{"id":2110,"date":"2014-03-23T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2014-03-21T20:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:52:34","slug":"rmprepusb-boot-multiple-isos-from-usb-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"RMPrepUSB – Boot Multiple ISO’s From USB Easily!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A numbers of years now I have been playing with tools that would allow one \u00a0make a bootable USB Flash disk. I have tried Rufus<\/a>, \u00a0the Microsoft Tool<\/a>, UNetBootin<\/a> etc, but none have allowed me to EASILY boot multiple ISO files from 1 Flash disk.<\/p>\n

That was until I stumbled across RMPrepUSB<\/a> (aka Easy2Boot)…<\/p>\n

You download a 7.2Mb ZIP file that contains an installer for RMPrepUSB – here<\/a>. Once downloaded run the setup file.<\/p>\n

Next you download the Easy2Boot ZIP file (8Mb \/ 32Mb) from here<\/a>. \u00a0Once downloaded extract the ZIP to a new folder.<\/p>\n

Insert your USB Flash disk.<\/p>\n

Open the RMPrepUSB application. This is what it will like this:<\/p>\n

\"RMPrepUSB\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Select the USB Flash disk and tick the ‘No User Prompts’ checkbox and select (see screenshot below – click to zoom):<\/p>\n

1. Partition Size – MAX
\n2. Volume Name – Easy2Boot (or whatever name you like!)
\n3. Bootloader Options – WinPE v2
\n4. Filesystem and Overrides – FAT32 + Boot as HDD (or NTFS + Boot as HDD) – FAT32 is more compatible with a wider variety of OS’s, but you can’t have files >4GB with FAT32!
\n5. Copy OS Files – Copy Files=’NO’ – set to the path of the Easy2Boot .zip file you downloaded and extracted
\n6. Click 6 Prepare drive (this will erase all contents)<\/p>\n

\"E2BSetup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Once this has completed, click on Install grub4dos button – answer ‘No’=PBR. (see screenshot above) – use the latest version of grldr if prompted to overwrite it.<\/p>\n

You should have a USB Flash disk ready and waiting for your ISO files!<\/p>\n

The following folder structure on the drive is where you will be placing the ISO files:<\/p>\n

The Main Menu folder<\/b>
\n\\_ISO\\MAINMENU \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <— Payload files (except Windows Install ISOs) that you want listed in the Main Menu go here\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

\nSub-menu folders:<\/b>\u00a0(these folders are listed as menu entries in the Main menu, if populated) – mnu files+payload files should go at level 3.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
\\_ISO\\ANTIVIRUS \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<—\u00a0for any AV payloads<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\BACKUP \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<—\u00a0for any BACKUP\u00a0payloads<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\DOS \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <—\u00a0for any DOS\u00a0payloads<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\LINUX\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <—\u00a0for any LINUX\u00a0payloads<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\UTILITIES\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<—\u00a0for any UTILITIES\u00a0payloads<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\WINPE \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <—\u00a0for any WINPE\u00a0payloads<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Special payload-only sub-menu:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\AUTO \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <— for payload files only (you can use sub-folders of any name) – all .mnu files are ignored.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Windows Install ISO folders:\u00a0<\/b>(if any .ISO files are present a Windows entry will be listed in the Main menu)<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
\\_ISO\\WINDOWS\\SVR2012 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<– Server 2012 Install ISOs go here<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\WINDOWS\\SVR2K8R2\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <– Server 2008 R2 Install ISOs go here<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\WINDOWS\\VISTA\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<– Wndows Vista Install ISOs go here<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\WINDOWS\\WIN7\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <– Winodws 7 Install ISOs go here<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\WINDOWS\\WIN8\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <– Windows 8 and 8.1 Install ISOs go here<\/span><\/div>\n
\\_ISO\\WINDOWS\\XP\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <– XP Install ISOs (and Win 2003 Install ISOs) go here (XP 64-bit should have ’64’ somewhere in the name of the ISO file)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Once you have finished copying the ISO’s across boot off the USB Flash Disk and you should be greated with a menu that looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"EasyBoot\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you get a new ISO file – just copy it into the relevant folder and boot up! No mess no fuss! \u00a0It supports a huge list of ISO’s – check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is one tool that every techie should have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A numbers of years now I have been playing with tools that would allow one \u00a0make a bootable USB Flash disk. I have tried Rufus, \u00a0the Microsoft Tool, UNetBootin etc, but none have allowed me to EASILY boot multiple ISO files from 1 Flash disk. That was until I stumbled across RMPrepUSB (aka Easy2Boot)… You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-finds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}