HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a Windows- based format utility. It can format any USB Flash drive in FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file systems and creates DOS startup disks that can help boot a PC. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is portable freeware, so you can carry it on a USB drive and format other Flash drives on any Windows PC, or even copy it to a PC, run it, and then just delete it. Overall, HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types. You can also make the disk bootable by specifying a file location. The downside is that you may have to run the tool as administrator.

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a free application created by Hewlett-Packard Development Company that will f give you the power to format USB drives to any file system, according to your needs.

I purchased and downloaded the SpinRite program file. SpinRite is a single program file that offers completely different services when it is run under Windows or DOS. It should first be run under Windows to choose and create some form of bootable media. You can choose to create a self-booting floppy diskette, a bootable CD-R ISO image file, or to prepare a USB flash drive or other bootable device for booting. Then, when the media prepared by the Windows-side of SpinRite is booted, the FreeDOS operating system included within SpinRite will boot, and it will, in turn, start SpinRite to begin performing data recovery, maintenance, and repair. Raspinovka na avtomagnitolu shtatnuyu toyota 17809.

After you download the SpinRite.exe program, run it under Windows to have it create a bootable media format of your choice. Then shutdown and restart the target system, booting it with the SpinRite bootable media to start the FreeDOS operating system which will automatically run SpinRite under FreeDOS. How do I make a bootable USB thumb drive?? Past users have had mixed success with USB drive booting.

Older flash drives seem to be resistant, and older BIOSes may not support booting from USB devices. But in both cases, virtually all newer drives and systems do and will. If your system can boot a USB device, and your USB device is bootable, we can offer some tips, tricks, and pointers: Hewlett Packard (HP) makes an easy-to-use utility called “HP USB Disk Format Tool”, which includes a 'Create a DOS Startup Disk' option.

It's freely available from: along with the Windows 98/DOS boot files. Run the HP tool, pointing it at the directory where you unzipped the DOS boot files, and it will automatically build a bootable DOS USB drive using those files. Next, copy your original SPINRITE.EXE file onto the root directory of your USB drive. Once done, reboot the system with your BIOS configured to boot from USB drives.

At the DOS prompt, type spinrite to start SpinRite. Note that this also has the advantage of using real Microsoft MS-DOS files rather than the “FreeDOS” files which accompany SpinRite. The real, original MS-DOS may operate more consistently on less compatible systems. Good luck A Guy. Similar help and support threads Thread Forum How to Make a MS-DOS Bootable Flash Drive This will show you how to create a flash drive that is able to boot your computer into a MS-DOS environment.