USB Booting

Now that more systems are starting to support booting from USB and that I don't have Internet access at home I decided to reexamine booting from a USB flash key again.

Cutting out the mistakes

I had an image of a floppy disk already, but it seems it was no longer bootable.

So using VFD I mounted it as drive A: in Windows as I no longer have a floppy drive, formatted it in Windows as a bootable floppy, used the HP Disk Storage Tool on marlow.dk to make the image and transferred back all the stuff that was on it before. If I'd have known it probably would have taken 5 minutes at the most.

And... it works. I've never seen DOS boot so fast. Less than a second, though I have to admit it doesn't have much to do.

Cool.