Solved Windows-To-Go won't go for me.

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Printed out the scenario for creating a Wtogo flash drive.

Everything is fine until this command: (in an elevated prompt of course)
bcdboot d:\windows /s d: /f ALL

Nothing happens. bcdboot is telling me there is no /f parameter; much less the "ALL" after it.

So, I have as yet to get the boot record on the drive.

What am I missing?

Are we using the W7 bcdboot (the assumption because we are performing this on a W7 machine), or the W8?
 

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Is your USB drive D: ?
 

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f is definitely a switch:

/f Used with the /s command, specifies the firmware type of the
target system partition. Options for <firmware> are 'UEFI',
'BIOS', or 'ALL'.


I dunno, try this:


bcdboot X:\Windows /f ALL /s D:

X is where your current boot files are at. It could be on the hidden system partition. In that case, you'll need a workaround.


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The following example copies BCD files that support booting on either a UEFI-based or a BIOS-based computer from the C:\Windows folder to a system partition that was assigned the volume letter S:

Code:
bcdboot C:\Windows /f ALL /s S:

BCDboot Command-Line Options

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Try this if still needed:

bcdboot C: /f ALL /s D:
 

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Not working for me.

I only show four switches: l s v m. No sub-switch under s.

No matter what command line iteration I try, bcdboot will not execute if I have an /f switch on the line.

Will it load the boot process files without that parameter?
 

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Not working for me.

I only show four switches: l s v m. No sub-switch under s.

No matter what command line iteration I try, bcdboot will not execute if I have an /f switch on the line.

Will it load the boot process files without that parameter?

Are you doing this from within Windows 8? If not, do so.

Other than that, I have no clue. Maybe someone else knows better, that already did this and has it working.
 

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Okay! That's the problem. I'm doing this inside W7. My bad.

Got to pay attention to ALL the words on the printout sheet.

I'll power up my W8, stick the key in & try that command again. It'll work then, won't it?
 

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Yeah, it will. I think the /f switch is new for Windows 8 and all that UEFI KAPOOFEY stuff.
 

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All better now. The world is good.

When you're in the right place, things tend to work as expected!!!

Thanks for your prompt responses.
 

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You're welcome. Glad it went for ya.
 

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Hi there
I see your problem is fixed -- but for others this should work if bootup doesn't do anything.

What is missing in some of the the documentation is when (or after) you've created the USB partition you must set it to ACTIVE otherwise the wretched thing will never boot.

So just put your USB stick into the computer and run in admin mode DISKPART

LISTDISK
SELECT DISK xxxx where the xx is the disk nr of the USB
LISTPARTITION
SELECT PARTIRION 1
SET ACTIVE


Now try and re-boot the USB --should work

Cheers
jimbo
 

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f is definitely a switch:

/f Used with the /s command, specifies the firmware type of the
target system partition. Options for <firmware> are 'UEFI',
'BIOS', or 'ALL'.

Thanks GMan for the details.

I now know my guess was wrong about the /f ALL here:
http://www.eightforums.com/installation-setup/5103-windows-8-go-usb-stick-3.html (at post #30).

The command worked without problems.
I had a feeling that something was wrong after running bcdboot in Win7 x64 and I ran it again in Win8 CP x86 (usb has x86 os and maybe same architecture was also important).

Regards
Hopachi
 

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