How to Install Vista From a USB Flash Drive?

February 27th, 2007

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Here's a guide on how to install (not run) Windows Vista from a USB flash drive. The primary reason for choosing a flash drive over the default DVD disc, Gigabit Ethernet and even some external USB drives is performance. The access speed and transfer rate of a high-end USB thumbdrive are quite impressive as the popular flash media well exceeds 30MB/s already. The guy didn't mention the size requirement of the drive. I suppose 4GB should be quite enough. The procedures to moving Vista install files requires you to format the removable drive partition in command prompt, followed by copying the Vista DVD content to the USB stick with this: xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\. If everything works as claimed, a typical Vista Ultimate install will be cut to less than 5 to 10 minutes from 20 to 25.

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