Hey guys, I have tried all that I know to do, and failed. I do not have a floppy drive, and my CD drive does not work. I want to use GHOST to create an image of my Partitions and can only boot via flash drive. I have made a flash drive bootable, but it is not large enough to hold an image, and to boot from this flash drive I cannot have my 160GB external plugged. For some reason only one USB storage device is recognized at a time. Solution: make external hard drive bootable. I have made two partitions, one 1028 MB formatted in FAT32, the rest NTFS. I do not know what to do next. PLEASE HELP! It's driving me crazy! ha ha.

The BIOS must have an option to Boot from USB Hard Drive.

In reality only MS-DOS and Linux are suitable candidates for USB Booting.

Without a floppy or hard drive you may as well give up, also as you have NTFS/FAT32 partitions one would surmise that you are not running MS-DOS which this FORUM is applicable to ??

I guess I left out details. Basically, my point is that I want to install DOS as the OS on my external. This is completely to do with this forum, is it not? I got my hands on a usb floppy drive now. When I run DOS 6.22 disk 1 it only recognizes my internal drive... no external. How do I get it to think my external is the primary? And the BIOS does allows me to boot from usb storage device, no problem there. Just need an OS on it for it to run.

"BIOS does allows me to boot from usb storage device"

It may be that the BIOS only recognises one USB Boot device ie Floppy Drive. If that is the case you will need to ensure that the External Drive is on a different controller and see if the USB DOS Drivers will assign a drive letter. Though from experience the USB DOS Drivers will alsotry to assign a drive letter to the floppy as well.

I stll feel that a Linux solution is the answer..