Inertia Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 I plan on getting a Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 flash drive, either 16gb or 32 gb for installing operating systems faster. I can write an ISO image directly to the drive and install Windows workstation or server operating systems quicker than from optical drives. For convenience I wondered is it possible to buy say a 32gb drive, load it up with Images of the different operating systems I use (SBS 2011 / Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 7 and even on occasion XP) then have a boot manager ont eh drive itself so when it boots I can choose which 'image' to boot from ? It would be even better if I could also have OS X images (which at the moment I would just write to a drive directly with TransMac) and other Unix / Linux images, or perhaps a pen drive for each OS type ? Does anyone have a solution for this ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted February 11, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted February 11, 2015 yes Warwagon actually created a tutorial here at one point on how to do exactly this. let me do some searching & see if I can find it again It would be even better if I could also have OS X images this however wont work as osx images require the drive to be in a different format to work edit: here's Warwagon's tutorial https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/948072-how-to-install-all-versions-of-vista-7-8-from-a-single-usb-hard-drive/ if that doesn't work for you, you could try something like this or this as well goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Other options I've had/heard are : Sardu, unetbootin... And there are more that I've forgotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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