Hi! I came up with an idea to create universal bootable usb stick providing me all desired os to install a long time ago. I'm novice when it comes to a bootable pendrives field So I decided to inquire some indispensable information from experienced users of this forum.

I'd like to include installers of:

- Vista (all versions),

- XP Home and Prof,

- maybe Windows 7 (latest beta)

And some useful utilities:

- BartPE

- Acronis Disk Director Suite

- Acronis True Image

There also should be a boot menu included just like inside multibootable DVD.

Here are my questions:

1. How can I do it?

2. What pendrive do you recommand (brand, capacity)?

Thank you in advance.

Edited January 22, 200917 yr by insomnia07

Here are my questions:

1. How can I do it?

2. What pendrive do you recommand (brand, capacity)?

Thank you in advance.

1. Reading threads in this Forum and the help/docs within the USB_multiboot would seem to me a good start....
   
2. If you want to have on it all the things you listed, a BIG one.
   

Now, seriously, you are having an approach that I would define a bit "ambitious", you will need to start reading and experiment with just one OS, then try again with two, then try adding a PE, and so on.....

....about multiboot, the obvious answer is grub4dos:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66

(already part of the "Install XP from USB")

...about hardware, a general "rule of the thumb" is that you get what you pay for, usually "top speed" sticks are the most expensive.

jaclaz

Edited January 22, 200917 yr by jaclaz