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Accessories • USB flash drive
Chap
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Accessories
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7.4 Creating a bootable USB flash drive
When used in connection with a B&R industrial PC, it is possible to boot the system from one of
the flash drives available from B&R. The flash drive must be specially prepared for this.
7.4.1 5.4.1 Requirements
The following peripherals are required for creating a bootable USB flash drive:
• • B&R USB flash drive
• • B&R Industrial PC
• • USB floppy drive (external)
• • USB keyboard
• • A start disk created using MS-DOS 6.22 or Windows 98 - 1.44MB HDD (Windows
Millennium, NT4.0, 2000, XP start disks cannot be used). The tools "format.com" and
"fdisk.exe" must be located on the diskette!
7.4.2 Procedure
• Plug in the flash drive and boot from the start disk.
• Set active partition on the flash drive using "
fdisk
" and follow the further instructions.
• Reboot the system from the start disk.
Format and simultaneously transfer the system files to the flash drive with the command
"
format c: /s
".