Creating the Multiboot / Multi installer USB Drive for Windows 7 and XP


In this guide, we will show you how to create a multi-boot Windows USB flash drive with Windows XP and Windows 7. Once you have this multi-boot USB, you will be able to install XP and Windows 7 from the USB stick.

Required things:
1.  A USB flash drive with a minimum of 4 GB space
2. Windows 7 installation DVD
3. Windows XP installation CD/DVD


Procedure:
1. Connect the USB flash drive to your Windows machine and move data present on  the USB flash drive to a safer location.

2. Download WinSetupFromUSB Zip file, extract the contents to desktop. Open the folder, right-click on WinSetupFromUSB (.exe) file and select Run as administrator option.
 Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 1
 Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 2
3. Once the tool launched, select the following options:
# Removable
# Windows will be installed in \WINDOWS
Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 3
Also make sure that your USB flash is shown in USB Disk Selection box. Once you are done with the above mentioned tasks, click RMPrepUSB button.

4. This will launch RMPREPUSB tool. In this tool, you will need to enable the below mentioned options.
 Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 4
A. Make sure that your USB flash drive is selected in the first box
B. Under Boot Options, select XP/BartPE bootable [NTLDR]
C. Under File System and OverRides section, select Boot as HDD (C:2PNST), and NTFS options
D. Select File –> USB option in Image Tools box

Finally, click  Prepare Drive button to see a message from the tool. Click Ok button. Click Ok button on the next screen as well.
  Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 4a 
Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 4b 
5. Wait for a few minutes till you get a Command Prompt message saying “Operation Completed”.
 Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 4C
6. Close the PREPUSB tool.

7. Insert your XP CD/DVD into the optical drive. In the WinSetupFromUSB tool, click Browse button next to Windows 2000/XP/2003 Source box to browse to the XP installation files present on your CD/DVD. Alternatively, if you have the XP installation files on a local drive, you can browse to that folder.
 Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 7
Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 8

8. Click Go button and wait for a few minutes to see the following screen:
Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 8C 
Click Ok button. Remove the XP CD/DVD from the optical drive and insert Windows 7 DVD.

9. Select Vista/7 setup/PE/RecoveryISO option and browse to the Windows 7 installation files folder. Finally, click Go button. Please note that this operation may take hours. Don’t close the application if you see “Not Responding” message in the title bar.
Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 9

10. Wait for the Done message before you click the Exit button.
 Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 10A

11. Now, it’s time to download another small file named Bootfiles from here. Extract the contents to desktop. Copy menu.lst and winsetup.lst files to the USB flash drive and replace the old files with new ones. Click Copy and Replace option when you are prompted with the Copy File message.
 Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 11
Create Multiboot USB Flash Drive With Windows 7 and XP Step 11A

12. Your multi-boot USB flash drive is ready. Reboot your machine and start installing XP or Windows 7 from the USB.
 Multiboot Screen Best
XP Setup Screen
Note: When you select Windows XP setup in the boot screen, you will see two options:
First part of Windows XP setup
Second part of Windows XP setup
You should choose the first part of Windows XP setup, but on the following restarts you choose the second part of the setup.

- download WinSetupFromUSB

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