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This method has worked for me many times and for many different people. It
is an incredibly easy process, especially if you consider the pain it is to
install XP from a flash drive.... Follow the steps 1-5:
Ok, here we go, follow closely.
1. Format the flash drive (at least a 4GB) as NTFS, NOT FAT32! Important!
2. Put the Vista disk in the drive, and open the command line with
Administrator privileges.
3. Enter the text below directly into the command line, replacing the first
drive letter with the drive letter of the Vista DVD, and the second drive
letter with the letter of the flash drive.
Code:
xcopy D: E: /e /h
The "D:" being your optical drive where the Vista DVD is, and the "E:" being
the flash drive. Change the letters to suit your setup. This might take
awhile as it copies all the files on the Vista DVD to the flash drive. Just
doing this from the explorer misses some hidden files.
4. Once that is finished, open a new command line window and enter the flash
drive's directory. Do this by entering the drive letter of the flash drive.
If the flash drive is drive E, just enter:
Code:
E:
After that, type
Code:
cd boot
You are now in the boot directory.
5. Now to run the bootsect command that makes the flash drive bootable.
Enter the following, and just like before, replace the E: with the drive
letter of the flash drive.
Code:
bootsect /nt60 E:
If you accidentally put the wrong drive letter there, you could be in
trouble so pay attention!
You will get what looks to be an error, but ignore that. All you are
interested in is if it says: Bootcode was successfully updated on all target
volumes.
If you know how to boot from a USB device you are all set, if not, consult
you're mobo's documentation.
I tried this method many times on many different PC's with a FAT32 formatted
flash drive, but the install would always fail.
I am completely open to any more suggestions.
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