Memtest from USB?

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Dohclude

Limp Gawd
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anyone know a quick and straight to the point way to boot memtest from a USB drive?
 
Does your BIOS support booting from USB devices? There are utilities to make a USB thumbdrive bootable to dos. Just google it. Make a bootable thumbdrive with the utility and copy memtest to it. Boot from the thumbdrive and then run memtest.
 
Go here and follow the directions (I've done this like 400 times over the past 2 years or so using these directions and the files linked from this page):

http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

Then when you have the bootable USB stick go here:

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

and get the "Download - Pre-Compiled EXE file for USB Key (Pure DOS)"

If it takes longer than 5 minutes to make this bootable USB key with the single memtest.exe file on it and be ready to boot it and use it, something's wrong. :)
 
This process is now more simple.
From a Windows 7 64bit computer (should work with 32 bit as well)

1. right click on flash drive, select a Full format to FAT (not quick format)
2. download "Download - Auto-installer for USB Key (Win 9x/2k/xp/7)" from http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
3. run the program "Memtest86+ USB Installer," it will want to run as Administrator
4. uncheck "Format this drive (recommended)" as you already formatted the thing, let the program install the goods onto the flash drive
5. done. Boot off flash drive
 
Thread Necromancy at its finest!!! :D

And a nice one since it does offer new info that's very useful. Good job, just remember in the future to note when the last post of a thread was made - in this particular instance, that was a few days shy of 1.5 years ago... but, considering the updated info it's cool, it's cool.

And welcome to the [H]ardForum, also.
 
Just make sure your motherboard's BIOS is set to boot from a USB device. The default setting on the handful of PCs I have access to is to not boot to USB.
 
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