INTRODUCTION I have a 2TB WD Passport USB 3.0 portable hard disk which has Easy2Boot installed. I can boot from this USB disk drive and take an image backup of the internal hard disk of my systems or restore a previous image to those systems at any time. This tutorial assumes you also have a […]

The instructions below will allow you to add a Windows 98 ISO file to your Easy2Boot drive and install Win98 to an internal hard disk. It should also work for Windows ME. New eBook on grub4dos is now available. Over 170 pages. INTRODUCTION If you would like to be able to re-install Windows 98 or

Older versions of Hirens BootCD are based on DOS (versions up to 9.6). These are difficult to add to a multiboot USB drive, especially if the drive is NTFS formatted or you have multiple HBCDs that you want to add.. Follow these instructions to make a working disk image of Hirens 9.5 which you can

Most WinPE bootable ISOs boot by loading the OS files into a ramdrive (e.g. X:). Most of the OS files are in the boot.wim file and the contents of this file are loaded into the ramdrive. This type of ISO can be easily booted directly from the ISO file, using a bootloader/manager such as grub4dos

First see the official Easy2Boot linux page here. This is how to make a grub4dos Easy2Boot USB MultiBoot USB Flash drive under linux. Once you have made the E2B USB drive, you can boot pretty much any number of linux LiveCD ISOs just by copying them to the E2B drive! Make an E2B USB drive

Note: The latest Version 3 of FlashBoot does not contain the grub4dos option. Download the older Version 2. FlashBoot (approx $30) is a USB drive partitioning and formatting program similar to RMPrepUSB – it is not free but a demo version is available which you can experiment with for 30 days. If you have some

If the usual AV programs don’t work (in Windows Safe Mode), try booting from a USB drive. On an uninfected PC – partition and format a USB Flash drive using RMPrepUSB (this cleans the drive of any virus that might already be on the flash drive) The following programs can be downloaded on an uninfected

If you find that you have to re-install Windows to the same computer or same model of computer several times a year, you may find it worthwhile trying to automate the driver installation by writing a simple batch file. This means that you can quickly install Windows (e.g. from an Easy2Boot USB drive) and then

This may not work for all systems but it will only take 30-60 minutes to make and test! New eBook on grub4dos is now available. Over 170 pages. INTRODUCTION This method is adapted from a post by linuxbyexamples on reboot.pro here. There are also more detailed instructions here. It makes a fixed size VHD file

Be careful of what you connect to your USB ports! The Hak5 USB Rubber Ducky device ($40 from here) looks like a USB flash drive, but it is actually an integrated processor with a USB connector and an SD card. When connected to a computer, the computer recognises it as an input device (aka ‘a