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Hi all,

I need to create a boot disk to copy files to a PC, the PC HDD is NTFS and I have tried everything to get things working but failed so thought I would ask here.

Ideally I would love to write my little application to copy files in purebasic but up to now I have had to use a DOS boot disk so 32bit app's are a no go!

So, currently I have a Quickbasic app to copy the files and all this does is use the "shell" command to run DOS "copy" commands, To access NTFS drive I have
NTFSPRO but this is where it fails NTFS pro is cr*p it keeps failing with "Hi I'm exception bla bla"

I cannot use anything like Bart PE boot CD as this must fit on a small USB pen, I have looked at NTFS4DOS but the only copy I found had a stupid screen
the scroll's down the screen. Basically all I want to do is boot from a USB pen, copy some files to a NTFS drive, make a directory, delete a few other files
and reboot PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

Thanks

Pete

I don't know how big your USB key is but a BartPE installation should easily fit a 1GB USB drive, probably even a 500MB one if you don't install to many applications.

A bit off-topic, but a few weeks ago I decided to do something about all the rescue CDs I always carry with me. I just took a spare 2GB USB drive I had had lying around and made it bootable with grub4dos. Since grub4dos supports booting from ISOs, I just copied my ISOs to the USB drive and created an entry for each of them in the menu.lst. Now I only carry 1 USB drive with me and choose the most appropriate ISO to boot into. Updating each rescue disk on the USB drive is as easy as replacing the ISO with the new version.

Maybe this is a option for you as well?

Instructions can be found here:
http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_grub4dos.php