Install Vista From USB Pendrive

Install Vista From Pendrive

Ever thought of installing Windows using a high speed 2.0 Flash Drive? If you have never heard of about installing from a Flash Drive instead of a DVD ROM, i will tell you why this method is much preferred and why you will be using this method when you use it. The main reason would be performance, who would want to insert a DVD ROM and wait for 30 minutes to go through all the procedures.You know how installing Windows on a Virtual PC virtual machine from an .ISO CD image is teribbly fast?

Of course, you need a high speed 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive just to create a bootable Windows Vista on flash memory drive. The faster the drive the better the performance.


1. Formatting the USB Flash Memory to FAT 32 File System



Run CMD.EXE and type the following command. Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as “disk 1?. Double check that by doing a list of the disks (type “list disk”) before cleaning it).



1. diskpart

2. select disk 1

3. clean

4. create partition primary

5. select partition 1

6. active

7. format fs=fat32

8. assign

9. exit



2.  Copy Windows DVD ROM files to the Flash Drive

Type in command to start copying all the content from the Windows Vista DVD to your newly formatted high speed flash drive.



* xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\

where d is ur drive which contains windows and e is your pen drive



That’s it Guys!, You need to put up the system (Remember, boot it off the USB drive)see for yourself how fast the installtion is done.