Install Windows Vista from Bootable USB Flash Memory Drive
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. Actually, The concept is simple by using flash memory drive to act as the Windows Vista installation DVD disck 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.
i follow all the instruction but my flash drive (Apacer Steno HC110 2 GB and Data Traveller 1 GB) can’t boot. Cek with Disk Management Properties from my flas drive still not showing able to boot
@Barrack,
Do you set your computer bios to boot from your USB memory drives
hi…..please help me..
i hav windows vista cd but it is not bootable….. i want to make it bootable… please tell me how can i do so….reply me soon…
thanx.!!
@Happy
Change your computer bios bootable setting to CD rom as first bootable source. Then your computer will boot the windows vista CD first after your computer hard drive.
There are two important steps missing from these instructions.
First, you need to open a DOS prompt, find BOOTSECT.EXE, and in the command window, type:
\Bootsect.exe /nt60 /
Make sure and replace the with your path and with your letter. For example, if your path was “C:\MyPath” and your USB drive was letter “F”, then your line would be:
“C:\MyPath\Bootsect.exe /nt60 F:” (without the quotes).
Make sure you do not have any command windows open that reference the drive or have the drive being written to.
Secondly, you need to get the HP USB format tool available from HP’s website and format the USB drive using that utility rather than the formatter that comes with Vista or XP. I have had many cases where this formatter worked but the internal did not.
Goos luck!
plz send me a vista from bootable usb flash memory drive i can used this software
does vista have xcopy, if so where do I type xcopy command.
Sorry about that dumb question, it must have been a senior moment. command promt duh
Willian,
The XCopy command still works on windows vista under command prompt
hey, is that wokr with WINDOWS XP?
Will these instructions also work with creating a Windows XP Bootable USB drive too?
Oscar & KKslider
In theory, Windows XP also work at portable USB drive
When I do a search, these exact same instructions are posted everywhere. I have yet to see anyone post who has actually gotten this to work. Flash drives apparently are only good for storing applications and running them from within Windows. Or using it as a floppy disk to boot to DOS to flash a bios… but thats about all you can do.
Booting from usb is EASY if you read the instructions, if it doesn’t work first time READ SOME MORE and google lots!
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