For a long time, CD or DVD discs remained the most common portable storage of information. Gradually, these devices are losing ground, and they are being replaced by USB drives: both flash drives and portable hard drives. And even some computers, such as netbooks, are not designed to work with disks at all. They simply do not have a DVD drive. Hence, it becomes necessary to install the Windows operating system from a USB stick.
Necessary
- USB stick
- DVD drive
- Windows disk
Instructions
Step 1
First, you need to ensure that the USB drive is detected before operating systems are loaded. To do this, you need to find a suite of programs called usb multiboot. Run the Usb Disk Storage Format program. Select the NTFS or FAT32 file system, select the required flash drive and press "start".
Step 2
Run the Grub4Dos Installer. In the window that appears, select the required flashcard and click "Install". Now you need to copy the following files to the USB flash drive: grldr, memtest.img, bootfont.bin and menu.lst. This concludes the stage of creating a multiboot flash drive.
Step 3
To create a USB stick with which you can install the Windows operating system, you need a computer or laptop with a DVD drive, or an external USB drive for a netbook. Insert the Windows distribution disc into the drive and copy all its contents to your USB flash drive.
