Windows 7 ultimate pen drive how to#

HowToGeek has a good tutorial on how to this here.

Windows 7 ultimate pen drive software#

Using a software such as ImgBurn (free) you can create ISO files directly from CDs. As I mentioned earlier one of my main intentions of creating this drive was so I could get rid of my bulky CD case I seemed to be carrying everywhere. The next step to start on would be getting all your ISOs and CDs ready to transfer to the flash drive. If you try using exFat or NTFS you will run into problem, so don’t say i didn’t warn you. All my other CDs and ISO’s were 4GB or less so I just had to use a Dell Windows 7 ISO that didn’t have SP1 to stay under the 4GB limit. I only ran into a problem with this when I tried to use an ISO I made from a Dell Windows 7 with SP1 CD. Unfortunately the only drawback to using Fat32 is the maximum file size of 4GB. The Fat32 Formatter is used to format the USB drive using a FAT32 parition instead of “exFat” or “NTFS”. We will use the MultiBoot USB application to launch a Qemu instance and test the flash drive without having to reboot or use another computer. I found the Yumi Multiboot software was the best for installing the menus, ISO files, and for “general mangement” of the USB drive. So, to start off and create the ultimate bootable USB drive you will need to download the Yumi Multiboot, Fat32 Formatter, and the MultiBoot USB (used to launch Qemu and test). I tested the following software:Īll of those applications run on Windows besides MultiSystem which proved to only run correctly under Ubuntu (and not just any Debian flavor). I also took it a little bit further and customized my own boot screen and menu items.

I spent a good couple days testing different software that could create “multiboot” flash/usb drives and ran into issues with almost all of them, but I was able to figure out a way to get what I needed without too much hassle. I haven’t had a chance to look further into this, but once I have some free time (if ever) I will do some testing.

Windows 7 ultimate pen drive update#

Update (): Some users have reported that using USB 3.0 has caused issues when setting this up…for that reason I recommend using a flash drive that is USB 2.0 if you run into any issues. The problem is there’s no real easy way to create a flash drive that can store all of these, and boot into any of your choosing, and still be functional under Windows when using it for troubleshooting or repairing workstations…until now. That means getting rid of all my Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 8, Server 2003, Server 2008, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13…I think you get the point. When I got the new flash drive I was determined to figure out a way to get rid of my bulky CD case and just carry this one drive around with me. After my old 64GB flash drive took a dump I decided to purchase a new 64GB flash drive with USB 3.0 and compatibility for USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. If you’re like me at all you probably have more flash drives than you want to carry around, especially when they could all probably fit on one.