Instructions - installing PLD RescueCD on a USB drive. First, download the latest version of PLD RescueCD and usb.zip. You should now have a files: http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/download/PLDRescueCD-2.00/x86{,_64}/rescue.iso http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/download/PLDRescueCD-2.00/usb.zip where 2.00 is the current version. Unzip usb.zip to your USB drive you can do this in Linux using the unzip command, or using Winzip in Windows. From rescue.iso you must copy ONLY the following files to the / on USB drive: boot/isolinux/initrd.ide boot/isolinux/vmlinuz boot/isolinux/memtest rescue.cpi Then run syslinux, which will install the bootloader needed for rescue to be able to boot from the USB drive. Syslinux can be downloaded from kernel.org, and you can find out more about it at http://syslinux.zytor.com. Under Linux, you would type: syslinux /dev/sda1 if your USB drive is usually found at /dev/sda1, and in Windows type: syslinux.exe E: if your USB drive is found at E:. Finally the directory listing of the USB drive could look somewhat like this: drwxr-xr-x 2 areq users 135 Jul 21 16:06 . drwxr-xr-x 9 areq root 4096 Jul 21 12:55 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 areq users 1559 Jul 18 19:39 boot.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 areq users 962 Jul 17 23:17 help.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 areq users 8204 Jul 17 23:17 ldlinux.sys -rw-r--r-- 1 areq users 553984 Jul 18 17:14 initrd.ide -rw-r--r-- 1 areq users 81892 Jul 10 22:28 memtest -rw-r--r-- 1 areq users 51171328 Jul 18 10:44 rescue.cpi -rw-r--r-- 1 areq users 1055 Jul 21 13:22 syslinux.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 areq users 873984 Jul 18 10:43 vmlinuz That should make your USB drive bootable, and now you can run PLD RescueCD.