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Installing Windows HPC Server 2008 using a USB Flash Drive

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Using a USB Flash Drive has its advantages over using a traditional CD/DVD install. It's a lot faster and greener, as in it can be re-used! 

A USB flash drive can be made into a substitute for a DVD in just three easy steps without using DISKPART commands.

1. Attach the USB drive and format it as NTFS, it must be NTFS for it to work

2. You have to mount your ISO one of the many tools available.

3. At a command prompt with Administrator privileges, use the following switches: xcopy d:\*.* /s /e /h /f g:\

where:
         D is the drive letter for your mounted ISO file or CD/DVD.  
         G is the drive letter for your USB flash drive.

    If your drive letter mappings are different, make the appropriate substitutions.

    XCOPY switches are described here.

4. Attach your USB drive to the machine and boot. You may have to go into the BIOS to force the machine to boot from the USB device (Most modern machines are capable of this).

And you are done!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    thank you