Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Microsoft Deployment from a USB drive

This is a shameless cut and paste from another blog, but here are the instructions for formatting and then creating a USB stick with a copy of the LiteTouch iso files on it:

1 Open admin cmd prompt.
2 Run "diskpart".
3 Run diskpart command "list disk".
4 Make note of the disk number your flash drive is.
5 Run diskpart command "select disk (drive number)".
6 Run diskpart command "clean".
7 Run diskpart command "create partition primary".
8 Run diskpart command "select partition 1".
9 Run diskpart command "active".
10 Run diskpart command "format fs=fat32".
11 Run diskpart command "assign"
12 Run diskpart command "exit"

From there just copy the contents of the Litetouch ISO directly to the USB drive and you're all set.  I bought a few 4GB sticks (Kingston 4GB DataTraveler 100's) and they worked just fine.

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