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Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash
The default options make it easy to roll a silent Windows install, or you can flip the custom switch and specify the exact setup parameters you want to use.
The handy app also has one more trick up its sleeve: moving Windows Preinstall environments. PE discs can be extremely handy for troubleshooting and repairs, and being able to painlessly zap them over to a USB flash drive means not having to burn a new copy every time someone's haggard old optical drive decides to chew up your CD.
WinToFlash is a free download and is totally portable. It's an excellent tool to add to your USB-related utilities.
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Subscribe to commentsMollyAug 27th 2009 3:57PM
sometimes, Lee, sometimes you're posts are very useful indeed :)
cheers.
Lee MathewsAug 27th 2009 3:58PM
I like to mix it up. See, if all the posts are useful you lose perspective... ;)
upgeogAug 27th 2009 6:43PM
Wow this is what I am searching for a long time - a one step software! Can this handle external hdd and memory cards?
FloAug 27th 2009 8:01PM
I've been using unetbootin for this :)
KeithWSep 3rd 2009 12:27PM
Lee,
Excellent! I have tried several other methods to make a bootable WinXP setup memory stick , all to no avail. Yours worked perfectly the first time. Thanks tons!
mike martinezSep 3rd 2009 3:21PM
This post is very informative and helpful. Kudos and cheers!!!
mike martinezSep 3rd 2009 3:27PM
Thanks you very much for this very helpful and informative blog. it helps me a lot...
bigafrica1Sep 17th 2009 12:24PM
PFG lee PFG
cnewman402Sep 30th 2009 9:38AM
Better yet make your own USB bootable thumbdrive using grub4dos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBGJdzIc60
shahzad_asadOct 20th 2009 6:42AM
very good
MarkOct 22nd 2009 2:37PM
I'm trying to come up with a word that means both "awesome" and "amazing". Perhaps "amawesome" or "awesomazing" will do.
KIREOct 24th 2009 8:58PM
DON'T FORGET TO READ THE EULA:http://wintoflash.com/license/en/
KIREOct 24th 2009 8:41PM
Now that you have seen the EULA,, would you trust this app???
What kind of language is this??
Lee MathewsOct 24th 2009 8:59PM
Is this a trick question? It's Russian, and the translation looks like a pretty standard EULA to me:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwintoflash.com%2Flicense%2Fen%2F&sl=ru&tl=en&history_state0=
ShiggitayOct 25th 2009 4:28AM
Awesome! I hopefully soon will be downloading a copy of Windows 7 (Home Premium, or Pro x64, haven't decided yet) when DR gets their act together and posts an ISO. If they don't by the time I'm ready to purchase and download, then I'll of course use the methods mentioned on the many blogs and message boards I've come across documenting this issue. (If you don't know what "this issue" is, then browse around the latest post to downloadsquad.com and you'll see what I'm talking about.)
I'll be installing Win7 on a soon-to-be-built Intel Core i7 Box, that I should have the money for by mid November.
Thanks for posting this great find!
genevenOct 25th 2009 8:54PM
Oops, this app would have been handy, I had to figure out how to do this on my own so it took a few minutes. It is really handy to have a flash drive with the Win 7 install on it; I used it on a couple of computers and just gave different serial numbers (which I of course had because I paid for my copies of Win 7).
azhar ali buttarNov 25th 2009 5:15AM
This is really an awesome software to create boot able USB disks. I had tested this thing with windowsXP, 2003 Server and Windows 7 and it worked fine.
BrianMay 14th 2010 4:09PM
Just need a little help. I did exactly as instructed. When I booted up I got an error no Hal.dll. I copied that file into the Windows\system32 directory but it still will not boot. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
ZamadMay 21st 2010 11:50PM
I have the same problem as Brian's.
hal.dll is missing when i try booting xp professional in GUI mode after running it in TXT mode.
WinToFlashJun 5th 2010 10:17AM
Love to read about wintoflash, I like to use it and i am happy with the software, thanks for providing the tutorial.....