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How To: Install Windows 7/Vista From USB Drive [Detailed 100% Working Guide]Posted January 11, 2009 3:58 pm in: Live DVD/USB, Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Tweaks AdvertisementsBuy Pen Drive @ Re 1 Vast Products - Free Bidding. These Products can be yours! Bid Nowtradus.in/PenDrive

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This guide works 100% for Vista & Windows 7 unlike most of the guides out there. I have seen many sites/blogs that have Install Vista from USB guide but either with incomplete steps or not working guide. I have also seen some guides that dont use proper commands in this guide. After spending many hours I have come up with this 100% working guide.

I just did this method on one of my friends machine and installed the new Windows 7 BETA. The main advantage is that by using USB drive you will be able to install Windows 7/Vista in just 15 minutes. You can also use this bootable USB drive on friends computer who doesnt have a DVD optical drive. The method is very simple and you can use without any hassles. Needless to say that your motherboard should support USB Boot feature to make use of the bootable USB drive.file:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


Requirements: *USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB) *Windows 7 or Vista installation files. Follow the below steps to create bootable Windows 7/Vista USB drive using which you can install Windows 7/Vista easily. 1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port and move all the contents from USB drive to a safe location on your system. 2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Command Prompt with admin rights. *Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter. Or *Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. 3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the command prompt: First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.

Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB flash drive. In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 1. 4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is Disk 1.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it. So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one: SELECT DISK 1 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds)

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ASSIGN EXIT Dont close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.

5. Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter of the DVD drive. In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is D and USB drive letter is H (open my computer to know about it). 6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following command now: D:CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. 7. Type another command given below to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code. BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:



Where H is your USB drive letter. Once you enter the above command you will see the below message. 8. Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive. 9. Your USB drive is ready to boot and install Windows 7/Vista. Only thing you need to change the boot priority at the BIOS to USB from the HDD or CD ROM drive. I wont explain it as its just the matter the changing the boot priority or enabling the USB boot option in the BIOS. Note: If you are not able to boot after following this guide means you havent set the BIOS priority to USB. If you got any problem in following this guide feel free to ask questions by leaving comment.8 diggs 8 diggs

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221 Comments1. Daryl Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:20 am | Permalink Hey thanks! Id love to try this soon I hope its working

2. Brandon Posted January 12, 2009 at 3:22 am | Permalink I dont think XP shows usb drives in list disk, or maybe its just me. Is there any other alternative to step 4? 3. tweakwindows Posted January 12, 2009 at 7:59 am | Permalink ^ Thats why I have mentioned only Vista & Windows 7. 4. tweakwindows Posted January 12, 2009 at 8:01 am | Permalink



Works 100% on Vista & Windows 7..Thanks. 5. Casmir Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:31 am | Permalink This is coolHope it will work the same way with an external HDD. Keep up the good work bro 6. ben Posted January 12, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink i am also trying to do this from xp, and it doesnt work, im not sure if step 4 needs to be done in comand prompt (i formatted the stick in disk manager) but i got stuck on step 7 because there is no such thing as bootsect.exe 7. neodorian Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:23 pm | Permalink When I run bootsect.exe it says that this version isnt compatible with my version of windows even though it is running the vista version. 8. tweakwindows Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:32 pm | Permalink Please use Vista or Windows 7 as bootsect.exe is not present in XP CD.This guide only works on Windows Vista & 7 9. tweakwindows Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm | Permalink This guide doesnt work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7..I have mentioned in the title of the post. 10. tweakwindows Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:35 pm | Permalink @ben Please follow the guide step-by-step and dont skip any step. 11. Paul Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:27 pm | Permalink THANK YOU! I was having problems getting the boot sector to work and you fixed it. Definitely better than any other guide SCREEN SHOTS = TEHWIN!, they help sooo much when you cant see what youve done wrong, even picked up a few new cmd tricks. Im a fan, thanks man. 12. ?lhan Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:41 pm | Permalink Hey man your methods does not working in XP. Please reinform us. 13. Omar Posted January 13, 2009 at 4:52 am | Permalink I was doing fine up until step 5. I figured the whole point of booting from a USB drive was to avoid having to burn a disc with the Windows 7 files on it, or install on a PC without a DVD drive. Anyway, I dont have any blank DVDs, so I was trying to install it from my USB drive, but I cant get past step 5, since I dont have my Windows 7 files on a disc. They are on my hard drive, and my USB drive. Help!



14. John Posted January 13, 2009 at 5:00 am | Permalink Got it working in the second attempt.good guide. 15. Lincoln Posted January 13, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Permalink OK nevermind I just had to optimise the drive for performance Sorry about that! 16. EiNS Posted January 13, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Permalink Thanksvery excellent guide any working method for xp usb drive installation? Tried manybut non of them working 17. leechie Posted January 13, 2009 at 3:50 pm | Permalink Hey mofos! Couldnt use the diskpart like ohters here. So i started googling and I finally got this working on xp after 7 hours of boreness and found out it was actually pretty simple. So heres what i did! 1: Download: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php? s=931703fec95c83bf4d634a2cfbeeff05&act=attach&type=post&id=1054 2: Run USB_MultiBoot_10.cmd > press any key. 3: Choose option 2 aka H -> choose nfts and format, not quick format. 4: Follow this guide from step 5 and forward. Pretty much it. And im installing now You can put this in the guide for XP ONLY if you want too. 18. vikrant Posted January 13, 2009 at 6:12 pm | Permalink Does it also mean that we can install windows 7 on a usb drive? 19. BlogPiG Posted January 13, 2009 at 7:41 pm | Permalink This worked an absolute treat. Nice write-up. I did it on an XP box using Windows 7 mounted onto a virtual DVD drive. I had to do the format using the windows tools as wasnt available as part of diskpart in XP. All the rest worked as described. 20. eden Posted January 13, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Permalink i just formated my usb pen, and done show all files on the DVD and copied the contents over. i didnt use the diskpart tools. installed w2in 7 fine 21. Laker_Fan32 Posted January 13, 2009 at 10:57 pm | Permalink



Leechie!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR XP!!!! Wow, I have been searching for past two days and you explained it in 4 steps, you are AWESOME! Thank you VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!! 22. Rkee Posted January 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm | Permalink U can also achieve booting from a usb drive by using daemon tools. Dont mean to dis on the author graet walkthrough by the way. Its just an alternative, and no need for any command prompt scripting. 23. madmax Posted January 14, 2009 at 4:05 pm | Permalink i tried both the XP method and VISTA method. both i managed to do without any problems. but when i try to boot from the pen drive i get this error file : \Boot\BCD status : 0xc000000e info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration some help please? 24. Darin Posted January 14, 2009 at 10:32 pm | Permalink Hey, I followed all the steps, and everything worked perfectly until I booted from the Usb device and tried to install windows 7. It said that Setup does not support installation to disks connected through a USB port. Is there a way around this? 25. tweakwindows Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:12 am | Permalink @Darin Firstly, let me apologise for the experience youre having. The error means, your motherboard doesnt support USB booting. I have also mentioned this in my guide. And there is no way to boot USB unless your motherboard support. @Vikrant No this guide doesnt for the users who like to install Windows 7 on USB. @Omar If you dont have a DVD drive/USB(4GB) then use my guide Installing Windows 7 without using USB/DVD drive. There are two methods, direct and via VPC method. Please follow my guides. @All I am glad that this guide helped you to install Windows 7. Thanks. 26. Joey Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Permalink i downloaded windows 7 from microsoft and dont have a cd/dvd for it so what do i do do i extract it to the usb then restart using the flash drive or what? 27. tweakwindows Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:48 pm | Permalink @Joey



If you dont have a DVD/USB then use my below guide which shows Installing Windows 7 without using USB/DVD drive http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-2/ http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-1/ 28. gabontz Posted January 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink Hello i cant see my usb stick with diskpart. all i can see, is my 4 HDDs on my computer. What can i do in this case? 29. pete Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:13 pm | Permalink When I try step 7, I get: The system cannot execute the specified program 30. suavi Posted January 15, 2009 at 7:42 pm | Permalink Bootsect.exe problem! I think that there is a problem occurs when you want to install 64 Bit Windows 7 from your 32 Bit Vista. Here is the message after typing BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: This version of F:boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit) or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. 31. Morty Posted January 15, 2009 at 11:07 pm | Permalink What if I want to create a x64 boot in a x86 environment? I get this error message. This version of g:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. Check your system information yada yada contact software publisher. I am running Vista 32-bit, trying to create this USB boot thingaby for Windows 7 64-bit. Thanks mate. 32. Nick Posted January 19, 2009 at 4:27 am | Permalink When I tried to boot from usb it will not even get finished copying the files when it gives me an error code. It sometimes will start installing updates. But what is with this damn error code. I,m waiting on it to do it again..Expanding files (0%). Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 08007045D I would be very grateful for anyones help. 33. Siddanth Posted January 19, 2009 at 3:31 pm | Permalink Hey tweakwindows i think we need to make use of xcopy command havent tried it for xp did u try it out /? 34. Jonathanfile:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


Posted January 20, 2009 at 3:12 am | Permalink I have followed all instructions. I tried the flash drive one of my main machines and it works. However, on my test rig, I only get a Missing Operating System message. Boot priorities are set to USB Boot. What could be wrong? 35. Laker_Fan32 Posted January 21, 2009 at 6:23 pm | Permalink My USB becomes Bootable, however when it is installing it gets stuck at 8% and then nothing happens? ?? Ive tried many times and it doesnt seem to work, it always gets stuck at 5% or 8%. Sometimes it errors out with the error code: 0800703ee 36. PeterNLD Posted January 22, 2009 at 4:52 am | Permalink Can the USB-stick after having Windows7 installed, be used to get in the complete recovery enviroment as well? 37. SEO Blog Posted January 22, 2009 at 2:45 pm | Permalink Works like a charm, thanks 38. Into Windows(Admin) Posted January 23, 2009 at 11:49 am | Permalink First of all, sorry for the delay in reply. @ PeterNLD Of course, you can use as a replace to DVD. @ Laker_Fan32 Sorry for the delay. I think you need to copy all the files once again. Just try it. @ Siddarth I didnt try that method. But I have another method which works on XP as well. Will post the guide soon. @ Nick Make sure you copy all the Windows 7 files to USB correctly. @Suavi Basically, I havent tested this method on 64-bit machine. So, I cant find a solution for you. Thank you. Into Windows 39. tyson Posted January 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Permalink Hi, I read d comments & got confirmed that this method works although i didnt try it. I want to install windows xp by USB method. Can you also give a method like this for windows xp also?? I am currently running windows vista & dont have an optical drive. 40. Nik Simpson Posted January 23, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink



Only one minor issue if you are trying to create a W7 64-bit bootable drive on a 32 bit install of Vista. In that case youll have to run the bootsect command from a 32-bit W7 DVD, because the version on the 64-bit DVD will not run on a 32-bit OS. 41. cdnwood Posted January 26, 2009 at 9:13 am | Permalink Thank you! Absolutely brilliant your guides have been very helpful!! It all worked just as you have so thoroughly described. 42. Fzang Posted January 26, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Permalink Um, couldnt you have skipped step 5 and onwards? You just need to do the diskpart and then copy contents of the CD to your USB, at least, thats what worked for me Also, why are you formating to NTFS instead of FAT32? Just wondering.. 43. bob Sauve Posted January 27, 2009 at 11:55 am | Permalink If I had Vista pre-installed when I purchased my computer what different steps would I take to make a bootable USB drive?? Thanks, Bob 44. Andy Posted January 28, 2009 at 11:32 pm | Permalink Thanks mate for this, very detailed and very user friendly, i tried to install Win xp on my EEEpc 1000H but for some reason it wouldnt boot unless i put the USB stick in.lol, its mad when Win 7 is much easier to setup and install than XP. Anychance of letting me know how to dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Easy Peasy ? Thanks mate your a star 45. Nick1 Posted January 29, 2009 at 2:41 am | Permalink Correct me if Im wrong, but step 5 states that we need a DVD. I use this guide because I dont have one. Am I right? 46. cmerg Posted January 30, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Permalink Great article. Worked like a charm. 47. Man Posted February 2, 2009 at 9:56 pm | Permalink Hi. In the list disk step,I cant see my USB drive. Whats wrong with it? (My Operating System is XP.) Does it only work in Vista?



Thank you for your teaching. 48. SENTY Posted February 4, 2009 at 12:29 pm | Permalink HEY I HAVE PROBLEM IN THE LAST STEP .. MY DVD ROM IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY.I HAVE IMAGE(NRG) OF WINDOWS VISTA.I LOAD IT USING A IMAGE READER SOFTWARE (POWER ISO),WHEN I TRYING TO EXCUTE THE LAST STEP USING VIRTUAL DVD ROM THAN THE ORIGINAL DVD ROM,I GOT A EXCEPTION COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED HOW CAN I SLOW IT ..?,PLS HELP ME .. SND ME MAIL ON MY MAIL ACCOUNT 49. tweakwindows Posted February 5, 2009 at 2:15 pm | Permalink Sorry for the delay in replay. @Man This method works fine on Vista and Windows 7 only. I will be writing a guide for XP users in a week. Stay tuned! @Nick1 I wrote this guide to make the installation faster. In my personal experience Windows 7 took just 15 minutes to get installed from USB compared to 35 minutes DVD method. Of course, you can skip the step 5 if you can mount the image and copy the files. @Andy Sorry, I am not planning on that. But, it should be easier if you install Linux over Windows 7. @Bob Sauve Follow the same procedure. This method works on both Vista and Windows 7. @Tyson Wait for few days to get a detailed guide. @Fzang NTFS is faster than FAT. Admin http://www.intowindows.com 50. ELPY Posted February 5, 2009 at 5:08 pm | Permalink Awesome,Think!!! 51. asd Posted February 11, 2009 at 3:44 am | Permalink well im gonna try this from my phone. hope everything works out ok 52. TY Posted February 12, 2009 at 4:58 am | Permalink About th LIST DISK command, I can not see my USB drive number (As you so the instruction below). so how? i see only my Hard Drive. what can i do?? pls help me!! 53. omgfile:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


Posted February 17, 2009 at 8:47 am | Permalink Hi thats an awesomely explained method! great work! but im on Vista x86 and i was trying to make a usb with Vista x64 on it, but the cmd prompt gave me this error! This version of X:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a x86 or x64 version of the program, and then contact the software publisher Is it that i need Vista x64 to create a USB x64!?? Pls help 54. Cobrass2 Posted February 25, 2009 at 1:09 am | Permalink Thanks Worked like a charm. 55. JD Posted February 26, 2009 at 3:25 pm | Permalink No luck from XP on my Asus 1000HE I used leechers method and continued from step 5.. wehen attemping to boot from USB I get disk read error 56. Sjengie Posted February 27, 2009 at 6:34 pm | Permalink Hi, i tried it using my 4Gb microSD but like Darin my HP mini-note 2133 (which offers boot option through USB generic STORAGE DEVICE) boot manager comes with an error the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccesible. I worked through all the steps as described above without any errors. But i notice that diskpart command DETAIL DISK shows that Bootable = No Si is it bootable yes or no and what might have gone wrong? thx, btw great job this site !! 57. Sjengie Posted February 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm | Permalink Correction, it works again ! noticed that i did not copy my w7 dvd properly great, you made linux disappear for us, thx again tweakwindows ! 58. pete Posted March 2, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink Hi ive tried and tried but DISKPART wont see my usb key, can u help. 59. ajin Posted March 3, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Permalink hey it is showing cannot find bootmngr press crl alt del to restart 60. Anthony Posted March 5, 2009 at 2:10 am | Permalink



Great guide. You need to update your requirements section to point out that these instructions only work when done on a Vista or Windows 7 platform, or specifically state they will not work on XP 61. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:38 am | Permalink Thanks for the reply. Will edit the post soon. 62. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:50 am | Permalink @ajin I hope you have followed my steps correctly. Try to repair your bootmgr file. 63. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:52 am | Permalink Sorry, if you cant find see your USB drive in the DISKPART command, I cant help you. However, if you have only one hard drive, then you can use the 1 as your USB key. But try this on your own risk. 64. Pinko Posted March 18, 2009 at 12:26 am | Permalink Formatting may take few seconds ^^ It has bee taking maby 30minutes for 10percent with my 250gb drive 65. Pinko Posted March 18, 2009 at 4:22 am | Permalink 56% now. thos are way loong seconds. 66. Swanny Posted April 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Permalink I have try all the step by step but on the stage command E:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F: I got this message Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. Any idea what went wrong. Please help. Thanks. 67. jickie Posted April 30, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink awesome guide does exactly what it says on the tin, thanks so much im now installing windows 7 on all my mates comps via usb. 68. Jeff Posted May 5, 2009 at 3:46 pm | Permalink excellent guide. thanks very much. you saved me aged of messing with BartPe again trying to make a bookable installation drive. thanks. 69. victor frazee Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:50 pm | Permalink list disk DID NOT detect a 4GB or a 16GB memory stick 70. Quan Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:55 pm | Permalink



Lets say I have a hdd box with 2 partitions (Y, Z), can I use your method to create boot install for Vista on partition Y and for Windows 7 on partition Z? 71. JB Posted May 10, 2009 at 9:30 am | Permalink Great write up. Works perfectly!! 72. Brad Posted May 10, 2009 at 11:15 am | Permalink Thanks a lot! Worked no problem. It also fixed the partition tables on my USB key! 73. Cooper Posted May 10, 2009 at 10:08 pm | Permalink Windows XP/2000 users !!! Diskpart will not recognize removable storage, so dont bover This only works under WIndows Vista or 7. 74. ID Posted May 13, 2009 at 12:59 am | Permalink When are the mongs gonna read and understand this guide does not work on xp. 75. Joeypesci Posted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Permalink For everyone having issues with diskpart in XP not seeing the USB stick, its because thats an XP issue. The way XP and Vista handles USB drives, Vista sees them in Diskpart but XP tends not to. There is a reg hack to fix it but I havent bothered to search for it. 76. Joeypesci Posted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Permalink Just spotted someone beat me to it 77. J Posted May 13, 2009 at 6:11 pm | Permalink Works 100% in my Notebook. I wanted to install Vista Ultimate with a 8GB USB Pen and i made it! Thanks! 78. Christopher Posted May 13, 2009 at 11:02 pm | Permalink Best write-up ever! Clear and concise. Oh, and it works!!! Great job, and thank you! 79. Iam Posted May 14, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink Funny thing I noticed on Win7, when you EXIT the DiskPart and try to continue in Command Prompt, while copying the bootsector to device, you may face an error Access Denied for no priviledge in copying the bootsector to device. Solution just Exit the Command Prompt and Run it again (still need to Run as Administrator). 80. DanielRemainsfile:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


Posted May 20, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Permalink Im sure this is another arrengement with MS and USB driver manufactuer to make money LOL joke Nice guide I will have to steal my girlfriends USB drive (Which I bought her for christmas LOL) to try this. Looks like its worth it thanks 81. pirater2113 Posted May 21, 2009 at 5:55 am | Permalink so if you do this tut correctly on a vista computer then you can use the pen drive on a Xp computer? 82. Jay Posted May 21, 2009 at 9:01 am | Permalink Hey Bro can one dual boot using this. ie. Vista and Windows 7 83. mads Posted May 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink perfect. great guide. thanks 84. Omer Posted May 22, 2009 at 2:22 am | Permalink Dear, I want to install windows 7 RC through USB/Pen drive. But when i open the command prompt and write LIST DISK there (after DISKPART), it only shows my hard drive there, that is DRIVE 0 only, though i try it after inserting USB. Y is it so? 85. mike Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:12 pm | Permalink FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) Yeah lol, its taking a loooong few seconds on my 8GB drive 86. mike Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:13 pm | Permalink I have a question for you, admin. What if I want to rollback changes made to my USB drive? Or can I leave it like that (partitions, ntfs) for regular use after installing windows 7? 87. admin Posted May 22, 2009 at 11:26 pm | Permalink @Jay Yes, you can dual boot. 88. admin Posted May 22, 2009 at 11:28 pm | Permalink @ pirater2113



You can use this to create bootable USB on Vista and 7 only. If you have created on a Vista computer then you can use it on a XP computer to boot. 89. Yue Posted May 23, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Permalink i tried it and it wont work, i am using an old portable hard drive which is 5 gb, is it alright with it? 90. znakistu Posted May 26, 2009 at 12:34 am | Permalink 10x for this useful tutorial its working on vista tomorrow i will try on win 7. 10x a lot 91. trav Posted May 27, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Permalink Can I do this with an SD card and USB adapter? 92. anil Posted May 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Permalink made a usb with above tutorial, will install windows 7 i wanted to install windows 7 64 bit but have 32 bit vista now in order to install windows 7 64 bit, it seems, i will have to burn a dvd 93. Tweakwindows Posted May 28, 2009 at 1:11 am | Permalink @Trave I havent personally tried using SD card. But you should be able to do that. 94. Tweakwindows Posted May 28, 2009 at 1:13 am | Permalink @All We are going to close the comments for this post. 95. JP Jones Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:35 am | Permalink I used this method successfully on two computers. I was very surprised that when I was unable to change the boot sequence to USB in the BIOS on an older laptop, windows 7 installed anyway. I was pretty sure that it wouldnt work but I tried it and presto! It went through the three reboots and installed perfectly. Has anyone else had this happen? 96. William Posted May 30, 2009 at 7:19 am | Permalink this method from microsoft takes out the last part using bootsect. and it still works. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx 97. Christian Saborio Posted May 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm | Permalink Worked like a charm, great instructions, thanks!



98. aaraza Posted May 31, 2009 at 12:40 pm | Permalink Hi, Great guide. However, I am stuck after: bootsect.exe /nt60 h: (h is my usb drive letter) The message I get is: Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. I followed the steps twice niowand get the same result. Am I missing something? Would greatly appreciate any helpI have a netbook down and would like to put Windows 7 on it using a USB stick. Thanks! 99. aaraza Posted May 31, 2009 at 12:44 pm | Permalink Please ignore my last message I was not running command prompt as Administrator! 100. Saurabh Zagade Posted May 31, 2009 at 11:11 pm | Permalink I m very very thankful to U for such HELP.. 101. Ben Charlton Posted June 2, 2009 at 11:52 am | Permalink You can follow my guide to creating a bootable usb disk under windows xp then follow this guide from 5 onwards. 102. Giorell Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Permalink I want to ask something. Can I return my flash drive back to normal after this? Leave a tagg on my or email me rather. guest book 103. murtaza Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:30 pm | Permalink Hey..hv vista already installed on my pc..need 2 install win 7 as dual boot..i tried once dual bootin with xp bt resulted into bootin f only xp..cud u pls help me out hw 2 dual boot win 7 wid vista 104. ferris Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:57 am | Permalink Best guide I have ever used Thank you, hats off sir. 105. Bogdan Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:48 pm | Permalink I find it funny that you say this is a 100% working guide but you dont mention that fact that the Win 7/Vista USB boot drive needs to be created on computer running Windows 7 or Vista. That should really be added to the Requirements section so you can call your guide 100% working. I seen a few comments from people saying it doesnt work because theyre trying to make the boot drive from within XP. 106. Bogdan Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:49 pm | Permalinkfile:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


Other than that small piece of missing information, the guid e is great! 107. Jacob Posted June 6, 2009 at 8:34 am | Permalink (Im hoping HTML will work )

trying the F:CD BOOT command (where F is my DVD drive location), it returns the following functions Firstly, from DISKPART (which you didnt say to leave, not sure if you meant to or not) Secondly, from C:\Windows\System32 (where your screenshot is taken from) 108. Jacob Posted June 6, 2009 at 8:38 am | Permalink Sorry, images werent displayed from html Ill just explain it from C:\Windows\System32, after running the F:CD BOOT it returns a simple Parameter is incorrect. from DISKPART it gives me a list of about 25 sub commands not sure about the right word for that thankyou but, your guide seems very will explained (just having some technical issues 109. Mark Posted June 6, 2009 at 9:40 am | Permalink Awesome work! Clear and very simple! For everyone having problems, keep in mind the guide is only for: - Windows 7 installing / not running from an USB drive - MB with USB boot support Just follow the steps. Thanks for this guide! PS: 110. TSurF Posted June 6, 2009 at 11:47 am | Permalink Great guide cheers bro! 111. Shaz Posted June 7, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial I followed it all through until I boot through usb and setup program comes up. When I get to, select which drive you want the installation I cant select my usb drive it comes up with the message below: WINDOWS CANNOT BE INSTALLED TO THIS DISK. SETUP DOES NOT SUPPORT CONFIGERATION OF OR INSTALLATION TO DISKS CONNECTED THROUGH A USB OR IEEE 1394 PORT. I tried 3 different computers and a few new laptops and come up with same message. I read these forums and people successfully installing them, What am i doing wrong. Can you please Help. Ive been at this for almost 2 weeks.file:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


I can boot from usb but cant install onto it. I am trying to install vista. CAN YOU PLEASE HELP. THANK YOU 112. admin Posted June 7, 2009 at 11:14 pm | Permalink @Shaz You cant install Windows on USB using this guide. You can only use this guide to create a bootable USB and then use it as installation media. 113. Shaz Posted June 7, 2009 at 11:27 pm | Permalink Thanks a lot for fast reply. Is there a way that I can install vista onto my external hard drive? if so how is it possible. Thank you 114. CMal Posted June 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm | Permalink Thanks, this worked really well. Couldnt get my old DVD drive to read quickly/effectively enough and this did the trick! Well chuffed ;D 115. Julio Bravo Posted June 9, 2009 at 3:57 pm | Permalink It works fine, except one problem: when I run the windows7 64bits RC1 \boot\bootsect.exe in my Vista 32, it doesn`t work. I did it running from the \boot folder of the windows7 Beta1 32bits and it is OK. 116. Laymain Posted June 9, 2009 at 11:47 pm | Permalink If you have a version problem with bootsec.exe, just use bootsec.exe from a Vista DVD. Put back your Windows 7 after and continue following the guide 117. Gregor Posted June 11, 2009 at 12:33 am | Permalink Thanks ! Have a nice day.

118. xopher Posted June 11, 2009 at 9:37 am | Permalink very nice toot. as an Ubuntu user I enjoyed being able to do this kind of stuff from Win7 7127 on my desktop to make this 7210 for my netbook without using linux. imagine that. 119. JakeDK Posted June 11, 2009 at 4:06 pm | Permalink Great guide, thx



Had a problem with step six but thats because the written command is wrong, but I figured it out when thx again just what I was looking for. I saw the command in the scrren 120. Bernard Posted June 12, 2009 at 2:15 am | Permalink I used this method and created a USB drive for my Windows 7 installation. Works flawlessly! Oh, and the installation of Windows now takes only 8 minutes. 121. Brantyr Posted June 22, 2009 at 3:28 pm | Permalink Step 2: dont you guys know if you hit winkey + R you get the oldschool run box which automatically starts whatever you run from it with admin privledges? 122. Chris Posted July 11, 2009 at 9:44 am | Permalink Great guide, thanks. To those, like me, that are (were) running Vista 32-bit and wanting 7 64-bit: In step 7, use bootsect.exe from your Vista CD. Barring any other issues, it will work perfectly. It did for me. 123. DaveG Posted July 11, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Permalink Hello, TweakWindows, and thanks, but I know what you mentioned about Vista, which I AM using, I used a Sandisk 8GB and waited half an hour for the formatting process (hardly a few seconds, but I wasnt surprised, and Id like to know how you get that on a 4GB flash drive), I followed each of your steps in order twice while running an Administrator command session, with positive feedback after each command was completed, and then I reordered my BIOS boot priority (which had the same effect as hitting F12, other than F12 not requiring another BIOS session to boot normally from your hard disk again). Looks like I did everything right, and STILL I cant boot from a flash drive. I see most others have not had that problem, but I made sure that I did what you said, with the right stuff, and still I crashed with this error: BOOTMGR NOT PRESENT (or MISSING, something similar), and that was after the BOOTMGR.EXE /NT60 command completed with success! I know nothing of boot managers, much less repairing them, but I sure would appreciate a clue (wherever it is)! I am close to hopelessly frustrated on this, even if this is the best tutorial Ive seen so far, and if I cant resolve it here I will probably give up please help! 124. DaveG Posted July 11, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink Ohdid I misunderstand that this is for making use of an image file? Is that not how Vista is normally distributed, on a normal DVD? I am trying to install a modified version of Vista, distributed by .iso, for two very good reasons: 1) Im on a bloatware diet, and 2) Im trying to replace what I already paid for, after it got wiped (yeah, the whole freakn disk), and if you Microsoft pirate hunters have a problem with that, then you can go impale yourselves on your own swords! To any who would clue me in on what else may be needed besides the image file (after following the above steps), or explain any non-troll reasons why this method would not work with what I am trying to do, Id be most grateful. 125. Veselin Belchev Posted July 13, 2009 at 3:36 am | Permalink If you have Windows XP all ready installed just fallow 6. 7. 8. 9. Before this steps format your USB FLASH drive in NTFS format. Its all ready works to Windows 7 and Windows Vista 126. PCLovefile:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


Posted July 13, 2009 at 9:01 pm | Permalink On #4 where the file system is being set, you can use QUICK to speed up the formatting like this: FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK Its so much faster! 127. ???????? Posted July 15, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink Thanks! This would really help me a lot installing on Vaio Type P. 128. kuld33p Posted July 19, 2009 at 12:02 am | Permalink I am getting a window at the installation process to select a driver. I can not go pass that.. any idea.. I tried to select windows/inf folder as well.. but no luck.. installation does not proceed. 129. JonJon Posted July 19, 2009 at 3:12 am | Permalink Hello, Ive already tried this guide a week ago and it works. I have windows 7 in my hp mini 2140. But now I want to downgrade again back to Windows XP. Can I use this guide again? but rather than to put the windows 7 installation in the usb it would be the windows xp? Or should I search another guide for this? I havent tried it yet. I just want to ask here first before I try. Regards, 130. konrad Posted July 19, 2009 at 10:21 pm | Permalink it works flawleslly tnx man 131. admin Posted July 20, 2009 at 11:06 am | Permalink Sorry, JonJon.. This guide is only for Windows 7 or Vista. 132. Me Posted July 20, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Permalink Hi, Is it possible to create a multi boot? So one can select what version to install from the same stick: Windows 7 x64 or x86 Windows Vista x64 or x86 133. ive Posted July 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Permalink some bios dont recognise NTFS formatted usb keys as boot device, so you might still want to format as FAT32, even if it makes your key slower



134. Jean-Sbastien Posted July 21, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink Very great work! Thank you very much! 135. Peter Posted July 22, 2009 at 8:37 am | Permalink Hi Admin, Quick question- Would this method work with my Vaio boot disk? instead of a standard windows cd. Thanks in advance. 136. Mahesh Posted July 22, 2009 at 7:45 pm | Permalink When I tried executing LIST DISK in command prompt,I couldnt find my USB drive listed in. So I couldnt proceed. Please guide me 137. Shom Posted July 26, 2009 at 7:14 am | Permalink Excellent tutorial, thanks! If the flash drive has been previously used for as a bootable installer for a Linux distro then the MBR needs to be reset, which can be done by modifying the Step 7 command to: bootsect /nt60 H: /force /mbr This will remove the Master Boot Record so Windows boot loader will kick in, instead of Linux (GRUB). 138. admin Posted July 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm | Permalink @Peter Bootable Windows DVD or Image is required to make this happen. 139. Franck Posted July 27, 2009 at 2:11 pm | Permalink For the ones that do not want to burn a blank DVD, you can mount the .iso file you downloaded (e.g. using VirtualCloneDrive) and do the copy from there. Will give this tutorial a try shortly to get the SevenRC on my X200 (small & great but no optical drive). 140. Bernard Posted July 27, 2009 at 11:58 pm | Permalink Hi. I followed this guide to make a bootable Windows 7 usb drive a few weeks ago, and it worked perfectly! Now I have downloaded a new version of Win 7 (The RTM released just recently), and I wonder if I have to follow this guide from step 1 to remake the bootable drive, or is it enough for me to erase the content on the flashdrive and then copy from the image, the last step? 141. Waqar Posted July 28, 2009 at 4:03 pm | Permalink Nice tutorial will do installing!!



142. 9shares admin Posted July 29, 2009 at 9:42 pm | Permalink usb drive will be not available when use diskpart command in windows xp. you should use vista or later versions of windows. 143. Patrick Posted July 30, 2009 at 3:02 am | Permalink all that is necessary is to format your USB and then copy all files from the the cd/dvd(iso or whatever) to the device. Then just to be sure to boot from the device via the bios or boot selection. 144. Michael Posted July 30, 2009 at 10:57 am | Permalink Has anyone found out a solution to the problem of it sating BOOTMGR not found. Press ctrl alt dlt to restart when trying to boot it. I cant get passed that. 145. Torpido Posted July 31, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink I have a U3 Software on my USB, its basically there for Exploring and locking the USB, if i copy entire system File(U3) and then paste it back after a format for the purpose of above guide will i be able to still use it the U3, and if yes must i format it back to FAT32? 146. Mark Posted July 31, 2009 at 10:06 pm | Permalink After trying over and over i finally got it. It was bringing up my vaio recovery tools, so I had to take my hdd out of the boot order and it worked like a charm. 147. Franck Posted August 1, 2009 at 2:35 am | Permalink I got the install to run on the X200 using the USB, but I had to deal with a cannot create or locate system partition error. That is an error linked to the usage of USB media and not DVD. If the USB is first in the BIOS, then the Custom upgrade option simply fails to find the HDD where to create the system partition (100MB) I initially wanted a dual-boot of my Lenovo-Vista, but I had to completely format the drive finally. Once blank, I could put it first in the BIOS (since not bootable yet) and the system booted on the USB. From that tricky point, it went smoothly. This guide is great. 148. 9shares admin Posted August 4, 2009 at 9:52 am | Permalink nice article..thanks 149. Yan Li Posted August 5, 2009 at 3:36 am | Permalink Hey, thanks for this great article. Ive used this several times already, since I felt my original windows 7 64-bit was not to my liking on my new laptop. I found out why the bootmgr is missing message was showing after correctly carrying out all the instructions. I put the Windows 7 ISO on my usb instead of the folders/files inside the Windows 7 ISO/CD! 150. VladamirTOM Posted August 7, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalinkfile:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


Great guide. Worked perfectly thanks a lot. Now I dont have to worry about finding a disc drive just for a folding rig. 151. Kusta Posted August 8, 2009 at 3:38 am | Permalink If you click right, you get properties of the drive any drive and then click format. I think that will short this procedure of formating drive, for those who do not like to typing. 152. Hisham Posted August 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm | Permalink I have a problem here !! someone could help me please ?? When Im formatting the USB Drive and after it finish I got this msg: DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect. See the System Event Log for more information. Whats that supose to mean ?? Could anyone give me the solution please. 153. Minh Tran Posted August 8, 2009 at 8:01 pm | Permalink Thanks for the guide. Perhaps you should update it with Shoms comment(#137). I was using a usb stick that formerly had the linux grub loader on it. I was getting the missing bootmgr error message until I used the /force /mbr option like Shom suggested. Also, formatting is very slow I would add the QUICK option on the format command. Although in Windows 7, I can just right click on my usb drive letter in my computer & quick format it using NTFS bypassing DISKPART altogether. 154. Barry Posted August 9, 2009 at 12:42 am | Permalink Worked fine, though format was a little slow. Thanks for an easy to follow guide! 155. Nikunj Posted August 9, 2009 at 6:43 pm | Permalink its really works. 156. Pali Posted August 10, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink Thanks for this guide! Exelent job. Thank you again! Pali from Hungary. 157. Marleybrit Posted August 10, 2009 at 11:05 pm | Permalink does this work with XP? 158. Gaurav Akrani Posted August 11, 2009 at 6:38 pm | Permalink This article is really only awesome guide which works. Worked 100% without any flaws and mind irritating drills. Please dont try this on your Windows XP Pro Operating system and waste your time.



It is only for Windows Vista and/or Windows 7 Beta users. I tried it as instructed on windows 7 beta and worked like charm. Can somebody please tell me similar 100% working guide for triple booting Windows 7 + Windows XP + Ubuntu Linux. Any help in this regard is highly appreciated. Rds, Gaurav Akrani 159. Tried 4 times? Posted August 13, 2009 at 11:19 pm | Permalink Troubles I can boot from the USB stick into the Windows setup 7 fine. However, every time the computer restarts, it restarts the setup. So During the next restart I pulled the USB stick out and Windows started. The setup picked up where it left off. The green bar wasnt moving at all though. So I ran it all again I rebooted (with the USB stick plugged in), reformatted the destination drive, reran the full setup, pulled the stick out for the first restart You know that black screen where you can choose safe mode or regular mode? There are 2 Windows 7 options there and every time I repeat the above, it adds another Windows 7 option. What am I missing?? Thanks for any help. 160. Tried 4 times? Posted August 13, 2009 at 11:21 pm | Permalink Oh hey! Never trust a green bar It worked after a loooong time. 161. Chris Leiter Posted August 15, 2009 at 1:59 am | Permalink Step 6 works more efficiently if you enter it as one line: CD /D D:\Boot 162. NoR3N Posted August 15, 2009 at 5:19 am | Permalink thx a lot You save me many Hours from searching external dvd drivers Perfect JOB!!! 163. RnR Posted August 15, 2009 at 8:37 pm | Permalink Very good, Im going to boot it in a few seconds from nowTHANX 164. CK117 Posted August 17, 2009 at 4:20 am | Permalink If you have problems with the BOOTSECT.exe part, just add /force to the end. 165. Robert Posted August 19, 2009 at 11:20 pm | Permalink



Thanks a bunch for this tute, it has saved me hours of frustration and bad words. I created a USB install and will use it tonight on my guinea pig system. 166. JB Posted August 20, 2009 at 3:06 am | Permalink Thanks the format took ages on my 16gb cruzer Also, my source was an ISO of the x64 RTM build. First try, I mounted this with MagicISO and copied files with explorer had a problem with a missing file boot\bcd, so I started again, but used 7-zip to extract the iso, and am now through with the install, which flew by in just 20 or so minutes. I think that copying files from the magiciso mounted iso was not the ideal way to go 7-zip seems to have done the trick for me. 167. JONNYK Posted August 21, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Permalink GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!!!! Go to device manager and go to properties and select policies, and select the better Performance the bottom one for you to use the BOOTSEC.EXE part. You might have to reboot. I also suggest you use KILL U3 utility for san disk. 168. Mindslight Posted August 22, 2009 at 11:42 pm | Permalink Thanks ! Johannes from France 169. Josh Posted August 25, 2009 at 4:57 am | Permalink Excellent stuff. I tried following other sites instructions only to find they didnt even create the boot sector. This worked like a charm. Thanks! 170. Anonyme Posted August 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink Damnit, cant do it on a x64 Win7 DVD from XP 32 :/ 171. rockystuud Posted August 28, 2009 at 12:35 am | Permalink Hi ! Thanks. It works fine . Thanks a lot for your effort and clear instructions. 172. jiji Posted August 30, 2009 at 1:59 am | Permalink FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) This is bad . Very bad. It doesnt take few seconds.



It does take very many seconds. Formatting quick is much faster and enough (I already did to this stick two times before) . Please correct. 173. David Amison Posted August 30, 2009 at 6:45 pm | Permalink Just tryed it worked perfectley thanx!!!!!!! 174. YASEEN Posted September 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Permalink AWESOME!!! 175. vagothcpp Posted September 5, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink Replace format fs=ntfs with format fs=ntfs quick to make it format faster. 176. Harris Posted September 7, 2009 at 10:30 am | Permalink thanks bro.. 177. JHANU Posted September 10, 2009 at 12:34 pm | Permalink thanks man thats ur great work keep on doing.. 178. Dan Berger Posted September 12, 2009 at 8:27 am | Permalink For those of having the 32/64 bit problem, just follow the beginning of the guide and after you finish formating, copy & paste (drag and drop) the contents of the dvd (which you can virtually mount on your hdd) onto the usb stick. it will be bootable and will work! 179. Zak Posted September 12, 2009 at 12:54 pm | Permalink hai dude it really works great. can u also tell me how to create an live pendrive (like live cd). 180. e Posted September 12, 2009 at 11:38 pm | Permalink work like magic Thanks alot Keep posting ! 181. klokluider Posted September 22, 2009 at 1:07 pm | Permalink XP users follow this method: Just for completion 1. First create your bartpe files using UBCD4WIN



2. after you have done that create your usb flashdrive using UBUSB point to the files of your bartpe be sure you check create cd image and let de default Z in place check if you have selected the right drive press go after finished you have a bootable usb drive which is able to get in a xp environment. 3. Now copy the content of your win XP CD to a folder XPCD on the flash drive (x:\xpcd) 4. after copying boot the drive in the PC and select Compatibility Mode (Memory Mapped) 5. after finished you select the commandline and type X:\XPCD\i386\Winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource 6. first enter the xpkey and name of the computer and region then click next 7. Now youre asked if you want to upgrade to the XP NTFS filesysten, select NO for this then hit Next. 8. Itll now see Copying installation files and the familiar green progress bar. Shortly after Copying Installation Files is complete, setup will close without notice or any type of prompt, this is normal. 9. remove the flash drive and Reboot your computer and setup will continue from the hard drive where you can choose to install XP or do a repair install if XP is already installed. http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11375&st=570 182. Malone Posted September 27, 2009 at 2:48 pm | Permalink Working. Perfect. Thanks for it, amazing work. Kingston 8GB Windows 7 RC on Dell Optiplex GX270, BIOS A07 Only little mistake at point 6: Quote: D:CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. The right command is: D: CD Boot Need space between D: and CD BOOT See screenshot. 183. Simran Posted September 28, 2009 at 9:38 pm | Permalink I have installed windows seven using the method provided by you but I am not able to play my pen drive in my car CD player. I mean when I try to play songs in my car, it do not work now. Please give a solution. 184. Malone Posted September 29, 2009 at 11:08 pm | Permalink @Simran Format, and write songs again on it. FAT32 will be OK. 185. acme Posted September 30, 2009 at 4:12 am | Permalink do you have to copy the entire contents of the win7 disk? my thumbdrive isnt that big.



186. jj Posted September 30, 2009 at 10:46 am | Permalink D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: D:\boot> Any suggestions? 187. cj Posted September 30, 2009 at 11:20 am | Permalink i will tell you one thing,this is the first advice i have gotten from that internet that works perfectly,i wanted to upgrade my pc to 7 so i formated my vista not knowing that my cd rom was messed,so i was running out of options to install 7 until i saw this and i saw all the instryctions carefully,here i am with my pc typing this and my pc is perfectly in shape,thank you very much,you are a saviour 188. admin Posted September 30, 2009 at 11:22 am | Permalink @Acme Yup. You need to copy all the contents you your thumbdrive. 189. Faisal Posted October 3, 2009 at 8:08 pm | Permalink good job. my laptop dont have DVD drive. Thanks for the post 190. widL Posted October 13, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink I love this guide, it works flawlessly. Thanks for sharing! 191. vietha Posted October 13, 2009 at 6:56 pm | Permalink It works like a charm thx alot 192. Scott L Posted October 14, 2009 at 4:51 pm | Permalink I would just like to let anyone and everyone in here know that I specifically followed this guide yesterday for XP and it worked. http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/install-windows-xp-on-mini-note-usb.html Since the comments here are confusing : NOTE this guide is not to create a Win 7 USB stick under XP but to actually make a Windows XP stick under Windows XP to install XP, it worked for me and seemed to have the least amount of fiddling. - Enjoy. 193. licitatii Posted October 14, 2009 at 5:05 pm | Permalinkfile:///C|/Users/Afreen/Web-Pages/Install%20Windows%207%20From%20USB%20Drive_Pen%20Drive.htm[12-11-2009 10:36:54]


very nice tutorial but please help me. Everithing works well but when its go to drive option(where you format you disk) it ask about a device driver to load and install ?????? What to do? setup cannot continue 194. marvin carter Posted October 15, 2009 at 9:02 am | Permalink you most do these commands in windows safe mode to avoid the Access denied message. 195. jose mari Posted October 16, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink YEAH TNX DUDE ^_^ ANOTHER NEW IDEA ON INSTALLING WINDOWS 7 ^_^ NICE POST 196. jose mari Posted October 16, 2009 at 12:38 pm | Permalink jj Posted September 30, 2009 at 10:46 am | Permalink D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: D:\boot> Any suggestions? HEY jj JUST COPY ALL THE CONTENTS IN YOUR WINDOWS 7 TO YOUR USB IT WORKED JUST FINE ^^ 197. Martin Posted October 17, 2009 at 12:31 am | Permalink Hello, I have the folders for Windows 7, and I want to burn a DVD to install from (I need to format my PC, so I cant just install from within XP). However, I cant just burn the files to the DVD, cus then it wont let me boot from it. Any ideas on how to do just that? How do I make it bootable? 198. Jackson Posted October 17, 2009 at 4:25 am | Permalink So.. can I still used the usb drive after this? Can I reformat it to fat32? 199. Zaino Posted October 19, 2009 at 1:50 pm | Permalink hey really great guys, but i couldnt show my usb drive in step LIST DISK only the local drivers please help. 200. mugurelu Posted October 19, 2009 at 2:16 pm | Permalink Can i use an external hard drive? A partition of it from which to install w7?



201. admin Posted October 19, 2009 at 4:25 pm | Permalink @ mugurelu Since you are going to create a bootable drive, you need to format the drive completely. So, you cant use just one partition. And about external drive, it should work fine (I have tested on flash drives only). 202. admin Posted October 19, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink @ Jackson You should be able to format it with FAT 32 or NTFS. 203. ceeque Posted October 20, 2009 at 3:12 am | Permalink simply does not work. One of the main reasons being is you have typed out the commands in the text differently to what you have input into the command screen, you have ommitted the spaces in your text yet placed spaces in the command prompt, and even after correcting those errors all you get is:bootsect.exe is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file Yet another waste of yours and my time 204. Vandit Posted October 20, 2009 at 8:27 am | Permalink Thank you very much for sharing this trick. My DVD of Win 7 was corrupt & I was not able to install. Then after searching on net I got your trick & applied on my USB. It successfully worked & Win7 was installed in less than 30mins with all drivers. I would be really happy to help you if you need any help in future. Once again Thanks. 205. Andy Mac Posted October 21, 2009 at 5:02 pm | Permalink Great share, thanks. Worked on my DVD-less home server, saved me alot of time. Only problem I had was my systems BIOS settings, missing USB option in the boot order, but did let me enable boot from USB, just needed to remove memory stick at the right times during restarts. Thanks again. 206. JM Posted October 23, 2009 at 2:10 am | Permalink If you have XP do this instead of diskpart: 1) 2) 3) 4) Right click on the USB drive and click format. Run a quick format Open up DOS box and type convert i: /fs:ntfs (Where I is your USB drive latter) After that goto step 5 on this list

Works great in XP 207. Anasazi Posted October 23, 2009 at 4:36 am | Permalink I just tried to install win7 using this guide but when I tried to boot from the usb drive it said bootmgr is missing. But I did every step here and the bootsect command was successful.



208. Raul Posted October 24, 2009 at 2:32 pm | Permalink Thanks, a great walktrough! 209. Zack Posted October 25, 2009 at 12:39 am | Permalink Hello, If you are running Windows 7 already you can just go into Computer and then format it like you regularly would format a usb drive as NFTS. It saves quite a bit of time and basically cuts this process in half. 210. Xerxz Posted October 25, 2009 at 5:11 am | Permalink What if i dont have the cd and i just have the files on my pc what do i do then??? any help would be much appreciated. 211. admin Posted October 25, 2009 at 11:53 am | Permalink If you have Windows 7 ISO, you need to extract it first to a folder and then to the USB. 212. CHINMAY Posted October 26, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Permalink what if i hav 2 install windows xp?? 213. John Posted October 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink Thanks dude, worked great! 214. Ralph R Posted October 29, 2009 at 3:16 am | Permalink I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and selected my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is there a way for me to restore the partition and data on the slave that I inadvertently cleaned and partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot! 215. Ralph R Posted October 29, 2009 at 3:19 am | Permalink I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and selected my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is there a way for me to restore the partition and data on the slave that I inadvertently cleaned and partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot! 216. Doron Posted November 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Permalink This worked awesomely on vista. Thank you very much. But how does one reverse the procedure? Do I simply reformat the USB shtick? 217. WiZoOo Posted November 6, 2009 at 2:19 am | Permalink



awesome guide, works for me with win 7 oem bie final x86. thanks alot dude! 218. tristian o'brien Posted November 6, 2009 at 4:28 am | Permalink nice one, thanks.. the BOOTSECT command made my usb drive become a viable source to install Windows 7 on an Asus EEE Pc. 219. Diptiman Posted November 6, 2009 at 11:50 am | Permalink Its not that cool dear. I am trying to do the same(i mean using bootsect.exe) from Vista. Still there is a problem saying Your version of bootsect.exe is not compatible with the current version of windows. Please suggest. Thanks 220. admin Posted November 7, 2009 at 12:02 am | Permalink @ Diptiman If you trying to create a Windows 7 or Vista on Vista/7 you should not face any such problems. And if you trying to create a bootable USB of Vista/XP/7 on XP, you will see error. 221. Eugene Ishchenko Posted November 9, 2009 at 12:44 am | Permalink Thank you for this wonderfull solution. Its easy and worked for me.

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