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http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176 (or google: usb boot "Boot Bus Extender" )
boot your BartPE/WinPE from a USB Flash Disk Drive! (also supports USB HardDisks). PeToUSB is a GUI Win32 application that will partition, format and makebootable to XP/W2K3 a USB Flash Disk (UFD). A lot of utilities that say they can do this, actually cant. http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb