Setup Windows XP/2000/2003

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1. Insert your USB disk and run the program

2. Select the folder with your Windows source files. Do NOT select folder I386, but the one containing it.

3. If your USB disk is not displayed make sure it's formatted and has MBR and an active partition.

Use the buttons, launching HP USB format utility or PEtoUSB for disks < 2GB and format your USB disk. Click Refresh button to refresh USB disk information.

NTFS performs WAY faster during file copy stage in Text mode. However, keep in mind that depending on usage and USB stick quality, it may "wear it out" quicker.

4. Use the section for BOOT.INI and make sure you enter the appropriate disk, partition and folder name, where windows will be installed to.

You may add an additional entry if you are planning to use the USB disk on other computers. This BOOT.INI file is on USB disk root folder and is used to launch

the second part of setup (GUI mode) and start windows for a first time. Inproper entries there will lead to "HAL.DLL error" and/or "NTOSKRNL.EXE not found"

so please pay attention on that section.

5. Click GO and wait until program completes preparation.

6. Unplug your USB disk using "Safely remove hardware" icon in system tray and plug it in the target machine.

7. Start the target machine and make it boot off USB by either entering BIOS and changing boot order, or if it has a hotkey during boot such as F12, ESC, F11 etc.

8. Use the menus and first select "Windows XP/2000/2003 Setup + First and Second parts" then select "First part of Windows setup"

which should be auto- selected.

9. Complete the first part as usual and reboot.

10. After reboot MAKE SURE computer starts from USB again. Complete the second part (GUI mode) selecting "Windows XP/2000/2003 Setup-> Second part of Windows setup" as usual and reboot. Those menu entries should be auto selected, allowing unattended installations.

If you have a card reader and you get Windows errors "No hard disk" during GUI part just click Continue.

12. Program adds additional entry in BOOT.INI on the internal disk for USB repair, which is displayed during boot. Without it you cannot perform Windows repair installation from USB disk.

If this entry bothers you, right click on My Computer, select Properties-->Advanced-->Startup and Recovery group Settings and

either decrease "Time to display list of operating system" to 3-5 seconds, or press Edit, remove the line for USB repair and save the file.

You should be done.

NOTE: Program can add multiple Windows sources to the USB disk (up to 10). Just run the program again and follow the prompts.

NOTE: If you are installing windows different than XP SP2 or SP3, some of the compressed files in ~LS\I386 or AMD64 folder will be deleted during Text mode of setup.

Rerun the program when installation is completed and follow the prompts to syncronise windows source to your USB disk.

BartPE/UBCD4Win/WinBuilder/WinFLPC/WinPE

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Well, this should be straightforward, just select the source folder, where I386 can be found.

Vista / Windows 7 Setup

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Ditto, just browse where you Vista DVD or source is. You may add Vista Recovery or VistaPE instead.

PartedMagic

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1. Download PartedMagic grub4dos ISO file from:

http://partedmagic.com/download.html Make sure you download the grub4dos version.

2. Extract the downloaded zip file.

3. Point the program to the extracted the ISO file.

UBCD

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1. Download UBCD from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html and extract it.

2. Select Syslinux checkbox and browse to the folder where you extracted it.

Note: you must use FAT16 or FAT32 formatted partition on the USB disk to place it.

The same approach can be used to add various Linux distributions, which boot off SysLinux. What program does is to add SysLinux boot loader to that partition

which next seeks for syslinux.cfg to read boot menus and continue boot. As long as you have a proper syslinux.cfg either in root or in SYSLINUX directory, you should be able to boot the distro in question.

There is a beta version of 5, which supports direct grub4dos ISO booting. Look here for details and download links:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7312

UBUNTU LIVE

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1. Download and extract somewhere Ubuntu 8.04:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

2. If you don't have menu.lst on the active partition on the USB disk, select SysLinux without adding a source (not using browse button) and press GO.

This will install Grub4Dos bootsector on the selected hard disk and create menu.lst in root. You may delete the Syslinux part in menu.lst.

3. Open up menu.lst on the active partition with Notepad with example, and add this at the bottom:

title Ubuntu live

find --set-root /casper/vmlinuz

kernel /casper/vmlinuz file=/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --

initrd /casper/initrd.gz

title INSTALL Ubuntu

find --set-root /casper/vmlinuz

kernel /casper/vmlinuz file=/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --

initrd /casper/initrd.gz

OPHcrack- look here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444&view=findpost&p=845651

For many other multiboot options look here:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041

WinSetupFromUSB detailed guide with screenshots (external links):

http://myeeeguides.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/winsetupfromusb-install-windows-xp-from-usb-flash-drive/

http://ccollomb.free.fr/blog/?p=59