How to write a bootable isoshnik to a logical partition and install the OS without the help of removable media and the network?

Question

System administration

For ten years now I have been using an optical drive exclusively for installing operating systems. In the past few years, a USB flash drive has also been used only for this (at the same time, it is hellishly slow, and somehow you don’t want to buy a cooler one just for the sake of it). And yesterday it dawned on me: how long? It would be nice if all this "revolved around" optical media and the ISO-9660 file system specific to them, but after all, we somehow deploy these ISOs onto flash drives and install from them - why can't we do the same with a logical partition on a hard drive? It would be much faster and more convenient, almost as fast and convenient as in the case of virtual machines where you simply mount the ISO and instantly install the OS much faster than on real hardware from a real external drive. But surprisingly, there is no information on this topic anywhere on the Web, and all the programs intended for the manufacture of bootable flash drives refuse to write to logical partitions of the internal hard drive. How to be?

Answer 1

I can offer an alternative solution. =)
Zalman has a USB HDD-Box that can mount ISOs recorded on it as a hardware CD. At the same time, the speeds are very decent and the OS is installed quickly and conveniently.
See: www.zalman.ru/global/product/product_read.php?id=195

Answer 2

I found a program that allows you to deploy ISOs of various GNU / Linux distributions, as well as Windows Vista, 7 and 8 installers (sorry no XP, I still actively use it, although you can probably pick up parameters for it) to any logical drive . I just made a USB screw (which was defined as a screw, not a flash drive, and was not in the list until I checked the "show all devices" checkbox) and booted from it via USB. Later I will try and directly (with the logical partition of the internal HDD) when I have time to experiment.
The program itself: Universal USB Installer - Easy as 1 2 3 .

Answer 3

Do you want to just boot from an external screw?
But this will not speed up much, if at all, the installation of the OS compared to the same flash drive.
Again, it is not clear what side the thesis about virtual machines is here? There we simply attach a copy of the virtual disk with the system and software already installed, in the case of physical hardware, the same thing can and is successfully done - by copying partitions, but this works without crutches and jambs only on exactly the same configurations as the donor machine.
But in fact, you still need to somehow describe the task more clearly, otherwise telepathy is now completely tight ;-)

Answer 4

Windows is now installed from under the Windows Preinstallation Environment
, you can burn winpe to your hard drive
After loading Winpe, you can start the OS installation from the distribution on your hard drive through the standard Setup.
WinPE and OS must be the same bit depth, 32-bit or 64-bit.
And we already talked about Linux.

Answer 5

Try ISO to USB. She at least identified my external HDD and allows you to select its partitions for recording. It became interesting myself, but today there is no time, tomorrow I will try to burn the ISO if anything.