Installing an O/S from a stick drive

dcanthill77dcanthill77 New Jersey
edited February 2010 in Science & Tech
Hello all,

It is me again. Thank you for helping me with my last issue but now I have a new one.

I need to install a new O/S onto my computer. I have Windows Vista 64bit downloaded onto a stick drive because that was the only way that I could copy it. I can only access my BIOS and Express Gateway. What is the best way to install this and how do I do it????

Please help because my wife is nagging me and giving me the "I told you so's". Help me to shut her up LOL.

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  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    What exactly did you download to your USB drive? You need to have the disc files extracted to the drive, the drive needs to be bootable, and your motherboard needs to support booting from USB.

    What portions of that are complete already, and what state are the others in?
  • dcanthill77dcanthill77 New Jersey
    edited February 2010
    My motherboard does support it. I have windows vista business 64bit downloaded onto the stick drive and the files were unpacked on the stick drive. I think the drive is bootable, I'm not really sure. The only thing on the stick drive is the windows vista and a program that came with the stick drive. The name of the stick drive is a 4GB Cruzer. The file that is on the Cruzer is LaunchU3 and RestoreU3.

    Do I need some sort of ISO downloaded onto the stick drive, or something like that??

    What do you suggest??
  • dcanthill77dcanthill77 New Jersey
    edited February 2010
    Well, I think that I found the answer to my flash drive problem! I installed a program called Undisker. I deleted all the files off of my flash drive so that the O/S was the only thing that was going to be on there. I downloaded a copy of Windows Vista Business 64Bit from my work website onto my hard drive on my laptop. Then, I ran the Undisker program and let that program unpack the file for the O/S. When I was done, I exported the unpacked files to my flash drive and...voila! Finally, I set my BIOS on the new build to run my USB 2.0 first for the system boot, where the flash drive was.

    It has worked and now I feel really really smart LOL. I'm just kidding! I hope this helps anyone else who decides to download an operating system from a flash drive on a new computer build.

    By the way, the operating system installed so much faster because I used a flash drive instead of a DVD or CD!!!!!!!! Just a little food for thought!!!!
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