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MudCrab,
While trying to creat a bootable flashdrive using your Grub4DOS instructions all went well until I clicked the list refresh step. I got the message "Invalid partition table, if you want to install use the --skip-MBR-test". The flashdrive is a SanDisk 4G which originally had a U3 capability which I had successfully deleted. Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Murgatroyd:

That message is only telling you that the partition table is "nonstandard" in some way. Grub4Dos checks that all partitions start and end on cylinder boundaries (the older partitioning standard). If you or someone else created a partition on the flash drive using newer tools (Vista or Windows 7 Disk Management or DiskPart) then you'll get this message. You can probably ignore it and skip the MBR test.

There are several things you can try:

Type --skip-mbr-test into the Extra box on the Grub4DOS GUI Installer screen (Figure 1.8) and then try to install it.

If you have Vista, you can "clean" the flashdrive and try installing Grub4DOS again. Note: This procedure will erase all files on the flashdrive. I assume this works with Windows 7 as well, but I haven't tried it.

The Extra box entry solved the problem and I successfully booted into TIHome 2010 using the .iso file. Thanks for your help.