USB Fob creation for OSD

Instructions to modify SSCM Win7 installation Fob to work on nearly every computer.

The installation Fob created by SSCM simply takes too long if your Task sequnece is quiet large.
The process listed below will create a new fob that achives the same like creating it from SCCM , but just much quicker.

The process requires the flashdrive crated by SSCM that will be called SSCM-Fob, and a hardware duplicate flashdrive we will just call Fob.

For easy creation of new duplicate flash drives the hardware should be as close to the SSCM-Fob as is possibly, and cannot be any smaller and size.

It should be at least 100mb more if from a differente manufacturer to account for varience.

Also a Windows 7 installation DVD will be needed.

1. Insert Fob into the system and backup all the data from the USB as we are going to format the to make it as bootable.

2. Open elevated Command Prompt.
To do this, type in CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.

3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:

DISKPART and hit enter.

LIST DISK and hit enter.

Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive.

4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter.

SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

ASSIGN

EXIT

Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimise it.

5. Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and note down the drive letter of the optical drive and USB media. Here I use “D” as my optical (DVD) drive letter and “H” as my USB drive letter.

6. Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:

D:
Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter.

BOOTSECT /NT60 H:

(Where “H” is your USB drive letter)

Exit

7. Copy SSCM-Fob contents to Fob.


Note that this bootable USB guide will not work if you are trying to make a bootable USB Fob on a XP computer.

Thanks goes out to Mark D for coming up with this for me.