Windows 2008 USB key
- Details
- Category: Windows Server
- Written by Winfred de Kreij
Instructions on how to create a Windows 2008 server bootable USB:
Format the thumb drive
- from a DOS prompt execute: diskpart
- list disk
- select disk 1 (assuming disk 1 was your thumb drive in the above list disk command)
- clean
- create partition primary
- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=fat32
- assign
- exit
Copy the Win2008 install files
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xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (assumes your dvd is drive D: and your thumb drive is drive E:\, adjust accordingly)
That’s all it took other than verifying the server BIOS was set to boot off of the USB device.
Instructions from: jesscoburn.com