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Old March 14th 13, 07:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co
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Default Question Concerning Ceating a XP Bootable USB?

Paul wrote:
wrote:
I have tried Bart PE (PE Builder) twice and have failed. I have even
tried it with to different USBs, one 8GB, one 16GB. In both cases an
error was indicated 'Volume is too big for FAT16/12'. And the USB is
blank.

Could it be because I am using XP SP2 instead of SP1? Or am I doing
something else wrong? I am entering pe2usb -f: k:

Thanks

ME


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

Max. volume size FAT16: 2 GB (4 GB for 64 KB clusters)

For my experiments, I have a 1GB USB stick for FAT16 testing.
That way, the tools don't complain.

This is what I use, if the experiment will involve FAT16. Hard
to say, whether anything like this for sale today, is a legit 1GB
stick or not. Flash seems to start at around 8GB or so now.

http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Trave...atraveller+1gb

Based on my experiments with Bart, I was pretty happy to just
use the CD option. As that worked. To avoid a barrel of
wasted CDs, you load them into VirtualPC 2007, and test that
they boot and do what they're supposed to do. That way, I
only needed to "waste" one CD, to get where I wanted to go.

Also, I vaguely remember doing that experiment you're trying,
and I think the Bart solution only works with a particular
flavor of FAT. And the code is not clever enough to look at
the volume, and say "your volume is FAT32, and this tool
cannot handle FAT32". Instead, the Bart solution just
corrupts the volume. So if you really think that method
is going to work, you'll need to feed it the FAT16 it is
looking for. And, that's where the small USB stick comes in.

I think I tried various methods, to make a larger stick
handle a smaller file system. One trick, for example, is
prepare FAT16 on a 1GB stick, then use "dd.exe" to image
the stick and copy it to an 8GB stick. That fools the
tools into thinking everything is OK. It's one way to get
FAT16 onto an 8GB stick (with space left over at the end
which cannot be accessed).

I did a ton of experiments, with nothing working to show
for my efforts. I don't remember all the permutations
and combinations I tried at the time. It's just a blur now.

Paul


I just tried this out. For BartPE to book on a USB flash drive, that drive
apparently does need to be formatted as FAT16, and a 4 GB USB drive (or
smaller) will work - and you can still find these. It doesn't have to be a
1 GB flash drive.

Furthermore, it's a lot faster booting off of the flash stick than the CD.

If you go to the BartPE website it has a link to another web page discussing
how to make the boot USB drive (and it also includes a link to a FAT16 USB
drive formatter).


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