How to make any copy of Windows a bootable usb drive or sd card.

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Posted 11 April 2010 - 08:07 AM

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If you remember a while back I posted a bootable utilities thread, which could make a bootable Vista or 7 usb drive, well since the utilities don't make XP bootable usb drives, I am writing a tutorial using xcopy which is built into Windows.

what you will need either the ISO (you need to mount the ISO) or cd/dvd for the windows version your are going to use
a flash drive or sd card that is big enough for the uncompressed ISO/disc
administrator privileges

Ok first off we are going to open up the command manager as admin so you can (in Vista or 7) go to the start shell and search cmd then press ctrl+shift+enter or right click and run as admin.

now you will run

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diskpart

In order to select the proper drive we will run

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list disk

in my case I am using my PSP's 8gb memory stick which is disc 4, select which ever disc it is for you.

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select disk 4

we will now have to begin the formatting process, this will not work if you format through windows.

to begin we will run

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clean

now we will create a primary partition

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create partition primary

now we must set the primary partition as active.

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active

now for the actual formatting process this may take a while so you might want to go do something else while this is in progress.

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format fs=fat32

when the drive is done formatting we will assign a letter to the drive which is simple as this command.

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assign

now we will have to exit so we can copy everything to the drive.

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exit

Do not format your drive through windows or this won't work -- you will also want to insert your cd/dvd or mount your ISO image at this time.

Now that we are prepared we will do the actual copying of the files over to the drive -- the optical drive I'm working from is E:\ and my drive is L:\ make sure that you use the drives that correspond with your system.

now we will preform the copy.

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xcopy E:\*.* /s/e/f L:\

the command is that simple, copying the files over will take a while so again you should go do something else while this step is in progress.

After the process is done (it will return to the system32 directory) you now have a working Windows USB -- you would just need to configure your system to boot from a USB at this point.

This process should also work to copy your system to a new hard drive by formatting the drive to NTFS instead of FAT32 and copying the using

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xcopy C:\*.* /s/e/f D:\

(that command is assuming that your new hard drive is set as D.

for those of you who have netbooks this is a great way to make a recovery disc for your system, I personally did this with a Windows 7 32bit recovery ISO. And I have tested this with my Windows 7 ISO and it does work.