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on how to have multiple Windows install ISOs all on the same USB flash drive.
Why not try booting Windows 7 directly from a USB drive - see Tutorial #47 for details!
Make an Easy2Boot MultiBoot USB drive - Boot directly from ANY ISO/IMG/IMA/BIN/GZ file - see Tutorial 72a! Simply copy all your linux ISOs, Windows install ISOs and other boot files to a folder on your USB drive and boot from any one of them (no need to edit a menu or make any other changes!).
Latest Version (bugfixes+added features) + TUTORIAL DOWNLOADS
LATEST VERSION v2.1.651 - Adds 2 new File menu options added - Now can directly boot from an ISO or the harddisk.img virtual drive using QEMU. Also can make any primary ptn of a Flash drive visible under Windows.
2013-02-07 File Info now displays BPB parameters if the file is recognised as starting with a Partition Boot Record.
New version of WinContig. Older version of WinContig had tendency to crash sometimes!
Adds Drive - Clear Read Only Status menu option which runs Diskpart and attempts to clear any RO status set on the disk or volume. Usefull if the USB drive has been used for Win8ToGo and it has been set to RO!
F4 hotkey now opens \grub\menu.lst and \boot\grub\menu.lst menu files (if they exist).
RMSetRes (Windows utility) - set your video adapter resolution from the command line (like SetRes) or to the auto-detected native resolution of your LCD screen. Type /? for usage details.
RMSysInfo is a .hta file that runs under Windows. It displays useful information about your computer hardware and drivers. This zip file contains a self-extracting exe which merely extracts two files to a destination folder.
SCANBIOH.exe - a DOS utility that searches BIOS ROM/RAM space for bytes and/or strings. Useful to find the location of the MAC address bytes or Mainboard Serial number.
showdrive.exe - Gives any new drive a drive letter if it does not already have one. As used on Hirens Boot CD. Included in 2.1.614 and later versions of RMPrepUSB (but not normally used).
FinnixExtra - 2 files required to make a Finnix 100 bootable USB drive - see Tutorial #11 for details. If using RMPrepUSB v2.1.604 or 605 do not use the vesamenu.c32 file in this download - use the one already in the Finnix ISO.
GetBootDisk - makes a 1.44MB Windows ME MSDOS boot disk by extracting the image from one of your Windows dll files. Run GetBtDisk.bat to make a simple MSDOS bootable image file bootdisk.img. See Tutorial #33 for details.
2012-11-06 (fixed hanging of previous version) - utility for grub4dos 30-12-2011 and later. Allows user to press a hotkey (e.g. F1) to select a menu item. See Tutorial #57
Tutorial #45 Make a WinPE3 image for PXE booting with this script. Copy it to your Tools\PETools folder after installing Windows 7 WAIK and run as administrator.
Tutorial 47 - Install Windows to a USB hard drive. Run Installer.cmd as Admin to start the install. v3 does not use USBBootWatcher. With Bug fix for Bootsect.exe not found error (10-Sep-2011). With bugfix for EFI systems (08-Nov-2012). Revised 15-Nov-2012.
Tutorial #26 - Logix4u Windows SCSI Utility - sends and receives CDB commands (Inquiry, Read Capacity, etc.) to any SCSI/SAS/SATA/USB storage/iSCSI device under Windows) - see http://logix4u.net/ for the web site and latest version.
Tutorial #43 (updated 2011-7-20 for 64-bit support and includes HDD patch files - see #43 Addendum) - Boot Windows install ISO files via grub4dos and FiraDisk. Updated 1 June 2012 with Win8 Release Preview menu.
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