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sprince09

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From: USA

Registered: 2010-05-27

Posts: 8

Bootable Windows Vista USB Drive

I'm trying to dual boot one of my computers with Arch and Windows Vista. I got Arch up and running no problem, but now I'm trying to get Windows going. My problem is that the computer I'm trying to dual boot doesn't have a CD/DVD drive so I can't just pop in the Window's installation DVD and run with it, I need to make a bootable USB drive. Unfortunately, all of the tutorials I've found online require that you have access to a Windows environment so that you can properly set up the USB drive which required running 'bootsect.exe' as described at http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345. My problem is that I don't have an existing Windows computer to run bootsect from, since I run Linux on everything. I tried running bootsect with Wine but was unsuccessful. Does anyone have any experience creating bootable Windows USB drives from Linux? Or would I just be better off buying an external DVD drive?

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: Bootable Windows Vista USB Drive

Perhaps you could use a Windows "livecd" such as: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Other than that, a USB CD drive is probably the easiest way to go.

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