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. For preparing your WinPE image, please see Working with Windows PE Images.
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 March 2nd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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