How Can I Create Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows Vista?  

well, 1. Insert the USB drive into your computer.
2. Right-click Computer in the Start menu and then select Manage.
3. Select Disk Management under Storage in the left column of the Computer Management window.

4. Right-click the USB drive in the bottom center section of the Computer Management window and select Format. Warning: Make sure you select the right disk to format. Formatting a disk will erase all data on it.
5. Change the file system to NTFS and then click OK to format the USB drive.

6. Wait for the USB drive to be formatted. The formatting progress will be shown in the Computer Management window.
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Answered by Romi at 5:05 PM on September 25, 2008

et your hands on a USB drive that’s at least 3GB in size. You’ll also need a Windows Vista installation disk.
Format the USB Drive

1. Insert the USB drive into your computer.
2. Right-click Computer in the Start menu and then select Manage.
3. Select Disk Management under Storage in the left column of the Computer Management window.
4. Right-click the USB drive in the bottom center section of the Computer Management window and select Format. Warning: Make sure you select the right disk to format. Formatting a disk will erase all data on it.
5. Change the file system to NTFS and then click OK to format the USB drive.

6. Wait for the USB drive to be formatted. The formatting progress will be shown in the Computer Management window.

Set the USB Drive’s Volume to Active

1. Open the command prompt with administrative privileges by going to Start, All Programs, Accessories, and the right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
2. Type diskpart in the command prompt and then press enter on your keyboard.
3. Type list volume and the press enter.

4. Find the USB drive in the list of volumes. In this example Volume 3 is the USB disk I’m using. Select the volume by typing select volume X (with X being the volume number of the appropriate USB drive) and then press enter.

5. Set the volume as active by typing active and then press enter.

6. Type exit and then press enter.

Create a Boot Sector on the USB Drive

1. You’ll need a utility called bootsect.exe which can be found in any Windows Vista DVD in the boot folder. Copy bootsect.exe from a Windows Vista installation disk and past it in the C:\Windows\System32 directory in your computer.
2. Once you copied bootsect.exe from a Vista installation disk to the System32 folder on your computer, type bootsect /nt60 X: (where X is the drive letter of the USB drive) and then press enter.

Copy Windows Vista Installation Files

1. Insert a Windows Vista installation DVD.
2. Open Computer from the Start Menu.
3. Right-click the DVD drive the Vista install DVD is in and select Explore.
4. Copy all of the files from the Vista installation DVD and past them in the USB drive.

Now you can install Windows Vista from a USB drive!

Answered by Shobhit at 6:53 PM on September 16, 2008

There are few easy to do steps on how to install Vista using a USB pen drive.

1. Format the USB flash memory drive to FAT32 file system

Run CMD.EXE and type the following command. Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as “disk 1?. Double check that by doing a list of the disks (type “list disk”) before cleaning it).

1. diskpart
2. select disk 1
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

2. Copy Windows Vista’s DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

Type in command to start copying all the content from the Windows Vista DVD to your newly formatted high speed flash drive.

* xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\

3. Setup your computer BIOS to boot from USB Drive

4. Install Windows Vista from flash memory drive

Answered by Ashish Yadav at 1:58 PM on September 15, 2008

This tutorial will help you in creating a bootable USB drive of Windows Vista which you can use to install Vista in any system. It might become very useful when you don’t have access to DVD drive.

1. First format your USB drive in NTFS file system. You can do it by attaching your USB drive to your system and then format it from My Computer window.

2. Now open Command Prompt window from Start menu. Right-click on Command Prompt entry in start menu and select “Run as administrator” option.

3. Now type diskpart in Command Prompt window and press Enter. It’ll launch DiskPart program:

http://img.photobu cket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_h ere/LaunchDiskpart.jpg

4. Now provide following command:

list volume

It’ll show a list of all drives in your system. Look for your USB drive entry. As in the below screenshot, the USB drive is “G” which you can determine from its “Type” entry.

Now you have to select the USB drive volume by providing select volume no. command. Since in our case volume no. of USB drive is “Volume 4″, the command would be:

select volume 4

Now we have to make this drive active. So provide active command:

active

Now exit from DiskPart using exit command.

http://img.photobu cket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_h ere/UsingDiskpart.jpg

5. Now we need to create Boot sector on USB drive. We’ll use “bootsect.exe” utility for this task. You can find this utility in Windows Vista setup disk. It’ll be present in “Boot” directory.

Now provide following command in Command Prompt:

bootsect /nt60 G:

Here G is drive letter of USB drive. Replace it with the correct drive letter if your system has some other letter for USB drive.

http://img.photobuck et.com/albums/v374/vishaal_her e/InstallingBootloaderonUSB.jp g

6. At last, copy all files/folders from Vista Setup DVD to your USB drive and you have done.

And for more information visit the source site:
http://www.askvg.com/ho w-to-create-bootable-usb-drive -to-install-windows-vista/

Answered by Dinesh at 9:19 PM on September 14, 2008

Well, creating a bootable USB drive of Windows Vista which you can use to install Vista in any system. It might become very useful when you don’t have access to DVD drive.

1. First format your USB drive in NTFS file system. You can do it by attaching your USB drive to your system and then format it from My Computer window.

2. Now open Command Prompt window from Start menu. Right-click on Command Prompt entry in start menu and select “Run as administrator” option.

3. Now type diskpart in Command Prompt window and press Enter. It’ll launch DiskPart program:

http://img.photobu cket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_h ere/LaunchDiskpart.jpg

4. Now provide following command:

list volume

It’ll show a list of all drives in your system. Look for your USB drive entry. As in the below screenshot, the USB drive is “G” which you can determine from its “Type” entry.

Now you have to select the USB drive volume by providing select volume no. command. Since in our case volume no. of USB drive is “Volume 4″, the command would be:

select volume 4

Now we have to make this drive active. So provide active command:

active

Now exit from DiskPart using exit command.

5. Now we need to create Boot sector on USB drive. We’ll use “bootsect.exe” utility for this task. You can find this utility in Windows Vista setup disk. It’ll be present in “Boot” directory.

Now provide following command in Command Prompt:

bootsect /nt60 G:

Here G is drive letter of USB drive. Replace it with the correct drive letter if your system has some other letter for USB drive.

6. At last, copy all files/folders from Vista Setup DVD to your USB drive and you have done.

Now you can boot using your USB drive and can install Windows Vista in any system.

for more details and screen shots , Please visit the source site :

http://www.askvg.com/how- to-create-bootable-usb-drive-t o-install-windows-vista/

Answered by Alok Gupta at 4:56 PM on September 14, 2008