One-click installation win8 to u disk win8 installation to u disk graphic tutorial

Install win8 to u disk do not know if you have thought about it? Imagine if you install win8 to a USB flash drive (or a mobile hard drive), carry it with you, and go where you plug in the USB flash drive. Mobile office, this is the king of the road, what & ldquo; cloud & rdquo; are weak! Xiaobian today brings detailed win8 installation to u disk graphic tutorial.

Win8 u disk to install graphic tutorial

fiddle for two days, finally get, not exclusive, special used to share with you the next! Take Microsoft's latest The operating system Win8 is an example! There are many ways to circulate on the network. Here is the simplest way to look at it. (meaning means that the U disk is installed as a C disk, and it can be booted directly to Win8 without any installation operation on any machine.)

We only need to prepare the tools:

1, Win8 system image

2, Windows To Go auxiliary software multi-thread optimization special edition

(the above documents, will be provided at the end)

Let's get started! First of all, we must first extract the install.wim of the sources folder in the win8 image. You can use WinRAR to extract the simple and convenient.

Then plug in our U disk (or mobile hard disk), use the system's own disk management to set the U disk to "active area", this step is very important, if not set, it may cause the U disk to boot ! Right-click mobile system can not boot drive letter, set to & ldquo; active & rdquo;! to

open Windows to Go support software (win7 user please & ldquo; administrator rights to run rdquo &;), Select the install.wim file that you just extracted, “select the installed disk” this, select your own U disk or mobile hard disk, here you need to pay attention to, the storage device must be larger than 20G space! Otherwise there will be tips drop! storage device or USB3.0 specification recommended it ~

less than 20G will be prompt Oh! after

have been selected, click it to start the installation! full Automatic, no manual intervention required. After the start, the software will automatically format the memory, so what information is still backed up in advance. Then pop up a CMD command line ~ there will be a progress bar and time estimate, please wait a moment!

It is strongly recommended to use the multi-threaded optimization version recommended in this article, which will reduce the installation time of this step, 3.0 installation install.wim time in about 20 minutes! Please be patient, do not close the command line window! after

and so everything is installed, CMD command line will go away, we close the software, restart Computer, enter the Bios setup startup item~ The motherboard of each computer is different, you can check your motherboard manual for modification.

Let's take my Lenovo desktop as an example. After rebooting, click the DEL button to enter the Bios settings.

According to the figure, select the second item on the left.

Then select Boot Device

1st Boot Device item selection, Removable Dev

to enter Removable Dev confirm whether the next board can identify out!

after

Well - setup is complete, save and exit, after the restart Win8 can see it!

it - after the next will be slower, patiently waiting for first start the operation is very smooth, and the local operation is no different!

analysis which principle:

first with diskpart command to clear the disk, the partition, formatted as NTFS and set as the active area

command is as follows:

imagex.exe /apply install.wim 1 Drive letter:

This step means installing install.wim to a disk. Change the letter to the letter of your mobile device.

bcdboot.exe Drive letter: windows /s drive letter: /f ALL

This step is a write boot and Windows has been started on this device. The meaning of the drive letter is the same as above.