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Tools To Install Windows Faster Using a USB Flash Drive

to create Linux

Universal USB Installer / YUMI
USB install support for: Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
Universal USB Installer and YUMI are similar programs from Pendrivelinux.com, looking and working in a similar way. The main difference is YUMI has support for installing multiple ISO images onto a USB flash drive and Universal USB Installer can install one ISO image at a time. They both have options to install and also download a number of Linux operating system images and repair CD’s along with direct USB installer support for Vista, 7 and 8. These two tools are one of the few that is able to install Kon-Boot onto a USB. All you have to do is select which Windows to install from the Step 1 drop down (near the bottom), locate the ISO and choose the USB drive to install to. Formatting is optional. The YUMI interface is slightly more complicated due to the multiboot options. Both tools are entirely portable.

UNetbootin
USB install support for: None officially, Windows Vista, 7 and 8 worked for us.
UNetbootin is a very popular tool for downloading and installing Linux distro’s onto USB. Although a lot of people try to use it for installing the Windows setup onto USB, the program doesn’t officially support this and it seems a look around the internet reveals there are as many failures as successes. We ran quick tests to install Windows Vista, 7 and 8 ISO’s to USB using UNetbootin and it seemed to work IF you format the flash drive to NTFS beforehand. Just select Diskimage and browse for the ISO file, then choose your USB drive. Because the other tools here are designed to work with Windows by their developers, it’s recommended to try them before UNetbootin.

Boot From a USB Drive Even if your BIOS Won’t Let You
the ingredient:

• PLoP Boot Manager
• RawWrite, to put the contents of the plpbt.img image file found in PLoP’s zip file on a floppy disk.
• USBbootWatcher
• FreeDOS, an open-source implementation of DOS that should run whatever DOS program you need to use.
• RMPrepUSB, USB install support for: Windows XP, Vista, 2008, 7 and 8.
• WaitBT driver takes care for USB boot when there are no any other disks and only USB removable one, without it Windows typically will crash with 0x0000007B stop error.
• free ImDisk mount it as a virtual CD/DVD for example to extract its contents to a folder.

the result:
WinSetupFromUSB