Windows Setup on USB-Stick

[test531]

hey there

I found quite a lot tutorials regarding this topic. used a lot of them, none of them wirked. finally I read that there is a problem with PE2USB regarding my 8GB stick, because it uses 2GB limited FAT 16 - Is there any workaround?

maybe a 2g and 6gb "partition" on my flashdisk drive?

[jaclaz]

Right questions, wrong place to pose them.

This is where you should look at:

http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-from-USB-f157.html

There is NO sense in having multiple partitions on a USB stick (normally seen as "Removable") as only the first active one will be accessible by a booted 2K/XP/2003, unless you are either:

1) multibooting other Operating Systems that support partitioned devices fully

2) using cfadisk.sys or dummydisk.sys filter driver

3) successful in flipping the "removable bit":

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21850

You might want to try this (if you want to format "manually"):

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702

And of course, if you had used USB Multiboot in the first place, everything should have been already OK.

jaclaz

Edited July 30, 2008 by jaclaz

[test531]

usb multiboot uses petousb, doesnt it?

[jaclaz]

Last time I used it, it didn't, unless you chose to :

echo  Format USB-Drive with FAT or NTFS - FAT32 is very SLOW for Install of XP
echo.
echo	 P) PeToUSB - FAT Format - Max 2 GB
echo.
ECHO		To Format USB-Drive  : Enable Disk Format with LBA FAT16X
echo		Do NOT Select here FileCopy of BartPE
echo		FAT Format Supports Direct Booting with MS-DOS using MULTI_CONTENT
echo		Install of XP from USB in 30 minutes - Buffalo FireStix 2 GB
echo.
echo.	H) HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool V2.0.6 - NTFS Format - use X_CONTENT
echo.
echo		NTFS Format Supports DOS Boot Floppy Images via GRUB4DOS Menu
echo		Install of XP from USB in 16 minutes - Corsair Flash Voyager 4 GB
echo.
echo		Do NOT use HP Tool for USB-Harddisks having more than 1 Partition
echo		WARNING -  HP Tool Formats whole Disk - Second Partition is Lost
echo.
echo.
echo	 N) No Format - Use USB-Drive with FAT or NTFS Format by Windows XP
echo		Or Update Existing Bootable USB-Drive with NTLDR Bootsector

You can:

a. choose P) to use PetoUSB

b. choose H) to use the HP formatting utility

c. use BEFORE the linked to utility (based as well on the HP one):

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702

, or ANY other WORKING formatting method as FAT32 you may have and THEN in USB multiboot choose N)

jaclaz

Edited July 30, 2008 by jaclaz