How To Install Windows seven From a bootable USB Drive

Cesar

Baronial 14th, 2009

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I simply wanna accept this "How to" in my blog, even for myself. 🙂

What you demand:

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

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

  1. Plug in your USB Wink Drive
  2. Open a control prompt as administrator (Correct click on Starting time > All Programs > Accessories > Control Prompt and select "Run as administrator" (Or blazon cmd in Commencement carte du jour search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter).
  3. Find the drive number of your USB Bulldoze by typing the post-obit into the Command Prompt window:
    diskpart
    list deejay
    The number of your USB drive volition listed. You lot'll need this for the next footstep.  In my following example, I assume that the USB wink bulldoze is disk i.
  4. Format the bulldoze by typing the following. (Replace the number "1" with the specific number of your disk):
    select disk ane
    clean
    create sectionalization primary
    select partition 1
    active
    format fs=NTFS  (The Format process will take a few minutes)
    assign
    exit
    Now you should have a formatted USB flash bulldoze ready to be made bootable.

Step ii: Make the Drive Bootable
Next we'll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Windows 7 deejay to make the flash drive bootable. Blazon the followinf in the same command window that you were using in Stride 1:

  1. Insert your Windows seven DVD into your drive.
  2. Change directory to the DVD's kicking directory where bootsect is situated:
    d:
    cd d:\boot
  3. Utilise bootsect to set the USB every bit a bootable NTFS bulldoze prepared for a Vista/7 paradigm. I'm bold that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk F:\ past the figurer:
    bootsect /nt60 f:
  4. Close the control prompt window

Footstep 3: Copy the installation DVD files to the USB bulldoze
Using Windows explorer or any other tool to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash bulldoze.

Footstep 4: Fix your BIOS to kicking from USB
Don't forget to check that your computer has USB kicking enabled in the BIOS config.

Nosotros're done!, just plug in your USB and install Windows 7! 🙂