How to Build a Bootable USB Drive with a PC-Diag Volume License

NOTE: These instructions will only work if you have purchased a PC-Diag (10) user license, Site license or Enterprise License aka volume license, they will not work for a single user license.

Below are the instructions you will need to build yourself a PC-Diag USB Drive. The HP utility below will only work if you are building your drive on a PC running Windows XP. It can be done with other utilities, but this is what we use to build our drives here at PC- Diag. If you wish to use our method there are many tutorials’ on U-Tube for other methods of building a USB Drive. Please remember whatever you choose will still require you to format the drive in Fat16 and use a drive no larger than 2Gig.

1) Download and install HP Drive Key Boot Utility from:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839&

2) Download the USB PCD_DOSWIN_USB.zip image you received from PC Diag USB and unzip it on your local hard drive.

IMPORTANT: We format all our drives in Fat16 before we begin the process below, so you can run in DOS. Additionally you will not be able to put the image on a USB Drive that is over 2GIG because you have a DOS program in the zip. So once again the reason for this is you have a DOS program along with a Windows program you will be putting on the USB drive you build.

3) Prepare a USB, format in Fat16 and under 2Gig drive

3.1) Start HP USB Utility, click Next

3.2) Select the USB disk, then click Next

3.3) Select Backup/restore, click Next

3.4) Select Restore, then select the PC Diag file you unzipped in step 2 / the image.

3.5) Click Next

3.6) Click Finish

3.7) You can copy the LIC file you received in the attachment with your email directly onto the drives, just as you would any file. This way you never have to enter it.

4) Select your order of boot up in your BIOS making the USB drive as your first boot device if you are running the DOS

4) Place the USB drive in the computer you want to test, reboot the computer

5) If you are running in Windows simply install the Windows exe directly on the system.

PCDIAG_WINDOWS_SETUP - This is your controller and should go on the technicians PC. You can use it to test individual systems or to connect to a Windows remote client.

PCDIAG_REMOTECLIENT_SETUP - This is your remote setup put this onto a system you wish to connect to remotely. This software will not run without having the technician connect to it and start the program.