Making An NTFS USB Boot Disk
While not directly HTPC related, Bjorn 3D did a nice writeup on how to make a bootable NTFS USB drive. One of those things that might come in handy some day. It’s fairly short, so I thought it was worth the read.
That’s all you have to do to create a Bootable NTFS Disk but what can you do with it.
Well for one thing you can copy all the files from your Vista install
disk and install Vista from USB disk which is a lot faster than from
Optical drive. Then copy any files you end up installing frequently
(review files) to the same disk, then when the install is done remove
the USB drive and boot to the HD. Once booted to the HD you can plug
the USB drive in and install anything you have copied to it.