bshultz0930 Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 so for the past two days, ive been trying to reformat my wives netbook (no cd drive) and ive been having one HECK of a time trying to get a usb drive to boot windows setup. well after all the programs in the world that are "supposed" to create a bootable disk, i found this. worked pretty well and its SIMPLE. just a simple FYI for fellow geeks.http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/howto_make_bootable_usb_key Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bshultz0930 Posted February 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 oh, it will NOT work with flash drives that use the U3 file system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1crusher Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 Seems like a lot of work seeing how MS has a tool to create a bootable usb key. It works with vista, 7, and 8.http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vf1000ride Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 I have used Rufus v1.3.2, allows you to make a usb boot disk running MS-DOS or anything you have sitting in an ISO file. I used it for making a bootable 8gb usb stick to take android off my netbook and put Ubuntu back on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScubaCinci Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 so for the past two days, ive been trying to reformat my wives netbook (no cd drive) and ive been having one HECK of a time trying to get a usb drive to boot windows setup. well after all the programs in the world that are "supposed" to create a bootable disk, i found this. worked pretty well and its SIMPLE. just a simple FYI for fellow geeks.http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/howto_make_bootable_usb_keyOn a side note, there is a similar common complaint amongst Ultrabook users about how to secure erase the SSD inside for selling etc. At CES, I talked to a number of companies about it (Samsung, Intel, etc) and none had a good solution yet but were working on software/hardware solution to address it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smccrory Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 Wait for it... Here it comes... "You'd be better off upgrading to Ubuntu!" ;-)Somebody had to say it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleaveTheGreat Posted February 28, 2013 Report Share Posted February 28, 2013 Seems like a lot of work seeing how MS has a tool to create a bootable usb key. It works with vista, 7, and 8.http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnToolThis is what I've used in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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