RE: How to make an USB stick bootable / Which files + more do I need?

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I took A+ at DeVry last summer. That does not qualify me as any more expert
than other people who use this forum. But unless something new is out that I
haven't heard about, the shortcoming of flash or thumb drives, as I assume
you are referring to, was that they are not bootable.

"Sven Claasen" wrote:

> I have a bootable (!) CD-ROM with a couple of MS-DOS programs on it.
> Now I want to move all the stuff to an USB stick.
>
> However as far as I know not only the visible files are necessary to boot from a CD-ROM but
> something like a boot entry in the CD MBR or something like that.
>
> How do I make an USB stick bootable? Yes, from the motherboards (BIOS) view a boot from
> USB stick is possible in general.
>
> Sven
>
>
.



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