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I want to do a preinstallation using a 1394 FireWire/USB hard drive that I can move from computer to computer. Can I do this?

April 26, 2017Computer FireWire Preinstallation USB

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I want to do a preinstallation using a 1394 FireWire/USB hard drive that I can move from computer to computer. Can I do this?

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You can install your OPK tools to a FireWire/USB hard drive, create your configuration sets on this hard drive, and then remove the hard drive from the technicians computer. Then you can connect the drive to your target computer, boot the computer using WinPE, and install your configuration set. When you first install the OPK tools, the FireWire/USB hard drive must be connected to a computer running Windows 2000 or Windows XP. All you need to do is modify the following line in your WinBOM.ini file: SourceRoot=D:\opktools (You are changing this line from whatever was there beforee.g., \\server\opktools.