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Offline ElPolloDiablTopic starter

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Another day in PC land
« on: June 15, 2014, 08:32:07 PM »
I am setting up a dual boot system and hunting for the best program to use.
However read what this person had to go through to get their OS installed via USB.
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Yes, thank you so much.

What I ended up doing was booting into my desktop and taking the Windows 7 upgrade disk I got with my new desktop that came with Vista, and I got the bootsect copied from it to my newly formatted 8GB NFTS pendrive. I ran through the command line commands to make the pendrive bootable, extracted the ISO to a folder and put that folder in the pendrive directory.

I then got another pendrive, put Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it and booted into my netbook with the live USB. I then used Gparted to erase all partitions and create 1 NFTS partition. I rebooted with the Windows 7 pendrive in and what do you know, it worked!

I then used my old Windows 7 key that I had taken from the system specs before Windows was taken off the first time. I got all my Office stuff on there for school and I am ready to go.

I now have it dual booting to Ubuntu Studio which is what I wanted in the first place.

My brain hurts from all the computer knowledge I just received but in the age of technology I am sure it will come in handy again


Link here:
http://forums.techguy.org/linux-unix/929676-cannot-install-windows-xp-usb-2.html
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Re: Another day in PC land
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2014, 09:54:18 AM »
I ended up using Win32diskimager. Works fine. The main problem was picking the bootloader on the USB. Some worked some didn't.
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