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Xanatos · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:30 pm Post subject: Repairing Vista from USB?

Tl;dr my comp with Vista installed won't boot.

It says to insert the Vista install disc and repair from there.

However I don't have a working cd-rom drive on that comp so I was wondering if I could do this with a USB.

So far I found a promising solution, but I cannot use it since I have no access to torrents on the comp I'm posting this on.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4606200/USB_Vista_Emergency_Repair_Disk

Could someone help me find a way of getting this onto a USB without torrents/admin privileges?

Hero · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:45 pm Post subject:

if the comp can boot from usb hdd then yes. Check the bios boot options.

Xanatos · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:51 pm Post subject:

Hero · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:54 pm Post subject:

Yea thats a problem. But I don't think you need permissions for a torrent downloader. You already have the dvd, so its not illegal.

Xanatos · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject:

SF · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:18 pm Post subject:

You don't need privileges to simply download from FTP/HTTP, do you? If not, I'll download it and you can download it from my horribly slow 60KB/s up speed!

Xanatos · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:56 pm Post subject:

SF · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:31 pm Post subject:

I was able to install uTorrent on a Windows2000 restricted account fine. Windows XP host if it makes a difference. I was also told Transmission doesn't require admin privs but I'm not sure as I can't see a Windows download on their page.

Hero · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:10 pm Post subject:

utorrent or bittorrent should Install fine.

Karakawe · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:12 am Post subject:

Standalone or portable versions of software will work if you can't get them installed.

Xanatos · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject:

Okay I got everything I need, but now I need to know how to create a bootable USB/CD without admin privileges. I cannot install any programs whatsoever, and I'm running Windows 7.

The usual methods won't work since they require admin privileges.

Edit: you can view the registry values for parental controls that control whether its on/off and what apps are restricted, but I can't change those values via regedit. If anyone knows a workaround I can finish everything from there.

Hero · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:55 pm Post subject:

First things first. If you can just add the iso files to the usb, and boot it, it should work since it has an autorun.ini. Thats how I installed w7 from a usb. You may need ntfs format.