portable installations - flash drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () Are software mnfgr addressing 'portable' installation? I have a growing need to bring applications with me, installed on a flash drive. A lot of 'utilities'...

need to install from this flash drive. How can I boot from it?. I have decided to reuse my old computer by sticking Xubuntu on it. However, I am unable to do so because I can't seem to get it to boot from my flash drive. The Flash drive is appropriately formatted...

Flash Drive not recognizing, error pops up. I don't know the format for posting problems around here (first timer :(). Basically, I have a flash drive here, Attache 2gig. It will not recognize on the current computer. I have tried other ports, and it still...

then boot from the flash drive to install 7. Edit: If you have a fast enough flash drive (a lot of recently released flash drives are) you can actually install 7 faster from the flash drive than from the DVD. I have this DVD drive. NEC ND-3550A. I've...

a floppy drive. Bear in mind, I'm still not completely convinced that, "Dumb & Dumber", is *not* an instructional video. rooster boundary bay, b.c. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion () Install the hard drive from the old...

still no problem. Then I found the cause! I disconnected the flash drive and booted up. THE PROBLEM REAPPEARED. I've now tested this several times. If I connect the flash drive BEFORE I boot up, both the CD-RW and DVD drives read the inserted media fine....

while I'm on the subject, how do I mount the flash drive image (diskboot.img in images) onto my flash drive? Can I boot the installation on the flash drive and let a network share on a Windows 2003 server with the image availiable install it on the remote computer?...

any other ways to install windows without an optical drive? Nothing that would be as quick as installing from a flash drive or optical media... ok i installed windows 7 with my cd drive, here is my solution install windows xp, then copy the contents of the...

have had a thought about the installing problem. > If the program will install to a flash drive it will minimise writing to > the hard drive before recovery is attempted. I am going to experiment > with this and will write the result back here in case...

writable sectors on the flash drives for save files and such. In my opinion the best part of this is that technically it would be possible to have the game fully installed on the flash disk, meaning that the user no longer needs to install the game onto their...