Ultimate Boot CD

Well I had to re-install XP, then all the updates..then the software...I Heard Windows 7 is the new 98 SE, or the new XP,(sorta), but this 'ol PC will have to do with XP, lol. I can take credit for sticking with it, but like all good technicians, we must give credit to whose shoulders we stood on. I...

I was using the rufus tool, and I did the format with the FAt option, not Fat32, and the cluster size was set and not an option. This is when I got the error something like,"Wrong cluster size, format will not continue" This happened with freedos as the boot sector, and I did not test it w...

Very interesting site, thank you What is interesting, and a little bit of a mystery, is the splash screens The bios string used to be Emachine, as was the splash screen DMI BIOS vendor Intel Corp. version BF86510A. 15A .0085.P20.0412152353 date 12/15/2004 Now with the automatic exe update it has cha...

If you can, please relate to a couple of my comments. Is FAT32 giving you any problem? Have you tried formatting with FAT16 instead (and using Rufus with this filesystem)? In addition, do you still have "invalid opcode" messages? Now, I'm not sure if this is related to your case: This is ...

So the lastest, of what has become the, why can't i flash this drive? ,issue. I downloaded the tool that is on UBCD, BIOS, and put that on the flash drive, ran the tests, identified the bios, and it all checked out, plus I had the name of the bios manufacterer..AMI 0100. So I went to AMIs website, a...

Well i used rufus with the dos bootable source choice, and was able to use Iflash, find the .bio file, execute it and after the warning I hit enter to continue. Then it locked up, and didn't work. As far as making the stick bootable, we have found the solution. Thank you again. As to what is happeni...

Tried putting the whole file from intel on the stick, and expanding it, which also overwrote the autoexec.bat file. Ran Iflash/XXX.bio and came back with the same error," Invalid Opcode at 0017 0000 0212 FFF5 5E22 0022 5E01 F522 80FF" The stick still boots though I did a google search on I...

Ok the issue was that rufus said the cluster size was invalid. Figured this out when I formatted at Fat32, and then it finished ok. Put it in machine and it boots to dos off the USB. Followed the advice given at Intel and got the file for the BIOs. [ XXXXX IB.exe] from the website, put it in a direc...

So here is an update while I wait for Rufus to format my USB with Freedos support. I checked scan for bad sectors so maybe that is why it is taking so long, but I was wanting to know, plus maybe like the old scandisk utility, it would somehow mark them as unusable if it found them. After I read your...

I will look into this Ady, and I certainly will report back on the results. Also to try to exlpain as much as i can/know about/understand why I am so adamant about removing the part of the MBR of the stick. That makes sense, that it is in the MBR, some kind of label, thats why it wont erase in low l...

Specifically the tools used were number 1, the uninstall utility from sandisk, and it could not find the drive, even though it was installed and lit up and you could see it in explorer. Instructions at this link http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/107/kw/removing%20sandisk%20%20u3%20softwa...

Ok, so I used to have one of these,(another one), that I used the menu to remove the menu and it became a clean stick with no label. This one was given to me by my daughter, and although it appears clean, it still has the SanDisk name when ejecting it. I want to use this as a boot stick, but it does...