HP stick so thought it wouldn't work. Thanks. Trying it out now

and i'll format to NTFS. Beacuse FAT only goes up to 4gb size. I have 8 so it won't work otherwise

KneeOn wrote:

Yes, that was my bad. I didn't have a HP stick so thought it wouldn't work. Thanks. Trying it out now

and i'll format to NTFS. Beacuse FAT only goes up to 4gb size. I have 8 so it won't work otherwise

You don't need a HP stick. U can use any memory, even the SD SDHC.
You must find a support to can accept FAT format. Will not work on other format.

And try to disable the fast booting from Bios. Like this you have time to hit the ESC during boot screen to get the booting order menu.

Last edited by nicolaerugina (2009-08-13 1:00:43 am)

KneeOn wrote:

I can get to the boot select screen. I can't format it as FAT because its an 8gb stick.

Try with a SD or microSd up to 4 GB. It will work, Or if you have a USB stick up to 4GB.
Borrow one and if it's work (and will work) buy one, the cheapest one.

Last edited by nicolaerugina (2009-08-13 6:51:38 am)

KneeOn wrote:

Will it fit on a 2gb?

I don't try, but you can, copy with out drivers folder. and see what something else you can take out to fit on 2Gb. but the main important file it is \I386.

Burriello wrote:

I have a French dictionary on CD, and the program needs to have the CD in the drive when you launch the program (afterwards you can take out the CD from drive and the program works), but as my EEEPc has no CD drive attached to it permantly, how can I pass the CD to a USB strick?

You can create an image of that CD, copy the image on USD and use VirtualCD or any other program which allow you to month a virtual CD and run the CD (the image of your CD) from USB.

Hello;

I made the process , the program run, but went I tipe the ok appear the next message : can not find recovery DVD.

Can you hepme?

sledwards wrote:

This is my first post. I have just bought a 1005HA P series netbook and I also bought a 4 GB USB stick to use in place of the DVD provided for backup. I followed the above instructions and ran into two major roadblocks. First, the HP utility would not allow FAT formatting, only FAT32. Second, I knew the space would be tight so I tried to copy the restore DVD contents minus the Software folder to the USB stick. It wouldn't fit - I got a drive full message near the end of the copy process. I would appreciate any input on these issues. For example, could I also not copy the Drivers folder, or any other of the folders? Any assistance would be gratefully received!

HP utility it is made to can format also on FAT only!!!!
Yes, you can copy only the Windows xp file!!!

Last edited by nicolaerugina (2009-10-17 2:23:14 am)

I didn't invent that method, just summarized it, and it's up to the mods, they can't sticky everything but this does seem to be turning up a few times lately. . .  besides telling people to not post their emails


@nicolaerugina - HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8 supports FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS.  You can actually use FAT32 in most cases, and only have to limit yourself to FAT16 if what you are installing requires it or you're working with an older computer with a BIOS that may not support the newer formats.

Last edited by zeo (2009-10-17 6:51:26 am)

Hi there. Mr n00b here.

Last week I got my shiny new 1005ha, and after stripping all the **** out of XP, updating, config'ing etc, I installed Norton Ghost 9 and took an image of C to an external drive. This is so that if I ever do have to recover, I can restore my image rather than the factory default image.

Of course, my n00bishness caused me to be blind to the fact that I cant recover using the NG9 disc unless I have an external CD-ROM drive. Ouch.

I have been googling for two days in trying to get the method as described in the OP to work. Even when using a 1gig FAT-formatted stick (using the HP tool) and following the instructions, it's as if when I select the USB key for boot, the eeepc doesnt even find the boot sector that is apparently created by the HP tool and so just carries on booting into windows. So today I found an old 98 machine at work, and created a dos disc with my USB key, stripped out the files it put there (but leaving the boot sector intact) and then proceeded to copy over \I386 etc etc. Now it recognises the USB drive as being bootable, but says 'Invalid system disk. Replace the disk, and then press any key'

So Im kind of half-way there, but cant for the life of me work out what I do to fix this.

My earlier solution was to make a bootable DOS disk, stick ghost.exe from Symantec Ghost 11, and run that from the key. That was all very good, but a) SG11 doesnt recognise the .v2i image file NG9 created b) when I thought I should just start making images with SG11, it wanted 4 hours just to create an image of a 30gig partition with only 15gig used :S

So do I persevere in trying to get NG9 to boot, or give up and use another solution? I had a look at Acronis True Image 2009, and I *think* that has an option to create a USB-bootable recovery thingy.

Thanks for any guidance and advice


edit: After some thought, I am wondering if my key is not being made bootable by the HP tool. Is there a way to check? I only say this as I would think there would be an error of some sort when I tell it to boot from my supposedly bootable USB drive, yet it cant read the files etc.

edit2: Also, it would be interesting to know what make and type of USB key people have had success with.

Last edited by blimeyguv (2009-11-22 6:00:43 pm)