Make your pen drive bootable with MakeBootable
Many times, when you are facing a critical windows problem and you need the bootable cd urgently to repair your windows but some how you don’t get it.
MakeBootable is a free software which lets you convert your pen drive into a bootable media, After making your pen drive bootable with makebootable you can use your pen drive like a windows xp bootable cd.
Makebootable is so easy to use, as it make your normal USB pen drive a bootable media in one click.
But there is a limitation, you will need to format your pen drive with fat file system in order to make your device bootable.
Convert to FAT and use MakeBootable
1. Backup the existing files on the drive.
2. Perform a FAT format
3. Now Run Makebootable.exe to make your USB portable device bootable.
After making your pen drive bootable, go to your BIOS and select USB Device as First Boot device in the boot device priority
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We hope you like this small trick, Let us know your idea trough comments.
Note: While using MakeBootable, if your
USB pen drive is under FAT32 and NTFS file system format, you will need to convert the format to FAT. MakeBootable does not support FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
[ Download MakeBootable ]
Update: If the above links to download the application is not working then you can use the link given below.
[ Alternate Link To Download MakeBootable ]
Update On: 23 oct 2009
Please note if the above utility does not work for your pen drive for any reason you can read other ways to make your USB drive bootable like Make USB Disk Bootable – Create MS-DOS Bootable USB Drive,
and you can also try reading how to Install Windows 7, Vista and Server 2008 From Bootable USB Drive
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is it usefull if our computer is not recognize boot from USB?
Dont work for mine. converted to FAT from FAT32 then directed MakeBootable to my drive letter (which was in the list of options) and it gives me an error everytime. (Failed… Could not find device specified) or something. Too bad, could have really used this.
this is cool I will use it if I buy myself a pendrive
@Jacob Plogman – it works successfully on my kingston pen drive…you can try using a different drive. @Jusdy J – ya it will only be profitable if your computer mother board support booting form a usb device. @Siddharth – glad that you liked the application
Pretty good application, I’ll try it out on my drive.
great useful article.
heyyy!!!!!! gr888 job …..its really nice… itried on my datatravler .. and it works fine… guuud job guys….
Don’t work on my pen drive. The following work for me:- use rawrtie 2.0 (look for it in the net) to create an image file of your bootable floppy disk. use dd-0.5 ((look for it in the net) to write the image to your pen drive. command was :- dd -if=wstartup.img -of=\\.\K: where wstartup.img is the image file of the bootable floppy K: is the dirve for the pendrive
i cant make the pendrive bootable by using “make bootabel” softawre i give erroe that:delet three file one of that is COOMAND.COM and other two file where can i find that three file in my all set up file of WIN XP… if there is any othr method to make pen drive bootable the plz TELL ME plz
i cant get for tat software, Website link got error.
Hello the website says some error while downloading the file. Please can you upload the file to file sharing sites like rapidshare.com or mediafire,com or megaupload.com. Thank you for the info.
i want to install xp through pen drive what should i do?
i have tried what u have told but it is showing boot partition not defined msg what should i do?
does every motherboard support booting from a pendrive…nice tutorial though.
i m ready ro make my pen drive bootable. but wer is the software which ur sugessting.Makebootable
i am using a trancend 8gb pendrive . i can’t make it bootable using make boot device.tell an another method for trancend 8gb
Help me please i couldnt find the site to download:((
HI HOW CAN WE INCREASE THE RAM IN XP
Hi, i use vista home basic and i want to boot it to xp when i am useing makebootable.exe it is not supporting. please help
my login screen has been attacked by a virus and crashed it. i was using the packvista inspirate software. please help
this tool is noty working with my jetflash 2.0 1gb “make Device Bootable failed” message coming i have tried everything what u said.. and i have already formated this in fat file System. Any Idea Plse..
hi, I wants to make a bootable pendrive in win98. I fellow the step that was not getting. Some one help me it was very urgent. Regards rakhi
sorry yar rakhi i dont hav ny idea
this software only works with pen drives supporting phison chips
Hello, Sir This is kanta prasad, sir I want make xp service pack2 bootable my penderive so I want to step by step help me please….. because I can’t do this so again please help me
The problem with makebootable or the HP flash key utilities or any of the other freeware tools is that they copy system files only, they don’t write to to the bootsector so if the bootsector is damaged or otherwise non-bootable none of these tools will work. At all. The only thing that worked for me was a program called FlashBoot which writes bootsector data as well as system files… unfortunately it’s not free.
my kigston pendrive is not bieng booted by this process can you suggest us any way to solve our problem ?
send me some idea how to make a bootable pen drive
i want to install operating system into my pendrive, can?how?
after making pendrive as bootable and after installation of os can we use pendrive as previous that is for copying data
after making pendrive as bootable and after installation of os can we use pendrive as previous that is for copying data
how to make a bootable pendrive xp
how to make a bootable pendrive xp plz kindly ans me .
how to make a bootable pendrive xp and windows 7
Complet server installation
@zeeshan – http://www.technixupdate.com/create-windows-7-bootable-flash-drive-from-windows-7-setup-dvd/
not working in windows 7…..
howto makebootable usb pen drive???? for xp vista windows 7 and linux platforms??? pls doreply in details cos i’m a beginner
sir pen drive bootable karne ka software ka kya naam h or download kaha se hoga
Sir Pen Drive software to Bootbale the name of t Will be downloaded and added
SIR PLEASE SEND ME SOME ADVISED BY EMAIL HOW BOOTABLE TO PEN DRIVE ON XP,WINDOWS 7. IT BETTER SAVE DATA FOR DVD OR CD. THANKS ANANDA NAYAK
what is fat file system ????????? how can i format my PD using fat?
yes sure you can use your pen drive as well as what was it at first time you can use the pen drive for the copying purpose
yes ….. i got it bootable pen drive xp
this software is very good
its good but i want softwear for convert the ntfs file into the fat,plese give download link for convertor