Hash Sets for USB Installation?

[SwelterTheChef]

Where do you need to extract the hash sets to when a USB installation has been done?

[Michael (Passmark)]

When you create a USB install there will be a folder in the USB install directory called AppData, which for the USB install acts as a substitute for the normal windows AppData folder. In this folder is another folder called hashSets which is where you should place the hash sets.

[David (PassMark)]

It is also worth noting that many USB flash drives have very poor read write performance when small blocks are read / written at random. (4KB random write speeds of 0.1MB/sec are not uncommon).

The hash set creation and lookup functions tend to do a lot of random disk access. So this can be slow on slow USB flash drives.