windows on a flash drive?

[imposter]

Is there anyway of getting windows on a flash drive. I am tired of using my cdrom to install windows, and wondering is there anyway to put the image on flash drive, so you can just boot from that.

is this even legal?

Thanks!

 

[Murdochs_mad]

Do you mean a copy of the windows install cd on a flash drive so you can install from that instead of a cd? F*****g good idea . I dont have a flash drive so I can't check but IMHO if the m/b supports booting from usb it could be done as long as you could copy everything from the cd, including the 'un seen' bootable bit. As far as legal, it should be as it is only used to install a single copy as is the cd. Have a go and post the results,

I like results

 

[imposter]

Yes. Flash drive> cd.

Maybe extract the ISO through winrar? I don't think it would boot though.

 

[xb1az3x]

Here is a guide for doing it with Vista, I don't imagine it is any harder with XP:

http://www.otgnet.com/Content/Default.aspx?Cat=all,Title=3764

 

[imposter]

Here is a guide for doing it with Vista, I don't imagine it is any harder with XP:

http://www.otgnet.com/Content/Default.aspx?Cat=all,Title=3764

xcopy d:\*.*

why didn't i think of that LOL.

thanks man ill give this a try once my brother returns with the flash drive.

w00t no more cd roms for me

 

[imposter]

Tried giving it a shot on my SD drive, no go didn't boot from it. Then again it didn't really format the drive. I'll try it again tomorrow after school.

maybe its just too slow. hdtach gave it 6.5 mbps. I'm thinking about buying a 4GB flash drive soon.

 

[Automata]

maybe its just too slow. hdtach gave it 6.5 mbps. I'm thinking about buying a 4GB flash drive soon.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227145

There you go. I own the 2gb version of that, and it is really fast.

EDIT: Woot, 1k posts!!

 

[bing]

Here -> USBoot

What is it ?

USBoot is a package that helps in the preparation of Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 for booting from USB storage devices by providing extensive support for automated installation and configuration of drivers especially of setup class USB.

 

[crosshairs]

Here -> USBoot

Nice....

 

[bing]

Yep, good for running burning CPU like Orthos, Prime etc especially on high really OC without worrying corrupting the main OS drive.

Hint..hint... really suitable for getting a screen shot or validation on a "real" suicide OC.

 

[imposter]

DO NOt TRY THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it deletes hard drives!!! Ill back to you on this! in the process of getting back data!

 

[SavageBasher]

ZOMG HAX!!

lmao.

Formatting a drive does that, you know.

 

[Como]

yeah, *concept*
lets delete my partition, which contains the /file system/ (a system of files, people) and then complain that it deletes your "hard drives"

yeah.

 

[imposter]

YEs. I think i did that..... I am SO stupid!!! new thread is up..in a sec