Preapring Windows PE to Boot from a USB Thumb Drive
These steps will take you through preparing a USB ram drive (thumb drive, pen drive, or how ever you care to refer to it) so that you may use it to boot your Windows PE image without the need of a hard drive (or bootable CD/DVD). These steps assume you have already generated your Windows PE folder structure where you would typically burn it to an ISO image.
1) Run diskpart from command prompt running as administrator (right click the command prompt icon and choose “Run As Administrator”)
2) Type the command: list disk to see the available disks and note the one that represents your USB thumb drive (more…)
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Written by Jason on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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