Unattended USB

[Falcon.Geek]

Im new here but heres my problem.

In my office we have many different machines, so instead of ghost we decided to create a windows unattended CD that would be faster, cleaner, and simpler for our less tech savy people. And for them the CD works just fine. But for the rest of us we want to put the image on a USB jump drive.

Now i use Nlite to make the disks, and they are about 400MB. and are saved both as files and more importantly ISO images for CDs.

I also have a Sandisk 1GB jumpdrive that i want to use for the install (perhaps if this works ill incorporate office and adobe into the image.)

I am looking for a way to write the ISO image over to the USB drive and have it boot. So i can install windows from it.

I have found many articles that very in helpfullness from not at all to still not at all.

Im hoping the wonderfull members here are a little brighter than the people i have been reading and can give me a nice simple explaination.

[mmarable]

I have never found a way to boot the USB drive exactly as a CD would.

You're best bet would be an WinPE bootable USB drive that kicks off the install. You can then use PE to run any system prep scripts you might want, like partitioning, etc.

For example, you can run a script that determines what model machine you're installing to and it only copies over the drivers needed for that model.

[T D]

You can google booting from a memstick, but I find this article good.

http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php