Making a bootable USB stick from a CD (not a Linux distro)

[Nils Kassube]

Adam Funk wrote:
> I have a bootable CD of the Spinrite software, & I'm trying to make a
> bootable USB stick from it.  I tried the following:
[...]
> I also tried the last command with the conv=notrunc option, & various
> bs settings.  Every time, I end up with a USB stick that will mount
> and contains the SPINRITE.EXE file, but when I try to boot a laptop
> from it, I get an error to the effect that it's not bootable.

Probably the software on the CD is not meant to be copied to a USB 
stick. Then the software can't boot because a USB stick is something 
like a hard disk and not something like a CDROM drive.

I think, if the laptop doesn't have an internal CD/DVD drive you would 
have to get a USB CD/DVD drive.


Nils