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Creating a multiboot USB drive
Introduction 1
Part one: prepare the USB drive 2
Part two: prepare the Windows Vista/2008 installation images 6
Part three: using WinSetupFromUSB to create the bootable USB drive 14
Part four: adding boot options & modify Grub4DOS menu 19
Introduction
One of the more frustrating downsides to the recent rise in popularity of netbooks is the
difficulty in installing an operating system without an optical drive. The traditional way
around this issue was to do a network install, using something like Microsoft's Remote
Installation Services or Windows Deployment Services, which is fine if you have the
infrastructure already in place, but overkill for the average user - having to set up a domain
and then create images is a lengthy process if all you want to do is install Windows on your
new computer. One of the most popular solutions for this increasingly common issue is to
install from a USB flash memory drive. There are applications readily available on the
Internet that will take your standard USB flash memory drive and turn it into a bootable
drive from which you can install Windows.
This got me thinking; wouldn't it be great to have a USB drive with all the versions of
Windows that you install regularly? A quick search on google yielded some helpful but
incomplete instructions on how to achieve this, but fortunately after many days of
tweaking, I have been able to create a USB drive with the following operating systems;
Windows XP Professional x86 with SP3
Windows XP Professional x64 with SP2
Windows Vista Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate and Enterprise x86
with SP1
Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate and Enterprise x64 with SP1
Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter full and Server Core x86 and x64
Which, by my count, is 13 client and 12 server operating systems, all installable from a single
8GB USB flash drive. With some further research and modification of the method, I was also
able to create a bootable USB hard disk drive with the above, as well as a number of
additional utilities including;
Acronis True Image Server
memtest
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Creating a multiboot USB drive Introduction 1 Part one: prepare the USB drive 2 Part two: prepare the Windows Vista/2008 installation images 6 Par

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Fortunately, this is easy to do. Extract the sources\license folder from your Server 2008 disc to E:\LonghornAIO\Distribution\sources\license, overw

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As you can see, it now works; the Server 2008 Enterprise license agreement correctly appears in the Windows Vista setup. Part 2.3 - Create a boota

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with -n. After a couple of minutes oscdimg should finish creating your ISO file and you can now test it by either burning it to DVD or using your

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You can go back at any time and export additional images into your install.wim. For example, I extracted Windows 7 Ultimate x64 & x86 and Server

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Part three: using WinSetupFromUSB to create the bootable USB drive Essential items & software for this part: WinSetupFromUSB - download mirror he

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Notice the number in the bottom left corner? That's how much space the entire distribution folder and the required support files will take on y

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it's own drive number by windows. Disconnecting it and then connecting my USB drive instead resolved the issue. WinSetupFromUSB will copy all of

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the "Windows is loading files..." message, and eventually be taken to Windows Setup. Part 3.2 - Install Grub4DOS onto the USB drive In ord

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If you select Windows Setup the Windows Setup will run, and you will be able to install your Windows Vista/2k8/7 images as before, however if you s

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Part four: adding boot options & modify Grub4DOS menu Essential items & software for this part: Text editor - I recommend Notepad++ 3rd party

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GParted WinPE, Ultimate Boot CD BartPE This is an extremely powerful tool, especially to the IT professional who has to work on a range of systems

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have tried a number of utilities. Here is have been able to get the following to launch from Grub4DOS without issue; Utility Grub4DOS menu entry Acron

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system select NTFS. Change the Volume label to Multiboot or something similar, to make identification easier later. Finally, tick the Quick Format opt

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Partition instead of New Volume. Don't ask me why they are different!). Select Primary partition as the partition type, then click Next. Enter a

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Now that your drive has been correctly formatted, you will need to make the new partition active. This is done via a Microsoft command line tool call

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Part two: prepare the Windows Vista/2008 installation images Essential items & software for this part: Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)

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Move E:\LonghornAIO\Distribution\Sources\install.wim to E:\LonghornAIO\Vx86 Extract the install.wim files from each of the installation discs you wis

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Repeat this process again, this time selecting E:\LonghornAIO\Sx64\install.wim as the Source WIM and selecting image 2 - Windows Longhorn SERVERENT

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You may repeat this process as many times as you want, including as many images as you need to, but be careful not to accidentally export the same i

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