Use your USB flash drive to install windows!
By rdsantos
@rdsantos (320)
Philippines
3 responses
@harpreet89 (723)
• India
6 Oct 09
Hi rdsantos, well i use my flash drive to install Vista or Windows 7. I have created my flash drive bootable for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Whenever i need to install any of the 2 OS, i just copy the DVD of Vista or Seven to my flash drive and easily install it in 12-15 minutes.
Also its a faster method to install OS and it install OS completely in my system as my DVD-Drive is giving some problem in reading old or scratched disk.
So, its the best way to install Vista or 7.
But i've tried installing XP from flash drive and i was not successful in doing that.
The method i opt was creating my flash drive into DOS-startup disk and then copying XP installation files into one folder.
Then when the system boot, its loads DOS and using simple DOS command i was able to start the setup of XP.
But the main problem arise when it finishes copying files to a temporary folder and waits 10 second to restart....When the system restart the whole previously done process will start again. I even try to change the priority of drive as i do in case of Windows Vista/7 but that was also not working.
So if you can help me installing XP using a flash drive i will be very thankful.
@harpreet89 (723)
• India
7 Oct 09
Hey bro i use this method to make my flash drive only bootable for Winodows Vista or 7.
Using this method that you've mentioned is not for booting XP.
I need a method so that i can boot XP from Flash drive.
Also i had a 8GB SONY flash drive and i've made it in FAT32 rather than making it NTFS.
NTFS is only need if your flash drive is greater than 16GB.
But thanks for the info that you've mentioned.Please try to provide me the complete guide to install XP using flash drive.
Have a great day........
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
6 Oct 09
I have a friend who trial for microsoft and he installed it for me.
@incredibleDNA (1742)
• Philippines
6 Oct 09
congratulations, haha that's really possible if you set your boot priority before loading your OS. well anyway, i'm just wondering on how much capacity does Windows 7 havE?
@rdsantos (320)
• Philippines
6 Oct 09
thanks for the input.
how much capacity?,or you mean the requirements to set it up? well here it is.
- 1gig or faster (32)bit or (64) bit processor
- 1gig (32 bit) or 2gig (64 bit) RAM
- 16gig Hard Disk (32 bit) 20gig (64 bit)
- direct x 9 graphics device
this is the usual,but the higher you have the good it is.
also other than settig it up on boot priority,you can't just boot from the usb w/out making it bootable.
check it out the full instruction here: http://www.bit.ly/MLIEl
this also applicable in all version of windows.
