I'm trying to boot ERD Commander 2005 from a USB Drive but w/o success. I've tried every single method, I've found on the net or here in the forums.
Methods I've tried:
- Booting ISO Image directly from Grub4Dos, using div. menu.lst configurations
- Booting ISO Image from the CD-Partition of a U3-SMART-Thumdrive
- Booting ERD from USB-Drive, which I wrote directly to the USB-Drive via PE2USB
- Booting a mixxed version with BartPE-Files and ERD
- Booting from a HDD-Image, shown from online's tutorial
But every time, it shows me a BSOD (e.g. UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME,...) or a Blackscreen (just a blinking underscore or a message: "Attempting boot from USB Device, N GRLDR" or a message: "Medienfehler, Neustart: taste drücken" [eng. translation: "Media error, Restart: press any key"])....
The last error message I have is from booting with Grub4Dos, using online's tutorial:
Warning: total_sectors calculated from partition table(4209030) is greater than the number of sectors in the whole disk image (4194304). The int13 handler will disable any read/write operations across the image boundary. That means you will not be able to read/write sectors (in absolute address, i.e., lba) 4194304 - 4209029, though they are logically inside your emulated virtual disk(according to the partition table).
probed C/H/S = 262/255/63, probed total sectors = 4209030
map --mem /boot/erd50.dsk (hd0)
Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
Press any key to continue...
Log of creation of the hdd-image:
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Obi-Wahn\Desktop\MBRBatch>mkimg erd50.dsk
Image size, in bytes or suffixed by K, M or G for Kilo Mega or Giga
Please enter target image size: 2G
Please type desired geometry [255/63 128/63 64/63 16/63 64/32]: 255/63
Available partition types for this image, 2147483648 bytes:
06 FAT 16 CHS Mapped
07 NTFS
0B FAT 32 CHS Mapped
0C FAT 32 LBA Mapped
0E FAT 16 LBA Mapped
Please type desired Partition Type [06 07 0B 0C 0E]: 0B
Please type /fsz to use fsz.exe or [ENTER] to use mksparse.exe:
Creating a MBR from C:\WINDOWS\System32\dmadmin.exe with dsfo.exe:
OK, 512 bytes, 0.000s, MD5 = 61a174a7d3cbe41d9996de0f124b7ebf
Image will be mounted as 0bh:FAT32
The batch has detected that the newly created image is mounted as drive G:
NOW it would be the perfect time to stop if you are not sure about
what you are doing.
Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .
Der Typ des Dateisystems ist FAT32.
ACHTUNG: ALLE DATEN AUF DEM
FESTPLATTENLAUFWERK G: GEHEN VERLOREN!
Formatierung durchführen (J/N)? n
Press any key to unmount the image and uninstall vdk.exe...
Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .
Virtual Disk Driver for Windows version 3.1
http://chitchat.at.i...k.co.jp/vmware/
Closing the image on the virtual disk 0...The image is closed.
Stopped the Virtual Disk Driver.
Uninstalled the Virtual Disk Driver.
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Obi-Wahn\Desktop\MBRBatch>
So, I'm quite a noob, booting images from USB-Drives, and frankly, I've no idea what went wrong.
Basicly, my target is, to boot multible images from one USB drive.
Images I like to boot:
- ERD 2005
- Konboot
- Freedos
- Ophcrack
- BartPe
- DBAN
- NTPassword
- systemrescuecd
- 2 different xp installation images.
Images I'am able to boot til now:
- Freedos
- BartPE
- DBAN
- NTPassword
THXIA 4 any help
Obi-Wahn