Comments on: Bootable USB Media from Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

By: Matt McNabb

Matt McNabb — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:44:15 +0000

Windows XP does not have the ability to create a bootable removable media. This was added in Windows Vista and also works in Windows 7. You can demonstrate this by opening the command prompt and typing “Diskpart” [enter] and then “list disk” [enter]. XP won’t even list the removable drives. You may be able to use an application such as Unetbootin or a disk partitioning utility to make this work in XP.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:27:23 +0000

I would assume this is because of something Windows 7 is doing differently in the format.

To be safe, I’d stick with formatting and copying them in Windows 7.

By: kino

kino — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:25:03 +0000

USB not work if format in Windows XP but it work properly if I format it in Windows 7.
Anyone know why???

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:32:25 +0000

Our machines are set to boot to the hard drive. We override the boot order (in our case, by pressing F12) and select the USB drive for a one-time boot. After LiteTouch finishes dropping Windows on the hard drive, it reboots back to the hard drive.

By: EricT

EricT — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:40:42 +0000

Here’s a good question – we want to do the exact same thing, and have gotten it working. However, there’s a catch – after our OS deploys, our task sequence continues to install things that require a domain connection or can’t be generalized (WSUS config, etc.) How do you prevent the USB drive from booting to WinPE again? Are you using a tool to change the BIOS boot order?