Flashboot -User Guide Manual.pdf

FlashBoot User Manual

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Part I Introduction

Product Overview

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Major Changes in V2

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Why USB Flash Disks?

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Why FlashBoot?

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System Requirements

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Limitations of Demo Version

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Demo Version -> Full Version

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Support & Feedback

Part II CD to USB conversions

WinXP setup CD -> USB

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WinVista setup CD -> USB

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XP Recovery Console -> USB

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BartPE -> USB

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Generic boot CD -> USB

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IsoLinux/GRUB4DOS boot CD -> USB

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HDD/Floppy emulation boot CD -> USB

Part III Floppy/USB to USB conversions

DOS boot disk -> USB

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Syslinux/GRUB4DOS boot disk -> USB

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Windows NT boot disk -> USB

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Generic boot disk -> USB

Part IV Builtins

Windows password editor

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FreeDOS

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Minimal SysLinux/GRUB4DOS

Part V Mini DOS on USB

Installed DOS -> Mini DOS on USB

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Windows 9x setup files -> Mini DOS on USB

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Part VI Setting up BIOS

FlashBoot User Manual

104

Part VII Decoding Status Codes

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Part VIII Understanding Loader Messages

106

Part IX Reverting Multiformat to Normal

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Part X Using command-line version

120

Part XI FlashBoot as a Portable Software

120

Part XII License Agreement

Index

Introduction

Welcome, you're browsing FlashBoot user manual for version 2.1e of the software.

This topic provides general information about FlashBoot features and ordering information.

1.1

Product Overview

FlashBoot is a tool to make USB disks bootable. Its primary focus is USB Flash disks, but other types of

USB devices are supported as well. Making disk bootable involves formatting and copying operating

system files to it. Different operating systems are supported: Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP, SysLinux-

based disks, GRUB4DOS disks, Linux kernel etc.

You may create blank bootable USB flash with minimal set of system files and then manually tune it for

your needs, or convert a full-featured bootable CD-ROM or floppy disk to bootable USB Flash keeping

all functionality.

FlashBoot can either format physical disk or write an image file. So you may create customized USB

disk manually or with another tool and use FlashBoot to create image out of it and redistribute it in local

network or online.

1.2

Major Changes in V2

FlashBoot 2.0 is a major step forward towards improvement of the software and satisfying user needs.

Its code was rewritten from the ground up since old version 1.4 released in 2006.

Here is a list of improvements:

· Full compatibility with Windows Vista and Windows 7, both x86 and x64 editions

· Support for USB disks larger than 4 GB (up to 2 TB)

· Support for conversion of Windows XP/Vista/7 installation CD to bootable USB disk

· Support for extraction of Windows XP recovery console to bootable USB disk

· Support for conversion of generic CD discs to bootable USB disks (operating system or boot

loader of such generic CD disc must access boot device exclusively via BIOS API)

· Support for multiformat USB disks (FlashBoot 2 does not shift to user the burden of choice

between "USB-ZIP" and "USB-HDD" anymore. There is one unified format, "Multiformat", and

every USB disk is formatted by FlashBoot will work in all conditions: both USB-ZIP and USB-

HDD. This is for sake of maximum compatibility.)

· Support for boot time mapping to either A: or C:, chosen by user at format time, not by machine-

specific BIOS at boot time

· Support for explicit specification of USB disk CHS geometry by user at format time, not by

machine-specific BIOS at boot time

· Greater BIOS and USB disk compatibility (åxplicit measures taken in order to support BIOSes

which do not map USB boot disk to INT 13h devices 0 or 0x80; emulation of MBR track if it's

stripped off by BIOS; FlashBoot loader always provides LBA and CHS disk access to USB disk

for OS code).

· Autodetection of input CD/DVD/floppy/USB disk type. User does not have to make choice from

long list of all possible disk types, it is detected automatically. But experienced user can override

autodetection results and make choice from the full list.

· Less restrictive limitations of demo version (30-days bootability in V2 vs. one-time bootability in

V1, 16 tries per physical USB disk in V2 vs. 10 tries per physical USB disk in V1)

· Full support for Unicode file names

· Command-line interface as alternative to GUI for users who need automation

· Improved old features (support for new SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX versions, BartPE, GRUB4DOS)

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