premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Has anyone tried to setup WinPE2.0 to install Windows 7 or Vista from a Jumpdrive? Just curious, I highly doubt there have been I am currently working on doing it and finding it an annoying task with the right information spread over multiple sources as I am working from WindowsXP, which requires a bit more work. I am on the last stretch right now, however. And if this works I am going to attempt to setup XP and Vista to be installed the same way. That way I have all 3 in one simple jumpdrive install and it should make it easy for re-installing or setting up another computer at work instead of using CD's/DVD's. The main reason for doing this is some of the CD drives at work are not DVD capable, so yea. We do use Ghost, but in some remote locations Ghost is not acceptable. So yea. I decided to venture down this road. Anyhow just curious if I am the only tard to try this or not If I do successfully get Win7 installed from PE, I might even post how I did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 Well, I figured it out Too bad Windows 7 is still Beta, but it works great for Vista and XP. If anyone wants a tutorial posted let me know, if not I will just keep my secrets to myself > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 RC for 7 is coming soon ;p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 RC for 7 is coming soon ;p. Nice, Windows 7 so far seems pretty nice. Just gotta get the right video drivers now and fight few a couple of different bugs I found. But so far so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Well, I figured it out Too bad Windows 7 is still Beta, but it works great for Vista and XP. If anyone wants a tutorial posted let me know, if not I will just keep my secrets to myself > I wouldn't mind reading that. I use a combination of a pxe server with ghost to image all of my computers, but every now and then I have to do a fresh install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 I wouldn't mind reading that. I use a combination of a pxe server with ghost to image all of my computers, but every now and then I have to do a fresh install. Good deal, I will start writing up a tutorial for it, it really is not that hard, to be honest. My whole issue is that I refuse to use Vista, and without Vista you have to do some formatting with the HP Utility and 98se Boot Disk then modify the bootsect and boddaboom. But that part I had to gather from bits and pieces it was not in just one spot. Anyhow, I will post a link to it here when I get it written and published. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 what? I thought MS made installing their OS easier than ever. All you have to do is keep pressing the next button until you get the the finish button, and boom, your done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 what? I thought MS made installing their OS easier than ever. All you have to do is keep pressing the next button until you get the the finish button, and boom, your done! My situation was I have an 8GB Jump Drive. I wanted Windows XP, Vista and (for testing reasons) Windows 7 to be able to be installed from it. All in one, no CD's/DVD's required. Installing Windows PE 2.0 to a Jumpdrive and make it bootable is really easily done in Vista, however in XP it is a different story, since Diskpart under XP does not mount Removable Storage Drives. So that part does not work. You have to "hack" it to work by using the HP Boot Utility and Bootsect. Once that is done you copy the WinPE 2.0 iso files to the jumpdrive then make a new folder on the JD for the different windows version files. Then reboot load into WinPE 2.0 and mount the jumpdrive, navigate to the OS and run setup.exe. From there it is as simple as the CD The hard part was figuring out how to get the Jumpdrive to boot using Windows XP and not Vista. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 what? I thought MS made installing their OS easier than ever. All you have to do is keep pressing the next button until you get the the finish button, and boom, your done! it pretty much is that way, but with vista windows uses winPE as a stripped down version of windows to initiate the installer. Premiso wanted to boot from a USB drive which is loaded with winPE and then load any OS. It is a lot easier to walk around with a USB stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 sarchasm ftw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 Install Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 7 from a USB Jumpdrive There is the tutorial for anyone who cares Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I have absolutely no use for being able to install an OS off of a flash drive, but that is now my life goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 sarchasm ftw YOU SUCK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 I have absolutely no use for being able to install an OS off of a flash drive, but that is now my life goal. lol, I have plenty of uses for it And for the $20 it cost me for this 8GB jumpdrive, I could see no better use for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 Just an update on the Windows 7 RC: I’m pleased to share that the RC is on track for April 30th for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5th. Just 9 more days till public availability. Woohoo! Cannot wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Just get it from a torrent. Same thing anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 Just get it from a torrent. Same thing anyway. Didn't know RC1 was out on torrents Time to re-install Windows 7 Hopefully the minor annoyances I found are fixed, we shall see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I've been using Vista for nearly a year and have no problems with it. Windows 7 does look like it will have some pretty decent improvements though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 I've been using Vista for nearly a year and have no problems with it. Windows 7 does look like it will have some pretty decent improvements though. An understatement. From what I have used of Vista, Windows 7 is far more responsive, sleeker and a ton better. Really Windows 7 is very nice. If you liked Vista, I think you will love Windows 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I've been thinking about installing 7 RC on my laptop (currently running Vista). I haven't completely decided yet though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I have absolutely no use for being able to install an OS off of a flash drive, but that is now my life goal. lol, I have plenty of uses for it And for the $20 it cost me for this 8GB jumpdrive, I could see no better use for it! I have no use... Just sounds nifty. lol. As for Windows 7, I got it during the first public beta, and I love it. Unfortunately all of my stuff was already install on my Vista partition and what not though, so I stuck to Vista. (Also, I couldn't have moved to 7 without some later on funny business since it would have expired in like August.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 I've been thinking about installing 7 RC on my laptop (currently running Vista). I haven't completely decided yet though. Well I will let you know how RC1 compares to the BETA (7022) version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Couple updates to the RC1 http://i.gizmodo.com/5226696/windows-7-release-candidate-1s-best-surprise-new-features Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 Couple updates to the RC1 http://i.gizmodo.com/5226696/windows-7-release-candidate-1s-best-surprise-new-features Yea, I just installed RC1, and it is a ton more responsive and better. I would not install Beta now that RC1 is out (Plus less windows updates). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 Now I wonder if I can add Ubuntu to this jumpdrive and if that will work under WinPE...time to do some more testing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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