Ultimate Boot CD

Thank you, Icecube, for all your help. I really appreciate it. Yes, I checked the mbr (sector 0) and it compares fine (first 404 bytes, all that is in the mbr.bin file. USB keys (yes, I do use then with lots of devices, both booting and not) do not have a geometry - geometry is what needs to be in t...

Ok did all that. It really wasn't so hard. But no joy. Actually no change at all - just the blinking cursor. Using HDHacker, I loaded the mbr.bin file and wrote it to physical drive 1 (the flash drive). Seemed to work just fine. I didn't know what I should check so I just went with it. Anything I ca...

Whew, this isn't exactly general user stuff, is it.


BTW, I've tried the previous stuff with 2 different flash drives from different manufacturers - no difference (Corsair 1GB and SanDisk 256Mb)

I'll give it a go and report. Thanks.

Followed directions carefully.

Yes, ldlinux.sys was properly recreated.

Boot (with forced-fdd) lights-up the flash just fine.

No message, just a blinking cursor.

So, that says the boot sector isn't being written, I guess.

What can I do for the next step?

Be there in a couple of minutes. Thanks for hanging in there with me

Your experience is different than mine. I've never had HDD work with a flash drive. However, at your suggestion, I just tried it again. Same results I always see - pause at boot and then boot the hard disk into XP. So, nothing that works. I really have no clue where to find an older syslinus boot pr...

Sure. Nothing at all on the screen - as I said just a blinking cursor. The bios is set correctly (on 3 different machines.) two different keys, all work just fine with 4.11 on them, not with this new 5. My motherboards are all ASUS, from 3 months to 2 years old and have no problem with bios support ...

Well, no joy yet. First, thanks for the very quick response. Yes, I was making an odd error in the creation of the key. I was using "G:\" for the flash, which didn't cause a problem with 4.11 but of course, once I used the proper "G:" it formatted just fine and copied the files, ...

I'm a long-time v4 (and earlier) user. Add my own images of new and/or missing things and am very happy. Glad there is this great update effort. Not sure why the large effort over Parted Magic, but I'll learn I guess. My big problem with v4 has been the fact that it is only useful to me from CD, not...

I guess this is both a complaint and a request. As I'm using UBCD 4.11, I all of a sudden notice that PowerMax 4.09 and 4.22 no longer are to be found. Hmmmm. So, I check the version change list, and nope, no reference that says "removed." Oh, wait, there is a note that SeaTools for DOS ha...

I've tried a number, but let's just focus on a couple that fail and a couple that run - the Hitachi Feature Tool boots to the PC DOS message and hangs, the Maxtor Diagnostic boots to the DR DOS message and hangs, the FreeDOS boots quite a way then gives an illegal op code, Tom's Linus boots just fin...

Constance: Yes, I was using 4.03 - I always check for upgrades prior to asking for help with a problem. Victor: Thank you so much. That fixed the problem. I had no idea that I should have even tried the "raw" parameter, and even after reading Anvin's description of what it does, I'm not cl...

Hello folks, UBCD is great and I've been using it since early in rev. 3. I'd like to move to rev 4 but seem to be stuck on 3.4 for the following reason. I have one dos program (Image for DOS from Terabyte) and it never would boot (even at 3.3 or 3.4) with memdisk - but it boots fine with dosemu. So ...