Create a Bootable Windows Vista Installation USB Flash Drive (UFD)
February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Prerequisites:
1. Obtain a Windows Vista product DVD (any edition)
2. Purchase a USB Flash Drive (UFD) with a storage capacity of 4.0GB or more
3. Install Windows Vista on a local computer. Alternatively, you may boot from the Windows Vista product DVD and utilize the command prompt from the recovery console to format the drive and copy files as described below.
Instructions:
If you already have Windows Vista installed on a computer, then
1. Login into the computer as a user with administrator privileges
2. Insert the UFD device into an appropriate USB port
3. Insert the Windows Vista product DVD into an available DVD-ROM drive
4. Click on Start > All Programs > Accessories then right-click on “Command Prompt”
5. Select “Run as administrator” then click on Continue
Note:
Be careful when formatting a selected disk as described below. View the first image below and use the output as reference. Proceed with caution. Otherwise, you may inadvertently re-format one of your data disk partitions and lose everything. In this example, the D:\ drive corresponds to my DVD-RW drive and disk 1 to my 8.0GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive.
At the command prompt, type the following:
1. diskpart
2. select disk 1
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
5. format fs=fat32
6. assign letter=v
7. exit
8. xcopy d:\*.* /e/f v:\
9. exit
Reference:
Kurt Shintaku’s Blog: HOWTO: Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive
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