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Old 24-07-2013, 01:25 PM   #18
dosraider
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Been there , done that, ditched the whole multi boot from one HD.
Solution:
Save yourself some serious hassle, get a HD rack, and switch your HD.
As many OSses as you want without any troubles.



BTW:
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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire View Post
I don't know about an USB stick... But in the good old DOS days doing "format a: /s" did the trick.
Won't work with an USB stick, you need a special soft to make it bootable.
Contrary to flops USB sticks don't have a specific boot sector located at cylinder 0/head 0/sector 1 , the soft needs to create a boot sector so that the Mobo can find and read it upon boot.

But anyway, a USB stick is really too slow to run an OS from it.
It's only interesting for OS install purposes, nothing more.

The soft I usually use to create a bootable USB stick is Rufus (Win).
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
Or in Linux UNetbootin
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

My two cents........
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