tomdavies

Evening all,

I'm having a bit of trouble re-installing vista from an external DVD drive. I'm up to my neck in viruses and my built-in DVD drive isn't working so I've borrowed a USB one from a friend, but it's not being recognised in the boot menu. Any pointers?

Ta,

Tom

sshaggy

Get hold of a computer with vista or Win7.
Format the usb drive in NTFS format.
open command prompt, start-programs-accessories-cmd.
Type the following commands without quotes and press enter.
"diskpart"
"list disk"

Now note the disk no of the usb key, disk 1 or disk 2. Be careful while selecting the disk. Use size as reference.

type the following in sequence

select disk 1 (where disk 1 is the disk number of usb drive)
active
list partition
select partition 1
active
exit

Now insert you disc.
From cmd, browse to boot directory the disc drive.
G:\cd boot (where G: is the drive letter of the drive)

Now, when u are here, type this
g:\cd boot\> bootsect\nt60 h:
where h: is the drive letter of the usb drive.

Now exit cmd.
copy all files from the disc to the usb drive.
Then boot from the usb drive.

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