Proboly a stupid question but need help, I think

[kango251]

Greetings everyone, the question I have is I have a iso image of Vista 64 saved to my hard drive and I would like to copy to a usb flash drive to be used as a bootable program to load vista on multiple laptops I bought computer. Can this be done by just copying the iso image to the usb flash drive and just use that instead of a dvd to do a clean instal of Vista 64? The laptops I want to load Vista to has a feature to use a usb boot device in bios so that looks good. The usb flashdrive I would like to use has been LLF formated and has been setup as FAT32.

 

 

I will be using imgburn to make the transfer of the iso image to the usb flash drive, anything special I need to do or just do it like I was creating a bootable dvd? Also is this worth my time to do, I am hoping that the usb flash drive will load Vista faster then if I used the dvd-rom. Sorry for my ignorance on this matter but any help would be great.

 

 

 

Also one more thing, I bought 20 of the same exact laptop and I need to load Win XP Pro on all of them, I was hoping to just load one drive and get it to desktop with all the laptops drivers installed. After that to save time I want to just mirror rhe hard drives to save time. All the hard drives are the same size and are all fujitsu. Also the laptops are all the same revisons so the are all identicle. I won them at a county auction so they were a group purchase so they are all exactly the same.

 

 

Thanks again in advance everyone.

Edited October 31, 2012 by kango251

[LIGHTNING UK!]

ImgBurn burns optical media, it doesn't write to USB flash drives. Installing from a USB stick should be quicker than using a DVD, yes. I've used them for Windows 7 installs (Microsoft released a tool for making a bootable USB stick from an ISO - but it could be Windows 7 only?), but never for Vista.

 

As for the 20 laptops... you'd probably use some software that can clone the hdd. But of course then they'd all have the same serial number installed etc. That could be changed to the proper serial taken from the COA sticker on the PC later on though. There might be an even better way of doing it, you'd have to Google it.