How To Install Windows 7 From a bootable USB Bulldoze

Cesar

August 14th, 2009

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I just wanna have this "How to" in my weblog, even for myself. 🙂

What you lot need:

  • USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
  • Windows vii DVD
  • A reckoner running Vista / Windows 7

Step 1 – Formatting the Drive
Using the command prompt, we'll use the diskpart utility. [BTW: This will erase all information on your USB drive]

  1. Plug in your USB Flash Drive
  2. Open up a command prompt as ambassador (Right click on Kickoff > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select "Run equally ambassador" (Or type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter).
  3. Detect the bulldoze number of your USB Drive past typing the post-obit into the Control Prompt window:
    diskpart
    list deejay
    The number of your USB bulldoze will listed. You'll need this for the next step.  In my post-obit example, I presume that the USB flash drive is disk ane.
  4. Format the bulldoze past typing the following. (Supervene upon the number "1" with the specific number of your disk):
    select disk i
    clean
    create partitioning master
    select partition 1
    active
    format fs=NTFS  (The Format procedure volition take a few minutes)
    assign
    exit
    Now yous should have a formatted USB wink drive gear up to be made bootable.

Step ii: Make the Drive Bootable
Next nosotros'll utilise the bootsect utility that comes on the Windows 7 disk to make the wink drive bootable. Type the followinf in the same command window that y'all were using in Pace i:

  1. Insert your Windows 7 DVD into your drive.
  2. Change directory to the DVD's boot directory where bootsect is situated:
    d:
    cd d:\boot
  3. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I'thou assuming that your USB flash bulldoze has been labeled disk F:\ by the calculator:
    bootsect /nt60 f:
  4. Close the command prompt window

Step 3: Re-create the installation DVD files to the USB drive
Using Windows explorer or any other tool to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted wink drive.

Footstep four: Set your BIOS to kicking from USB
Don't forget to cheque that your calculator has USB kick enabled in the BIOS config.

Nosotros're done!, but plug in your USB and install Windows vii! 🙂