what i'm looking for is a utility that will install the fat16 boot records onto a hdd i think.

i have a 32GB flash drive and when i use usb format.exe it comes up with an error saying its the volume is too big. i have since partitioned the drive to 100mb and 30GB and the program still says the volume is too big the other problem i have is that windows won't recognize the second partition so i changed the removable media bit using BootIT so that windows treats it as a HHD this works well but i am still unable to get hirens booting from the first partition.

any ideas??

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk
http://www.lancelhoff.com/2008/05/01/multi...ive-in-windows/

the HP USB Format utility should do what you are wanting
http://files.filefront.com/SP27213exe/;595...;/fileinfo.html

Hey Geek, Hirens is warez m8..

thanks geek i tried that but had the same error volume is too big. from what i've red fat16 can only go as big as 4GB but i have it working on a 16GB flash drive. surely it's possible to do it on a 32GB just cant find any thing that will do it.

i've also tried mkbt but as far as i can tell that only works with floppy discs

are there any other programs that you can think of that will install boot records onto a drive is it possible to do it onto a HDD?

Since you managed to create a 16Gb FAT volume (being the limit of FAT 2 Gb) you are a magician!

mkbt works allright on hard disk type of media as well, ONCE it has already been properly fdisked/formatted.

You NEED to use either FAT32 or NTFS.

Can we assume that what you want to do is just to make a 32 Gb USB stick bootable, and that this has NOTHING to do with Hiren's or more generally with WAREZ?

@geek
for the record, the named WAREZ release, ALREADY uses the HP formatting utility.

jaclaz

It was late last nite and i didnt even bother to look it up. thanks for pointing that out. Topic closed.