Multiple Windows Installers on one USB Thumb Drive


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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

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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

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