Easy2Boot A Second Try

2021-06-13 Ventoy is a big deal right now and simple but it can fail on some PCs. E2B has never failed for me yet. I use both.

I like USB Windows installing but getting both 32 and 64 bit versions of Win7 on one USB, not to mention adding XP, has been a no go for me. A single version has never been a problem.

I have Win7 64 and 32 working along with XP.
Make sure files are contiguous and no fragments with WinContig.
I don't change the menu but only the file name to match the menu.

Here is a good tutorial
Here is the Easy2Boot Blog

This site has Win7 with SP1 ISO downloads

To remove this message and the 5-second delay, create a text file of any size (even 0 bytes)

named \_ISO\nodelay in the \_ISO folder on the E2B USB drive so that it's full name is 

nodelay.txt.

Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive at Kevin’s Blog

Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive

It surprised me to find that there are very few dead-simple guides to creating a bootable USB thumb/pen/flash drive for a Vista and/or Windows 7 installation. I cobbled together the following from VistaPCGuy and another source I don’t remember right now.

Comments:

This works great but is somewhat overstated now. There are other good instructions out there. But none better so I’ll give him that. This one does describe formatting the USB drive in NTFS, a little thing but handy if you are not proficient in this stuff.

Something that is not mentioned is running the bootsect command being 64/32 bit specific. To do a 64 bit setup you must be on a 64 bit machine. You can set up Win7 using a Vista machine and visa versa.

This is slick and installs are faster than DVD assuming your USB drive and interface is advanced enough. Use an 8GB drive and have plenty of room for your portable programs, Mozbackup, and whatever else you need for easy prep.

Here is the lazy man's way of doing it with UNetbootin. <link> I have not tried this one and don't know if it formats the drive or how it formats.