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  1. I have multiple OS(XP,WIN7x86, WIN7X64, WIN8X32, WIN8X64, WIN10X32, WIN10X64, Ubuntu) in my 160GB USB HDD, it works fine at the time I created. Now I try to use it to install my two PCs again. However, installation fails after windows setup files are loaded to the RAM. I tried on two PCs with difference system. Here are the observations: 1. Install XP, XP reboots itself after setup files loaded. 2. Install Win8 or Win10, it reboots when Windows Icon appear and says” your PC ran into a problem and will automatically reboot”. 3. Install Win7, after loading setup files, BSOD “unmountable_Boot_volume”.

    I reformat the USB Drive, re-do WinSetupUSB from scratch, I still have same problem when installing Windows. Any idea?

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      • I re-do everything in same USB HDD from Windows XP SP3 32-bit system (use WinSetupFromUSB_1-4.exe) and it is working fine. Previously I made from 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise by running WinSetupFromUSB_1-4_x64.exe. Maybe WinSetupFromUSB_1-4_x64.exe has some problem? I remember it hangs sometimes when I try to re-build the installation and I have to kill the process and start again.

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        • Or maybe there is another program on the Windows 7 which interferes with the process, like antivirus or something like this? 32 and 64 bit versions are the same, out of same source code, compiled in one go.

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  2. Hi, first of all thanks for your awesome application.

    Just one question, is there any way to remove added OS? In fact, I can manually delete the iso from the usb but grub (Or other) will of course not be updated.

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  3. When installing Ubuntu 13.04 or 14.04 with this method, it is necessary to fix the GRUB boot loader for Ubuntu after the system has been started and the USB drive removed. To do this run the following command from the terminal (ctrl+alt+t) after ejecting the USB drive:

    sudo grub-install /dev/sda && sudo update-grub

    I experienced this problem and found the answer here:

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/142004/cannot-boot-without-usb-stick-after-successful-install/142013#142013?newreg=f97242e860e043cc9b3f1a3002a01c3b

    Thanks for a great program. Saves me a lot of hassle when I’m updating or testing new products.

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    • Thanks for the tip. Mind you, this applies for many Linux distros and varies with the machine and the USB disk used (fixed/removable) where installer cannot reliably detect which one is the internal disk, so extra attention is required when setup is in grub setup stage. In the above example /dev/sda might need to be replaced with sdb or whatever name the desired internal disk got during setup.

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    • Try another USB port, if you have USB2 ports you need to use them ones. You might also have a look in BIOS/EFI manager and play with the USB settings.
      The message clearly means that Windows can’t see yet the USB disk and Setup would fail.

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  5. Hi guys.
    Thanks for your excellent apps.
    I’m trying to load an utility called MHDD, besed on MS-DOS.

    How can I do it?

    Thanks
    Emanuele

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    • Make sure you are not using firewall/antivirus program or browser extension blocking the referrer part in the http request.

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  7. WinSetupFromUSB says that the file is to large to add to file-system < 4GB. but exfat can handle files bigger then 4gb …

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    • You should’t be using exfat as it’s not supported for booting in EFI mode, thus no advantage over NTFS. If it was ok, do you think it would have been included in the format options and get away from the common problem you are having ? 😉
      Besides, xp and 7/vista bootmgr also do not support booting from exfat.

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  8. Windows 10 TP BOOTMGR does, and that can be used for booting windows 7/8 install too 🙂
    quick google later… win 10 apperently does support exfat for efi mode too.

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    • And what do we do with people willing to put Windows 7 on exfat? I cannot redistribute bootmgr as per Microsoft limitations.
      Besides, exfat and efi boot is limited in EFI firmware, not only in bootmgr or Windows in earlier versions.
      As far as I am aware, there are some manufacturers which implemented NTFS support for EFI boot, there is also a NTFS driver for EFI, details in the FAQs, but haven’t heard anything for EFI in this regards, please correct me if I am missing something.

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  9. Apparently an exfat EFI driver can be found here: http://efi.akeo.ie/
    Why not put an Information box saying that you will need too manually copy and replace the bootmgr from win7 with the one from win 10 (for advanced users)…

    And in other case not support formating the drive as exfat, just support the creation process… The error message of “file is to large to add to file-system” is so wrong it can be as exfat does support files larger then 4GB.
    Please just remove the error message about that and update grub (and/or grub4dos) as later versions of it does support exfat as well…

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  10. (Apparently didn’t work posting in the download-section, so I’ll try here… sorry if this becomes a double post)…

    Is there somewhere i couyld download a beta version?
    There apparently was over a year since the last stable version and no telling when the next one is going to come out…

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