burn ISO image to USB??

Django x2 · 6 Feb 2009 at 11:02

Guys, need a bit of assistance here if possible.

I've run out of DVDs and urgently need to install Vista onto a physical PC. I have the vista ISO on my desktop, is there a way I can "burn" it to my USB drive so that it becomes bootable and Vista will install from the USB drive instead of a normal CD drive?

I can boot from USB which is fine, my guess is the problem will occur when Vista tries to load the standard drivers for USB.

Hope i'm wrong though.

Thanks

malef!c · 6 Feb 2009 at 13:56

Not sure if this will help you at all, its not buring the ISO to the USB, but if you unzip it all and do what it says in the article it may work.

http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1665.entry

Django x2 · 6 Feb 2009 at 14:25

malef!c said:
Not sure if this will help you at all, its not buring the ISO to the USB, but if you unzip it all and do what it says in the article it may work.

http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1665.entry

Thanks, Found something similar just a moment ago and works nicely.

Cheers

uv · 6 Feb 2009 at 14:26

yup, I've installed Vista and win7 from usb a jillion times now. Not only does it save on disks, but it's much faster

bledd · 6 Feb 2009 at 14:33

it's a shame xp is so dirty/fiddly to install via usb in comparison

MuGeN · 6 Feb 2009 at 14:58

if you're gonna be doing that then i highly recommend using vLite (the Vista version of nLite) to slipstream bits and bobs that you want into the install and while there might as well do all the settings and make it a completely hands-off install

http://www.vlite.net/

uv · 6 Feb 2009 at 15:19

bledd. said:
it's a shame xp is so dirty/fiddly to install via usb in comparison

multiboot makes it much easier to install XP from usb, but still.. it's nowhere near as easy as Vista/win7

bledd · 6 Feb 2009 at 15:29

yeah

this tool makes it super easy to setup etc..

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444

but you have to make sure it's the primary partition, then boot into 'step 2' twice

easy if you read the instuctions

(the above is for 2000/xp/2003)

_Jimlad_ · 6 Feb 2009 at 19:54

MuGeN said:
if you're gonna be doing that then i highly recommend using vLite (the Vista version of nLite) to slipstream bits and bobs that you want into the install and while there might as well do all the settings and make it a completely hands-off install

http://www.vlite.net/

is that made by the same people as nlite

MuGeN · 6 Feb 2009 at 20:00

_Jimlad_ said:
is that made by the same people as nlite

yeah, i wasn't joking when i said "the Vista version of nLite"

_Jimlad_ · 6 Feb 2009 at 20:00

_Jimlad_ · 6 Feb 2009 at 20:00

Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 is needed for vlite and that's almost a gig and a half