Comments on: Installing and Booting Vista from a USB Flash Drive

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By: Ole

Ole — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:40:16 +0000

No, you don’t need a computer with vista on it. that was the whole reason i had a problem in the first place. I didn’t have a computer with vista.

As for why your usb stick isn’t showing up in diskpart, that might be because of the brand of usb stick. from what i’ve seen different usb sticks are partitioned in different ways. some of them have hidden partitions that make them invisible to diskpart. if you want to use them you first have to do a hard-partitioning of the stick. that can be done with a 3rd party partitioning program. partition magic used to be a good one, haven’t tried it in a while. gparted is free and you can find it on a live cd from ubuntu. once you’ve completely removed all partitions and made a new primary one it should show up in diskpart, but then you might not need to use diskpart.
I wouldn’t recomend trying to do a hard-partitioning on your usb stick unless you know what you are doing.

By: Tomas Andersson

Tomas Andersson — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:43:50 +0000

You need to have a computer with Vista on. Read in the top of the article.

By: Ole

Ole — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:30:38 +0000

This solution is about how to install vista from a usb flash drive and how you can set the drive up when you don’t have a vista system to set it up with. the whole lack of bootsect in windows xp.
This solution can be used for vista, windows server 2008 and windows 7. It doesn’t work for windows xp.

If you want to install windows xp from a usb flash drive you should have a look at http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html
I’ve used that method once. What you should know about that method is that it doesn’t like usb flash drives that are too large. So I had to find an old 1gb drive to get it working.

By: Tu

Tu — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:27:59 +0000

Is this method still applicable only in Vista systems? Or can I do it in an XP system? I’m confused because that’s what you said your main problem was and found a method for it, but it seems to be applicable only on Vista.

By: kloper

kloper — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:30:40 +0000

Hi. FINALLY the proper instructions to do this. Wow. I was stuck without step #5 for far too long. I kept thinking “uh, those instructions don’t set any kind of boot record, this thing will not boot”. Lo and behold, when i try to boot off of it, it failed. Bootsect is EXACTLY the step that was missing from that first article that fixed everything.

THANK YOU.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:05:55 +0000

I can’t use diskpart correctly. My USB drive is not shown under the command “disk list”. Help please.

By: Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Morten Rand-Hendriksen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:56:36 +0000

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By: Ole

Ole — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:14:11 +0000

@Alex

Some USB drives are set up with different partitions than others when you buy them. I’ve seen that windows won’t find some drives in diskpart sometimes, mostly on cheaper ones though (i’ve commented on that above). it can sometimes help to use a different program to format the drive totaly (not really recomended but if you know what you are doing it might work) one such program is usbprep mentioned in http://www.digwin.com/view/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-flash-drive (William found that one) or you can find a different partitioning tool and try that (I think i’ve tried http://www.partition-manager.com/ or something similar once. that made it possible for me to find it in diskpart.)

If you use a partitioning tool you might not need to do anything in diskpart at all.

it might work, and it might not. what i can say is that the way it’s described here worked for me on my Corsair Voyager GT http://www.corsair.com/products/voyager/default.aspx

By: alex

alex — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:37:07 +0000

hello ive tried to install vista onto my usb using the cmd lines but when i type in list disk it cant see my usb and i dont know who to fix it i have tried formatting it with NTFS and FAT and FAT32 but nothing seems to be working.

please help