Cant Boot to DOS

[freak1]

First off great/helpful site.

Im going to brave flashing my ms28, I read and reread all the tutorials and was about to go, when my computer just refuses to boot into DOS. Im trying to use a 512m ScanDisk Cruizer Micro USB stick and Vista OS. Ive tried creating it with iPrep 101 and Xtreme Boot Maker 053 (I think thats the ver.) It puts

Backup (Folder)
Autoexec.bat
MTKFlash.exe
MTKFlash.typ
SamTool.exe
xFlash.bat
xIntro.exe
xRead.bat
XtremeFW.bin

on the drive (thats the Xtreme BM) I go to BIOS and change my bootable devices. Thats where I think the problem might be.

My options are HardDrive, CDRom, USB Zip, USB CD, and USB FDD. I set USB as the first boot. then harddrive. Under harddrive priorities I set the (recognized) USB Stick above my SATA HD. And it either goes into Vista or gives me a system disk error (If I choose no harddrive in the list)

Any ideas what I could do? I have a Biostar 965PT mobo could it just not support boot to DOS via USB stick?

Any help is appreciated!

 

[freak1]

I realized the problem may be I didn't use the HP USB program on my stick first. Will try that.

Okay this may seem stupid. I have the HP USB Disk Util set to format to FAT32 and make a Boot Device, but I don't know the path to the DOS files in Vista, it keeps telling me there are no valid files in that location. Anyone who has done this in Vista before gimme a hint?

 

[lang]

Actually I'm pretty sure XBM and iPrep use some of the HP utility in the background, that's not the problem. You can just use XBM or iPrep to make it bootable and it should work.

I can almost guarantee that it's your USB drive is not bootable. I have a Sandisk Cruzer Micro 1GB and it is not bootable, there's simply no way to do it no matter what program you use. The drive itself must support it and they don't. I got a PNY Attache for like $12 and it boots and works fine.