YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator (Windows)

YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is the successor to MultibootISOs. It can be used to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more. Contrary to MultiBootISO's which used grub to boot ISO files directly from USB, YUMI uses syslinux to boot extracted distributions stored on the USB device, and reverts to using grub to Boot Multiple ISO files from USB, if necessary.

Aside from a few distributions, all files are stored within the Multiboot folder, making for a nicely organized Multiboot Drive that can still be used for other storage purposes.

Creating a YUMI Multiboot MultiSystem Bootable USB Flash Drive

YUMI works much like Universal USB Installer, except it can be used to install more than one distribution to run from your USB. Distributions can also be uninstalled using the same tool!

YUMI's Main Multiboot Boot Menu

How to Create a MultiBoot USB Flash Drive

1. Download YUMI 0.0.62 Here
2. Run* YUMI-0.0.6.2.exe following the onscreen instructions
3. Run the tool again to Add More ISOs/Distributions to your Drive
4. Restart your PC setting it to boot from the USB device
5. Select a distribution to Boot from the Menu and enjoy!

That's all there is to it. You should now be booting your favorite distributions from your custom Multi-Boot USB device!

How It Works: 

YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer) enables each user to create their own custom Multiboot UFD containing only the distributions they want, in the order by which they are installed. A new distribution can be added to the UFD each time the tool is run.

If you run YUMI from the same location you store ISO downloads, they should be auto-detected (*See Known Issues Below), eliminating the need to browse for each ISO.

Other Notes:

 If MultibootISOs was previously used, you must reformat the drive and start over. YUMI uses Syslinux directly, and chainloads to grub only if necessary, so it is not compatible with the older Multiboot ISO tool. Although I do plan to add back the capabilities of MultibootISOs as time permits.

The distro uninstaller works great, but unlisted ISO's that have been added must currently be manually removed!

Install BackTrack via USB Drive

BackTrack is one of the best Linux distributions which is purely focused on penetration testing and is preloaded with several industry standard security and hacking tools like network analysers, wireless tools, fuzzers, crackers etc.. As like other Linux distributions BackTrack is also designed to boot and use from cd/dvd(called as live cd) but in some cases you may need to use BackTrack with your USB device. So in this post HPH will show you how to do it.

Even though BackTrack is designed to be used from live cd/dvd, it can also be used as a live USB drive. The process to make your live BackTrack USB drive is a piece of cake when you follow the 4 simple steps below.

Minimum Requirements:

• USB device with 2+ GB space(4 GB is recommended)
• BackTrack ISO file, If you don’t have the current latest version you can go download here.
• A software application called Unetbootin, It is free an you can download it from here.
• Five minutes of your precious time.

Steps to be followed:

Step #1: Plug-in your USB drive.
Step #2: Start the application Unetbootin.
Step #3: Now select the radio button DiskImage and click browse to select your BackTrack ISO.
Step #4: On the below select your USB drive letter and click OK to create bootable BackTrack USB.

That’s it your are done, you had successfully created your bootable USB BackTrack device. You can now boot and login to your BackTrack with the default username(root) password(toor).
Note: Make sure you select your USB as first boot device in your BIOS.

Setup (Install) Windows XP From USB Flash Disk

Today i'm gonna show you how to install Windows XP from USB Disk. You will need some tools to make this happen, they are : USB_PREP8, PeToUSB, and Bootsect.exe

I have already packed these applications into one downloadable archive. You can download them HERE. After downloading the file, extract all the files into one directory on your computer, then, follow these instructions bellow carrefuly :

Go to the directory where you extract the files
Execute usb_prep8.cmd, you can just double click the file through windows explorer. Then a command prompt dialog will appear
screenshot :

Press any key, then another dialog box will appear.

Choose the destination drive, which will be your usb flash disk, and set all the options, then click start

*Important, when the format process is complete don't close the application, let it open and we will continue to the next step

Open another command prompt, start – run : cmd, press enter. change directory (CD) to switch folders to where you extract the files. ex : cd c:\usbsetup (depends on where you extract the downloaded file)
type : bootsect.exe /nt52 H:

note : H: is your usb flash disk drive, if it’s E: then change it to E:
It will say : “Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.”
Now close the command prompt (type exit) and also close PEToUSB window as well, then another command prompt dialog box will show
screenshot :

Press 1 then enter : type your cd/dvd drive letter where your windows xp installation cd exist, ex : E:

Press 3 then enter : type your USB flash disk drive letter, ex: H:

Now we’re ready to copy the windows setup files from cd your pc then to the usb disk, just press 4 then enter, this will take several minutes to complete

You will then be asked whether to format drive T: or no (the temporary dive), just press Y
Once the process is done just press enter to continue, then yes (Y) again till the last process
Quit usbprep8, press q then enter, now you already have a bootable windows xp installatin USB disk

You can now use that USB Disk to do the windows setup without using any CD/DVD drive, make sure to set the BIOS setting to make the USB Disk as the first boot option, when you’re booting from the usb disk, it will show you two option, choose 1, usually at line 2 to setup the windows for the first time and after restart choose 2, usually at the first line. Dont remove the usb disk till setup process is really complete (the desktop shows). The setup process might take you several times to restart. When you can see windows XP desktop, it’s done, you can now safely remove the usb disk and boot from harddisk as the first boot.

Hope this information will help you a lot as many netbook around doesnt have internal CD/DVD drive. Happy trying