Dumb command prompt help needed

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  1. Joobles

    Joobles
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    .so I've been trying to create a windows xp bootable flash drive but I got stuck


    This is the tutorial I have been following but at 5:29 it tells me to put in a sourcePath.vdi and a destinationPath.img and I don't know what to do, he just glosses over it

    any help would be appreciated
     
  2. fufsgfen

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    That is command to be executed. vboxmanage is the program and all the rest after that are parameters for that program.
     
  3. ryakra

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    The tut is basically saying to put the command with the full path to those files. Im assuming you know what .vdi you want to convert into a .img, so here is an example command:
    vboxmanage clonehd "C:\path\to\sourcePath.vdi" "C:\path\to\output\destinationPath.img" --format RAW
    You can get the folder that the files are located in by viewing them in the file explorer and clicking the top bar that usually says "This PC > something > Something" and adding a "\sourcePath.vdi" or "\destinationPath.img" to the end of that.
     
  4. Joobles

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    i keep getting "Syntax error: Invalid parameter 'C:\lalalala\blablah\unimportant?\other thing\destinationPath.img'
     
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