Install Vista on a USB stick in three minutes

Anusha

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MCLINER said:
hari hari

3minz walin bane
Why not? Hard disk is the slowest component in the PC. If the access time of flash drives is 25 times better than typical 7200RPM drives, well, we can expect it to install fast. Maybe not exactly 3 minutes. We don't know from which point to which point they counted 3 minutes ne?
 

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Wow! Onna machan readyboost walata kiyapu bande... Shaaa... Machan.. but if flash memory keeps getting faster like this day by day.. it'll most probably dominate the storage world.. ofcourse after some major developments...
 

Anusha

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chamithal said:
Wow! Onna machan readyboost walata kiyapu bande... Shaaa... Machan.. but if flash memory keeps getting faster like this day by day.. it'll most probably dominate the storage world.. ofcourse after some major developments...
Still can't beat the price of magnetic storage. They only cost your around Rs.50-60 per GB.
 

chamithal

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Still can't beat the price of magnetic storage. They only cost your around Rs.50-60 per GB.

Still ne macho... Eth kiyanna bane... performance matters ne... balanna dan aurudu 2ta 3ta kalin USB n nw! Price kohoma adu welada?
 

Anusha

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chamithal said:
Still ne macho... Eth kiyanna bane... performance matters ne... balanna dan aurudu 2ta 3ta kalin USB n nw! Price kohoma adu welada?
But I don't think it will ever come down to even closer to economies of magnetic storage.
 

SAN_APIIT

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    In a Chip !!!
    I have a question


    Does that means the delay we are getting at installing is coz of the slow data tranfer speed of our data storage devises?????

    But SATA has a grater transfer speed than USB 2.0 ne????
    And the read/write speed is also high ne???
    So how come we can't install on a SATA in 3 minuets???

    What do u guys think about this?
     

    dineitdark

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    Anusha said:
    Of course it's great. Too bad none of use will be installing Vista on a flash drive :D
    why not people? if u install your OS in a USB(as some of us has already done with linux ;)) you can carry ur desktop + settings + files + apps anywhere u go and plug in your USB and boot! there u have your desktop in that computer.. and all the work u do will be saved to the USB so u can just remove the USB and take asomewhere else and start working from the place you stopped when u left the last place... :)

    its mobile, and people already do it with linux distros... i don't know about vista, hey! there is this commercial thing called mojo pack... give it a search.. it does the same thing with XP..
     

    Anusha

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    dineitdark said:
    why not people? if u install your OS in a USB(as some of us has already done with linux ;)) you can carry ur desktop + settings + files + apps anywhere u go and plug in your USB and boot! there u have your desktop in that computer.. and all the work u do will be saved to the USB so u can just remove the USB and take asomewhere else and start working from the place you stopped when u left the last place... :)

    its mobile, and people already do it with linux distros... i don't know about vista, hey! there is this commercial thing called mojo pack... give it a search.. it does the same thing with XP..
    Ahem! Who has a 16GB flash drive?
    Yeah, maybe XP.
     

    The_Ace

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    There's Bart PE. FOSS Windows XP Live CD maker. It can be used to create Windows XP Live environment for a USB stick too.
    Only problem is that no many PCs can be booted from a USB stick.

    I'm sure Vista can be turned in to a Live CD or DVD as well. It'll not have the loads of eye candy that vista has but only the core system with additional tools to use it as a rescue CD/DVD
     

    dineitdark

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    Anusha said:
    Ahem! Who has a 16GB flash drive?
    Yeah, maybe XP.
    hehe.. well if u have a 2GB one... u can carry some 4.5GB of data... in it... with some liveCD like linux environments... with a compressed file system... if not u simply buy a external HD! ;) haha now thats not hard to do??? hehe... and then if u get a 80Gig hard you can get some 160Gig data.. space.. with a compressed file system.. or if u want more speed u can just use the 80Gigs with out any compressing... :cool:

    but there is a risk when u are using a flash drive... when u run a OS from a flash drive it tend to die very quickly than normally... so better opt for a HD.(i guess this happens cause of the constant read write...)
     
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