Creating a Multi-Boot USB Device

Note: This was created for Flash devices. I do not know if it will work for Hard Disks.

Also, I do not know if this will work with your specific flash device. Try it.

   If you computer is USB Bootable, this procedure will work. I cannot answer e-mails about specific systems.

The Equipment:

You will need:

  A USB Device (USB Key, Memory Card with USB reader, etc...)

  1-4 Floppies, depending on which Bootdisk you are creating

  Access to a computer that has a floppy drive, and that can access/read/write the USB Device you want to make into a Bootdisk

  And the computer that you want to boot to must be USB Boot capable. Check on the Web if you don't know

NO FILE LINKS WORK

Procedure:

Make a DOS Bootable floppy using Win98se.

If you are making a NTFS Readable Boot Partition, read the instructions here on how to create the

    bootable floppy to be used later.

If you are making a Ghost partition,  create Floppies for Ghost using your copy of Ghost, and the

    Win98se floppy

Copy PART.EXE to another floppy

You must be in Windows 98 (Use the Win98se floppy to boot into a usable DOS prompt

     (NOTE: Cannot be done in XP/2000. It MUST be a true DOS prompt!)

Copy PART.EXE to the ramdisk drive

Run PART,  and create 2 FAT or FAT32 partitions and a Boot Manager partition on the USB device.

    Use PART to format the 2 partitions

Change the default Boot Manager to GUI, and save the partition information.

    (For more help on using PART, visit the makers of PART: Ranish Software

Close PART

For the DOS and Ghost Partition: Type "sys c:" to make partition 1 bootable, or "sys d:" for partition 2

For the NTFS Readable: Insert the floppy created for NTFS in the A: drive. Type "sys a: c:" to make

   partition 1 NTFS bootable, or "sys a: d:" for partition 2

Reboot to Windows (Get out of the DOS prompt)

Unzip "WinDos" or "NTFS" into their prospective partitions on the USB Device (If you cannot access the drives in Windows, unzip the files to floppies, reboot to the DOS prompt, and copy ALL files to the partitions.

     Don't overwrite ANY files

If using Ghost, copy all files to the Ghost partition, booting to DOS if necessary

        Edit the autoexec.bat file for Ghost to remove references to "a:"

You should now have a Dual Boot capable USB Device. When you boot with it, you can choose which partition yo boot to.

THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL. Try it. If you have any comments, e-mail me. I'm not perfect. I'll update as needed

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