Thread: Create a Bootable Disk

With the help of bootable disk you can boot your system if your hard drive crashes. If your OS becomes crashed or corrupted, a bootable disk will helps you to troubleshoot and potentially save your data. Creating a bootable disk gives flexibility in troubleshooting that cannot be found in the system restoration CD that came with your computer.

• Insert the floppy disk into your disk drive.

• Hold "Ctrl" and press "E" to open Windows Explorer .

• Right-click on the floppy disk drives and choose "Format."

• Check the box next to "Create an MS-DOS startup disk."

• Click "Start" to format your floppy disk and create your startup disk

Follow the steps to create bootable USB drive.

• Download and install the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

• Open the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

• choose your USB drive from the drop down list

• choose the FAT32 file system and then ensure the Create a DOS startup disk box

• Point to your DOS system files location

• Click "Start" and let it go.