Vista - USB Bootable Vista Installation Flash Thumb Drive

Will my oem vista dvd work to create usb flash image from my xp machine?

I got that error message because i had a xp disc... but it worked fine with vista... and i did not have a retail installation disk either, it was cracked...

Dinesh,

Try the steps below along with the tutorial again to wipe clean and create a new partition on the USB flash drive. I have added more to them that may help.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/18...tml#post846439

Hope this helps,
Shawn

DISKPART> list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 R USB DRIVE FAT32 Removable 1898 MB Healthy
Volume 1 Q U3 System CDFS CD-ROM 31 MB Healthy
Volume 2 K LRMCFRE_EN_ UDF DVD-ROM 2555 MB Healthy
Volume 3 C NTFS Partition 23 GB Healthy System
Volume 4 D NTFS Partition 23 GB Healthy
Volume 5 E DISK1_VOL3 NTFS Partition 28 GB Healthy
Volume 6 F DISK1_VOL4 NTFS Partition 28 GB Healthy
Volume 7 G DISK1_VOL5 NTFS Partition 28 GB Healthy
Volume 8 H My Media NTFS Partition 28 GB Healthy

DISKPART> select volume 0

Volume 0 is the selected volume.

DISKPART> active

There is no partition selected.
Please select a partition and try again.

DISKPART>




Please Help Me....

Hello Pbelim,

You will just need to follow the steps here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/18...tml#post846439

You will use clean after select volume 0 instead, then the rest of the instructions above.

Hello guys! It seems that this place is my last hope..

I have a laptop with a broken DVD drive, and I have no USB-DVD drives at the moment, I wanted to install Vista at that laptop using this awesome method, it worked all okay, Vista Setup started.. It opened the drive manager, and I deleted all my partitions (previously XP), and split my hdd up in two partitions (150GB each), after formatting both, I pressed "next", but then I got some error which said "your current harddisk does not support the critea to be applied as system volume".. So I started trouble - shooting this problem with a borrowed Vista laptop(also the one I am using right now), I've found zero users having the same problem as me, and when I finally found something, i found a KB article @ MS which said that it's not possible to install Vista from USB key (which I see is not true since you guys have success)..

ANY and all form for help is highly appreciated!

Cheers, Mr. Thunderbird

EDIT:

Comp specs: T8300 Intel Dual 2 Core 2,6Ghz
4GB RAM
320GB HDD
No dvd drive
able to boot from USB
and it has been running Vista before..

EDIT 2: The message it gives me is actually:
"Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation."

Hi MrThunderbird, and welcome to Vista Forums.

This error usually indicates that the Vista installation could not find a hard drive to install Vista on. Since you were able to format the hard drive from installation, it may indicate that your hard drive may have failed and died.

As a test, you can see if you can plug your hard drive into a friends computer to see if you are able to format and install Vista from a Vista Installation DVD.

hello and thanks for the welcome
well, I used some more time with it and did this:

booted from the usb, made a 6GB partition, and used Xcopy to copy files off my usb to the new partition on the harddisk (also installed bootloader on the drive first using bootsect) then booted from the harddisk (the usb drive must be inserted with the same files as on the boot harddisk or it will give missing dvd drive error), and then tried to install vista, funny enough it began to install vista on another partition (150gb on the harddisk) now it just gives me missing files at 83%, internal setuplog says install.wim is missing but it isn't.
thanks a lot for your answer and I hope you can help
me more

cheers, MrT

MrT,

I have found this KB article relating your previous error message. You might take a read to see if anything may apply to you for why you are getting that error.

You cannot select or format a hard disk partition when you try to install Windows Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Well I've already seen article, and tried every solution, but still no difference, and the reasons does not match my computer.. I can't see what the problem could be..

BTW: I just noticed something about in the setuplog "Windows cannot find boot disk on BIOS-based computer" - or something like that, I can't really remember.

Cheers, MrT.