Tips for Win8 to run on a USB drive.

The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you to take advantage of the features of Win8. Windows to go will win8 successfully installed on a mobile device instead of booting from a mobile device to install the system.

That means we can take your operating system with you anytime, anywhere on any machine, and you don't have to run on your computer. If you are using the process of pulling out a U disk or mobile hard drive, Win8 will automatically enter the sleep state, if a minute after the U-disk (equipped with WIN8 USB disk or mobile hard disk), the system will automatically shutdown.

With this feature, those who do not want to toss their own computer can be in the U disk or mobile hard drive inside experience WIN8 cool!

A u disk or a removable hard drive with a capacity greater than or equal to 16G (the installation and use of a removable hard disk is much faster than a U disk)

Download Win8 install ISO files (about 2.56G) and Windows 7 automated Installation Kit ( This file is about 1.7G, I recommend that you try the direct search download ImageX.exe, because the next only need this tool, and this file is very small, pay attention to select 32 or 64-bit.

Get ready to move your hard drive, preferably without data, and be sure to connect your computer properly. I was doing all of the following on the Win7.

Extraction of related Materials:

A) Copy the Install.wim file in the sources directory of the WINDOWS8 installation CD or installation image

(b) Install the Windows Automatic Installation Kit, copy c:programfileswindowsaiktoolsx86 (32-bit) or C:PROGRAMFILESWINDOWSAIKTOOLSAMD64 (64-bit) Imagex.exe files under the path

(c) In computers running Windows7 or WIN8 operating systems, copy bcdboot.exe files under the c:windowssystem32 path.

Place these three files in the root directory of your same disk partition (ensure the same directory, root directory is for easy input commands)

Make Windowstogo

Insert a blank USB drive into your computer and do the following:

I. Run the command prompt using administrator mode

Ii. type DiskPart and enter to start the Disk Management tool.

Iii. Use the Listdisk command to view the disk ID of the USB memory stick, which is "Disk 3" on this computer.

IV. Use the SELECTDISK3 command to select U disk.

V. Use the clean command to erase all content on the disk.

VI. Use Createpartitionprimary to create a primary partition for U disk and use Selectpartition1 to select this partition

Vii. Use the Formatfs=ntfsquick command to quickly format this USB drive as an NTFS file system.

When the format is complete, use the active command to set the current disk to active.

e when the USB drive is started, close the command prompt and copy the Install.wim, Image.exe, and BCDboot.exe that were previously extracted to the USB drive.

(f) Open a command prompt as an administrator, type "x:" and return (X is the letter of your USB drive and replace it with your actual letter)

(g) Enter "IMAGEX.EXE/APPLYINSTALL.WIM1X:" and return (X is the letter of your USB drive and replace it with your actual drive letter). Wait for the Windowstogo to be finished, and the time to make is related to your USB drive's transmission speed, write speed and capacity. When prompted "Successfullyappliedimage." When the current operation is complete.

h) Continue to enter "Bcdboot.exex:windows/sx:/fall" and return (X is the letter of your USB drive and replace it with your actual letter) to set up Windows to start the device. When prompted "bootfilessuccessfullycreated." When the current operation is complete.

Note: The first line of command on the picture is not followed by/F all, which means that the input BCDboot.exe x:windows/s x: It's OK.

3, Start Windowstogo

A If your computer is a WINDOWS8 system, you can change the Windowstogo startup options in the "Hardware and sound" control Panel. When a USB drive is detected, the system directly directs the Windowstogo to begin working.

b If your computer is a WINDOWS8 previous operating system, you need to set the BIOS to boot the USB drive.

c The first run time will be slow, in addition to WINDOWS8 will automatically configure the computer device, you also need to enter the product key and accept the license.

d The first use of WINDOWS8 personalization

I. Like the previous Windows operating system, WINDOWS8 has such a setting. The first setting is to name our computer, and note that this is not the name of the user, but the name of your computer. Click Next when the input is complete.

Ii. because the WINDOWS8 default Microsoftid login, the system first requires a linked network before setting the username. Of course, if you don't have a network connection, skip this step.

Iii. if in the second step you have successfully connected the network, in order to better experience WINDOWS8, we recommend that you use Windowsliveid login. You can enter your Windowsliveid username and password.

E later, if you switch to another computer, the device will only be configured automatically, without the need for personalization, and all settings will be moved with your USB drive.

Windowstogo features simple and easy to use, a great degree of convenience for personal travel and corporate users. Of course, there are still many imperfections in this function, there is no graphical interface production, look forward to the official release version of the WINDOWS8 in a more outstanding performance!

Attention matters

As far as possible to ensure that the use of mobile hard disk or U disk only one partition, before I moved the hard disk has multiple partitions failed

All steps are not to be saved.

Note that your current operating system's number of digits and the number of file digits above should not be able to run!

Want to save time comrades can not download the Windows Automatic Installation Kit (AIK) Direct search download 32-bit or 64-bit imagex.exe on it. This method is intended for testing purposes only.