You can even install Windows Vista with USB 2.0 flash memory drive now. All you need is a high speed 4GB flash memory only to create a bootable Windows Vista on flash memory drive. It sound a bit rare to hear people install Windows Vista on Flash Memory ya.
When you're ready to install Windows, insert the USB drive or DVD with the ISO file on it. If you change the boot order of drives in your computer's BIOS, you can run the. Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit). A Bootable USB latest version: Install Windows 7 from any USB memory stick. To use A Bootable USB, all you need is a pen drive with at. Windows Vista.
Actually, The concept is simple by using flash memory drive to act as the Windows Vista installation DVD disk only. But installing Windows Vista from a high speed USB flash drive perhaps is the easiest & fastest way to complete a Windows Vista install which nowadays every computer or laptop have a USB drive. Meanwhile, This is much faster than using a DVD, gigabit Ethernet, or possibly even some external USB 2.0 hard drives, due to differences in access speed & transfer rate. So below the step to create a bootable windows vista on flash memory drive Create a bootable Windows Vista on Flash Memory 1.
Format the USB flash memory drive to FAT32 file system Run CMD.EXE and type the following command. Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as “disk 1”. Double check that by doing a list of the disks (type “list disk”) before cleaning it). diskpart. select disk 1. clean. create partition primary.
select partition 1. active. format fs=fat32. assign.
exit 2. Copy Windows Vista’s DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive Type in command to start copying all the content from the Windows Vista DVD to your newly formatted high speed flash drive.
xcopy d:. /s/e/f e: 3. Setup your computer BIOS to boot from USB Drive 4. Install Windows Vista from flash memory drive After finish the above step. You can try to view how fast the installation of windows vista can be completed.
Let us know how you feel if whether installing windows vista on flash memory drive compare the installation window vista on DVD media.
EDIT 2009/12/11: Microsoft Provides a tool to do this for you – Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. See the Microsoft Store Help on the ISO-Tool. It surprised me to find that there are very few dead-simple guides to creating a bootable USB thumb/pen/flash drive for a Vista and/or Windows 7 installation. I cobbled together the following from and another source I don’t remember right now. This will walk through the steps to create a bootable USB flash drive for the purpose of installing a Vista or Windows 7 OS. These instructions assume that you have a computer with Windows Vista installed on it.
Required:. USB Flash Drive (4GB+). Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7). A computer running Vista / Windows 7 Step 1: Format the Drive The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. Be warned: this will erase everything on your drive. Be careful. Plug in your USB Flash Drive.
Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start All Programs Accessories Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”. Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window: diskpart list disk The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step.
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I’ll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1. Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window.
Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below. Select disk 1 clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=NTFS assign exit When that is done you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable. Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable Next we’ll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable. In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:. Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives: d: cd d: boot. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image.
I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G: by the computer: bootsect /nt60 g:. You can now close the command prompt window, we’re done here. Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive The easiest way is to use Windows explorer to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive. After you’ve copied all of the files the disk you are ready to go. Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB This is where you’re on your own since every computer is different. Most BIOS’s allow you to hit a key at boot and select a boot option.
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