{"id":471,"date":"2011-04-14T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/unable-to-create-the-bootit-bm-setup-media-under-windows-nt-2000-xp-vista-or-windows-7-8-x-10\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:59:37","slug":"unable-to-create-the-bootit-bm-setup-media-under-windows-nt-2000-xp-vista-or-windows-7-8-x-10","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/unable-to-create-the-bootit-bm-setup-media-under-windows-nt-2000-xp-vista-or-windows-7-8-x-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to Create the BootIt BM Setup Media Under Windows NT\/2000\/XP\/Vista or Windows 7\/8.x\/10\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This problem can occur if you do not have the necessary privileges in Windows and also if the boot media is faulty. To correct this issue:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Make sure that you are logged into Windows\u00a0with Administrator privileges.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Try a different boot media. Perform a full format on it first, to ensure its integrity.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>If the BootIt\u00a0BM Setup media\u00a0creator (i.e. <strong>MakeDisk<\/strong>) cannot find or write to the boot media at all, and you are using Windows 2000\/XP\/Vista or Windows 7\/8.x\/10\/11, you may be blocked from accessing it due to security settings.<\/p>\r\n<p>If using a floppy disk as the boot media, you can use the following to try to solve this issue:<\/p>\r\n<p>Go into the <strong>Local Security Settings<\/strong> or <strong>Local Security Policies<\/strong> applet and check status the <strong>Devices: Restrict floppy access to locally logged-on user only<\/strong> setting. You can find this applet in the Control Panel under <em>Administrative Tools &gt;&gt; Local Security Policy<\/em>. Expand <strong>Local Polices<\/strong> and then click on <strong>Security Options<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p>If this setting is enabled,\u00a0you must either:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>Disable this security setting, reboot the computer, and then either log in as a member of the Administrators group, or use the \"<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\/runas \/user:Administrator<\/span>\" command to run <strong>MakeDisk<\/strong>; or<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Leave the security setting enabled and log in as a member of the Administrators group\u00a0the normal way (i.e. not using the \"<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">runas<\/span>\" command) before running <strong>MakeDisk<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This problem can occur if you do not have the necessary privileges in Windows and also if the boot media is faulty. To correct this issue: Make sure that you are logged into Windows\u00a0with Administrator privileges. Try a different boot media. Perform a full format on it first, to ensure its integrity. If the BootIt\u00a0BM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1826],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2119],"class_list":["post-471","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-bootit-bare-metal-problem-solving-bootit","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-bare-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7334,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/471\/revisions\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}