[manomina]

I have heard and read some things on doing this but I'm confused....here is the problem I see. If I but a flash drive in my computer and then install lets say XP or whatever onto it, how can I take that to another computer and boot up off of it? The installation is recognized by MY registry, not the new computers. Please explain this....

Thanks!

 

[thomas55]

When you install windows it checks what hardware you have and creates a database of the drivers that need to be installed. These are probally different on your other computer.

 

[manomina]

Right.....so for someone to market a jump drive with an os or whatever to boot up on....it doesn't seem like it would work unless they reinstalled that on the other computer right?

 

[thomas55]

There is a program called bartpe that you can create a windows live cd from you can get it at: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

 

[DoubleHelix]

You can't do what you're talking about with Windows and a flash drive. I've read about some Linux distros that can be burned to a CD with a flash drive used to read and write data.

Microsoft is not that flexible.

 

[manomina]

I have a BartPe disk....though I'm not quite sure how to use it......but I see things in magazines about installing an OS on a jump drive for troubleshooting reasons....but I can't make that work in my mind. I don't see how it could....but I'm still learning...LOL I see they sell these drives in Best Buy but not sure how a tech could use them.

Thanks!

 

[manomina]

So if you install an OS on a flash drive....you can not use it to boot up another pc, only a bart disk can do that. You can however create a bartpe disk in a flsh drive?

 

[thomas55]

Yes i think so

 

[DoubleHelix]

Probably. If the system supports booting from a USB device. Not all do.

 

[Knotbored]

Look on Google for U3 Sandisk and see lots of info. I think it can store software, but I don't think (can't imagine) being able to store an operating system.
It comes with SKYPE (the telephone program) AVAST (anti-virus) and something else I found useless, but I left the U# in place just in case. My flash-drive shows two drive letters, one normal and one shows as U3.