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
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 a
nd format your USB disk. Click Refresh button to refresh USB disk information.
Usually NTFS performs way faster on some systems, or with some USB sticks. Ho
wever, 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, pa
rtition 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 ot
her computers. This BOOT.INI file is on USB disk root folder and is used to laun
ch
the second part of setup (GUI mode) and start windows for a first time. Inpro
per 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 plu
g 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 et
c.
8. Use the menus and first select "Windows XP/2000/2003 Setup + Start for first
time" then select "First part of Windows XP Professional setup from partition 0"
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 p
art (GUI mode) selecting "Windows XP/2000/2003 Setup- Text and GUI mode" then
"Second part of XP Professional setup" as usual and reboot. Those menu entri
es should be auto selected, allowing unattended installations.
If you have a card reader and you get Windows errors "No hard disk" during G
UI part just click Continue.
11. Start once again from USB and choose the same- Windows XP/2000/2003 Setup +
Start for first time, then "Second part + Start for first time".
Once Windows is completely loaded, give it a few more minutes before unplugg
ing the USB disk, there is a program, which renames a few of the folders on it b
ack to their initial names.
12. Program adds additional entry in BOOT.INI on the internal disk for USB repai
r, 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-->A
dvanced-->Startup and Recovery group Settings and
either decrease "Time to display list of operating system" to 5-10 secon
ds, 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 co
mpressed files in ~LS\I386 or AMD64 folder will be deleted during Text mode of s
etup.
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 Setup
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Ditto, just browse where you Vista DVD or source is. You may add Vista Recovery
or VistaPE instead.
GParted
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1. Download GParted ISO or ZIP file from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779
Versions 0.3.4-8, 0.3.6-7, 0.3.7-7 and 0.3.9-4 are supported.
2. Extract the downloaded file. The freeware program 7-zip supports ISO and many
other formats. You may use it to extract the ISO file- www.7-zip.org
3. Point the program to the folder, where you extracted GParted.
Note: you must use FAT16 or FAT32 formatted partition on the USB disk to place i
t. NTFS partition can be used only for 0.3.4-8 version.
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 i
t.
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 s
hould be able to boot the distro in question.
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 Sy
sLinux without adding a source (not using browse button) and press GO.
This will install Grub4Dos bootsector on the selected hard disk and create me
nu.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 t
his 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