Is it possible to make a seatools bootable USB?

Seaneh · 2012-09-22 12:04:13

Hey lads, having problems with a laptopm it's running like a pig, everything seems fin hardware wise so it's looking like it's the HDD failing, I need to run SEATOOLS, downloaded the ISO but don't have any CD's laying around so need to make a bootable USB. Tried RUFUS and iso to usb and neither seem to work (rufus won't…

22-09-2012 12:04PM

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Seaneh

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Hey lads, having problems with a laptopm it's running like a pig, everything seems fin hardware wise so it's looking like it's the HDD failing, I need to run SEATOOLS, downloaded the ISO but don't have any CD's laying around so need to make a bootable USB.

Tried RUFUS and iso to usb and neither seem to work (rufus won't accept the iso file at all.

Anyone have any idea how to make it work?

Cheers.

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#2 22-09-2012 03:00PM

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there is a dos version of seatools

so hopefully all you need to do is make a dos bootable usb disk - freedos should do

http://goebelmeier.de/bootstick/

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#3 22-09-2012 04:05PM

Seaneh

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I just used the windows version....

All came through ok....

Did a bios flash and it's all working perfectly again, weird.

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