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Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash
by Lee Mathews Aug 27th 2009 at 2:00PM
The default options make it easy to roll a silent Windows install, or you can flip the custom switch and specify the exact setup parameters you want to use.
The handy app also has one more trick up its sleeve: moving Windows Preinstall environments. PE discs can be extremely handy for troubleshooting and repairs, and being able to painlessly zap them over to a USB flash drive means not having to burn a new copy every time someone's haggard old optical drive decides to chew up your CD.
WinToFlash is a free download and is totally portable. It's an excellent tool to add to your USB-related utilities.
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Molly said 3:57PM on 8-27-2009
sometimes, Lee, sometimes you're posts are very useful indeed :)
cheers.
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Lee Mathews said 3:58PM on 8-27-2009
I like to mix it up. See, if all the posts are useful you lose perspective... ;)
upgeog said 6:43PM on 8-27-2009
Wow this is what I am searching for a long time - a one step software! Can this handle external hdd and memory cards?
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Flo said 8:01PM on 8-27-2009
I've been using unetbootin for this :)
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KeithW said 12:27PM on 9-03-2009
Lee,
Excellent! I have tried several other methods to make a bootable WinXP setup memory stick , all to no avail. Yours worked perfectly the first time. Thanks tons!
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mike martinez said 3:21PM on 9-03-2009
This post is very informative and helpful. Kudos and cheers!!!
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mike martinez said 3:27PM on 9-03-2009
Thanks you very much for this very helpful and informative blog. it helps me a lot...
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bigafrica1 said 12:24PM on 9-17-2009
PFG lee PFG
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cnewman402 said 9:38AM on 9-30-2009
Better yet make your own USB bootable thumbdrive using grub4dos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBGJdzIc60
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bebinhphuong said 11:53PM on 10-14-2009
Thank you . I am looking for a long time and try many way and nothing is work. This one work at the first time but with error msg " window root> hal.dll is missing .
Reinstal...bla bla bla ..
search in internet and find the way ...
attrib - r -h -s c:\boot.ini
del c:\boot.ini
bla.
bla
and it boot and install the rest of window.
thank
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shahzad_asad said 6:42AM on 10-20-2009
very good
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Mark said 2:37PM on 10-22-2009
I'm trying to come up with a word that means both "awesome" and "amazing". Perhaps "amawesome" or "awesomazing" will do.
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KIRE said 8:58PM on 10-24-2009
DON'T FORGET TO READ THE EULA:http://wintoflash.com/license/en/
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KIRE said 8:41PM on 10-24-2009
Now that you have seen the EULA,, would you trust this app???
What kind of language is this??
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Lee Mathews said 8:59PM on 10-24-2009
Is this a trick question? It's Russian, and the translation looks like a pretty standard EULA to me:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwintoflash.com%2Flicense%2Fen%2F&sl=ru&tl=en&history_state0=
Shiggitay said 4:28AM on 10-25-2009
Awesome! I hopefully soon will be downloading a copy of Windows 7 (Home Premium, or Pro x64, haven't decided yet) when DR gets their act together and posts an ISO. If they don't by the time I'm ready to purchase and download, then I'll of course use the methods mentioned on the many blogs and message boards I've come across documenting this issue. (If you don't know what "this issue" is, then browse around the latest post to downloadsquad.com and you'll see what I'm talking about.)
I'll be installing Win7 on a soon-to-be-built Intel Core i7 Box, that I should have the money for by mid November.
Thanks for posting this great find!
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geneven said 8:54PM on 10-25-2009
Oops, this app would have been handy, I had to figure out how to do this on my own so it took a few minutes. It is really handy to have a flash drive with the Win 7 install on it; I used it on a couple of computers and just gave different serial numbers (which I of course had because I paid for my copies of Win 7).
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azhar ali buttar said 5:15AM on 11-25-2009
This is really an awesome software to create boot able USB disks. I had tested this thing with windowsXP, 2003 Server and Windows 7 and it worked fine.
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