Enter the command "Active" to make the disk as an active drive. Use "Select Disk #" (# = number of your disk) and "Select Part 0" to select the first partition on the disk. Search the USB-disk by comparing the different sizes of the listed disks with the size of the USB-Stick and write down the number of your disk. With the command "List Disk", you can view all recognized disks connected to the system. Open an administrator console and start the diskpart-utility by entering "diskpart.exe".
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We recommend to use the same procedure as with Windows 7 Windows 7 If you reach the "Configuration Page", you can abort the Wizard Windows Vista Choose "Hard Disk" as the role and "Create new Filesystem" to format the drive and mark the disk as active.
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Install and start the Utility, select your drive. Make the USB Stick an active Driveĭepending on the Operating System you have, you can use one of the following procedures: Windows XPĭownload the HP Drive Key Boot Utility from here:
Always double check if your command does use the right drive letter. To boot Windows Embedded Standard from USB Stick, you have to prepare the USB Stick as follow:įix up the MBR to be compatible with NTLDRįor all operations, we assume that you have connected a USB Stick to your Host-PC and this Stick is recognized as the drive X:īe careful to not format or change settings on the wrong drive.