Making a bootable memorystick?

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:30 am

I have one of those tiny toshiba portege PCs with no drives, my USB CD-ROM was dropped down a flight of stairs, but I never used it and never ordered a new one.

Now I need to reinstall XP, is it possible to make my 1gig USB memory stick bootable? and links or suggestions?

Thanks :icon30:

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:34 am

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ma ... emorystick

seriously.. not a big deal..

=P

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:39 am

Is data recoverable from solid state memory? Can I erase data off such memory and be assured it's irrecoverable?

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:55 am

Massive Quasars wrote:Is data recoverable from solid state memory? Can I erase data off such memory and be assured it's irrecoverable?

Install Eraser.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:36 am

Hmm, thnx.

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:14 am

Still having trouble finding it...

I want the memory stick to be like the bootable XP CD.

I would like to place the XP CD on there then boot from the stick, since my CD drive is busted...

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:20 am

try this, copy the Contents of the windows 98 Start up disk onto the Thumdrive, and give her a wirl.. i just want to see if that much will work.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:34 am

wait a tic, couldent you "ghost" your ISO, then apply the image onto your USB key? Boot sector and all?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:43 am

Amidy, do you believe the program G}{ posted renders erased data truly irrecoverable?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:46 am

well to put it lightly, data is basically ALLWAYS recoverable even if it is in small amounts..

but i would say that the program would make it hard as hell to say the least.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:48 am

That's what I thought. Short of destroying and liquifying (melting) the HD platters, this may be the best shot.

Post by **saturn** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:16 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:well to put it lightly, data is basically ALLWAYS recoverable even if it is in small amounts..

but i would say that the program would make it hard as hell to say the least.

who the fuck ate amidy, I only see one typo :icon32:

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sat May 14, 2005 10:05 am

Massive Quasars wrote:Amidy, do you believe the program G}{ posted renders erased data truly irrecoverable?

That who posted?
Anyways there's different methods of erasing the data.
I use method #2 for erasing data. It'll write 1's and 0's to that file with 7 passes. This method is what the Department of Defense uses.
The Gutmann method is the person who thought up of the idea and basically was a little overprotective on erasing data hence the 35 passes.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:34 pm

FragaGeddon wrote:
Massive Quasars wrote:Amidy, do you believe the program G}{ posted renders erased data truly irrecoverable?
That who posted?

Mistake.

FragaGeddon wrote:Anyways there's different methods of erasing the data.
I use method #2 for erasing data. It'll write 1's and 0's to that file with 7 passes. This method is what the Department of Defense uses.
The Gutmann method is the person who thought up of the idea and basically was a little overprotective on erasing data hence the 35 passes.

Yeah, I do 7 passes using Spybot's Secure shredder. #2 is satisfactory for me, #1 seems almost ideal (albeit time consuming). Much appreciated Frag.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:04 pm

Massive Quasars wrote:
Yeah, I do 7 passes using Spybot's Secure shredder. #2 is satisfactory for me, #1 seems almost ideal (albeit time consuming). Much appreciated Frag.

Hmmm...didn't see the spybot one.
Haven't played with Spybot that much.
With Eraser it adds a context menu so you just right click the file and select erase.

Post by **sirstrongbad** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:31 pm

so i downloaded Eraser. install went fine. i went off erasing things and ... uhhhh... accidentally erased my C:\ partition (i was trying to "reformat" another partition)... uhhh yeah.

so here i am posting from my Powerbook.

Post by **Denz** » Sat May 14, 2005 3:26 pm

sirstrongbad wrote:so i downloaded Eraser. install went fine. i went off erasing things and ... uhhhh... accidentally erased my C:\ partition (i was trying to "reformat" another partition)... uhhh yeah.

so here i am posting from my Powerbook.

oops!!!, hahahaha :lol: :lol:

Post by **sirstrongbad** » Sat May 14, 2005 4:13 pm

j/k, btw...

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat May 14, 2005 4:22 pm

riddla wrote:
AmIdYfReAk wrote:wait a tic, couldent you "ghost" your ISO, then apply the image onto your USB key? Boot sector and all?
that might work using ghost and if it does work this has alot of potential :icon32:

there are a shitload of Distro's on *nix that are doing it.. so why not windows?

saturn:

shut it noob