INSTRUCTIONS:. Windows users - To make a new E2B USB drive (or update a drive), download and run the Self-Extracting.exe file (see below). Linux users - read. To Update your E2B drive - run the download under Windows and click on the Update E2B Drive button. UEFI Booting - you will also need to download and install the MPI Tool Pack and use it to.
This is official website for Xboot.Xboot is a utility for creating Multiboot USB/ISO with few clicks. Search this site. Guide lines for using XBoot. Tips & Tricks. Updated the download links for ISO files. Fixed the support for Backtrack5. What's new in XBoot 1.0.0.0 Beta 6: January 22nd, 2011. Configuring multiboot USB files is very easy and all you have to do is to select the USB drive and the configuration file you need to edit. All in all XBoot is a very handy tool which will let you create USB and ISO drives easily.
Xmas Special Offer - hurry! E2B 120-page now available (complete course on making a useful multiboot E2B USB drive using Windows)!. Complete unofficial Russian guide. The instructions and documentation on this site will always relate to the latest (sometimes Beta) version. If you use any of the 'special' features of E2B or have a problem, please update your E2B USB drive with the very latest version from the. The latest Beta version will often contain small bug-fixes too! I highly recommend the (or superfast ) for E2B.
The SanDisk Extreme drives are the best 'Removable' USB Flash drives for E2B (and most other things)! Some other so-called 'super-fast' USB 3.0 drives can actually be very very slow for small file transfer (e.g. Keep up-to-date by visiting my blog (or ) for the latest features, improvements, bug-fixes, hints and tips (+ ).
E2B DOWNLOADS ARE HERE! The E2B download is now a self-extracting.exe file. It automatically extracts the files to a new folder on your Windows drive before running MakeE2B.exe. See for more details. Windows Users - Download only one of these two self-extracting executables to make a bootable E2B USB drive. (15MB) - Recommended for most users. This version can also be used to update any older E2B drive. OR - includes extra Windows XP drivers (27MB) - Includes Driver Pack Mass Storage (DPMS) drivers for installing 32-bit XP onto SATA RAID SCSI systems - an 'E2B Update' will also copy all the DPMS files.
Use this version only if you need to install Windows XP onto SATA RAID SCSI systems (Note: due to the lack of new XP drivers, the very latest mainboards may not be supported). Linux Users - download and then go to for instructions. If your USB drive is not a Removable USB Flash drive (e.g. A hard drive or SSD), see for instructions if using Windows Install ISOs. Click on the Red Button to format and make an E2B USB drive for MBR and UEFI booting.
For more expert users or if your USB drive is not listed, the MakeE2BUSBDrive.cmd button allows you more options and choices when you make a USB drive. Windows only For UEFI + MBR booting This is needed to convert payload files to.imgPTN files from which you can UEFI-boot as well as MBR-boot.
Before you can UEFI-boot from the E2B USB drive, you first need to use ISO SWITCHE2B.exe (or MBR boot to the E2B menu) and select the.imgPTN file.imgPTN partition images can MBR-boot and UEFI-boot to Windows Installer, linux Live OSs, MSDaRT, various WinPE payloads, KonBoot, MemTest86, etc. Secure UEFI-booting is possible, if the boot files are correctly signed. Go to see how to convert an ISO file or other payload file to a.imgPTN file. Note: Not all payloads/ISOs contain UEFI boot files. An is needed for Windows 7 UEFI booting. (.zip file) Optional a tool used to create/repair/diagnose bootable USB drives Windows only Unpack zip file to run the.exe installer and use 'More Info' - 'Run anyway' if you get a Windows Defender warning.
RMPrepUSB can also create ext2, ext3 and ext4 persistence files for linux LiveCD ISOs with persistence. Note: RMPrepUSB 2.1.741 or later should be used with the MPI Tool Pack v0.081 or later. (Memory Test with UEFI Secure boot) This is a ready-made MemTest86.imgPTN file which you can unzip and then copy to your E2B USB drive. Once you select it from the E2B menu or using the ISO SWITCHE2B.exe utility, you can MBR or UEFI-boot from the E2B USB drive. You can make more.imgPTN files from ISO files, etc.
Using the MPI Tool Pack. Note: All.imgPTN files must be made contiguous first using Makethisdrivecontiguous.cmd. E2B is downloaded over 5,000 times a day.
Over 1500 new E2B drives are made every day (and many more are updated every day). If E2B really had a virus, both you and I would have heard about it! Click for a Norton SafeWeb report on this site. Windows Defender may detect and remove some files that it does not like (depending on how it feels today!). Please Update Windows Defender to the latest version if it does not let you run SwitchE2B.exe or some other program. Certain Defender updates seem to suddenly detect some programs as viruses but an update a few hours later often fixes the problem!
Try downloading the.zip file version of E2B instead (from Alternate Downloads Area) - extract the contents and run. MakeE2B.exe to create your E2B USB drive. Norton AV - use to report a false positive. Trend Micro AV, Dr. Easy2Boot does not contain any viruses, adware, malware or 'puas/pups' (see or check ) - you may get a false virus warning caused by the autorun.inf file in E2B, but this file does not run any programs and is only used to show an E2B icon for the USB drive in Windows Explorer. Good AV programs should not give false positives. If the Chrome Browser says the download may be 'dangerous', go to the Chrome Downloads page at chrome://downloads/# and click on 'Keep dangerous file'.
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The Google Chrome browser may report that a file is infected or malicious when you try to download it - this is a false report. The same files, if compressed in a different way using zip or rar format, or if downloaded from Google Drive instead of One Drive, will download without problems! Chrome and Google Drive seem to falsely detect some files as malicious. Note: Try downloading the same file from Google Drive or MS OneDrive (Alternate Download Areas). Virus Total You can submit the download to and check it using a wide range of AV scanners - good AV scanners such as Avira, Avast, AVG, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, Sophos, etc. Should not report a problem with the download (Sophos may report a PUA = Potentially Unwanted Application - this is NOT a virus).
Due to the nature of SWITCHE2B.exe which requires Administrator priveleges and writes directly to the MBR of USB disks, this program does trigger several AV false positives however. Most of the executables pass VirusTotal with 100% clean rating, except for e (my own self-extracting WinRar utility which runs as Admin) and (Nir Sofer free utility). Alternate Download Areas and Archives For the latest Beta, bugfixes and.zip versions of E2B + other useful files. (try this first). WARNING: Only download E2B from these official sources. E2B is free, so there is no need to download a 'hacked' version or files from another source which may be outdated, buggy or contain viruses! The video below is rather old.
Just run the E2B download.exe file and click the big RED BUTTON to make a USB drive. To make the files contiguous, run MAKETHISDRIVECONTIGUOUS.cmd from the USB drive.
In an ideal world, sysadmins everywhere would only need to manage one or two operating systems—one desktop, one server—and nothing else. Unfortunately, business operations often dictate a different method than that, leaving it up to IT to bridge the gaps caused by fragmentation between multiple OS, hardware, and software instances. For IT staffers, there's seemingly no end to the number of tools they must carry with them, doubly so if they provide mobile support. Below is a solution to ease the load by providing access to any versions of OS X in one small, easy-to-carry, bootable flash drive.
There are a few requirements I'd like to share with you prior to beginning the tutorial:. Apple computer with OS X 10.9+. Install DVD media/DMG or installer for each version of OS X to be included.
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USB flash drive with at least 8 GB for each version of OS X to be supported. For the purposes of this article, I'll be creating three installers of OS X: 10.8, 10.9, and 10.10. However, the limit is really based on the total capacity of the drive to be used. Launch Disk Utility.app and partition the external drive as three separate partitions of 8 GB each. I suggest naming each partition with the OS X version that will occupy the space to make it easier to identify later ( Figure A). Figure A. Click the Options button, select the GUID Partition Table, and then click OK and Apply to commit the changes ( Figure B).
Figure B With the drive now partitioned properly, see the sections below to go about copying the media/installer contents to the drive. Certain versions of OS X will require a different procedure to complete.
Apple OS X 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Right-click the installer and select Show Package Contents from the context menu ( Figure C). This reveals the contents of the installer itself and makes navigating the structure possible. Figure C. Drill-down through the Contents Shared Support directories and drag-drop the InstallESD.dmg to the desktop ( Figure D). Figure D. Launch Disk Utility and click on the partition to copy the install files to, then click the Restore tab.
Next, click the Image button next to Source and point to the InstallESD.dmg file recently copied to the desktop. Next, drag-and-drop the partition created on the USB to the text box next to Destination ( Figure E). Figure E.
Once the source and destination fields are selected, click the Restore button. You'll be prompted to confirm that the process will erase the contents of the partition by clicking Erase ( Figure F). Figure F. The process takes about 30 minutes, depending on the speed of the computer. However, once it's completed, the partition will be ready to be used to install OS X. Simply repeat the steps in this section to create an installer for 10.7 and 10.8 ( Figure G).
Figure G III. Apple OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Since OS X (10.4, 10.5 and 10.6) were released as bootable DVDs, the process for these is slightly different and significantly slower, because the optical drives read data at a far slower rate than mechanical hard drives and solid-state drives. For this process, either the original DVD media or ISO/DMG images of the DVD are required. Launch Disk Utility and click on the partition to copy the install files to, then click the Restore tab.
Next, click the Image button next to Source and point to the DVD drive or ISO/DMG. Drag-drop the partition created on the USB to the text box next to Destination ( Figure H). Figure H. Once the source and destination fields are selected, click the Restore button. You'll be prompted to confirm that the process will erase the contents of the partition by clicking Erase. The process takes about 30 minutes, depending on the speed of the computer.
However once it's completed, the partition will be ready to be used to install OS X. Simply repeat the steps in this section to create an installer for 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6, as needed. Apple OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and 10.10 (Yosemite). Launch Terminal.app and enter the following command: sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia —volume /Volumes/DRIVELABEL —applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app —nointeraction By default, OS X stores the installers downloaded from the Mac App Store in the Applications directory. If your installers are stored elsewhere, modify the path accordingly. Also, 'DRIVELABEL' should be changed to reflect the name of the USB partition that you'll be copying the installer files to. If you named it by the version number (10.x) as recommended above, you'll use that for the volume name ( Figure I).
Figure I. When prompted to authenticate, enter your admin-level password ( Figure J). Figure J.
The process will first erase the partition and then transfer the installer files over ( Figure K). Figure K. Second, the process will make the drive bootable and copy the boot files over ( Figure L). Figure L. Depending on the computer's specifications, the process takes approximately 20 minutes to complete.
However, once it's done, the partition will be ready to install OS X. Simply repeat the steps in this section to create an installer for 10.9 and 10.10, as necessary ( Figure M).
Figure M As you can see in Figure N, I carry all versions of OS X—from 10.5-10.11—since I've found that most every client has a different support need than the next, and I like to be prepared for that. Figure N Also see. Related Topics.