Monday, February 20, 2012

Make All-in-One USB Boot Disk - 4

This post will brief about installing Grub to usb (usb hdd) and booting windows 7 pe from Grub

1] Always use the first drive of usb disk for this method.
This drive must be primary.
2] Format the target drive as NTFS - Quick by Windows Management Console and mark it Active.
3] Download U_XP_SET - http://wimb.winbuilder.net/downloads/?dir=&download=U_XP_SET.exe
4] Extract the U_XP_SET to the root of local drive.
 5] Run PStart.exe from the extracted folder.
6] Run Make_USB
7] Assign the 'Target USB Drive' option
8] Assign the Win 7 pe iso to 'Boot Image File' option
9] Check mark on 'Copy U_XP_SET folder' option
10] Choose Grub4dos to 'MBR Bootcode' option

11] Now press OK to start the installation of Grub to the usb drive with windows 7 pe boot image.

Now the usb disk is bootable with grub4dos bootloader and windows 7 pe is available at the boot menu for booting it via ramdisk.

Next - Make All-in-One USB Boot Disk -5

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