These days, it is always a good idea to have a bootable USB handy. Especially if you a laptop user. You can use a bootble USB or media to install an operating system and more. WinToFlash is a free tool thats lets you create a bootable USB and transfer your Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2008, Windows 2003 setup from your CD or DVD installation media to a USB drive, in just a few clicks. This way, you will be able to install your Windows from a flash drive, USB pen, HDD, etc to your computer or netbook.
Bootable USB
WinToFlash will also allow you to transfer your live CD or DVD to a USB card; eg BartPE. You can erase your USB media and format it with Windows for every day use.
WinToFlash has a easy-to-use wizard that will run you through the entire process and help you pull over the contents of a Windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive.
Features:
- Create a USB bootable drive with emergency bootloader for Windows
- Transfer Windows 7 installation to a USB drive
- Create a USB bootable drive with Windows Recovery Console
- USB media erasing – Full or quick options
- WinPE (BartPE based on Windows XP/2003, WinPE based on Windows Vista/2008/7) to a USB drive transfer
- Transfer: MS-DOS to a USB drive.
Download: wintoflash.com. NOTE: Please see comment by DrewMathers. There is a report that the installer is now infecting users with adware.
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EasyBCD can make a bootable UFD (USB Flash Drive) too. You can add as many ISO files as you like and have a boot menu to choose the one you want to boot from. You can also just add the boot.wim file(s) if you would rather do that. It’ really slick.
It worked superbly..Thanks for this article bro..;-)
There is a report that the installer is infecting users with adware:
http://wintoflash.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36163
Thanks for the link. Will update post.
AnandK@TWC thanks for the article. Much appreciated