http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Install Windows Vista - The Easy Way en Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:11:49 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2773 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:45:49 +0000 Scott 2773@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>OK, thanks for this thread. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2772 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:42:14 +0000 michael 2772@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>For me it was roughly the same time. With my USB it was bumped to 5 minutes.</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2771 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:38:18 +0000 Scott 2771@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>How long does it take you to install via DVD? I think the last format was around 20-25 minutes (w/o updates)here. Much faster compared to XP. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2765 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:22:50 +0000 michael 2765@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Exactly. Installing from a High-Speed Bootable drive is very fast.</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2763 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:57:13 +0000 bamsan 2763@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Ok. Correct me if i'm wrong. My understanding is, with vista on the usb-drive-with-an-os, I will be able to boot from it, and install vista to my harddisk with much better speed than from the dvd rom. Right? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2761 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:36:21 +0000 michael 2761@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I don't think you follow :P What I mean is, it installs the OS directly to the HDD. If you were asking if there any OS's which we can use, then yes. You can installing Ubuntu Linux to a Hi-Speed 2.0GB USB Pen Drive.</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2760 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:29:53 +0000 bamsan 2760@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Sounds promising, but what os to use on the usb drive? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2732 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:10:32 +0000 michael 2732@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Please note that USB Drive must be bootable as well.</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/install-windows-vista-the-easy-way#post-2715 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:05:19 +0000 michael 2715@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I was searching the Internet, and found a way to install Windows Vista in 5 to 10 minutes (20 to 25 for Ultimate).</p> <p>Acquire an ultra-fast USB 2.0 flash drive</p> <p>The drive I and my coworkers recommend is the Apacer 4GB Handy Steno USB Flash Drive HT203, 200X Hi-Speed USB 2.0. It's the fastest USB 2.0 Flash Drive that we've found - it has a read speed of 25MBytes/sec. &#38; a write speed-14MBytes/sec and also works great as a ReadyBoost cache. You can get them from $56.99 each:<br /> <a rel=nofollow href='http://www.directron.com/ht2034g.html'>http://www.directron.com/ht2034g.html</a></p> <p>Format the Apacer Flash Drive</p> <p>Run CMD.EXE and type the following. Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as "disk 1". you should double check that by doing a list of the disks (type "list disk") before cleaning it. If you have multiple hard drives, like an SDFlash drive or a Multibay drive, you could end up wiping your second drive using this command. </p> <p>diskpart<br /> select disk 1<br /> clean<br /> create partition primary<br /> select partition 1<br /> active<br /> format fs=fat32<br /> assign<br /> exit</p> <p>Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive<br /> Simply issue the following command to start copying all the content from the Windows Vista DVD to your newly formatted high speed flash drive. </p> <p>xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ </p>