Creating/Installing from USB device

[ming]

Hi all,

Whenever a new OS is released in beta/RTM, I've always had to burn an image file onto a DVD before installing the software on to a test machine. I don't have much of a problem continuing this way except that the two PCs that I usually download the beta software with either only has a cd writer or it doesn't have a media drive at all.

Want I'd like to do is to put the image file on to a USB device and have the new OS to install off of the USB device, but I have no idea how to put the installation files on to an External HDD/USB flash drive and have them bootable.

It'd also help if I can put the recovery DVD for my Asus eee box on to a USB device as this is the machine I don't have a media drive.

Can anyone help me on this please?

 

[tdinc]

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/usb-boot.mspx

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/0...rive-or-hdd-into-a-bootable-windows-7-instal/


http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

for your eeePC
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/restore_1000h

 

[ming]

Thanks tdinc for the links.

Would I be able to put multiple OSes on to one USB HDD and be able to select them when I boot from USB?

 

[tdinc]

This will help you in the right direction.
http://www.msfn.org/board/A-Multiple-Partition-USB-Stick-with-Mult-t69211.html


hope it helps 🙂