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Performance Hardware
User's Guide
T h e U l t i m a t e B o o t a b l e
U S B F l a s h D r i v e —
A d v a n c e d F e a t u r e s
A guide for adding advanced functionality to the Ulti-
mate Bootable USB Flash Drive.
Version 1.0
May, 2010

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  • Page 1 Performance Hardware User’s Guide T h e U l t i m a t e B o o t a b l e U S B F l a s h D r i v e — A d v a n c e d F e a t u r e s A guide for adding advanced functionality to the Ulti- mate Bootable USB Flash Drive.
  • Page 2 The Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive-Advanced Features Overview Corsair has provided a utility that helps users create the Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive . One outstanding feature of this tool is that it is very simple for end users to add advanced functionality to the tool once the basic installation is com- plete.
  • Page 3 Our example uses Parted Magic, a very helpful formatting tool. This tool is fre- quently recommended by Corsair Technical Support and is especially useful for SSD owners. After you have completed the basic creation of the Ultimate USB Flash Drive, you’ll need extract...
  • Page 4: Boot Menu

    The Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive-Advanced Features Copying and Editing to Add the ISO to the Boot Menu The tool uses a file named menu.lst to list the boot options for the boot loader. With a simple edit of this file, you add the ability to boot an ISO image. Copy your menu.lst file and rename the copy menuOLD.
  • Page 5 The Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive-Advanced Features Edit the Text in the menu.lst File The last segment of text in the .lst file is a sample file provided to make modifying the tool easier. First, remove the # signs from lines 24-29. Then, on line 24, change the title to the name of your ISO.
  • Page 6 The Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive-Advanced Features Boot to Your USB Flash Drive To use the utilities on your drive, you will need to boot your system to this drive as opposed to booting to your system drive. There are 2 ways to do this. Option 1 below shows how you would manually select the boot menu and select the drive to which you want to boot.
  • Page 7 The Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive-Advanced Features Select the Utility you Wish to Use Once you boot to your USB flash drive, you will see the boot menu as shown be- low which will now include Parted Magic. Select the utility you wish to use and it will be loaded.
  • Page 8 Corsair USB Flash Drive Product Page: http://www.corsair.com/products/flash.aspx Pendrivelinux.com: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ Download Parted Magic here: http://partedmagic.com/download.html © May, 2010, Corsair Memory, Incorporated. All rights reserved. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries.

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