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I have a PC with Windows 7 that goes into the Error Recovery Screen. When I try to tell it to start windows normally the keyboard is not working. The keyboard works during boot and works once the error recovery starts but not during the screen that looks somewhat like the safe mode screen.

From all my research its the BIOS version that is causing the problem. ABIT released v 19 in 2005 and nothing since. Most people who have this problem revert to v18 and it fixes the problem.

My only other computer is the house is a MacBook with OS X 10.8.2. Ive installed Crossover and I am trying to run the HP tool to make a bootable USB and put awdflash and bios v18 on it. I have successfully installed the HP tool but when I got to use it the USB drive is not listed in the devices.

I am following these instructions loosely I know my ABIT stuff is a little diff but first and foremost I need the bootable USB.
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=15265&mpage=1
I am stuck at step 4.

Is there a way to make HP USB Storage Format Tool see the USB drive?

Does anyone else know of a way to make a USB drive that will boot on a PC from a Mac?

Thanks for the help!

I have a couple of ideas for you...

1) As for Crossover, you might have to manually add the usb stick as a drive to your bottle. In the "Control Panel" of the bottle manager, you will find "winecfg". In that tool you will find a "drives" tab (something like that as I'm translating for my french version). In the drives tab, you will be able to add you usb stick with it's path. Hopefully, your utility will accept it after you have added it.

2) Have you tried booting your mahcine in safe mode. Each time I had a keayboard problem on a windows machine, the "safe mode" sort of "fixed" it for me. Afterward, I could boot back the normal way and the keyboard worked. That might allow you to run the utility and get you going without needing your Mac.

3) If you can't get it running, you could try virtualbox on your Mac. Depending on your win7 install disk, you could install in it a virtual machine, then give control of your usb stick to it, and have the utility run in the virtual machine. Unlike Parallels or Vmware, virtualbox is free to use in non commercial situations.

I don't have anything else for now, but I might have time to look into this later today. Good luck!

Benjamin Irick wrote:

Does anyone else know of a way to make a USB drive that will boot on
a PC from a Mac?

Format the USB as MS-DOS (FAT).
Download UNetbootin and DOS6.22_bootdisk.iso.
In UNetbootin, select the DOS6.22_bootdisk.iso file as the Diskimage.

Thanks for the help. I will def bookmark this thread. But it worked today. Dont know what I did besides load defaults on the BIOS. Something must have gotten changed that was affecting the keyboard function.

The short answer: Virtualbox or other VMs are your friend.

The long answer: Basically low-level hardware things don't work well in CrossOver. Serial IO(COM-ports) work with some fiddling. Low-level access to a drive partition is possible, but I don't think you can access the partition table or boot sector - which this tool probably wants to change to make the USB disk bootable.