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    Slipstreaming USB3

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by ximinez, Jun 9, 2012.

  1. ximinez

    ximinez Notebook Consultant

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    I'd like to create a clean Win 7 USB stick for my L502x, that includes the as of now current drivers. However, when I try to boot off such a stick (both from USB2 and USB3) it refuses to boot and complains about something with BOOT\BCD.
    Has anyone succeeded in doing this?
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Are you sure you created the image correctly? Did you create the recovery media or are you just talking about the current image?
     
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    How are you creating it? I use the universal USB installer and modify the USB afterwards

    Sent from my PG41200 using Tapatalk 2
     
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    ximinez Notebook Consultant

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    I'm using a Dell OEM Win7 CD as starting point. I want to add "a few things" (all current drivers, SP1 + hotfixes, office and a couple of other things) to this CD, and preferrably be able to use USB3 to install it.
     
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    Yeah, I'm familiar with nLite/vLite, but they don't really support Win7. RT Se7en Lite seems to be pretty similar, but the resulting image does not boot.

    I don't need EasyBCD. I can boot from USB. It is windows that fails to start the installer once it has booted from USB.
     
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    I have setup Win7 on a USB using the Win 7 USB tool then simply copied the Dell drivers and Office SW onto the Key,

    It works great

    but agree it would be nice to slipstream the drivers and updates.

    I have used the nlite before with sucess but did not have much luck with Win 7 yet.

    I will try se7en lite and see if I have any luck

    You can try creating and buring the slipstreamed Win 7 on DVD, then extracting the iso file, and then use the Win USB Tool to transfer it onto a USB stick.

    The only thing I noticed with the Win USB tool is it looks for a specifc file name for the win 7 ISO. but it does a great job creating a bootable USB drive
     
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    I finally got it to boot, but I still have to select the driver manually to be able to continue installing. Weird.
     
    ximinez, Jun 11, 2012
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