It took a little time for people to notice that you could boot Windows XP from a USB memory drive. But hopefully this won’t. You can now install Windows Vista from a bootable USB memory. All you need is a 4GB USB flash drive and of course, a computer that can stand its demands.

Its pretty simple. Just make the USB flash drive to act like the installation disk and everything goes as planned. Obviously (but if your were stupid), you need to have an Windows Vista DVD. So here is how you do it:

♦ Format the USB flash drive to FAT32 from NTFS.

Type CMD in the run dialog box found in your start menu. Type ‘List disk’ and identify the name of the USB drive in the list. Assuming that it is ‘disk 1′, lets continue by typing these commands blindly.

diskpart

select disk 1

clean

create partition primary

select partition 1

active

format fs=fat32

assign

exit

♦ Copy Windows Vista from the DVD to the flash drive.

type ‘xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\’ in cmd. This might take a while, in terms of snail-like systems, sometimes enough for a coffee break.

♦ Restart the computer and select the USB Drive as your 1st boot priority and install Windows Vista from the flash drive.

That’s it! You may now see the speed difference in the installation of Windows Vista now.

Via Techmixer