Friday, October 16, 2015

Creating a bootable USB through android


Is there any way to create a bootable USB (not turn your android device into a bootable USB), with an OTG USB stick through android?



I do not have a laptop to do this on, as the one I need (the one i need to bootable USB for, and the one i need to fix)no longer has an OS installed nor a CD drive. So any help would be much appreciated.


I am aware of the app to turn your android device into a bootable USB, but that does not work in my case.



Answer



Based on the discussions with OP, he has




  • Broken Win 10 machine, unable to get into OS




  • Rooted Android





He wants to




  • Extract Data from the Win machine




  • Install OS





Solution




DriveDroid allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. This is ideal for trying Linux distributions or always having a rescue-system on the go... without the need to burn different CDs or USB pendrives





  • From the developers XDA thread, download Hiren's boot CD (for windows) - link in OP into the Android device





  • Enter BIOS of your machine and set the Boot order to boot from USB as first choice ( key combination would be based on the machine and Google can help)




  • Connect Android to device and boot, device will recognised and a temporary Win environment Win XP / 7 can be created. Connect an external drive and transfer files to drive




Above based on my personal experience in getting data out of dead Win XP


Installing new OS





  • In my case, CD was working so I installed OS again




  • One of the reviews ( by Steffen Mossefin) claims he was able to do that using this app.




Edit:: Help section of app suggests ways of installing windows using this app by creating bootable USB drives, which of course need access to another PC - not tried this


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