Copy Bootable Flash Drive

In order to clone / copy a Bootable Flash Drive to another Drive requires modifying the Master Boot Record of the Target Drive. Here’s how.

1. Plug the Target Drive into a USB port and determine the Target Drive’s location / device id by opening a Terminal Session and keying in:

   fdisk -l

   The resulting display should have text like “/dev/sdb1” associated with the Target Drive.

2. Ensure that the Target Drive is formatted as FAT32 – use GParted to do this.
3. Make a “/boot/syslinux” directory on the Target Drive.
4. Make the Target Drive bootable by issuing the following command:

   syslinux --directory /boot/syslinux --install /dev/sdb1

   Modify the “/dev/sdb1” text to be the actual location / device id of the Target Drive.

5. Now copy the contents of the Source Drive to the Target Drive.