How to make a multiboot USB flash drive?

How to make a multiboot USB flash drive?

Today's article will focus on creating multiboot stick. Let's look at the available methods and in its mission.



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Purpose stick

Multiboot flash drive type is a set of tools and distributions, thanks to this flash drive is possible without any problems installing various kinds of programs, and in general, it is possible to "rotate" a lot of interesting and useful pieces. In principle, such a stick can be called the external hard disk type, and practically every master repair and maintenance computer devices such disk is.

Immediately it should be noted that the creation of such a flash process is time consuming and not very simple, but high-quality and detailed instructions on this subject will be an excellent assistant, so it should be given enough attention to the study and to follow the recommendations, which will be indicated below.



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Tools for creating flash cards

In fact, the option to create the considered stick he was not alone, among other things, the Internet can find a ready-made image multiboot stick, where there will be a list of available boot options. We consider the case of manual creation.

To begin, let's deal with the program, which we will use to create our multiboot stick. Variants of such programs a lot, but in this case we consider the creation of the stick by WinSetupFromUSB.

Distributions that may be necessary in this process, or rather, images:

  • Windows 7.
  • RBCD 8.0
  • Windows XP

Nor should we forget the need for a conventional flash drive, which in the future will be our helper multiboot. Its volume should be rather big, at least 18 GB to place on it all that is needed to complete its work.

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prepare a USB flash drive

Let us prepare it:

  • Connecting our USB flash drive to a computer device and launch the above program, with which we will work on creating a multi-load flash drive.
  • The next step is to check the correctness of the drive, if everything is correct, click on the Bootice button.
  • Do not forget that before making a multi-loader flash drive, it will be necessary to format it in mandatory. So, in the window that appears on your screen, you need to click on "Perform Format".

  • After that, in the next window it will be necessary to select the type of flash drive, put the mark opposite the third option in the Single Partition proposed list.
  • NTFS - This format must be chosen at mandatory, and if you want to create a label for a flash card, you need to do this at this stage of creating a multi-load flash drive.
  • We are waiting for full formatting and confirm your actions, clicking on the icon with the designation "OK".
  • In the next pop-up window, select the "Process MBR", where you select a second option from those presented, after which I click on the "save to disk" with the mouse and click on the cross in the upper right corner, because now the work will be done in the main window of the program under consideration.

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Select source

The next step to creating a multi-load flash drive is the installation of the images of system distributions. If such an option seems to you inappropriate, then you can unpack ISO images to any folder.

  • In the list provided by the list, select the Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 string, after which you want to create a path to the previously created folder.
  • After the operation done, you should select "GO". We expect to complete the download of all the necessary programs, folders and files. After copying all this is completed, it will be necessary to abandon the license agreement.
  • The end result is - Job Done. Now you can easily use the multi-load flash drive that you created yourself, while spending quite a bit of time.
  • If you have taken a flash card for a multi-load flash drive to 18 GB, then approximately 11 GB will remain free. It will be possible to record everything that you may need for personal use, for example, the programs are free, codecs and everything in such a spirit.

The created multi-load flash drive is an excellent assistant even for a professional wizard for maintenance and repair of computer devices, it will be enough to eliminate the majority of common problems on the PC and in their systemic support.

  • To the question - how much time will take this process, an unequivocal and accurate answer, because it depends on the knowledge of computer's computer technologies and its skills to use a computer device.
  • To reduce the creation of this multizrode flash drive, you need, so that you have ready-made images and distributions of various kinds of programs at your finish. Believe me, then the process of creating a flash drive will be much faster and easier.
  • If you do not have a flash drive on 16 GB, do not get upset or run to buy a new USB flash drive, because the 8GB flash drives are too enough if you download the minimum database for personal use.

It should also be noted that most of the quality programs for creating a multi-load flash drive in English, but in principle, everything can be understood and understand everything. Of course, similar programs and in Russian is enough, but no specialist will recommend you to use them for the purposes under consideration.

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