Hello,

First, I want to express how much I appreciate the Ultimate Boot CD! It has helped me bring a number of machines back to life.

Secondly, my ego wants me to say that I am very good at what I do. I know how to run batch files and script from a command prompt. However, I am stumped.

I am looking forward to been able to use the Ultimate Boot resources from a USB stick. I sometimes run across situations where I can't boot from the hard drive or the optical drive.

I have tried very hard to get the Ultimate Boot onto a USB stick. I ran the script. I updated to v5. I tried everything I have seen in the forum. I tried different ways of naming the file path (spaces/no spaces, caps/no caps, etc.) but I must not be doing it correctly.

There are a few posts here in the forum regarding this topic and they seem to give fairly straightforward suggestions. But, alas, I have not been able to get Ultimate Boot onto a USB stick.

I would greatly appreciate help with this.

Using: Windows XP Pro/Scandisk cruzer USB stick

Thank you.

Do you have a working floppy drive (and floppy) on that PC.
If yes, try PLoP bootmanager to boot your USB stick.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

Which options do you see in the BIOS for USB?
USB-floppy, USB-HDD, USB-ZIP?

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Hello,

Thanks for responding. I need to clarify. I am not having a boot issue. I am having difficulty getting Ultimate Boot onto a USB stick. I followed the instructions. When I run the batch file with the file path examples shown, I get an error message saying it's not a valid command.

I found a couple of similar entries in the forum and I tried the suggested solution(s)- i.e. experimenting with the file path. Someone posted their USB stick didn't like certain spaces in the file path, etc.

I see in the V5 forum someone posting that maybe the batch file has some errors? I am just trying to figure out if I am not doing it correctly or if maybe there is a known issue?

Anyhow, I am just trying to get it functional on a USB stick. I use the UBCD all the time and it is very useful. Being able to boot from a USB stick and use all the resources would come in handy.

Thanks.

You might need to run the script with Administrator rights.

If it doesn't work, you can try the following:

- Extract the UBCD50RC1 ISO to your USB stick (with 7zip).
- Open a command prompt window with administrator rights:
- Go to the \ubcd\tools\ubcd2usb directory and drag and drop syslinux.exe to the command prompt window.
- Complete the command line so it looks similar to this (replace X: with the drive letter for your USB stick):


Edit: corrected typo

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Thank you again for the prompt reply. This looks like exactly what I need. I will not be able to try it till tomorrow. I will post again and let you know how it turns out.

UBCD80RC1...dont you mean UBCD50RC1



Btw, thats another great idea...I'll have add this as an alternative way, to install UBCD to a USB Flash Drive, to UBCD wiki when I get that page going.

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