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David,

Is USN a typo and you intended to type USB?

When you say USB devices are you thinking of flash drives or USB hard drives.

Yes is a typo. It should have been USB.

Other that Flashboot are there any other tools free that will do this?

thanks

David,

Are you referring to USB flash drives or USB hard drives?

For flash drives it won't produce a boot file system for most of them if they report themselves as removable, I use MultiBoot ISOs as my flash drive boot environment.

I have made a bootable USB (thumb drive) with Flash Boot, It worked. I am trying other products.

I would like to see software makes ship with their own solution. I know that several backup solutions ship with their own solution.

It would be nice for general users who aren't in the habit of making USB drives like the rest of us techies. But it seems to me that this is really an opportunity for an independent developer to create a utility that is also capable of making the USB flash drive's partition active.

For drives of 4GB and under, currently there's HP's Disk Storage Format Tool, and MSI included a similar but nicer tool with my motherboard utilities. For drives of 8GB and larger, installing WinPE using unetbootin or WinToFlash will make the partition active, but Win7's good old DiskPart is my favorite. Grub4dos is great, and I happened upon BootICE recently which is good too. But the most elusive piece of this puzzle for most users (IMNSHO) is making the USB flash drive's partition active. If this capability was added to any of the multiboot ISO utilities, it would make life simpler for many.

Oh, I forgot about PowerISO. I've been using it for a while, just not recently. Previously I used Magic ISO, but a separate program is required to mount ISOs as virtual discs, and it seems to be no longer maintained. PowerISO is not free (same cost as UltraISO), but it's completely self-contained, well-maintained and very handy.

http://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/how-to-make-win7-bootable-usb-drive.h…