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Boot Windows installation from usb-drive? (usb-stick or usb-hdd etc.) Is it possible to make the installation boot from an usb-drive? Rate Topic: -----

#1 User is offline   zeroFX 

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Posted 29 April 2007 - 10:02 AM

Hi there

When it comes to changing something in ur Windows installation, like adding new drivers & updates, u always have to burn a new cd/dvd or rewrite it.
It would be easier to change the installation media directly, but unless u formatted ur cd-rw with Mount Rainier that's not possible. (Can u use MRW on a windows installation cd/dvd?)

So, my question is: Would it be possible to make the installation boot from a media like an usb-drive?
Perhaps by -somehow- writing the cd's bootsektors to the usb-drive?
Or by using the bootcode the installation writes on the targeted partition? That'd be REALLY kewl!!


#2 User is offline   jaclaz 

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Posted 29 April 2007 - 10:11 AM

Does the sentence "Search before asking" ring any bell? ;)

Here:
http://www.msfn.org/...topic=97055&hl=

and links therein.

jaclaz

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