giammy Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 (edited) Hi! There is a way to "convert" an USB stick (a normal usb storage device) in a cd-rom unit? I have a kingston datatraveller g4 (8gb usb 3.0), here are properties: Should mount Toshiba Flash and TC58NC226166F Controller. My goal is to make this USB stick visible to the (old) motherboards without boot from USB. It's only a dream or it's possible? Edited August 30, 2014 by giammy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Why not just buy a USB CD/DVD Rom? With that, my verizon wireless Galaxy S3 detects as a CDROM when first plugged into a computer. Just long enough to get Verizon software for backup/recovery. Then it mounts as mass storage showing my SD card in the phone and the phone storage itself. I am curious as to how they are doing that, but it probably has something to do with the USB Multiplexer chip in the phone itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giammy Posted August 30, 2014 Author Share Posted August 30, 2014 Why not just buy a USB CD/DVD Rom? With that, my verizon wireless Galaxy S3 detects as a CDROM when first plugged into a computer. Just long enough to get Verizon software for backup/recovery. Then it mounts as mass storage showing my SD card in the phone and the phone storage itself. I am curious as to how they are doing that, but it probably has something to do with the USB Multiplexer chip in the phone itself. Because I have many boot-utilities, it's annoying make tons of CDs (and in some cases i have to use an utility only one time). Same thing with operative systems, i have many and is counterproductiveto burn a lot of DVDs when with a "CDROM Stick" i would be able to modify its content everytime I want. I already can do this with a rewritable DVD but not all the old readers can read it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Another option would be to make a PXE boot server, no USB, no CD/DVD, and every server I've come in touch with has PXE boot. Another thing is if you are using Dell/HP servers, they should have iDrac and ILO connections to where you can insert an ISO as virtual media. Hell even a real CD as virtual media for the server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 My goal is to make this USB stick visible to the (old) motherboards without boot from USB. It's only a dream or it's possible? Sorry, but that's a dream. If it won't boot from USB it won't boot from anything found on the USB bus. Including something that shows up as a CD/DVD drive in Windows since it'll be... a USB CD/DVD drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfitsman805 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Just wondering what program are you using to view these properties? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giammy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Just wondering what program are you using to view these properties? It's USBDeview, software from NirSoft, here is official site: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html The site is FULL of really good utilies. Sorry, but that's a dream. If it won't boot from USB it won't boot from anything found on the USB bus. Including something that shows up as a CD/DVD drive in Windows since it'll be... a USB CD/DVD drive. Right...this was my concern! Now I can only burn a lots of cds/dvds....my bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Or PXE boot server as mentioned before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giammy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Or PXE boot server as mentioned before. Yes! sorry, i haven't reply to your solution, my fault, it sound a bit complicated, have you a guide for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I dont, but there should be some on the net. Another option is to setup a WDS (Windows Deployment Server) if you are an all Windows environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I thought the only windows that would boot via PXE was a Windows Terminal Client or some such. Despite valliant efforts to shrink the thing, that 'microkernel' of theirs was apparently too fat to fit insite the boot rom. Last I heard of it, which was admittedly years ago, was they were sort-of pushing for larger boot roms in a select few ethernet adapters so they could plug those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 PXE Boot usually happens in BIOS for servers and can even for any other computer. It's what the boot menu "DHCP....|/-\|" whatever is. It's trying to network boot. You can even do it in Virtualbox/VMWare. It will be called something like "Network Boot" in the boot order. It will look for DHCP (which you need to have running and define a PXE Server blah blah lots of config). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catch22 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 (edited) Just for the sake of anyone who stumbles on this there is a way to make a USB drive look like a CD drive, I used this guide to do it once and it did actually work. Only catch for me was my "CD" was write protected so I could only put things on it by making an iso and using that to create the disk. Anway have a look HERE! Edited January 11, 2015 by Catch22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Maybe you should link to that guide in your post. And my original point still stands: if your machine won't boot from USB it won't boot from a USB device that pretends to be a CD/DVD drive since it'll be a USB CD/DVD drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catch22 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Maybe you should link to that guide in your post. And my original point still stands: if your machine won't boot from USB it won't boot from a USB device that pretends to be a CD/DVD drive since it'll be a USB CD/DVD drive. Sorry! I copied the link just forgot to hyperlink it :D Anyway I added it now so you can look! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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