Ultimate Bootable USB Flash Drive Tool - Windows Installations

[Goatbert]

Hello,

I love the Ultimate Bootable USB tool, its been a huge help for me. Now I want to take it a step further and include the Windows 7 installations that I currently carry around on 2 4gb minis. I've put the ISOs on my GTR, and added them to the menu. However, once I click the "Install Now" button, I get the error "a required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or USB Flash Drive, please insert it now."

 

I assume its looking for a driver for whatever kind of ATAPI emulation is being used to boot the ISO. My question is, does such a driver exist, and where would I find it?

 

Thanks,

-Jeff

[RAM GUY]

That will not work, you would have to use the method to create a Win 7 Install USB Drive provided by Microsoft.

[Goatbert]

That will not work, you would have to use the method to create a Win 7 Install USB Drive provided by Microsoft.

 

Lame, oh well. The utility is still great, thanks!

[Yellowbeard]

Is THIS what you are trying to do?

[Goatbert]

Is THIS what you are trying to do?

 

Nope, I did that before. Here is what I did:

 

File structure looks like this:

 

 Volume in drive F is MULTIBOOT
Volume Serial Number is 6E41-A45C

Directory of F:\

03/04/2010  10:08 PM            18,341 COPYING
04/07/2010  10:14 AM             2,012 Readme.txt
06/21/2009  12:12 AM           236,977 grub.exe
11/05/2009  11:08 AM                39 syslinux.cfg
09/21/2010  12:42 PM             1,473 menu.lst
04/28/2010  04:13 PM         1,839,104 memtest86+-4.10.iso
03/07/2010  10:32 PM         1,474,560 fdboot.img
09/03/2010  12:00 PM     3,224,686,592 win7-64-bit-retail.iso
09/03/2010  12:35 PM     2,501,894,144 win7-32-bit-retail.iso
08/28/2010  02:07 PM       121,374,720 gparted-live-0.6.2-2.iso
09/03/2010  06:22 PM       718,864,384 ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
11/06/2009  12:38 PM    <DIR>          Keys
01/06/2010  12:01 PM       617,754,624 XP-pro.ISO
11/01/2010  03:21 PM                 0 output.txt
             13 File(s)  7,188,146,970 bytes
              1 Dir(s)   8,963,899,392 bytes free

 

menu.lst looks like this:

 

# This menu created by Lance of Pendrivelinux.com
default 0
timeout 30
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 003f7d

title Memtest86+ (Memory Testing Tool)
find --set-root /memtest86+-4.10.iso
map /memtest86+-4.10.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

title GParted Live CD 6.2.2
find --set-root /gparted-live-0.6.2-2.iso
map /gparted-live-0.6.2-2.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

title Ubuntu Live 10.04
find --set-root /ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
map /ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

title FreeDOS base image (DOS Alternative)
find --set-root /fdboot.img
map /fdboot.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader --force (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)

title Windows 7 64-bit Universal Retail
find --set-root /win7-64-bit-retail.iso
map /win7-64-bit-retail.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

title Windows 7 32-bit Universal Retail
find --set-root /win7-32-bit-retail.iso
map /win7-32-bit-retail.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

title Windows XP 32-bit Professional VL
find --set-root /XP-pro.iso
map /XP-pro.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)


# Uncomment the following section to use the Test ISO menu item (just remove the #'s)

# title Test ISO
# find --set-root /testname.iso
# map /testname.iso (hd32)
# map --hook
# root (hd32)
# chainloader (hd32)

 

I was trying to make it so I could boot multiple Windows 7 installation ISOs from the same USB drive, to make it easier than carrying around a couple depending on what I need.

[Yellowbeard]

I IMd the person that developed the tool at Pendrivelinux. Here is his reply.

 

Should be able to simply extract the contents of your Windows Install Disk/ISO to the USB and then use the following menu entry:

 

title Install Windows Vista/7

root (hd0,0)

chainloader (hd0,0)/bootmgr

[Goatbert]

I'll give that a shot, thanks!