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Posted: Sep. 21 2006,14:10 QUOTE
i purchased a Sandisk cruzer micro 512mb drive to try to boot dsl form usb flash drive. i tried the usb hdd install on dsl 3.01 and it failed with an error to the effect that it could not find a fat partition. i then tried to format is with win xp and found that it took about 10 minutes to format 1% of the drive. i then discovered that the size of the drive reported under win xp was 0.99 terrabytes. a similar size was reported by fdisk when i attempted to create new partitions on the drive. also the computer no longer attempts to boot from the USB. before i tried to partition it used to attempt to boot from the usb but the bios would get stuck. can anyone help with this problem.
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Posted: Sep. 25 2006,00:38 QUOTE
You could make the usb boot disk according to the guidance here.
(http://www.althack.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=27)

Under the aid in the webpage,I make the drive and boot from it without many problems, and my problems only happend after entering the DSL.
:D :p
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Posted: Sep. 25 2006,07:55 QUOTE
You could try formatting your disk with the "HP USB disk storage format tool". It will make a formatted USB disk, with either FAT(16) or FAT32, and make it bootable. It works great here for my USB stick.
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Posted: Sep. 25 2006,10:12 QUOTE
I tried the HP tool. It also seems to think the drive is about 1 terrabytes in size. (wish it was :)). I think there must be something wrong with the geometry information. I have now managed to partition in with fdisk into two partitions which both windows and  linux seem to recognize. I use the dsl install to usb zip and I can see the files in windows. There is still a huge about 800000 MB partition visible in disk manager under WinXP. The drive will not boot however.
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Posted: Sep. 25 2006,12:12 QUOTE
(1 TB would be very nice idd :P )

Well that seems like a really odd problem.

Maybe you could try to format it in Windows, using the diskmanager, but I'm nog sure if that is going to work.
The DSL installation to a usb drive also changes the geometry of the drive. So It could be that something went wrong there, but I'm not sure :P

Good luck
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