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Thank you for providing this software. I have just recently found it and it seems to work very well.
I am using 1.6 Final x64 and have found a problem creating persistence files for Linux. I have to label it ‘persistence’ for my live ISO to use it. I enter the correct name into the box and change the size to 1024Mb, but often the software ignores those settings and still creates a 300Mb file labelled CASPER-RW so I have to start all over again.
For a future version, would you please consider allowing more than 10 seconds to enter a custom name? Or make it a 10 second timeout after the last key press? Often the dialog closes before I have finished typing so I have to edit the menus afterwards.
About persistence settings- make sure you enable the option once you have selected the source, if you uncheck Linux ISO option and check it again persiatence settings may get reset.
As for the timeouts- these will be increased in the next version.
Thank you for the reply. I was unable to get a 1024Mb persistence file at all. 500Mb would work, but whenever I tried 1024Mb, it always created a 300Mb file. I ended up creating the file manually (create a 1Gb file, format it to ext2, copy it to the stick and degrag it). In the process, I also selected the label manually.
That’s good to hear about the timeouts, thank you.
hi i installaled the sw but the setup stops with bluescreen ntfs.sys not found what can i do? tnx
What do you mean by installed the software? It doesn’t install anything, just extracts files…
Does this error show while installing Windows from the prepared USB disk? Which Windows version? At what stage of the setup?
If it happens during inatallation, I’d first try stock, unmodified source, then rule out hardware iaaues.
hi sorry for my explanation (i’m Italian sorry for my english) I run the sw and it configured my usb pen drive then I restarted the pc and started with usb i choosed first option and then the third one
the first passage was passed but when it go to the passage of eula and after for format the hd appears a blue screen with ntfs.sys not found. i’ll try to install wiin xp sp3. and another uestion why i can’t format the pen drive now? when i delete the files they appears again…and the format is not possibile i tried also on another pc but is the same
thank’s in advance
Faulty usb stick maybe? Have you tried another one?
Program can’t do anything funny with the usb disk, it simply copies files on it and modifies some of them so the setup becomes USB aware to say so, and it copies files just like regular copy-paste in explorer.
I have had low quality usb sticks dying in matter of days, other high quality are still in use, after 7-8 years of constant abuse, hundreds and hundreds of formats and all kind of sources tested and deleted on them.
the stick is working because i maked scan disk and verified with others sw and nothing wrong. I also tried to delete the partition but didn’t work, the sw (minitool partition wizard) says that the partitions was deleted but when i refresh the windows they are still ther. i tried also to reformat with your sw but it don’t do anything too
I highly doubt such scan would find any hardware errors. The only reliable scan would be with the suitable manufacturer controller tool. Why don’t you try another usb disk?
because if the problem returns and I cannot even use the other USB modem? However I repeat is not a hardware failure because I already drive to deal with broken sticks and is not the same error.Windows and linux I both stated that the key is protected even if I can copy files, but not to delete them as I said earlier, If even 1 minute appearance gate them all and reappear again. you tells me it’s impossible, but I assure you that is 15 years that i work on PCs so I know what I’m writing, is not a hw failure. I don’t know what the sw does but it is so
Well, as I have written it, I perfectly well know what it does- it copies files to the USB disk and modifies some to enable USB boot and install. That’s it. Period. Not sure what you are expecting me to say or do, program does not have any special or magic powers to do anything like what you describe, let alone making an USB drive write protected…
Now is it a hardware or software issue I cannot comment without having access to that system, but if Linux also says it’s write protected, you better look for hardware issue as already advised. Sticks break in many ways, do you really know all of them?
No I don’t know all the causes of rupture of sticks, but I can’t read all files, to start the setup from windows not from dos, and had used up to before you format it with your sw It means that something the sw makes, if you want I can send the log perhaps understand better than I do
i can read all files sorry 🙂
There are NO ways to format a usb disk in such way, so it becomes read-only. No need to look at log files at all.
It may become damaged due to the number of files being written on it if it is low quality/worn out, and one of the behaviours such damaged stick may show is similar to what you describe.
Linux behaving the same way only proves my theory. The fact that you can read the files doesn’t prove at all that the stick is OK.
Hello, thank you very much for this utility. I would like to know how I can edit the menu option that appears twice “Windows 10 Pro AIO x86 x64”.
http://ultraimg.com/images/IMG_20160621_194624.jpg
Thanks.
You can edit Windows bcd menus with the included BootIce or the free VisualBCD- edit \boot\bcd for BIOS boot and \efi\microsoft\boot\bcd for EFI boot.
Thanks, It Works!
please help me. I edit to first boot in my photo How to do ?
https://www.google.com/search?q=grub4dos+gfxmenu
Hi. I want to create a multiboot external disc to boot with diferent operating systems. The problem is that winsetupfromusb does not detect de disc. However, windows 10 does detect the disc. I don’t know what I have to do to the disc to be recognizable for winsetupfromusb. Thanks.
There is advanced option to display all disks, use carefully, don’t wipe your internal disk! 🙂
Why should there be any timeouts? Why not wait until the user clicks “OK” or presses “Enter”? Also, can you increase the field size for the “Boot Menu Title”?
Because if there are no timeouts, there will be requests to make such and less experienced users will get stuck 🙂 Also this way one can add multiple sources of different type, press go and leave the program running automatically.
Will check about increasing field size in the next version. Cannot promise when that will happen.
I certainly understand the need for some timeout. From personal use however it is currently sometimes irritatingly short. Perhaps that could be made user configurable for those of us with s l o w e r reflexes. 🙂
Increasing the timeouts is in the to-do list for the next version. That list is growing in the opposite direction compared to the “spare time for winsetup and real life” values 🙂
I can’t imagine anyone, experienced or not, wanting time-outs, or being confused by having to click “OK” or press “enter” as we do for virtually everything else in the Windoze world. We have to click “GO” after entering the other (non-advanced) data, why not (at least wait for a carriage return) after entering “custom menu names”? This does not preclude leaving the program running automatically when there is no additional input required. We can use BootIce (or another program) to fix the “Boot Menu Title” if we didn’t have time to enter it properly, but we have to delete the folder and restart if we don’t have time to enter the folder name we wish.
Windows 7/8/10 ISO’s are stored in \winsetup\foldername along with a corresponding boot.wim file. Is it possible to replace the ISO file (e.g. for a subsequent build of Windows 10), or is the boot.wim file unique to the ISO?
ISO file name is hard coded in boot.wim. So if you keep file name the same and there is no dramatic change in boot.wim it should be fine.
Hello,
After I do the pen drive bootable they now was status “WriteProtect”, when I try to format via Linux an password is required, but I d’know!
May can help me?
Tks
I cannot help, program does not have any extra powers to make pen drive write protected.
I am using 1.6 Final x64 It is a problem to fix a multi-boot with the tool when I’ve created the first ISO and I want to add another one iso the tool want to format the usb drive again so I lose the first.
Do you select again the auto format option? Don’t. That’s the only case I can think of, when program will try to format again…
when i try to add a new one i can`t go to the next the tool are still asking for format the usb
Not sure what exactly you are doing…
Sources of the same type have to be added one after another with pressing go in between. If the auto format option is not selected for the next run, program will NOT attemot to format again.
Sources if different type, say 1 xp, 1 windiws 7 and 1 ubuntu, can be added in the same run, if format option is selected, format will be performed ONCE only, before adding the sources. Which part of this is getting you confused?
I have added xp 7 and 10, and then clicked to go when I want to add, for example, plop or another, want the tool to format again
When you click GO, you cannot go back. Need to wait for it to add the first selections, then do whatever you need to do.
Do not click GO before you finish adding all sources you need.