Posted 23 January 2009 - 08:35 PM

Introduction

What is PWBoot project ?

PWBoot stands for Portable Windows Boot project, this project aims to be make your Windows operating system to boot from USB storage media easily.





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Tested storage list

USB Flash

Kingston DataTraveler 100 (8GB) Sandisk Cruzer Extreme (16GB) Apacer Handy Steno AH328 (8GB)

USB HDD

Standard 2.5 inch IDE HDD (60GB) Standard 2.5 inch SATA HDD (120GB) Standard 3.5 inch IDE HDD (40GB) Seagate FreeAgent Go (320GB)



Supported boot methods

Virtual hard disk (VHD)

Windows 7 (Ultimate, Enterprise) Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 8

Physical drive (Native)

Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 8



Important!

You do not have to use other USB booting program such as USB Watcher.

Remember to re-patch after a new service pack updates installed.

Use HDD instead of FDD.

Turn off indexing service.

Use DiskMod for enable pagefile on USB (Windows 7+).

for enable pagefile on USB (Windows 7+). Defragment the disk.

NTFS compression.

Changelogs

Version 1.0

- Initial release.

Version 1.1

- Core improvement

- Main GUI changes

Version 2.0

- New GUI

- Minor improvements

- Support External system patching (Not fully tested)

Version 2.1

- Minor improvements

- Fixed: External system patching doesn't work

Version 3.0

- Major improvements

- New GUI (Well, basically you just need a pointing device to use it)

- Supports physical or VHD installation

- No VM is required to make a working bootable USB

- Higher boot chance for some machine

Version 3.0.1

- Maintenance release

- Fixed: Unable to boot for "Non-Active" boot volume

Version 3.0.2 <Latest>

- Minor update to USB patch code



Screen shots:













Download Link:

PWBoot 3.0.2.exe (1.28MB)

PWBoot 3.0.2 (No-UPX).exe (1.61MB)



Facebook Page: PWBoot Project



Original source: http://reboot.pro/6851/













Edited by Dhilip89, 12 September 2011 - 09:50 AM.