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)
- 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
- 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+).
- Defragment the disk.
- NTFS compression.
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.