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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 don’t’ use proper commands in this guide. After spending many hours I have come up with this 100% working guide.

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I just did this method on one of my friends machine and installed the new Windows 7 Select Category 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 friend’s Downloads who doesn’t have a DVD optical drive.

The method is very simple and you can use without any hassles. Needless to say that Nero 9 Free Full Version your motherboard should support USB Boot feature to make use of the bootable USB Download Office 2010 RTM Trial drive. Kaspersky Security 2011 Requirements: Nero 10 Free Full Version 2008 R2 *USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB) Awesome Windows 7 Themes *Windows 7 or Vista installation files. Follow the below steps to create bootable Windows 7/Vista USB drive using which you Pages 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 About safe location on your system. Contact Me Friends 2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Command Prompt with admin rights. Privacy *Type cmd in 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 and hit enter to see the below message.

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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)

ASSIGN EXIT Don’t 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: 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:

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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 won’t explain it as it’s 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 haven’t set the BIOS priority to USB. If you got any problem in following this guide feel free to ask questions by leaving comment. Update: If you find this guide difficult to follow, please use the easy-to-use guide to create a bootable USB to install Windows 7 using official tool. 3 digg

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637 Comments

1. Daryl Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:20 am | Permalink

Hey thanks! I’d love to try this soon I hope it’s working

2. Brandon Posted January 12, 2009 at 3:22 am | Permalink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 3/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … I don’t think XP shows drives in list disk, or maybe it’s just me. Is there any other alternative to step 4?

3. tweakwindows Posted January 12, 2009 at 7:59 am | Permalink ^ That’s 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 | Pe rma link This is cool…Hope 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 | Pe rma link 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 isn’t 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 & 7

9. tweakwindows Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm | Permalink This guide doesn’t 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 don’t skip any step.

11. Paul Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:27 pm | Pe rma link 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 can’t see what you’ve done wrong, even picked up a few new cmd tricks. I’m a fan, thanks man.

12. ?lhan Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:41 pm | Pe rma link 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 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 don’t have any blank DVD’s, so I was trying to install it from my USB drive, but I can’t get past step 5, since I don’t 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 | Pe rma link 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 Thanks…very excellent guide…

any working method for xp usb drive installation? Tried many…but non of them working

17. vikrant Posted January 13, 2009 at 6:12 pm | Permalink Does it also mean that we can install windows 7 on a usb drive? intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 4/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

18. 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 wasn’t available as part of diskpart in XP. All the rest worked as described.

19. 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

20. Laker_Fan32 Posted January 13, 2009 at 10:57 pm | Pe rma link 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!!!

21. Rkee Posted January 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm | Permalink U can also achieve booting from a usb drive by using . Don’t mean to dis on the author graet walkthrough by the way. Its just an alternative, and no need for any command prompt scripting.

22. 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?

23. Darin Posted January 14, 2009 at 10:32 pm | Pe rma link 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?

24. tweakwindows Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:12 am | Permalink @Darin Firstly, let me apologise for the experience you’re having. The error means, your motherboard doesn’t 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 doesn’t for the users who like to install Windows 7 on USB.

@Omar If you don’t 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.

25. Joey Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Pe rma link i downloaded windows 7 from and dont have a cd/ for it so what do i do do i extract it to the usb then restart using the flash drive or what?

26. tweakwindows Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:48 pm | Pe rma link @Joey If you don’t 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/

27. gabontz Posted January 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink Hello i can’t see my usb stick with diskpart. all i can see, is my 4 HDD’s on my computer. What can i do in this case? intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 5/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

28. pete Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:13 pm | Permalink When I try step 7, I get: “The system cannot execute the specified program”

29. 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 you’re running. Check your computer’s 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. “

30. Morty Posted January 15, 2009 at 11:07 pm | Pe rma link 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 you’re 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.

31. 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: 0x8007045D

I would be very grateful for anyone’s help.

32. 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 /?

33. Jonathan 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 message. Boot priorities are set to USB Boot.

What could be wrong?

34. 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??? I’ve tried many times and it doesn’t seem to work, it always gets stuck at 5% or 8%. Sometimes it errors out with the error code: 0x800703ee

35. 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?

36. SEO Blog Posted January 22, 2009 at 2:45 pm | Permalink

Works like a charm, thanks

37. Into Windows(Admin) Posted January 23, 2009 at 11:49 am | Pe rma link 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 didn’t 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 haven’t tested this method on 64-bit machine. So, I can’t find a solution for you. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 6/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

Thank you. Into Windows

38. tyson Posted January 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Permalink Hi, I read d comments & got confirmed that this method works although i didn’t try it. I want to install by USB method. Can you also give a method like this for windows xp also?? I am currently running windows vista & don’t have an optical drive.

39. 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 you’ll 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.

40. 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.

41. Fzang Posted January 26, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Permalink Um, couldn’t 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, that’s what worked for me

Also, why are you formating to NTFS instead of FAT32?

Just wondering..

42. bob Sauve Posted January 27, 2009 at 11:55 am | Pe rma link 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

43. Andy Posted January 28, 2009 at 11:32 pm | Pe rma link 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

44. Nick1 Posted January 29, 2009 at 2:41 am | Permalink Correct me if I’m wrong, but step 5 states that we need a DVD. I use this guide because I don’t have one. Am I right?

45. cmerg Posted January 30, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Permalink Great article. Worked like a charm.

46. Man Posted February 2, 2009 at 9:56 pm | Pe rm alink Hi.

In the list disk step,I can’t see my USB drive. What’s wrong with it? (My Operating System is XP.)

Does it only work in Vista?

Thank you for your teaching.

47. SENTY Posted February 4, 2009 at 12:29 pm | Perm alink 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 DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED” HOW CAN I SLOW IT ..?,PLS HELP ME .. SND ME ON MY MAIL ACCOUNT…

48. tweakwindows Posted February 5, 2009 at 2:15 pm | Pe rm alink Sorry for the delay in replay.

@Man intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 7/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … 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

49. ELPY Posted February 5, 2009 at 5:08 pm | Pe rm alink Awesome,Think!!!

50. asd Posted February 11, 2009 at 3:44 am | Perm alink well im gonna try this from my phone. hope everything works out ok

51. TY Posted February 12, 2009 at 4:58 am | Perm alink 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!!

52. omg Posted February 17, 2009 at 8:47 am | Perm alink

Hi thats an awesomely explained method! great work!

but i’m 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 you’re running. Check your computer’s 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

53. Cobrass2 Posted February 25, 2009 at 1:09 am | Perm alink Thanks Worked like a charm.

54. JD Posted February 26, 2009 at 3:25 pm | Perm alink

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”

55. Sjengie Posted February 27, 2009 at 6:34 pm | Perm alink 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 !!

56. Sjengie Posted February 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm | Perm alink Correction, it works again ! noticed that i did not copy my w7 dvd properly great, you made linux disappear for us, thx again tweakwindows !

57. pete Posted March 2, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Pe rma link Hi ive tried and tried but DISKPART wont see my usb key, can u help. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 8/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

58. ajin Posted March 3, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Pe rma link hey it is showing cannot find bootmngr press crl alt del to restart

59. Anthony Posted March 5, 2009 at 2:10 am | Pe rma link 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

60. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:38 am | Pe rma link Thanks for the reply. Will edit the post soon.

61. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:50 am | Pe rma link @ajin I hope you have followed my steps correctly. Try to repair your bootmgr file.

62. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:52 am | Pe rma link Sorry, if you can’t find see your USB drive in the DISKPART command, I can’t 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.

63. Pinko Posted March 18, 2009 at 12:26 am | Perm alink Formatting may take few seconds ^^ It has bee taking maby 30minutes for 10percent with my 250gb drive …

64. Pinko Posted March 18, 2009 at 4:22 am | Perm alink 56% now. thos are way loong seconds.

65. Swanny Posted April 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Perma link 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.

66. jickie Posted April 30, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Perm alink awesome guide does exactly what it says on the tin, thanks so much i’m now installing windows 7 on all my mates comps via usb.

67. 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.

68. victor frazee Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:50 pm | Pe rma link list disk DID NOT detect a 4GB or a 16GB memory stick

69. Quan Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:55 pm | Pe rma link Let’s 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?

70. JB Posted May 10, 2009 at 9:30 am | Pe rma link Great write up. Works perfectly!!

71. Brad Posted May 10, 2009 at 11:15 am | Perm alink Thanks a lot! Worked no problem. It also fixed the partition tables on my USB key!

72. Cooper Posted May 10, 2009 at 10:08 pm | Perm alink Windows XP/2000 users !!! Diskpart will not recognize removable storage, so don’t bover This only works under WIndows Vista or 7.

73. ID Posted May 13, 2009 at 12:59 am | Perm alink When are the mongs gonna read and understand this guide does not work on xp. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 9/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

74. Joeypesci Posted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Pe rma link For everyone having issues with diskpart in XP not seeing the USB stick, it’s because that’s 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 haven’t bothered to search for it.

75. Joeypesci Posted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Pe rma link

Just spotted someone beat me to it

76. J Posted May 13, 2009 at 6:11 pm | Pe rma link Works 100% in my Notebook. I wanted to install Vista Ultimate with a 8GB USB Pen and i made it! Thanks!

77. Christopher Posted May 13, 2009 at 11:02 pm | Perm alink

Best write-up ever! Clear and concise. Oh, and it works!!!

Great job, and thank you!

78. Iam Posted May 14, 2009 at 10:37 am | Perm alink 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).

79. DanielRemains Posted May 20, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Pe rma link I’m sure this is another arrengement with MS and USB driver manufactuer to make money LOL joke

Nice guide I will have to steal my girlfriend’s USB drive (Which I bought her for christmas LOL) to try this. Looks like it’s worth it thanks

80. pirater2113 Posted May 21, 2009 at 5:55 am | Pe rma link so if you do this tut correctly on a vista computer then you can use the pen drive on a Xp computer?

81. Jay Posted May 21, 2009 at 9:01 am | Pe rma link Hey Bro can one dual boot using this…. ie. Vista and Windows 7

82. mads Posted May 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Pe rma link perfect. great guide. thanks

83. Omer Posted May 22, 2009 at 2:22 am | Pe rma link 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?

84. mike Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:12 pm | Pe rma link FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds)

Yeah lol, it’s taking a loooong few seconds on my 8GB drive

85. mike Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:13 pm | Pe rma link 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, ) for regular use after installing windows 7?

86. admin Posted May 22, 2009 at 11:26 pm | Perm alink @Jay Yes, you can dual boot. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 10/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

87. admin Posted May 22, 2009 at 11:28 pm | Perm alink @ 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.

88. Yue Posted May 23, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Pe rma link i tried it and it won’t work, i am using an old portable hard drive which is 5 gb, is it alright with it?

89. znakistu Posted May 26, 2009 at 12:34 am | Perm alink

10x for this useful tutorial it’s working on vista tomorrow i will try on win 7.

10x a lot

90. trav Posted May 27, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Perm alink Can I do this with an SD card and USB adapter?

91. anil Posted May 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Pe rma link 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

92. Tweakwindows Posted May 28, 2009 at 1:11 am | Pe rma link @Trave I haven’t personally tried using SD card. But you should be able to do that.

93. Tweakwindows Posted May 28, 2009 at 1:13 am | Pe rma link @All We are going to close the comments for this post.

94. JP Jones Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:35 am | Perm alink I used this method successfully on two . I was very surprised that when I was unable to change the boot sequence to USB in the BIOS on an older , windows 7 installed anyway. I was pretty sure that it wouldn’t work but I tried it and presto! It went through the three reboots and installed perfectly. Has anyone else had this happen?

95. William Posted May 30, 2009 at 7:19 am | Pe rma link this method from microsoft takes out the last part using bootsect. and it still works.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx

96. Christian Saborio Posted May 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm | Pe rma link Worked like a charm, great instructions, thanks!

97. aaraza Posted May 31, 2009 at 12:40 pm | Perm alink 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 help…I have a down and would like to put Windows 7 on it using a USB stick.

Thanks!

98. aaraza Posted May 31, 2009 at 12:44 pm | Perm alink Please ignore my last message – I was not running command prompt as Administrator!

99. Saurabh Zagade Posted May 31, 2009 at 11:11 pm | Perm alink I m very very thankful to U for such HELP…..

100. Ben Charlton intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 11/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … Posted June 2, 2009 at 11:52 am | Perm alink You can follow my guide to creating a bootable usb disk under windows xp then follow this guide from 5 onwards.

101. Giorell Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Perm alink I want to ask something. Can I return my flash drive back to normal after this? Leave a tagg on my guest book or email me rather.

102. murtaza Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:30 pm | Perm alink 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…

103. ferris Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:57 am | Perm alink Best guide I have ever used… Thank you, hats off sir.

104. Bogdan Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:48 pm | Perm alink I find it funny that you say this is a 100% working guide but you don’t 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 doesn’t work because they’re trying to make the boot drive from within XP.

105. Bogdan Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:49 pm | Perm alink Other than that small piece of missing information, the guid e is great!

106. Jacob Posted June 6, 2009 at 8:34 am | Pe rma link

(I’m 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 didn’t say to leave, not sure if you meant to or not)

Secondly, from C:\Windows\System32 (where your screenshot is taken from)

107. Jacob Posted June 6, 2009 at 8:38 am | Pe rma link

Sorry, images weren’t displayed from html I’ll 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

108. Mark Posted June 6, 2009 at 9:40 am | Pe rma link 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:

109. TSurF Posted June 6, 2009 at 11:47 am | Perm alink Great guide… cheers bro!

110. Shaz Posted June 7, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Pe rma link 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.” intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 12/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … I tried 3 different computers and a few new and come up with same message. I read these forums and people successfully installing them, What am i doing wrong. Can you please Help. I’ve been at this for almost 2 weeks. I can boot from usb but can’t install onto it. I am trying to install vista.

CAN YOU PLEASE HELP.

THANK YOU

111. admin Posted June 7, 2009 at 11:14 pm | Perm alink @Shaz You can’t 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.

112. Shaz Posted June 7, 2009 at 11:27 pm | Perm alink 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

113. CMal Posted June 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm | Pe rma link Thanks, this worked really well. Couldn’t get my old DVD drive to read quickly/effectively enough and this did the trick!

Well chuffed ;D

114. Julio Bravo Posted June 9, 2009 at 3:57 pm | Pe rma link 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.

115. Laymain Posted June 9, 2009 at 11:47 pm | Perm alink 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

116. Gregor Posted June 11, 2009 at 12:33 am | Perm alink

Thanks ! Have a nice day.

117. xopher Posted June 11, 2009 at 9:37 am | Perm alink 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.

118. JakeDK Posted June 11, 2009 at 4:06 pm | Perm alink Great guide, thx

Had a problem with step six but thats because the written command is wrong, but I figured it out when I saw the command in the scrren thx again – just what I was looking for.

119. Bernard Posted June 12, 2009 at 2:15 am | Perm alink 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.

120. Brantyr Posted June 22, 2009 at 3:28 pm | Perm alink Step 2: don’t 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?

121. 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.

122. DaveG Posted July 11, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Perma link Hello, TweakWindows, and thanks, but… I know what you mentioned about Vista, which intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 13/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … I AM using, I used a Sandisk 8GB and waited half an hour for the formatting process (hardly a few seconds, but I wasn’t surprised, and I’d 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 can’t 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 I’ve seen so far, and if I can’t resolve it here I will probably give up – please help!

123. DaveG Posted July 11, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink Oh…did 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) I’m on a bloatware diet, and 2) I’m trying to replace what I already paid for, after it got wiped (yeah, the whole freak’n 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, I’d be most grateful.

124. 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. It’s all ready works to Windows 7 and Windows Vista

125. PCLove 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

It’s so much faster!

126. ???????? Posted July 15, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink Thanks!

This would really help me a lot installing on Vaio Type P.

127. kuld33p Posted July 19, 2009 at 12:02 am | Perma link 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.

128. JonJon Posted July 19, 2009 at 3:12 am | Permalink Hello, I’ve already tried this guide a week ago and it works. I have windows 7 in my 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 haven’t tried it yet. I just want to ask here first before I try.

Regards,

129. konrad Posted July 19, 2009 at 10:21 pm | Perma link it works flawleslly tnx man

130. admin Posted July 20, 2009 at 11:06 am | Perma link Sorry, JonJon.. This guide is only for Windows 7 or Vista.

131. 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

132. ive Posted July 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Permalink some bios don’t recognise NTFS formatted usb keys as boot device, so you might still intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 14/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … want to format as FAT32, even if it makes your key slower

133. Jean-Sébastien Posted July 21, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink Very great work! Thank you very much!

134. 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.

135. 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

136. 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 so Windows boot loader will kick in, instead of Linux (GRUB).

137. admin Posted July 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm | Perma link @Peter Bootable Windows DVD or Image is required to make this happen.

138. 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).

139. Bernard Posted July 27, 2009 at 11:58 pm | Perma link 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?

140. Waqar Posted July 28, 2009 at 4:03 pm | Permalink Nice tutorial… will do installing!!

141. 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.

142. 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.

143. Michael Posted July 30, 2009 at 10:57 am | Perma link 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 can’t get passed that.

144. Torpido Posted July 31, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink I have a 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?

145. Mark Posted July 31, 2009 at 10:06 pm | Perma link After trying over and over i finally got it. It was bringing up my vaio recovery tools, so I intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 15/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … had to take my hdd out of the boot order and it worked like a charm.

146. Franck Posted August 1, 2009 at 2:35 am | Perma link 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.

147. 9shares admin Posted August 4, 2009 at 9:52 am | Perma link nice article..thanks

148. Yan Li Posted August 5, 2009 at 3:36 am | Perma link Hey, thanks for this great article. I’ve 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!

149. VladamirTOM Posted August 7, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Perma link Great guide. Worked perfectly thanks a lot. Now I don’t have to worry about finding a disc drive just for a folding rig.

150. Kusta Posted August 8, 2009 at 3:38 am | Perma link 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.

151. Hisham Posted August 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm | Perma link I have a problem here !! someone could help me please ?? When I’m 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.” What’s that supose to mean ?? Could anyone give me the solution please.

152. Minh Tran Posted August 8, 2009 at 8:01 pm | Perma link Thanks for the guide. Perhaps you should update it with Shom’s 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.

153. Barry Posted August 9, 2009 at 12:42 am | Pe rm alink Worked fine, though format was a little slow.

Thanks for an easy to follow guide!

154. Nikunj Posted August 9, 2009 at 6:43 pm | Perma link its really works.

155. Pali Posted August 10, 2009 at 2:31 am | Pe rm alink Thanks for this guide! Exelent job. Thank you again! Pali from Hungary.

156. Marleybrit Posted August 10, 2009 at 11:05 pm | Perm alink does this work with XP?

157. Gaurav Akrani Posted August 11, 2009 at 6:38 pm | Pe rm alink This article is really only awesome guide which works.

Worked 100% without any flaws and mind irritating drills.

Please don’t 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. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 16/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … 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

158. Tried 4 times? Posted August 13, 2009 at 11:19 pm | Perm alink 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 wasn’t moving at all though.

So I ran it all again – I rebooted (with the USB stick plugged in), reformatted the destination drive, re-ran the full setup, pulled the stick out for the first restart… You know that black screen where you can choose 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….

159. Tried 4 times? Posted August 13, 2009 at 11:21 pm | Perm alink Oh hey! Never trust a green bar… It worked after a loooong time.

160. Chris Leiter Posted August 15, 2009 at 1:59 am | Pe rm alink Step 6 works more efficiently if you enter it as one line:

CD /D D:\Boot

161. NoR3N Posted August 15, 2009 at 5:19 am | Pe rm alink thx a lot You save me many Hours from searching external dvd drivers… Perfect JOB!!!

162. RnR Posted August 15, 2009 at 8:37 pm | Pe rm alink Very good, I’m going to boot it in a few seconds from now…THANX

163. CK117 Posted August 17, 2009 at 4:20 am | Pe rm alink If you have problems with the BOOTSECT.exe part, just add /force to the end.

164. Robert Posted August 19, 2009 at 11:20 pm | Perm alink 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.

165. JB Posted August 20, 2009 at 3:06 am | Pe rm alink 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- 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.

166. JONNYK Posted August 21, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Pe rm alink 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 .

I also suggest you use U3 utility for san disk.

167. Mindslight Posted August 22, 2009 at 11:42 pm | Perm alink Thanks ! intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 17/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … Johannes from France

168. Josh Posted August 25, 2009 at 4:57 am | Pe rm alink Excellent stuff. I tried following “other” sites’ instructions only to find they didn’t even create the boot sector. This worked like a charm. Thanks!

169. Anonyme Posted August 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Pe rm alink Damnit, can’t do it on a x64 Win7 DVD from XP 32 :/

170. rockystuud Posted August 28, 2009 at 12:35 am | Perm alink Hi ! Thanks. It works fine . Thanks a lot for your effort and clear instructions.

171. jiji Posted August 30, 2009 at 1:59 am | Pe rm alink “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.

172. David Amison Posted August 30, 2009 at 6:45 pm | Pe rm alink Just tryed it worked perfectley thanx!!!!!!!

173. YASEEN Posted September 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Perm alink AWESOME!!!

174. vagothcpp Posted September 5, 2009 at 9:22 am | Perm alink Replace format fs=ntfs with format fs=ntfs quick to make it format faster.

175. Harris Posted September 7, 2009 at 10:30 am | Perm alink thanks bro..

176. JHANU Posted September 10, 2009 at 12:34 pm | Permalink thanks man thats ur great work keep on doing……..

177. Dan Berger Posted September 12, 2009 at 8:27 am | Perm alink 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!

178. 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).

179. e Posted September 12, 2009 at 11:38 pm | Permalink

work like magic Thanks alot Keep posting !

180. klokluider Posted September 22, 2009 at 1:07 pm | Perm alink XP users follow this method:

Just for completion

1. First create your 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) intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 18/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … 4. after copying boot the drive in the PC and select (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 you’re asked if you want to upgrade to the XP NTFS filesysten, select “NO” for this then hit Next. 8. It’ll 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

181. Malone Posted September 27, 2009 at 2:48 pm | Perm alink 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.

182. Simran Posted September 28, 2009 at 9:38 pm | Perm alink 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.

183. Malone Posted September 29, 2009 at 11:08 pm | Permalink @Simran Format, and write songs again on it. FAT32 will be OK.

184. acme Posted September 30, 2009 at 4:12 am | Perm alink do you have to copy the entire contents of the win7 disk? my thumbdrive isn’t that big.

185. 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?

186. 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

187. admin Posted September 30, 2009 at 11:22 am | Permalink @Acme Yup. You need to copy all the contents you your thumbdrive.

188. Faisal Posted October 3, 2009 at 8:08 pm | Perm alink good job…. my laptop dont have DVD drive. Thanks for the post

189. widL Posted October 13, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink I love this guide, it works flawlessly. Thanks for sharing!

190. vietha Posted October 13, 2009 at 6:56 pm | Permalink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 19/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

It works like a charm

thx alot

191. 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.

192. licitatii Posted October 14, 2009 at 5:05 pm | Permalink very nice tutorial but please help me. Everithing works well but when it’s go to drive option(where you format you disk) it ask about a to load and install ?????? What to do? setup cannot continue…

193. 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.

194. jose mari Posted October 16, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Pe rma link YEAH TNX DUDE… ^_^ ANOTHER NEW IDEA ON INSTALLING WINDOWS 7 ^_^ NICE POST

195. jose mari Posted October 16, 2009 at 12:38 pm | Pe rma link 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… ^^

196. Martin Posted October 17, 2009 at 12:31 am | Pe rma link 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 can’t just install from within XP). However, I can’t just burn the files to the DVD, cus then it won’t let me boot from it. Any ideas on how to do just that? How do I make it bootable?

197. 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?

198. 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.

199. 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?

200. 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 can’t use just one partition. And about external drive, it should work fine (I have tested on flash drives only).

201. admin Posted October 19, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink @ Jackson intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 20/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … You should be able to format it with FAT 32 or NTFS.

202. 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……

203. 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.

204. Andy Mac Posted October 21, 2009 at 5:02 pm | Permalink Great share, thanks. Worked on my DVD-less , 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.

205. JM Posted October 23, 2009 at 2:10 am | Permalink If you have XP do this instead of diskpart:

1) Right click on the USB drive and click format. 2) Run a quick format 3) Open up DOS box and type convert i: /fs:ntfs (Where “I” is your USB drive latter) 4) After that goto step 5 on this list

Works great in XP

206. 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.

207. Raul Posted October 24, 2009 at 2:32 pm | Permalink Thanks, a great walktrough!

208. Zack Posted October 25, 2009 at 12:39 am | Pe rma link 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.

209. 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.

210. admin Posted October 25, 2009 at 11:53 am | Pe rma link If you have Windows 7 ISO, you need to extract it first to a folder and then to the USB.

211. CHINMAY Posted October 26, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Permalink what if i hav 2 install windows xp??

212. John Posted October 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink Thanks dude, worked great!

213. 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!

214. 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 intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 21/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … 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. 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?

216. 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!

217. 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.

218. Diptiman Posted November 6, 2009 at 11:50 am | Pe rma link It’s 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

219. admin Posted November 7, 2009 at 12:02 am | Pe rma link @ 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.

220. Eugene Ishchenko Posted November 9, 2009 at 12:44 am | Pe rma link Thank you for this wonderfull solution. It’s easy and worked for me.

221. Alex Posted November 10, 2009 at 3:24 am | Pe rma link HELOO ,I HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN I PUT F:/BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 I: IT SAYS THAT “COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIETED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:ACCES DENIED WHAT TO DO PLS HELP

222. Michael Posted November 10, 2009 at 6:32 pm | Pe rma link Hi there, for all the people having problems at step 6 try this

6. Type in the cmd window CD/DVD DRIVE LETTER: and press enter i.e. D: Then Type CD BOOT and press enter Then proceed with step 7 Hope this helps

223. Tomasz Posted November 12, 2009 at 4:24 am | Pe rma link I did EXACTLY as it says and my netbook doesn’t wanna boot from USB…I checked BIOS settings couple of times and it is set to boot from removable device…which is correct I guess…no idea what to do

224. Tomasz Posted November 12, 2009 at 4:43 am | Pe rma link OK I found it….when EEE PC starts you need to press in case to display BOOT DEVICE SELECTION menu

225. Chase Posted November 12, 2009 at 5:17 am | Pe rma link For those having problems with “access is denied” during the bootsect command, be sure to open cmd exactly as mentioned in the instructions. I assumed that being logged on as an administrator or using / was sufficient, but I guess things are different in Vista/Windows 7.

226. hicom5 Posted November 14, 2009 at 6:42 pm | Pe rma link problem: “Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.” ————————————————- answer: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

On the pop-up right click context menu, select “Run as Administrator” intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 22/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

227. Jason Posted November 14, 2009 at 7:07 pm | Pe rma link 100% working… confirmed! Thanks for the tutorial… it was easy, and accurate.

228. Willaim Posted November 17, 2009 at 4:42 am | Pe rma link This process worked fine. THANKS!!!

229. Navster Posted November 17, 2009 at 4:56 am | Pe rma link Brilliant Guide… Worked a Treat….

230. NICERED Posted November 17, 2009 at 12:57 pm | Perm alink Any method to know your win7 and vista compatibility (x64, x86…) before installing win7?

231. Euphie Posted November 18, 2009 at 9:53 am | Pe rma link Have you made the XP guide yet?

232. admin Posted November 18, 2009 at 5:53 pm | Pe rma link @Nicered You can use official Windows 7 upgrade advisor (it’s free) tool to check compatibility issues. Here is the link: http://www.intowindows.com/test-your-pc-software-compatibility-with-windows-7-using- windows-7-upgrade-advisor-final/

233. Lurvinzy Andrew Posted November 23, 2009 at 7:32 pm | Pe rma link Hi~ Thanks for the tutorial currently copying the files hope it works!

234. ahmed Posted November 24, 2009 at 6:46 am | Pe rma link I LOVE YOU!!!

my cd drive doent work so USB was the only option.

GREAT TUTORIAL!!!

235. Andrew J. COwell Posted November 25, 2009 at 4:08 am | Pe rma link Worked as advertised on my Dell Mini 9.

236. dsfjdifja Posted November 29, 2009 at 7:35 pm | Pe rma link why do all this when you can just make virtual cd drive and boot from it? 2 minutes work lol.

237. Please Help me ! Posted November 29, 2009 at 11:49 pm | Perm alink Hi, Please help !!! Here what I have done: 1.Download Windows 7 iso file,which I put it in isoBuster and extracted. 2.Coz I have listen it is better to make clean instalation,I bought new WD external HDD- Passport Studio 500 Gb and put it all information from my PC to HDD (around 90Gb very important data + windows 7 of course)! 3.I run “cmd” and get in DOS - “diskpart” - “list disk” (coz there were nothing,not disk 1,2,3-i just select disk 1-don`t ask me why,coz i don`t know for myself,coz i am stupid!!!) - select disk 1 - clean… After i wrote “clean”,I discconect usb cable,coz I afraid-what does “clean” means!!?? For god sake-i have all informations from last 6 years on my external hard disk…

Now,my WD doesn`t work,everything is ok in “drive manager”,when i conecct usb cable there is the external usb hard drive showed up on the Safely Remove Hardware list right down,but I can not enter into the disk-inside and I am so affraid and desperate and don`t know what to do… How you can see,I am bigginer,but please tell me what is the best solution for me to do now and to don`t lose my data on WD (if i already didn`t lost Please,please help-with days I don`t know what to do…. My e-mail is via_makedonia yahoo dot com please write me there. What I have tried: coneccting my WD with 3 dieferent cables-usb and firewire in dieferent ports. installing drivers from wd site

When I check Device Manager it shows that the device is installed and working properly but it will not show in “my computer” and I can’t access it. before the problem,my HDD appeard as drive H: I wouldn’t be half as frustrated if it hadn’t been working properly before this.Plus-ALL data is on my HDD,and I don`t even know if it is still there intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 23/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

I do it this: 2 Step Solution for XP users: Part 1: Go to -> Performance and Maintenance (cannot be in classic view to see this link) -> Administrator Tools -> Services -> Universal Plug and Play If Universal Plug and Play is set to manual switch to automatic. Part 2 Double Click Safely Remove icon on the bottom right-> Select device->click Properties -> click Volumes -> click Populate -> hit OK -> if nothing shows it may need to be formatted

Also i was in DISK MANAGEMENT,but except formating disk,I don`t see solution And formating will erase all data on the disk,isn`t it?! (if i have it,of course). again nothing

Thanks in advance !!!!!!

238. pawan Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink great work ……………. thanks a lot

239. pawan Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:46 pm | Permalink great job ………. thanx a lot.

240. carl Posted December 1, 2009 at 10:00 pm | Pe rma link have tried your process a few times with vista and 7 and works great but whilst installing windows i get an error code 0×80070241? any ideas why i get this code. pls help

241. Aaron Posted December 2, 2009 at 12:43 am | Pe rma link Finally found a method that works. This actually works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, awesome.

242. Throwlands Posted December 2, 2009 at 5:00 am | Permalink I just finished assembling a new computer that only has SATA connections and all I have are PATA CDROM drives. Your guide saved me from spending money on a drive I’d only need once.

Many thanks.

243. Blake Posted December 3, 2009 at 11:12 am | Pe rma link I did every step right and got the right results. Even the Bootsect.exe part. it told me it successfully created it. i went to boot desktop from USB and STILL got the BOOTMGR is missing. Now i did it with vista from XP and it worked great. i had the vista install cd. now from vista to 7 its different. its an .iso file. is that why i cant make it work?

244. Kevin Posted December 3, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Pe rma link When I get to step 6 and type CD BOOT, I receive an error message:

“They system can not find the specified path”

I have a crappy Sony upgrade CD and it is not bootable. Could that be why I get that message? If the CD is not bootable, does that mean I can not create a bootable CD?

245. Todd Posted December 4, 2009 at 1:35 am | Permalink I can’t thank you enough.. my dvd-rom has been down, tryed fixing with the delete but computer still doesn’t recognize it, but it spins up at start up, I can put dvd in and it acts like it wants to but nothin..(yes all the bios stuff been checke, enabled and so on) —– so needless to say this little fix has been a God sent.. Works like a champ.. the only think that didn’t work was “Format fs=ntfs” I formated it the old fashed way.. and in step 6. “D:CD Boot” I had to do “CD/Boot” amazing how that little / makes all the difference…

I was a computer with xp and a good dvd drive to set up a third drive to boot from and re-install vista on my laptop..

Thx again..

246. Chris Posted December 4, 2009 at 2:49 am | Permalink This is an excellent guide for anyone and I am very greatful you took the time to do this.

Quick note that may confuse people, in step 6 where it states “D:CD BOOT” should be “D: CD BOOT” as shown in the screen shot. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 24/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … Thank you for the brilliant guide!!!

247. vaitheeswaran Posted December 4, 2009 at 4:33 pm | Permalink Hey Thanks Man , for your help. and i don’t understand onething.

how do u find about disk 1 or disk 2 of usb . explain that dude.

thanks in advance

248. vaitheeswaran Posted December 4, 2009 at 4:56 pm | Permalink hi again one more doubt.

BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: ?

so my usb drive name is 1201(E)

i have to type 1201 E: or must type NT60 E: ?

249. Gabe Posted December 7, 2009 at 4:39 am | Permalink Works great, thanks.

250. Tom Posted December 7, 2009 at 9:20 am | Permalink some ppl may be having problem with this part

D:CD BOOT

needs space between D: and CD Boot, like this:

D: CD BOOT

251. Johnathan M Camien Posted December 8, 2009 at 7:29 am | Permalink I am not sure if this is posted but for everyone that has the CD as an ISO file you can use MagicISO to mount the ISO file to a virtual drive so that the system sees it as a CD/DVD. then just use that drive letter in place of the CD/DVD drive letter in the guide. Worked like a charm for me.

252. Saleem Posted December 8, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink everything went fine. booted on the flash drive, but can’t partition using win 7. installation stopped there. what to do? tried it on asus Eee mini.

253. YES IT WORKS 4 ME Posted December 9, 2009 at 4:12 pm | Permalink THIS POST WORKS out of the box, but those with problems pleeez pay SPECIAL attention to the G A P S in the commands. I followed the posters text AND viewed/compared the same commands in the pictures when I got stuck as others have here, and it all worked! D:CD BOOT should be D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter -> a gap between D: and CD BOOT, which another commenter here ‘Malone’ kindly pointed out and got me hunting for other gaps to finish the job, . Also a gap at BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: not BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: Follow the posters instructions and compare against the pictures and you are good to go! Welcome to DOS commands and sneaky ball breaker gaps which are easy to miss, lol! This is a great post, just needs a bit of a mop up, many thanks to the poster!

254. Pown Posted December 9, 2009 at 11:50 pm | Pe rma link i get a disk read error occurred when i try to boot from the usb i followed the guid and it should work, whats wrong?

255. matthew Posted December 10, 2009 at 8:22 am | Pe rma link worked great. thanks.

256. waseem Posted December 10, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Pe rma link I had a problem in start. As in window Xp in command prompt Diskpart command LIST DISK doesnot show usb as disk. It shows it as volume. kindly guide me whats the problem. Regards

257. killak Posted December 10, 2009 at 7:32 pm | Pe rma link Hey, great guide! Before I start I wanted to confirm something; when I’m done, if I want to use the pen drive again, I just format it from My Computer right? intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 25/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

258. RS232 Posted December 11, 2009 at 8:44 am | Pe rma link Thanks for this wonderful how to..GRRRRRRREATTTTT!!!

259. PARAS Posted December 13, 2009 at 7:16 am | Pe rma link INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH ALL THIS PROCESS WE CAN JUST USE “WIN2FLASH” APPLICATION FROM WIN2FLASH.COM OR JUST CAN GOOGLE WIN2FLASH AND EASILY GET IT.

I AM USING WIN2FLASH FOR SOME TIME AND BEST PART IT CAN INSTALL WINDOWS XP AS WELL AS WIN 7 BOTH FROM USB PEN DRIVE.

TESTED BY ME ON ACER LAPTOP(7), HCL LEAPTOP(2), AROUND 19 DESKTOPS

260. Gregory Posted December 13, 2009 at 8:48 pm | Pe rma link Thank you very much!!! It took a lot of configuring and restarts but I finally managed to recover my OS with zero data loss. After I back up my stuff, I’ll be installing Win7 using microsoft’s boot tool.

261. RPJ Posted December 16, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Perm alink Worked perfectly. Used it on a 4Gb SD card with a USB SD reader to install Win7 64-bit on an Acer laptop. Many thanks.

262. CrabQuiche Posted December 17, 2009 at 4:34 am | Pe rma link If you are doing this guide from XP, use the HP USB Flash Disk Format tool instead of steps 3 and 4. This is because XP’s DiskPart Tool does not support The NTFS Formatting for USB flash disks. Thank you for a great guide. I am working on a tool which does it all for you, called 7toUSB.

263. Piyush Posted December 17, 2009 at 10:57 am | Perm alink If u get this message ‘Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.

goto C:/Windows/System32/ (before doing anything (or before running DISKPART)

right click on cmd.exe

Run as administrator (just second option)

and repeat whatevr is given in this website…..DONE

264. teejay Posted December 17, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Pe rma link ‘A disc read error’…plz help me.i changed the BIOS priority to USB HDD.there were other options USB FDD,USB CDROM,USB ZIP.

265. Jake Posted December 18, 2009 at 12:53 am | Perm alink Thank you very much, this worked perfectly for me.

266. kamlesh Posted December 18, 2009 at 2:31 pm | Pe rma link it is very very helpful for me. thank’s.

267. david dizzle Posted December 19, 2009 at 8:16 am | Pe rma link I have a question for you, I have done this guide over and over again different ways on different operating systems and I cant get it to work, I am wanting to install windows 7 iso on my desktop pc which is an xp machine. I changed the bios boot sequence so it detects the usb first actually I made them all usb and it still gos straight through the boot sequence and right into the xp bootup screen. I dont know what to do please help.

thank you, david

268. admin Posted December 19, 2009 at 11:09 am | Perm alink @ David Dizzle

It seems your PC doesn’t support USB booting, or your Windows 7 ISO is not bootable.

269. david dizzle Posted December 20, 2009 at 6:56 am | Pe rma link If it doesnt support usb booting then why is it an option in the boot sequence? intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 26/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

270. andrew panda Posted December 20, 2009 at 8:47 am | Pe rma link this works like a charm, did a vista install from usb. thanks!!!

271. chacha Posted December 20, 2009 at 11:23 pm | Perm alink “Could not map drive partitions to the associate volume device object: Access is denied.

This happened right after bootsect.exe/nt60 E:

(The usb key is considered by the comp as drive E)

I tried the so-called easier guide link, it couldn’t even find an iso file in the windows 7 files. (It’s on a cd) And i know there is nothing wrong with the windows 7 cd, i just used it last night to install it on my uncles comp, which is where i’ve been trying to go through this guide) I need it on a usb key so i can install it on MY notebook. Help anyone?

272. chacha Posted December 20, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Perm alink Okay so, access isn’t denied anymore. but it still says the same thing besides that

273. Senior47 Posted December 21, 2009 at 2:19 am | Pe rma link Thanks for this easy tutorial! Now, just a easy question!-) On my USB-pen drive there is space enough for both the 32 and 64 bits version of windows 7. Would it be possible to have a menu from which one could choose which OS to install? A new easy tutorial maybe!-)

274. JaFar Posted December 22, 2009 at 9:22 am | Pe rma link Thanks Chase (post 226) finally found that out and was going to post with solution but seen yours. Took me 20 minutes to realize that you have to right click and run as admin in Vista and 7

275. hnnn Posted December 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Pe rma link thanks man for this guide!

276. rik Posted December 22, 2009 at 7:23 pm | Pe rma link hey i got an iso file i downloaden from school

(we get free software there)

and i cannot do step 5 is that a problem?

and i got an iso file when i want to select is with the dvd usb tool program it said that it is not valid

can anyone helpe me?

277. toderu Posted December 24, 2009 at 5:51 am | Pe rma link Hello, great work, for saving time you can use “format fs=ntfs quick” that can save some time if you have a big usb stick.

278. CroatianBoy Posted December 31, 2009 at 4:09 am | Pe rma link Hello and BIG THANKS FROM CROATIA

100% WORKING,

EASY AND FAST WAY TO INSTALL WINDOWS WITHOUT DVD

279. Z1pp3r Posted December 31, 2009 at 3:26 pm | Pe rma link This is AMAZING! THNX MAN! Nice Tutorial!

Keep doing making tuts like this!

280. Sam Posted January 1, 2010 at 2:15 am | Perm alink Just thought others should know, command in step 7 must have a space after EXE

As published BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:

This works BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (shown in the screen cap correctly) intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 27/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

–Sam

281. triple six Posted January 4, 2010 at 10:00 pm | Permalink thankx… its work.

282. Brody Posted January 5, 2010 at 12:02 am | Permalink Well, accidentally formatted my external HDD with my movie library, .ISO library, and all of my pictures on it, but, my fault.

283. KIRITH SIVA Posted January 5, 2010 at 4:46 pm | Perm alink HEY,

MUCH APPRECIATED! GREAT TUTORIAL! AND IT WORKS!! YOU SAVED ME SOME DOLLARS. THANKS VERY MUCH!

KIRITH SIVA.

284. Paul Posted January 7, 2010 at 4:11 am | Perm alink Man… After days of searching and trial and error, FINALLY this is a guide that WORKS! I have just installed Windows 7 on my netbook and I am sooooo freakin’ happy.

I blog about computers, software and web development in German and I would like to ask your permission to translate this guide into German and publish it on my blog. With full credits to you and a link to the original guide of course.

285. Nathan Posted January 7, 2010 at 6:21 am | Perm alink Great guide, but MS has now made it much easier for us: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

286. Vaidy Mohan Posted January 9, 2010 at 2:00 am | Perm alink Awesome. I could restore my system from what you could call as disaster.

Thanks so much.

Vaidy

287. Ahir @nurag Posted January 9, 2010 at 3:07 pm | Perm alink thank for this update…….all of u………..

any new update so mail me this mail id……..

i will wait your reply………………….

288. Brandon Posted January 10, 2010 at 6:04 am | Permalink This worked flawlessly for upgrading my wife’s PC. She had a DVD ROM drive that refused to be recognized and this was an awesome work-around and fast.

Thanks!

289. somebody Posted January 10, 2010 at 10:55 am | Pe rma link go here for these things in a nutshell from micro$oft http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

290. lucy Posted January 10, 2010 at 11:20 am | Pe rma link you cant copyright anything in the command prompt screenshots that you did using MSFT instructions for this process. dolt.

291. Michiel Posted January 11, 2010 at 4:48 pm | Permalink About step 6:

D: CD BOOT

The “CD BOOT” is not doing anything. Just D: is enough, anything after that is ignored.

For the rest: thanks for the guide, it’s really helpful for a lot of people I think.

292. renren Posted January 13, 2010 at 3:36 pm | Permalink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 28/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … nice i will try this

293. XAce Posted January 17, 2010 at 6:03 am | Permalink Thank you,Streamlined instructions,it worked perfectly.

294. Robbie Posted January 19, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Pe rma link hey it wont let me do the last command, BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F: , my flash drive is f and it says could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied???????.. what do i need to do

295. slownie Posted January 20, 2010 at 12:59 am | Pe rma link Excellent work, thank you. This is good help the beginner users.

Many thanks bye slownie

296. zdarova Posted January 20, 2010 at 3:22 am | Permalink i had some problems at the begining, as i have 0 with amd southbridge.

so guys, for Windows 7 x64 you need the folder /boot from a 32 bit dvd instalation if you want to prepare the usb drive on a 32bit PC (i used from the DVD of RC win 7 a had from may 2009…)

it worked fine, i tried first with an Ultimate version x64 now i want to install the Profession Win 7, because i have the license from the university for it

thanks!

297. kk kangan Posted January 20, 2010 at 2:50 pm | Permalink great.. thank you. it worked like a charm.

298. khang Posted January 22, 2010 at 2:09 am | Permalink you should clarify step 5 for those who dont have the windows dvd. Mounting an image isn’t something everyone knows about. Like myself, I am assuming most people who are gonna use this guide only have the .iso file and not the dvd.

299. Patryk Posted January 22, 2010 at 8:42 am | Permalink ;( well, mine went bad, really bad, my disk 1 was my second hdd (i realized that after) u should add how to discover what disk is the usb, i’ve deleted all my most important files; ( i reached active, i didn’t made format, is there a way to take back my stuff?

300. John Posted January 23, 2010 at 2:58 am | Permalink Worked Perfectly. I can now have the great W7 on my laptop with a burned up DVD drive, lol

301. Paul Smith Posted January 26, 2010 at 6:49 pm | Permalink Worked perfectly. Thank you.

302. Sinner Posted January 27, 2010 at 7:36 pm | Permalink This is stupid, I didn’t have to do all this crap, all I did was format my 4GB flash drive in fat 32 format, copy the contents if the Windows 7 DVD contents to the USB flash drive. And then set the bios to boot from flash. all done with my mouse, no diskpart or cmd prompt.

303. maseo Posted January 29, 2010 at 11:00 am | Pe rma link @khang, if you only have the .iso file of windows 7 and not the dvd, (install power iso trial-free online), nxt double click .iso image and it appears in power iso, in toolbar of power iso click on ‘mount’ select ’1 drive(in drop out menu) follow a couple of prompts and its mounted….nxt…go to ‘my computer’ and you will see a virtual drive(DVD Drive) their with the windows 7 in it, right click on it and explore(or open in new window) all the files are their and you can now copy them to your pen drive.

a much easier and quicker way is (assuming you have power iso installed) is simply right click on .iso image and mount from their, my computer, explore or open…copy files//simple really,

304. maseo Posted January 29, 2010 at 11:10 am | Pe rma link @ patryk

if you didnt get as far as format then you should be able to recover files, im assuming intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 29/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … your disc drive has dissapeared from ‘my computer’?? if so, go to start menu>>type partition in search bar (dont hit enter) clcik on the ‘create and format partitions’ file>>a box will appear and take a minute or 2 to load in all your partitions…..once loaded you should see your missing partition/drive…if so right click on it..select ‘change drive letter and paths,>>select ‘add’ from the nxt pop up box>>type a letter in, make sure the letter is not assigned to any other resources (egzample…type letter R ) once you put the letter in, just click ok, your partition should be back as normal now in my computer.

305. steve Posted January 30, 2010 at 12:21 pm | Pe rma link This works like a charm. If your having problems try the other easy installation that he has posted on the link at the top of the page. That one has only 4 steps that u follow. In any case both of these installation guides have my 5 star rating*****

306. SANRocks Posted January 31, 2010 at 4:03 pm | Permalink very very tankssssssssssssssssssss……my rateing is 5*****

307. lenny Posted January 31, 2010 at 10:26 pm | Pe rma link it worked you are a star i bought my note book for £50 coz it wouldnt load up,, best £50 ive spent in a long time thanks to your help,,, cheers

308. Omega Posted February 3, 2010 at 4:47 am | Pe rm alink 1st off, nice tutorial! I used my iPod touch as a flash disk, and used ultraiso to make the image<—so far so good, everything loads but I get a message stating that 'device drivers are missing' [paraphrased] I read around and it looks like it may be cd/DVD not being supported, but I'm installing from USB, no need for DVD drive help pleez

309. le Posted February 5, 2010 at 2:17 am | Pe rm alink that sir, simply put, is ‘the bollox’, TUVM

310. antonio Posted February 6, 2010 at 8:50 am | Pe rm alink Hi, does this step’s will reformat my flash drive?

311. admin Posted February 6, 2010 at 4:48 pm | Pe rm alink @Antonio Yes, it will format your drive.

312. Geoff Posted February 10, 2010 at 9:01 am | Perm alink

Worked perfectly!!!

The funny thing was my Windows 7 Ultimate DVD was scratched, so I tried to use my Windows 7 Home and that didn’t fit on my 4gig USB stick.

Than I tried an 8 Gig microSD card and that did fit…and booted perfectly on my Asus R1600.

Thanks for really well written and detailed instructions.

313. Victor Aroma Posted February 11, 2010 at 7:27 am | Perm alink This tutorial is awesome! Thanks for the helpful tips.

Cheers, Victor Aroma

314. Rohit Posted February 12, 2010 at 7:09 am | Perm alink Perfect .. 10/10 !

Thanks for sharing this valuable info ..

315. duncan Posted February 12, 2010 at 12:14 pm | Perm alink my netbook is 32 bit and my win7 is 64bit.. im wondering if this can be installed.. and if it cant can yyou please tell me how i could upgrade my netbook to 64bit?

316. xkovi Posted February 12, 2010 at 2:10 pm | Perm alink The easiest way how to install Win7/Vista from usb is just to format your USB stick (from windows, no cmd line needed!) and extract files from *.iso into root of your USB stick….nothing else…tested million times intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 30/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

317. zorzer Posted February 16, 2010 at 2:02 am | Perm alink

thx! 100% working like you said

318. SG Posted February 16, 2010 at 2:03 am | Perm alink Thanks a lot! The MS tool kept erroring out when trying to create a bottable USB installer from the DVD. However your instructions worked like a charm…Thanks!

319. aj Posted February 16, 2010 at 7:10 am | Perm alink Although there are a couple of tools out there to help simplify this process, I just ran across a new one that works under XP as well. Bootsage is another nice utility to add to your toolbelt. http://firesage.com/bootsage

320. The-Stoic Posted February 22, 2010 at 5:44 pm | Perm alink You are a legend. Got a SFF here and no DVD or CD-Dom. Used your instructions to get up and running. Thanks for the info.

321. noneya bizness Posted February 24, 2010 at 2:16 am | Perm alink yea, this is stupid…..just format and copy windows 7 files to usb…DONE

322. Harry Posted February 24, 2010 at 2:51 am | Perm alink Thx dude !

323. Moosewad Posted February 24, 2010 at 11:23 am | Perm alink once i hit “format fs=ntfs” it just says 0 percent and stays there.

Help!!

324. lakshay Posted February 25, 2010 at 7:10 pm | Perm alink I am not getting my pendrive disk number.

when i type list disk only disk 0 is visible

i have tried on all USB ports

325. Vicky Posted February 27, 2010 at 3:47 am | Perm alink Excellent guide. I need to save this site on my pc. Extremely useful and helpful Thanxs.

326. DG3 Posted March 6, 2010 at 12:19 am | Perm alink Thanks for the guide ^^ verry usefull! You saved me from CD/DVD’s with windows and others!

327. khizer Posted March 6, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Perm alink nice work!!! can anyone tell me how to put xp in the usb and make it bootable..please thanks

328. deo Posted March 11, 2010 at 2:05 am | Perm alink In case you get error message “Access Denied” in the last step you may need to start “Virtual Disk” service from Start->Run->services.msc

329. Richard Borg Posted March 11, 2010 at 2:31 am | Perm alink Excellent tutorial worked like a charm!

Thanks!

330. ralph Posted March 12, 2010 at 10:40 pm | Perm alink Really helpful.

thnx

331. padam Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:01 pm | Perm alink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 31/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … You should really give the _original author_ credit, instead of pretending like you wrote this guide yourself.

Just a couple of weeks after it’s posted here:

“link removed” You turn around and post it here.

You can try to deny it, but it’s the _exact_ same steps in the _exact_ same order, on top of using the _exact_ same commands, again, in the _exact_ same order.

Plagiarism is baaaaaad.

332. admin Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:43 pm | Perm alink @Padam How can you say that just because order of commands are same? You know, one can’t create a bootable disk by entering those commands in random order. So steps will be same if you refer other sites too. I can’t blame other sites for that right? You need to execute the step 1 first and then 2.. You can’t reverse it!

333. Kevin Woley Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Perm alink Looks like you guys did a great job copying the instructions from here: “link removed”

Way to pass it off as your own. Kevin

334. padam Posted March 14, 2010 at 5:19 am | Perm alink “just because [...]“? It’s kinda cute how you ignored the other points. The order of the commands is important, but they do _not_ have to be executed in that exact order.

Furthermore, I’m even more convinced you have no idea what any of the commands posted do – as you’re misleading users into thinking that bootsect doesn’t work on XP installs or vista installs with XP as the target. It’s a matter of changing the /n60 argument to /nt52 for it to use the master boot code that’s compatible with NTLDR (rather than BOOTMGR, which is what Vista/7 uses).

To quote you in case you decide to go deleting it:

“This guide doesn’t work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7.. [snip]“

335. admin Posted March 14, 2010 at 8:45 am | Perm alink @Kevin I don’t know what to say! For your kind information, Microsoft has given the how to make bootable usb in its WinPE help guide. Do download and read it before making such comments.

336. AbhishekDatta Posted March 14, 2010 at 8:25 pm | Perm alink AWESOME man! solved my prob.

I… AM… YOUR… FAN… NOW…

337. padam Posted March 14, 2010 at 9:13 pm | Perm alink The fact that you removed the link to his blog from both of our posts speaks volumes in itself. There are other links all throughout the comments on this page, _none_ of which have been removed.

kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

Leave it up this time, let the users make their own decision as who stole it from who.

338. admin Posted March 14, 2010 at 9:48 pm | Perm alink @Padam I have deleted the links just because I don’t allow readers to post links in comments. You might get two or three links in the whole comment section (in this post). And mind that I could have deleted your comments if i had done so. Hope you got it. Also note that I will be deleting your future comments as I don’t like to argue on a useless topic.

339. Andy Posted March 15, 2010 at 12:15 am | Perm alink @admin y wasting time on useless things/people……..

plzz help me out through the problem soon…..

340. Rob Posted March 15, 2010 at 4:02 am | Perm alink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 32/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … Works perfect. Thank you very much for youre efforts!

341. Andrew Posted March 15, 2010 at 7:17 am | Perm alink If you have the following error:

“COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED”

Then when you opened your command prompt you did not right-click and run as admin.

342. Peje Posted March 16, 2010 at 6:25 pm | Perm alink

Working fine & smooth.thanks for the tutorial!

343. Sanjay Posted March 17, 2010 at 6:09 pm | Perm alink Thank you very much..it is working fine…..

344. mwawe Posted March 17, 2010 at 8:56 pm | Perm alink im trying to make a usb with Win7 64bit my OS is Win7 32bit and i have problem in step 7.

system sayid: version of F:\boot\bootsect.exe is proper with version running on this PC….

anyone know what to do ??

345. mwawe Posted March 17, 2010 at 8:58 pm | Perm alink correct:!!!!!

version F:\boot\bootsect.exe is NOT proper with….

346. MTL Posted March 18, 2010 at 7:37 pm | Perm alink Great guide. For those of us who are not builders or very familiar with computers, including a detailed step on how to change the boot priority in BIOS from HDD or CD to USB would make this guide complete…

Thanks for your time and effort on what is here though – Much appreciated!

347. Diego Freniche Posted March 19, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Perm alink Thanks! After trying a lot of “tutorials”, this one WORKED. I’ve finished installing my Asus 904 HD

Thanks again!

348. Sathya Posted March 20, 2010 at 12:30 am | Perm alink Thanks a lot!!!! It worked good for me… Only thing you could further mention is that “diskpart doesnot recogonise removable storsge in xp” it works only in vista (or) win 7.

349. visions Posted March 20, 2010 at 1:41 am | Perm alink CD BOOT Problems you need to *press ctrl c then type the commands below 100% working for me now

D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.

350. shakir Posted March 24, 2010 at 1:37 am | Perm alink superb expalanation…. anyone will easily understand…keep it up..

351. Huy Nguyen Posted March 24, 2010 at 8:51 am | Perm alink Excellent

Works great for me

Thanks

352. underworld666 Posted March 25, 2010 at 6:07 pm | Perm alink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 33/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … Really great!!! This tips works fine for me.

Thanks!

353. david Posted March 28, 2010 at 3:51 am | Perm alink i cannot burn cds or photos onto a disc when i try it says put disc into cd drive d .Thanks if you can help me

354. rudnueva Posted March 30, 2010 at 10:53 am | Perm alink Does it work in cmd 5.1 bro…? particularly in Windows xp 3…..I tried but it doesn’t work……thank you

355. Oleg Posted April 1, 2010 at 7:55 pm | Perm alink Hi Thanks a lot for info. Can I have both, vista and win7 on usb stick at the same time? Just out of interest.

Thanks

356. RM Posted April 2, 2010 at 7:05 am | Perm alink I did this from a Windows 7 computer and was able to install Windows 7 from USB with no issues at all.

Well done!

357. Patatattat Posted April 2, 2010 at 8:55 am | Perm alink

I did this process on a SATA SSD 16gb harddrive I had, and it worked! Beautiful.

358. Rishad Posted April 6, 2010 at 5:28 pm | Perm alink Thanks Alot man, This is very usefull for me…….

Thanks buddy……

359. Rajesh Posted April 6, 2010 at 5:29 pm | Perm alink Man, just worked like a charm in the second try. First try I had error “COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED”

Solution: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

On the pop-up right click context menu, select “Run as Administrator”

Repeated all the steps once again.. and Voila…

thanks a lot my Friend..

360. Tim Posted April 12, 2010 at 4:42 pm | Perm alink Thank you very much! Great detail!

361. Skyler Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:41 am | Perm alink I did all the steps up until 5 now I was wondering I don’t have Win 7 on a disk just on my hardrive can I just copy over to my USB at this point? and would I still have to change the Bios settings?

362. Amos Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:03 pm | Perm alink Hi, excellent instructions…I’m almost there but when i run format fs=ntfs I get the following error message right at the end of the format..

“100 percent completed” “diskpart has encountered an error the parameter is incorrect”

have you seen this before and if so any suggestions?

i’m on Vista

363. Amos Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Perm alink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 34/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … actually you can’t continue with the instructions, if you try assign you get “There is no volume specified. Please select a volume and try again”

364. Krim Posted April 15, 2010 at 2:46 am | Perm alink When I put the usb in, it gets to the boot screen and says “BOOTMGR IS MISSING” and I’ve repeated the BOOTSECT steps already.

365. Hannibal Posted April 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm | Perm alink Thanks for the tutorial, it work perfectly.

i also have a WINDOWS 7 AIO DVD 33 in 1 i had put together and put that on a USB too, also works perfectly.

thanks again

366. Hannibal Posted April 16, 2010 at 2:51 pm | Perm alink TO AMOS

make sure you fill all details in CAPITAL LETTERS and just take your time to go through it again.

367. Zaid rohid Posted April 16, 2010 at 5:33 pm | Perm alink i hv problem with this technic.. the command sound like this..

“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects : Access is denied. ” someone please help me….

368. VolN Posted April 18, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Perma link To Zaid

try to run cmd.exe as administrator and it will be fixed

369. Harjinder Singh Posted April 25, 2010 at 4:30 pm | Perm alink u r the best men i think bcz u simply tell us the setp for install window frm usb.anybody easily do it. thanx for ue help.

370. miro Posted April 26, 2010 at 5:51 am | Perm alink You need to add > Type EXIT < To exit the diskpart after formatting. Like this:

5. Type EXIT to exit DISKPART

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.

Otherwise very helpful indeed Thanks

371. izdelava spletnih st Posted April 27, 2010 at 10:57 am | Perma link Great article!

Helped my friend’s laptop

372. leahcim Posted April 28, 2010 at 9:14 am | Perm alink i gotta try vpc mode…………… tnx

LeAhCiM

373. Zaid rohid Posted April 29, 2010 at 1:44 am | Perm alink

THANK YOU… !!! YOU ARE THE GREAT!

374. hamedshaik Posted April 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Perma link try dis guyz its vry easy

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-vista-or-xp-usb- flashpen-drive-with-a-single-click-must-try/ intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 35/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

375. Derick Posted May 2, 2010 at 6:52 am | Permalink insert the hit any key depending your pc you have to go to the system bios

376. Omni Posted May 2, 2010 at 7:00 am | Permalink Works with doing a quick format aswell, as it takes long time to do a regular. Super guide!

377. Mohamed Posted May 4, 2010 at 6:33 pm | Permalink This excellent work / / / I will by experience

378. ferpuj Posted May 6, 2010 at 9:52 pm | Permalink Try wintoflash and forget all your usb problem, all you need installation cd win7/vista/xp wintoflah and usb stick 4gb for 7/vista 2gb for xp… drivers and stripcan do it later.

379. mani Posted May 12, 2010 at 2:39 pm | Pe rma link now microsoft provide their own tool to create a bootable usb drive to install windows vista/7/2008/2008-R2

380. Waqas Muhammad Akash Posted May 12, 2010 at 5:39 pm | Pe rma link 32 bit and 64 bit. This method works on both vista and win7. either 32 bit or 64 bit. now because 64 bit capacity is more than 32 installation CD or DVD. I have 16 GB card. On this card i have win 98 win me win professional 2000 win server 2003 win NT networks win xp ( all in 1 ) home, professional, media center edit win vista (all in 1) win 7 ( all in 1 ) 32 bit and 64 bit is only win 7. above rest os are only 32 bit… I have installed too many times on different system different os what customer ask for it. via using this memory card….. simply booting and them select from the list what i need to install then after that setup for that windows will run up…..and so go on…. waqas _ akash AT yahoo DOT com if some one need please send me personal email….

381. litesh Posted May 13, 2010 at 10:22 pm | Perm alink tnx i like it

382. litesh Posted May 13, 2010 at 11:10 pm | Perm alink sir after installing windows i got error on pendrive that window was unable to format nw ho to format it into fat again.

383. Madhur Makwana Posted May 19, 2010 at 10:01 am | Perm alink

Thanx man.. great work..

384. Posted May 21, 2010 at 5:50 am | Pe rma link Thanks man. Worked a treat!

385. setu Posted May 24, 2010 at 3:12 pm | Pe rma link May be I am in biggest trouble of my life with computer, I was following your steps without knowing that my main data hdd (500gb) was attached and I follow all the steps till the formatting ….where I realized I have formatted the wrong one..and if I don’t get my data back I will be at zero….al my work and everything was in it n I don’t have a dvd back up as well…..i know it’s stupid fuc’ed up situation ……any help will be life saver….please pls…..get me out of this………..

386. admin Posted May 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm | Pe rma link @Setu

You can try EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard free edition to get back your data. I hope you will get back your data.

387. anon Posted May 28, 2010 at 1:41 pm | Pe rma link After copying is complete, delete the file ‘ei.cfg’ to make all Windows varients available.

388. oxygen Posted May 28, 2010 at 8:20 pm | Pe rma link or HP USB Format Tool intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 36/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

389. Matt Posted May 29, 2010 at 5:51 am | Pe rma link OMG, this works so well, thanks, i have tried so many other “guides” and they did work. THANKS

390. Benjamin Posted June 1, 2010 at 7:44 am | Pe rma link To anyone else still having the error in DiskPart, you MUST right click the CMD within your Accessories folder and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.

Otherwise, permission denied errors.

391. Suneev Posted June 1, 2010 at 11:35 am | Perm alink I put forward my warm thanks for the help this post provided me.

This process is working fine with windows 7

Thanks Again

Suneev [email protected]

392. Michael Posted June 1, 2010 at 1:27 pm | Pe rma link I’ve used this guide before with success, but it’s not working this time. Every time I type in “cd boot”, I get an error message stating “The system cannot find the path specified.” I’ve already tried two computers and I get the same message. I also tried replicating the exact steps I did the first time by using a virtual drive, but that isn’t working either. What’s wrong?

393. azhk Posted June 6, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Perm alink Thanks a lot for the excellent guide!

394. Robin Posted June 7, 2010 at 10:43 pm | Perm alink After step 7 it shows an error stating “Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied” Any idea how to solve this problem?

395. Peter Posted June 8, 2010 at 12:16 am | Perm alink Thanks for the article, worked perfectly.

396. Dennis Posted June 8, 2010 at 2:25 am | Pe rma link Thanks! Works great!

397. somu Posted June 8, 2010 at 4:05 pm | Pe rma link In the step 5 you had mentioned “insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive” but what if i don’t have optical drive, i am unable to go further this step.

398. MAN WITH NO NAME Posted June 9, 2010 at 6:31 pm | Pe rma link GREAT WORK THANK YOU !

399. Thankful29l Posted June 10, 2010 at 10:50 pm | Perm alink Very well written guide, woks like charm

Thank you

400. ander Posted June 16, 2010 at 7:23 am | Perm alink This is a good article, but it has an error. It says:

> 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.

What you meant to say was:

6. At the prompt, switch to your DVD drive. For example, if your DVD drive is drive D, type: intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 37/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … D:

…then press Enter.

7. Type CD BOOT and press Enter, to see the message below.

(I would make typing CD BOOT a separate step.) Cheers, Ander

401. Taleeno Posted June 16, 2010 at 5:34 pm | Perm alink I did this the first time and it worked fine- But i copied the wrong version of Win7 which had expired. Do i need to run command prompt again for the newer version or can i just copy the files over from the new DVD and go straight away?

402. mezvix Posted June 20, 2010 at 9:07 pm | Perm alink for windows xp users format usb with petousb tool you can get by googling around and runbootsect as instructed , other wise boodsectis also available standalone on many websites to make bootable .it even supports making xp bootable usb

403. SATADRU Posted June 21, 2010 at 11:12 am | Perm alink HEY GUYS JUST MOUNT THE WIN 7 ISO FILE IN DEMONS TOOL IN XP AND INSTALL IT TO THE PARTITION U LIKE….THERE IS NO NEED TO USE ANY DVD OR USB PENDRIVE…….ANY PROBLEM!! MAIL ME [email protected]……..

404. joseph Posted June 24, 2010 at 3:30 am | Perm alink Todo funcionó a la perfección. Gracias !!

405. Santhosh Posted June 24, 2010 at 10:20 pm | Perm alink thank you………dis is very interesting..

406. Ahmad Bukhori Posted June 25, 2010 at 10:52 am | Perm alink work wonderfull on my external hard drive… thank you.

407. Brad Posted June 26, 2010 at 9:21 am | Perm alink

Just awesome. Very nicely done, easy to understand and exactly what I was after.

408. Raeef Posted June 26, 2010 at 12:52 pm | Perm alink Thanks, I used it on my Sony Vaio upgrade media on my NW180J

It worked perfectly.

409. Harsha Madushan Posted June 26, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Perm alink Thanx a lot !!! work perfectly……… Use full for me….

410. Anurag Posted June 26, 2010 at 7:06 pm | Perm alink EXCELLENT GUIDE THANK U VERY MUCH…it worked in first time

411. Victor Fernandes Posted June 28, 2010 at 10:49 am | Perm alink Sir, At present I am using Windows XP which I would like to replace by Windows 7. Please help me to install Windows 7 on my computer. Thanking you.

412. raksmey Posted June 28, 2010 at 3:07 pm | Perm alink thank you post is very useful for me. but does it work?

413. Hudson Posted June 29, 2010 at 6:52 pm | Perm alink I’m currently at the copying files to USB end stage. But for anyone who reads down here, make sure to check that you’ve selected the right disk in stage 4, one way to do this is by typing DETAIL DISK and hitting enter after the SELECT DISK 1 line, brings up a load of details and a volume list at the bottom, with name, size etc, mine was Disk 4. (Using a different guide I manage to format my D:, good thing I’ve got a server backup. DON’T MAKE MY MISTAKE)

414. Venthan Posted June 29, 2010 at 10:24 pm | Perm alink Hey, intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 38/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

Thanks a lot, this helped me to resolve my issue after a 5 days struggle

415. nex Posted July 1, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Perm alink hi,anyone can help in bios settings,how it is done to select pendrive ..i cannot do it although i have new m/b and all above trick ..but i can’t detect my bootable drive…may i lack this idea…help me out …..thanks

416. solem Posted July 2, 2010 at 2:48 am | Perm alink I was a bit sceptical about this actually working. It just seemed too good to be true, this being Windows and all. But it actually works.

Like mentioned earlier it’s not possible to run bootsect from 32-bit windows on a 64-bit version.

Also, I had to run cmd as admin or else bootsect would complain about something I can’t remember atm.

417. real1tyFTW Posted July 4, 2010 at 2:21 pm | Perm alink OMG THANX !!!!!!!!! I HAD A MAJOR FKING ISSUE, ! AND BY JUST SAYING the first 2 commands the SETUP started and i was good to go THX ALLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

418. solarni sistemi Posted July 5, 2010 at 7:19 am | Perm alink i found this article helpful because recently i had problems with usb and booting. THANKS

419. Jibba Posted July 6, 2010 at 2:15 pm | Perm alink Don’t know why everyone post hard guides with cmd promt. There is a program directly from Microsoft to do that same thing in 3 clicks. It also works on pirate/cracked copy of windows 7 .

Download and guide: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

420. twe Posted July 9, 2010 at 1:14 am | Perm alink Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was easy and helped things run much more smoothly. What a relief!

421. Jan Posted July 10, 2010 at 12:15 pm | Perma link This guide didnt work for me. When I try to boot the USB drive it just says “invalid partition table” and halts.

422. Jan Posted July 10, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Perma link I fixed it, it didnt have anything to do with this guide. If you get the error “invalid partition table” try configuring your usb drive to load as hddd and not removable/fdd.

423. Fane Posted July 13, 2010 at 5:20 pm | Permalink it works on 16 Gb USB Disk ???

there is a maximum size of USB Disk ? 10x for answer

424. Kumar Posted July 16, 2010 at 1:06 pm | Permalink There is always an easy way, download the tool from windows website and vollla sit back and relax it will do everything for you !!!

http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

425. Igre Posted July 24, 2010 at 8:34 pm | Permalink Great written guide!

426. LT Posted July 25, 2010 at 4:00 am | Permalink I just had to tell you this was so easy, even for a non-techie like me, and by far the easiest setup instructions on the web. I am installng Win 7 on my (6-yr old) son’s netbook as we speak 7 he is so impressed!

427. bat787 Posted July 29, 2010 at 10:10 am | Perma link Perfect explaination.. Many many.. many many..man thanks intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 39/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

428. Johnny Posted July 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Perma link To get this working in XP just use a Windows 7 virtual machine. Virtual Box is easy enough.

It’s working for me.

PS. Not sure if it has been said, but not looking through all the comments lol

429. Kamesh Posted July 31, 2010 at 2:13 pm | Permalink I have a doubt in 5th step whr u say to insert Win 7 DVD…but if my cd-rom is not working how can i insert DVD in tht place..my rom is not even opening if i press the ..then what should i do??

430. Kayes Posted July 31, 2010 at 5:32 pm | Permalink This is really cool man, buy 1 thing in the step 7 when i type BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: it was not working but next time when i tried it was working.

Any way thanks for the real tutorial. I hope i will see more useful tutorial soon.

431. Summitsingh Thakur Posted July 31, 2010 at 9:27 pm | Permalink Thanks! 100% Working for me. Well, before I was able to install Ubuntu only.

432. Posted August 4, 2010 at 10:54 am | Pe rm alink ThanX allot to whoever brain is behind all this…. Works 110% clean & safe install. No problems faced. Follow the steps as written

433. Cristian C. Posted August 6, 2010 at 5:26 pm | Perma link Thank you!!! Your tutorial is excelent! Simple, safe and easy to follow.

Thank you, thank you!

434. Adlantis Posted August 7, 2010 at 5:45 pm | Perma link Really great guide, easy to understand and follow, thanx a bunch!

435. Maneksh.V.Thomas Posted August 7, 2010 at 5:50 pm | Perma link

THANK YOU Soooooo Much Man… you saved me…

436. SHAILENDRA Posted August 8, 2010 at 5:20 pm | Perma link Your The Best Boss!!!!

437. Michelle Posted August 9, 2010 at 8:02 am | Perma link OMG.. This saved my whole day.. OMGH!!!!!!!! Im back on my own pc – it worked TYSM !!!!!!!!!! FANTASTIC.

438. junex Posted August 9, 2010 at 11:15 am | Pe rm alink how can i sure that..this is working…and it is good to used it.?

439. avaton Posted August 10, 2010 at 12:37 am | Perm alink excellent work m8

440. Steve Posted August 12, 2010 at 4:19 am | Pe rm alink what a legend!! I was completely lost and you have saved me – worked a treat.

Many thanks -

441. Mack Posted August 12, 2010 at 8:43 am | Pe rm alink Everything worked fine down to copy the files from the DVD to the USB. I get a ‘Can’t read from the source file or disk. bootsect.exe.mui’

Any ideas are appreciated. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 40/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … 442. adel Posted August 13, 2010 at 12:38 am | Perm alink DiskPart> select disk 3 DiskPart> clean DiskPart succeded in cleaning the disk. DiskPart> creat partition primary DiskPart> succeded in creating the specified partition DiskPart> select partition 3 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition there is no partiotion selected.

thats the eror i get please help me.

443. AJ Posted August 13, 2010 at 8:04 am | Pe rm alink What a guide, 101% working. People still leaving comments every day after one year. One of the best guides ever if you ask me! THANK YOU, you deserve it!

444. Smithy Posted August 13, 2010 at 2:42 pm | Pe rm alink Jesus, how many times has the guy got to say it. ITS FOR WINDOWS VISTA AND 7 NOT XP . Bunch of retards!

445. NLkiwi Posted August 15, 2010 at 11:43 pm | Perm alink Followed instructions and worked great, no issues. Created a Win7x64 usb install from a Win7x64 machine. Install was for a HTPC with no optical drive.

446. odotan Posted August 16, 2010 at 11:52 am | Perm alink The easiest method yet OFFICIAL FROM MICROSOFT

http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool

447. Tammi Posted August 17, 2010 at 2:21 am | Pe rm alink I had an error, when I tried to format, that said Virtual Disk service error: the file system is incompatible. I fixed it by using quick format instead. Use this command

format fs=NTFS quick

I hope this helps somebody. =)

448. rakesh Posted August 17, 2010 at 12:35 pm | Perm alink by the way I’m using MSI P55-GD65 motherboard and transcend 4GB USB drive. is it my board or the usb drive….A Read Error… please help

449. Rahul Posted August 17, 2010 at 6:41 pm | Pe rm alink This method will not work if you are running on Windows Xp.The best alternative will be to use either use either the microsoft method or try to use softwares like WintoFlash to automate it for you.

450. Abdullah Posted August 17, 2010 at 8:57 pm | Pe rm alink This method worked for me 100%, i am installing right now from a 8GB USB. Thanks a lot !!!!!

451. Corey j Posted August 18, 2010 at 3:13 am | Pe rm alink worked well with ENT, on my xeon server

Also if you are making the usb disk from a 32 bit machine and your having problems, saying incompatable stuff, than go to a machine which is 64 bit, and do it over

anyway good luck with everyone else, and these steps

452. LAP87 Posted August 18, 2010 at 11:15 am | Perm alink Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool , takes your ISO and makes a bootable USB Drive or DVD. Works under Xp/Vista.

http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool

453. Johnsin Posted August 18, 2010 at 7:58 pm | Pe rm alink Wow this was so Educational… I tried to do it with both x64 and x32 and there it was on my EHDD! Cool Guide! Thanks man intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 41/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … 454. Hesus Posted August 18, 2010 at 11:40 pm | Perm alink Pardon me but this is pretty useless. If i had a windows dvd why da hell would i need to boot from usb? The only reason i wanted to boot from usb was to not waste time on going out of the house and buying a new dvd. Instead i wasted my time on this.

455. Frankie Posted August 19, 2010 at 4:10 am | Pe rm alink When you said insert the Windows Vista/Windows 7 disk, did you mean insert a blank disc or the disc that already has the software on it?(The $100 disc from store that comes in the software box)

Thanks

456. DRBDANISH Posted August 19, 2010 at 5:17 am | Pe rm alink It was a success.. Thanks mate…

457. admin Posted August 19, 2010 at 9:20 am | Pe rm alink Frankie, put the disc that has Windows 7 on it. Good luck!

458. Roxy Posted August 19, 2010 at 12:48 pm | Perm alink I followed this guide but when booting up i have an error message ‘A disk read error’

What is the problem?

459. Litlis Posted August 19, 2010 at 2:07 pm | Pe rm alink I do all the steps but on step 7 then i write “bootsect.exe /nt60″ he write this: This version of G:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windo ws you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you n eed a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. then what should i do??

460. good stuff Posted August 19, 2010 at 4:55 pm | Pe rm alink Appreciate such a good info. Deserve moar views&comments. Such success made me cum four times in a row, thanks mate. You need a one gosu sexy treat like good asss penatration. Wish u good sex GG.

461. Valdez Posted August 19, 2010 at 6:01 pm | Pe rm alink This worked well for me to create Win7 32 bit usb version, but when I tried to make 64bit version on another flash drive using a 64bit DVD I got boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible…..I am using 32bit Vista to make these drives. Can I modify the code to make this work? Or do I need to find 64bit machine with DVD drive? Thanks, Valdez

462. admin Posted August 19, 2010 at 7:47 pm | Pe rm alink Try to do it on x64 version of Windows.

463. tavu Posted August 20, 2010 at 12:26 am | Perm alink I can’t copy the file from the Windows DVD to the USB stick. It says I need to provide an administrator to copy to that folder. Everything else is copied, just the autorun has this problem. What can I do? Thank You.

464. puneet Posted August 22, 2010 at 2:01 pm | Pe rm alink Thanks dude great job, very easy & good explanation

465. Miss Pretty Posted August 22, 2010 at 10:07 pm | Perm alink I want to know the detail steps on how you can repair window operating system.

Thanks

466. Miss Pretty Posted August 22, 2010 at 10:09 pm | Perm alink Also i want some things on Virtual LAN, the problems and prospects of it.

Thanks for your help.

467. miss26 Posted August 23, 2010 at 3:35 pm | Pe rm alink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 42/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … hi, have a problem in step 6..my dvd drive is E, and my usb is G……

E: CD BOOT E:\boot>bootsect.exe /nt60 G: Target volume will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.

pls help me in this problem..thanks

468. Uwais Posted August 24, 2010 at 7:21 am | Pe rm alink hi i am using this method to install snow lepoard on a previously windows machine will it work?? btw my snow lepoard image is on my comps HD so i cant complete step 5 onwards?? what do i do??

also is there anyway of reversing this procedure after i haveinstalled the OS so i can use the HD as a mass storage device after??

thanks

469. john Posted August 24, 2010 at 7:25 am | Pe rm alink hi am i able to use this method to install MAC OS snow lepoard. i have no disk just the .DMG file so i cant complete step 5 onwards. will it still work??

also am i able to reverse the effects on my external HD so i can use it as a mass storage device after??

thanks

470. admin Posted August 24, 2010 at 8:48 am | Pe rm alink @ John Sorry, I have no idea about Mac OS.

471. DANNY Posted August 24, 2010 at 9:42 pm | Pe rm alink Thanks man this is by far the best and accurate tutorial for making a win7/vista bootable usb…

472. DANNY Posted August 24, 2010 at 9:47 pm | Pe rm alink @John, no you can’t as NTFS relates to windows file system only.

473. Dave D. Posted August 25, 2010 at 7:23 am | Pe rm alink Hey, I tried it and works perfectly, thanks a lot…i’ve tried other guides with no success but your guide is fantastic…keep up the good work…this world needs more helpful people like you.

474. RAZON Posted August 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm | Perm alink MANY MANY THINKS SIR BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM TO COPY “SETUP.EXE” FILE WHY IT NOT COPY. PLEASE EXPLINE ME SIR

475. Fi156 Posted August 25, 2010 at 3:21 pm | Pe rm alink Nice How To, but the command: format fs=ntfs needs HOURS not minutes…

476. naveen kumar Posted August 26, 2010 at 7:08 pm | Pe rm alink Works like magic….. Thanks

477. Madhav Posted August 27, 2010 at 1:01 pm | Pe rm alink @Fi156 better use format fs=ntfs quick This will take you a few seconds. that command without quick will take long time because it performs a complete format. thanks

478. KOUSHIK Posted August 28, 2010 at 12:08 am | Perm alink actually i have a another problem .i have a pen drive but its don’t show its original memory and it is not to be formatted .this pen drive is 8 gb but showing 69mb.if you give me a suggestion that how i am recover from this problem so iam glad ti you.

479. Richard Posted August 28, 2010 at 11:16 am | Perm alink You rock man! Thanks for this guide. I’ve spent two whole days trying to repair my intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 43/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … corrupt Windows 7 installation on my Netbook, which has been a challenge as it has no optical drive, so having a bootable Flash Drive was the perfect answer. Thanks again!

A few tips to others: - The format of the USB drive takes a while, just be patient (I used the full format, not quick, just to be sure!) - If you’re getting an Access Denied error when trying to map partitions, it’s because you didn’t run the command prompt as Administrator. Right click on the Command Prompt program as select “Run as Administrator” - When setup has completed, don’t forget to set your boot priority back to the Hard Drive in the BIOS!

480. Anku Posted August 28, 2010 at 9:51 pm | Pe rm alink Thanx a lot mannn!! it really works!! u r awsum!!!!

481. Cheryl Posted August 29, 2010 at 10:39 pm | Perm alink I have done this – what method of copying files from cd to usb is best, I Right clicked copyed then right clicked and pasted. When I tried to boot up I got BOOTMGR.exe missing and it wouldnt boot up. Am I doing something wrong?

482. Amp Posted August 30, 2010 at 10:27 am | Perm alink will this work for ?

483. zero Posted August 30, 2010 at 9:22 pm | Pe rm alink i’ve already try your method, but i have a problem here which is, after my computer restart to finish the installation, it came back for the begiining to format my computer and not proceed for the “completing installation”…how to overcome this problem?please help me…

484. Ed Posted August 31, 2010 at 3:46 am | Pe rm alink Worked for me. Thanks to all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are using Windows XP to create your bootable USB, these steps worked for me. I just omitted steps 1-5

Download and install http://i.thepcspy.com/USB_Boot.zip Archive : “pasta”

Open and find your USB drive and format using NTFS

6. Now open another command window and type following command

J: (Drive letter of Windows 7 iso mounted with demon tool or ultraiso)

CD boot

bootsect /nt60 Y: (Y is drive latter of your USB drive )

Update BOOTMGR for USB Pen Drive

7. Now copy all files from drive where you have mount Windows 7 iso

8. Now reboot your computer and press F9 to get your BIOS screen and select USB drive as your boot drive.

9. If every thing goes fine, Your Windows 7 Installation should start from your USB drive

485. GEORGE Posted August 31, 2010 at 6:01 am | Pe rm alink Worked like a charm!

486. zero Posted August 31, 2010 at 6:50 am | Pe rm alink i’ve already try your method, but i have a problem here which is, after my computer restart to finish the installation, it came back for the begining to format my computer and not proceed for the “completing installation”…how to overcome this problem?please help me…

487. Farshid Bohlooli Posted September 1, 2010 at 1:53 am | Perm alink hello.. Thank you so much.. i’m iranian.. my laptop have not DVD Rom.. I want you to tell Persian: ???? ?????.. ????? ??? ???? : Thanks really

488. gaithat Posted September 1, 2010 at 8:06 pm | Perm alink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 44/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … It was a perfect explanation.

Thanks for such a nice tutorial.

Only problem, I faced with BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:command. Once you invoke Command Prompt like run as Administrator there was nothing like …

Windows Xp does not recognize removable drive under: LIST DISK segment.

Pl. keep it up.

489. bulger Posted September 2, 2010 at 6:12 pm | Perm alink Does not work on my vista laptop….. tried several times now keep getting “‘BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file,” Thanks to the author as I have used this for Windows 7 previously and it worked fine but any help with vista install would be appreciated!

490. I8bnsober Posted September 4, 2010 at 2:35 am | Perm alink Worked great for me except the clean command run as (admin) gives me an access denied on v*sta and w*n7 but I skip this step and even use the same window to perform the partitioning and the bootsect, worked great on both. Thanks.

491. Karlo Antukin Posted September 5, 2010 at 7:13 pm | Perm alink for those whos stuck at step 7 coz Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. run cmd as administrator that would do the trick

492. bziz Posted September 5, 2010 at 9:13 pm | Perm alink problem with could not map … access denied but here is the solution: you have to go into run and go into cmd. then you have to minimise it and on your right-click the icon for cmd and also right-click on command prompt then click on run as administrator

493. Darky Posted September 5, 2010 at 11:19 pm | Perm alink Hey…Can i install windows 7 with usb * i dont have dvd reader atm * if i dont have a windows before it..Like my old windows crashed & now am without windows at all & i wanna install windows 7 & no dvd reader ,thx alot

494. TechNazgul Posted September 6, 2010 at 12:49 am | Perm alink Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Worked like a charm for me with Windows 7 Ultimate x86 installing to an Acer Revo 1600 (which I’m using to test out the new XBMC beta release of Dharma).

495. young money Posted September 6, 2010 at 1:03 am | Perm alink hey buddy thanx its working and the way you have explained the steps its easy to understand. thanx again if more solutions are available on any problems regarding windows please tell me.

496. IceaTronic Posted September 6, 2010 at 10:42 pm | Perm alink Pro Tip:

When formatting the USB Stick, use the following:

format fs=ntfs quick

Takes about 30 seconds to format the drive. Incredibly handy if your USB stick is 8GB+ like all of mine are. I dont want to wait 20 minutes for it to format…

497. thedeamon Posted September 8, 2010 at 1:14 pm | Perm alink I think the guide will also work for XP USB boot.

We have to use Vista’s bootsect.exe which can reinstall XP’s bootsector.

To (re)install an NTLDR or BOOTMGR bootsector you will need Bootsect.exe.

Copy it from a Vista DVD if you want to include it on the USB root directory.

bootsect.exe /nt52 H:

I would suggest try to format the USB key as FAT & then install the boot manager followed b dumping of the XP CD to start testing. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 45/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … Start with FAT/FAT32/NTFS to see which one works.

If NTFS on key works, it will also mean a super fast Windows install over USB 2.0.

Catch: ensure to use correct bootsect.exe for x86 & x64 OS.

498. Azmi Posted September 9, 2010 at 4:55 am | Perm alink Hey!

I don’t know how you saved my life. I shall thank you for thousand times for this and once more thousand times for your efforts on this. It really worked. Thank man, appreciate it…

499. deeh Posted September 9, 2010 at 8:13 am | Perm alink work just fine,.. thank you..

500. Andy Posted September 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm | Perm alink Thank you so much! It’s so simple and yet I could not manage to install Windows from USB. Now it finally worked! Thanks!

501. Ricky Posted September 10, 2010 at 10:05 pm | Permalink Worked well for me, the only thing is I had to pull the drive out during the first reboot or the install would start all over again.

502. Gagandeep Singh Posted September 11, 2010 at 8:00 am | Perm alink HI. This is Gagan from http://www.softwaresgiant.com and do you know that you have really helped me a lot?I had original windows 7 ultimate 32-bit DVD but it sisnot run on my PC as I had no DVD player.So I made this bootable HD and am enjoying 7 because of you.

Thanks

503. Rets Posted September 12, 2010 at 6:47 am | Perm alink I did steps 1 to 4. My usb was plugged and so was my 500GB external hdd. It was too late when I realized that I did step 4 on my external hdd. Now, I cant open my external hdd – it always says your drive needs to be formatted. Please help =<

504. mary Posted September 12, 2010 at 4:53 pm | Perm alink Thank you so much, it worked like a charm!

505. matthew Posted September 13, 2010 at 1:40 am | Perm alink can i just say if u are using a bigger hard-drive eg a 250g external it takes about 1-2 hours to format to ntfs

506. nando Posted September 13, 2010 at 2:28 am | Perm alink THANK YOU!! this guide is awesome. worked without any problems.. and the speed of install increased! now it installs about 5x faster.. it used to take 1 hour. now it took 20 minutes :O!!! thanks!

507. MightyAL Posted September 13, 2010 at 3:53 pm | Perm alink Good advice is hard to get, thx for complete instructions. I dont trust downloaded tools, got some probs with english cos i´m from germany but this was site was best i found

508. james asare baffour Posted September 13, 2010 at 10:24 pm | Permalink 1)why do we use optical cd whilst basing on pen drive to install windows?

2) Can installing windows wit the help of pen drive be apply on any computer capacity?

509. Suraj Yadav Posted September 14, 2010 at 2:06 pm | Perm alink Hi, Thanks very much.

510. mikaboshi Posted September 15, 2010 at 1:41 am | Perm alink

Thnx allot for this great guide

I had the official ms tool to make your usb installer disk, but somehow it always ended up telling me it couldnt copy the files to my usb drive. Doing it manually worked like a intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 46/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … charm!

Thnx allot! (again ^^):)

511. Shen Posted September 15, 2010 at 5:52 am | Perm alink When I followed this method, I manage to get the OS to boot from the USB, but then that creates another problem. Vista confuses itself by reading the USB as another hard drive. The error “Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.” shows up in the Disk Partition page. My computer only has one hard drive so it must be the USB causing the problem. Can anyone tell me how to get around this problem?

512. ICHI Posted September 15, 2010 at 1:38 pm | Perm alink AWESOME GUIDE!! IT WORKS WHEN I INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE. YOU’RE A BOMB!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS.. KEEP IT UP!

513. FrackMicrosoft Posted September 16, 2010 at 12:03 am | Permalink This will work on non-vista computers if you use an external hard drive and skip the format command.

514. Boy XatZ Posted September 16, 2010 at 6:58 pm | Perm alink amazing… this guide really worked!!! plus you don’t need to use any programs.. /heh

515. DANNY Posted September 16, 2010 at 8:02 pm | Perm alink Diskpart has encountered an error;access is denied .see the system event log for more information

no usable free extent could be found.it may be that their is insufficient free space to creat a partition at the specified size and offset.specify differant size and offset values or dont specify either to creat the maximum sized partition.it may be that the disk is using the mbr disk,,,partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions,no more partitions may be created,,or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition ,only one logical drives may be created,,if you can help thanks

516. Ryan Posted September 17, 2010 at 12:02 pm | Permalink Is it just me or does it take more than just a few seconds to format the selected drive????

517. Ryan Posted September 17, 2010 at 12:03 pm | Permalink Maybe a few minutes….

518. weeds season 6 Posted September 17, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Perm alink Great write up!! this really helped me out and btw this can work on non-vista computers if you use an external hard drive

519. rohit Posted September 17, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Perm alink I got “Bootmgr is missing”. I m using dell

520. saif Posted September 18, 2010 at 3:22 am | Perm alink hi i m using win xp above all steps done n my bios have option usb hdd but i its not booting plz help

521. Nith Posted September 19, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Perm alink This works perfect. Thanks !!

522. Lorem ipsum generato Posted September 19, 2010 at 6:40 pm | Perm alink I was just looking for this guide! Tnx!

523. Bane Posted September 19, 2010 at 7:04 pm | Perm alink hey, the guide is dreat but like some ppl here I have the “missing bootmgr” problem, You sad fix it… but… how ??? please help me , I am trying to set win 7 on HP notebook wich has vista, and your steps I^ve done on other PC wich has win 7 on it,because dvd rom on notebook doesnt work. my USB drive is external HDD 1Tb.. folowed all steps one by one, then attached ext hdd on notebook and set booting from USB… still have msg missing bootmgr…. heeeeeeelp! thx!

524. darkan9el intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 47/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … Posted September 19, 2010 at 8:09 pm | Perm alink Awesome tut, just got windows 7 32bit on my nieces One, straight on everything installed. I’d say 10-20mins faster too than conventional DVD installs.

Pressed F2 on boot to get into setup, Acer Aspire will see the USB and show it by name, I just moved it to the top of the Boot list using F6 saved changes and rebooted. Once W7 has installed you have to go back into setup (F2) to change the boot sequence back to the HDD. Just finished updating. If only life was this simple’s lol!

525. justme! Posted September 21, 2010 at 3:42 am | Perm alink look’s like a nice method but! how do i ‘reverse’ the disk-on-key properties to it’s defaults,i mean in this whole procedure you actually change the file system of the disk- on-key and some other properties,how to reverse all that?

526. Sudheera Posted September 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm | Perm alink Great work….it worked for the first time…thanks a lot …..

527. Tom Posted September 23, 2010 at 2:49 am | Perm alink Hey, Thanks! great guide. I even got it to work using Windows XP! Tom

528. geoff Posted September 24, 2010 at 4:59 pm | Perm alink when you say copy ALL the files, does that mean hidden and system files contained within the CD? do you recommend drag/drop copy or a CMD Copy?

529. dallas fox Posted September 24, 2010 at 9:23 pm | Perm alink what if the windows 7 copy isn’t on a dvd but has been downloaded iso?

530. kevin Posted September 25, 2010 at 5:59 am | Perm alink Actually /active= should have 0 (most of the time) it’s the partition number OF the drive (0 as it’s formatted) otherwise you’ll get “invalid parameter…”.

531. are_peace22 Posted September 26, 2010 at 10:12 am | Permalink nice thx for the guide

532. unification Posted September 26, 2010 at 1:37 pm | Perm alink hello . i did all steps and it end successfully . but when restart my pc and set usb boot . my system cannot boot from usb and display this message ” … read disk error …” . while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest. but not working for this way that you say. please help me . and contact by me via email adress . thank.

533. Lucas Posted September 27, 2010 at 10:13 am | Permalink Perfeito com Windows7 ENG. Muito obrigado

534. unification Posted September 27, 2010 at 7:57 pm | Perm alink please help me. i need to this.

535. unification Posted September 28, 2010 at 4:54 am | Perm alink hello . i did all steps and it end successfully . but when restart my pc and set usb boot . my system cannot boot from usb and display this message ” … read disk error …” . while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest. but not working for this way that you say. please help me . and contact by me via email adress . thank.

536. marcus Posted September 28, 2010 at 6:28 am | Perm alink i cant do the “clean” bit. error occured, unable to access. help pweez

537. jainil Posted September 28, 2010 at 8:54 am | Perm alink i cant see my pendrive in command prompt in list disk… what i have to do ???

538. daniel plasencia Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:33 am | Perm alink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 48/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … thanx for the tips but i am getting a message saying could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: acces is denied on step 7 can you help?

539. ehsan Posted September 29, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Perm alink thanks alot dude!

540. Prithviraj Posted September 29, 2010 at 4:34 pm | Perm alink

Thanks a lot . Worked like a charm, very detailed and precise. Great job keep it up

541. Dave Sanders Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm | Perm alink Great step by step instructions. Even though I’ve done this dozens of times, it’s great to have a site I can trust to refer to when my (poor) memory fails me.

Thanks!

Dave Sanders Microsoft MVP

542. Peyman Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:59 pm | Perm alink Great JOB . Thanks

543. admin Posted September 29, 2010 at 8:00 pm | Perm alink Thanks for your kind words Dave Sanders.:)

544. Justin A Posted October 1, 2010 at 10:59 am | Permalink Beautiful! Flawless! Stupid sata DVD died and with no replacement and no time to spare this worked perfectly. Make sure drive is emptied as he states. Make sure! Otherwise, awesome. Thank yooouu.

545. turnkey website Posted October 1, 2010 at 7:31 pm | Perm alink i have a question that before reading this tutorial or finding it i bought a 2gb pen drive and i think this procedure does not work with 2 gb pen drive or does it?

546. Donna Posted October 2, 2010 at 10:02 am | Permalink WOW – Thanks a lot. It worked like a charm. I really appreciate your help. Keep up the good work. It is people like you that make the world a better place. Thank agian

547. Donna Posted October 2, 2010 at 10:06 am | Permalink

Thanks again

548. Sharma Mohit Posted October 3, 2010 at 9:57 pm | Perm alink plz tell me how to edit bios settings?

549. Trevor Posted October 4, 2010 at 12:56 am | Permalink This works great, thanks alot.

550. Erik Hurtig Posted October 4, 2010 at 2:43 am | Perm alink I just have to ask

Why not just copy all the files from the installation image to your drive, and have bootmgr ran from there instead?

551. Jay Bee Posted October 4, 2010 at 6:40 am | Perm alink This is getting long, but it is only fair to say thank you for this great guide. Thanks a lot.

552. AJIT Posted October 4, 2010 at 12:34 pm | Permalink MAN ITS AWESOME IT WORKS GREAT

553. Modeste Posted October 4, 2010 at 9:22 pm | Perm alink Tres bonne solution elle marche à merveille intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 49/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

554. Ankit Posted October 5, 2010 at 1:27 am | Perm alink i am using win7 32 bit. can i use bootsect to create a bootable USB to install win7 64 bit? i have the ISO file for win7 64 bit, but have no clue how to get it to work.

PS- my DVD drive is kaput.

555. Anggi Posted October 5, 2010 at 9:55 am | Perm alink Thank for tutorial installing windows 7

556. Mark Posted October 6, 2010 at 10:30 am | Permalink Thanks for the superb guide! I was able to get all the way to the final command with no problems. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate edition (Custumized Nvidia edition) in 64 bit mode. I get the following message when I try to enter the BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: command:

‘BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

any help would be MOST appreciated…

557. Mark Posted October 6, 2010 at 10:38 am | Permalink Please disregard my previous post….I forgot the CD BOOT command before attempting it. I have successfully updated the USB stick with the bootcode.

Again:

THANKS for this AWESOME guide…!

558. Doug Posted October 7, 2010 at 3:24 am | Perm alink When I received this error:

file : \Boot\BCD status : 0xc000000e info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration

I used another thumb drive and the problem was solved.

559. unification Posted October 7, 2010 at 5:09 am | Perm alink hello . why you dont answer to me . i did all steps and it end successfully . but when restart my pc and set usb boot . my system cannot boot from usb and display this message ” … read disk error …” . while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest. but not working for this way that you say. please help me . and contact by me via email adress . thank.

560. JB Posted October 9, 2010 at 1:47 am | Perm alink Since I’m trying to make a LiveCD bootable through USB, it’s not a normal official Windows 7 CD, and there is no BOOTSECT.EXE whatsoever, so I can’t make it BOOTMGR Compatible. Any other solutions?

561. piyush Posted October 9, 2010 at 10:12 pm | Permalink my dvd write is not working.how can i do this step D: CD BOOT.pls mail me ans.

562. Nishant Posted October 10, 2010 at 12:26 am | Pe rma link I tried with both vista and 7 no prob in installation, but in vista, no user profile is being created to log in. In 7, finalisation takes all its life n after shutting down after first use, in gives problem from second use on ward. it was irriteting.. wasted full night..!

563. Sandeep Posted October 11, 2010 at 5:30 pm | Permalink @nishant-this process only creates the way by which u can boot the setup progress with the pendrive…comparatively faster than cd or ….the problem you are facing is due to wrong installation files

564. Kir Posted October 11, 2010 at 6:01 pm | Permalink Thank you very much! intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 50/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … I’m Russian, but I didn’t find any working instruction for my problem on russian lanquage. This quide helps me to install Win7 Starter on my netbook using USB HDD.

P.S. Sorry for my engligh

565. Leo Posted October 12, 2010 at 1:13 am | Permalink Can i use this for install windows xp to?

566. Sam Posted October 12, 2010 at 6:05 pm | Permalink This worked fabulously. Thanks for the easy to follow instructions! I had been looking for this solution for a long time.

567. Ionut Posted October 13, 2010 at 1:34 am | Permalink Thanks a lot. Worked perfectly!

Very well described.

568. Jamie Kitson Posted October 13, 2010 at 5:44 pm | Permalink You really should put a link to the MS USB/DVD tool more prominently on your site, why bother with this complicated method?

http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool

569. Jony D Rico Posted October 14, 2010 at 7:40 am | Permalink Excelent it works great thank you, you save my life

570. Andres Au Posted October 16, 2010 at 6:20 am | Permalink You can also check the drive number designation in the device manager under “disk management” if you have trouble selecting the appropriate disk as described in step four of this guide.

571. pempoy Posted October 16, 2010 at 12:36 pm | Pe rma link Worked great! Thanks a lot.

572. KB Posted October 16, 2010 at 9:36 pm | Permalink THanks for the insight, I was going crazy trying to get this to work. A lot of sights miss the part about this only working in Vista/7!

573. JACK91 Posted October 16, 2010 at 10:46 pm | Pe rma link Thanks a lot dude..it is awesome..installed in 11 minutes..WOW

574. Crypdan Posted October 17, 2010 at 3:30 am | Permalink When you say copy windows 7 contents, you mean the documents or a iso file?

575. haroldcore Posted October 17, 2010 at 9:48 am | Permalink what if i dont have a win7 disc? what if i just have an ISO but not on a cd. because i have an ISO on my downloads.

576. AJ Posted October 18, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Pe rma link Works perfect, thank you.

577. dvhirst Posted October 19, 2010 at 4:47 am | Permalink Well, it worked as advertised (Windows7), but only after going to Control Panel – Settings and specifying “Never notify”. Before taking this step, the Bootsect command failed with “Access denied”.

Now, on to setting up BartPE on this bootable 4GB USB drive…

Thanks!

578. KGB1953 Posted October 19, 2010 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

Nice Tut man. Easy to follow and love the pics

579. KGB1953 Posted October 19, 2010 at 1:22 pm | Permalink intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 51/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … If you have an .iso file just mount it with magiciso. Google it.

580. c0de Posted October 19, 2010 at 11:58 pm | Pe rma link Each tutorial to this Thema goes that way: “First you use this Tool ,then use this tool and then do this dont mind why…”

What about people dont have Windows? I have only a far idea what to do with the USB Stick when i dont have those super special Windows Tools…

Always those Windowlooker with there freaky tools xD Never have a idea what they do ^^

581. Jaimie Posted October 21, 2010 at 7:08 am | Permalink Nice one works a treat.

Additional info: 1.) during the diskpart in command prompt, users need to cancel or ignore any prompts by windows to automatically format the drive.

2.) If you get the message from command prompt when coppying the boot info that the device is currently locked, it’s probably either your antivirus trying to scan the empty drive, or it’s windows that has automatically opened the drive contents in a window. Stopping the antivirus or any open windows other than commandprompt associated with the USB or external drive and trying again from where it said “device locked” works.

Thanks for a brilliant post. Saved me hours. I’m setting up a PC with old DVD drives and three have failed! Saved me getting a new DVD drive!

582. Samuel Posted October 23, 2010 at 6:31 am | Permalink PLEASE HELP!

I am having troubles with step 6:

I have typed in C:\Windows|System32> D: CD BOOT Then when I type in D:\> CD BOOT it says that The System Cannot Find The Path Specified. My disk is definitely in the drive and is definitely drive D: so what is wrong?

583. elise sayer Posted October 24, 2010 at 7:02 am | Permalink make it work

584. chielt Posted October 25, 2010 at 4:52 am | Permalink I have a 4GB usb pendrive. When I try to do ‘CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY’ it tells me the drive isn’t big enough te create a partition without extra parameters. Please advise.

585. nikhil Posted October 25, 2010 at 10:54 am | Pe rma link Ultimate guide..Fully working on Lenovo..

586. Albert Posted October 25, 2010 at 11:10 am | Pe rma link hey, i keep getting “… invalid ms- command” when copying the disk content in step 8.

587. Albert Posted October 25, 2010 at 11:18 am | Pe rma link and my explorer crashed. I created this in win 7.

588. shoab Posted October 26, 2010 at 3:06 am | Permalink sir pls tell me about how to create usb bootale for install windows xp-7 by usb device like pen drive.

589. SATHISH Posted October 29, 2010 at 7:11 pm | Permalink ya its really nice to do but in between i got some error .. but i think that the inspections given above are really gud .., the same time after i did some steps my usb drives crashed , after that i cant able to use d usb .., so please avoid stop in between.. thanks

590. SATHISH Posted October 30, 2010 at 12:46 am | Pe rma link

Hey Sorry For My Previous Post .., I Tried once again these steps i finally got thanks

Its Working Great …. Thanks

591. paras kumar intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 52/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … Posted October 30, 2010 at 8:56 pm | Permalink i have no cd drive so haw to make bootable pen drive

592. mukesh Posted October 31, 2010 at 2:37 pm | Permalink thanks dear its greet. working and help me lot thanks again

593. Vyom Neeraj Posted November 1, 2010 at 3:29 pm | Permalink Great post..!! Followed all the instructions step by step and works like a charm..!!

The only tip is that this wont work for xp since in xp, the MS DOS disk manager does not show usb disks. it will only show the HDD as disk 0. There is no disk 1. But when i tried with vista, then it shows usb as disk 1 and all the steps worked easily.

Thanks again man..!!

594. Jeffrey Posted November 1, 2010 at 6:03 pm | Permalink i tried but it does boot.

595. SherwinQ Posted November 4, 2010 at 10:03 am | Pe rma link It works great, thanks for sharing this man.

596. marshmallow Posted November 5, 2010 at 8:45 am | Permalink where u download window 7 file

597. FilledVoid Posted November 5, 2010 at 4:57 pm | Permalink This worked perfectly for a system that I was fixing which had a broken DVD drive. The method used was able to make my external drive bootable with Lenovos DVD image.

Thanks a ton.

598. Alex789045 Posted November 6, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink THANKYOU finally one of these guides works YES!!!!

599. Vash Posted November 6, 2010 at 4:29 pm | Permalink hey bro i’ve read all the instructions, i’ve never try it myself but on about the comments above, it’s a kind of 99% of believing you!!!hope i could make it!!!thanks

600. bINK Posted November 6, 2010 at 11:59 pm | Pe rma link thank you sir for your assistance on how to install windows from a usb , i have a oem cd with all of the versions of windows on it and it works flawlessly with the usb method . i have sucsescfully install starter, , home premium x86, x64 , and so on but my faviort useing this method is what i have on my asus mini netbook with 500 gb hard drive and 4 gb memory with windows 7 ultamate x64

601. sandy Posted November 7, 2010 at 2:08 pm | Permalink F:\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: Access is denied.

dis is d error i am facing plz help me out

602. sandy Posted November 7, 2010 at 2:40 pm | Permalink i solved that prob…. thanks for the artical….

603. lunatic Posted November 7, 2010 at 9:35 pm | Permalink Brick both of the usb drives I had thanks.

Worked like a charm good job buddy.

604. griff Posted November 9, 2010 at 8:40 pm | Permalink Have used this a bunch of times, really good guide thanks.

The only difficulties i had were resolved when i ran command prompt as an administrator. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 53/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen …

605. James Posted November 10, 2010 at 6:59 am | Pe rma link Awesome write up, worked like a charm! Thank you!

606. Deepak kumar Posted November 10, 2010 at 8:13 pm | Pe rma link after giving this command BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: it gives error could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied

607. Alan Posted November 11, 2010 at 3:22 pm | Pe rma link Much appreciated. I have an old Pc with org CD drive. It just wouldn’t read the Win 7 CD. My HD was dead and I had to install a new one. Luckily I had my laptop with WIN 7 installed. Took a while but we are up and running again.

608. 1234 Posted November 11, 2010 at 7:43 pm | Pe rma link after instalation if i want to use my flash drive as a normal storing device, what do i have to do? just format? or it will stay a bootable device 4 evar?

609. removals companies Posted November 12, 2010 at 2:26 pm | Pe rma link this tutorial was what i was needing for my cd driveless laptop

610. David Brennan Posted November 12, 2010 at 5:38 pm | Pe rma link One of your command prompt lines is formed incorrectly but will still work: i.e.

D: CD BOOT CD BOOT

should be just

D: CD BOOT

or:

cd /d D:\BOOT

but the guide works perfectly anyhow. Thanks very much.

611. LIM Posted November 13, 2010 at 7:41 pm | Pe rma link sorry i need ur help becaused after i done everything and restarting my computer to select to boot option from usb drive, but screen pop up a message of boot manager is missing….how to solve this problem. look forward for ur answer, thank you for helping me

612. dark8soul Posted November 14, 2010 at 8:52 am | Pe rma link for those who have trouble with all these instructions try downloading wintoflash. very simple to use

613. A random dude Posted November 15, 2010 at 12:06 am | Perm alink Right, it looks good, but I’ve yet to try it, for a few reasons:

1. How do you reverse the process for the USB, in case I want to use it as normal again after I’ve booted up my PC with it? Can it be done? How? Maybe it works anyway? I don’t want to ruin a good 16GB USB for it otherwise.

2. I’ve got my Win7 on an .ISO on my HDD, and I COULD install it using e.g DaemonTools or some such directly, but there are things that are better with a booted installation, thus I want to go with that option. But, my question is this, can I do as with the CD/DVD drive with a virtual drive, where I mount the Win7 .ISO and do Step 6 with the mounted drive?

Many thanks in advance!

614. lacie Posted November 16, 2010 at 2:47 am | Pe rma link thank you!

615. Scott Posted November 16, 2010 at 4:51 pm | Pe rma link I got a problem on the final step: BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

The error reported an inability to complete the step due to a compatibility issue with the intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 54/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … version of windows I’m running….. suffice to say I’m PRETTY MUCH flabbergasted at this point, any help hopefully? pending thats enough information

616. Ståle Posted November 16, 2010 at 6:05 pm | Pe rma link A very good and easy to follow guide. Thank you.

617. Agana Posted November 16, 2010 at 7:04 pm | Pe rma link this is great. it works great. thanks!

618. SREEJITH Posted November 19, 2010 at 6:48 am | Pe rma link I did this and installed Windows 7 Ultimate successfully….

THankx….

619. Vici Posted November 19, 2010 at 5:50 pm | Pe rma link Great tehnical post! Tnx for sharing!

620. Purushotham Posted November 20, 2010 at 12:07 am | Perm alink I did everything, but when I tried to boot, It says “A disk read error occurred, Press control+alt+del to restart.. Plz help me.

621. Jason Posted November 20, 2010 at 2:11 am | Pe rma link Thank you Thank you Thank you easy to follow and worked like a charm! Thank you Thank you Thank you

622. King Matt 85 Posted November 21, 2010 at 12:32 am | Perm alink Awesome. Well done pal!

623. Zaq Posted November 21, 2010 at 1:19 am | Pe rma link So i was on a mission for a free netbook. the job was to fix a laptop without a cd drive that worked. SO i turned to this. needless to say. Thanks for the net book. Your a money saver bud thank you!

624. NEERAJ Posted November 21, 2010 at 2:06 pm | Pe rma link yOU ARE GREAT tHANK,S

625. kyle Posted November 22, 2010 at 4:46 am | Pe rma link um in stuck at spet 7 help plz it says it does not recognize “bootsect.exe as an interal or external command”

help plz

626. kyle Posted November 22, 2010 at 4:47 am | Pe rma link im stuck not “in stuck” sorry typo

627. Žan Posted November 22, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Perm alink I get Invalid MS-DOS function and I cannot copy boot folder… Thanks for help!

628. deamon Posted November 23, 2010 at 3:32 am | Pe rma link works great,… thanks man. cheers

629. freddyzdead Posted November 23, 2010 at 10:38 am | Perm alink If you really want to claim “100% Working” then why is step 6 still wrong?

It says: ======D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. ======when it should say: ======D: and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter. intowindows.com/how-to-install-windo… 55/57 29-11-2010 Install Windows 7 From USB Drive/Pen … CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. ======

This is easy to fix and it is confusing a lot of people.

Also, I think FAT32 would work ok; speed difference would be insignificant.

And I think the BOOTSECT.EXE part is redundant because DISKPART prolly already did that. That’s why some ppl have got it to work when they left out that step.

Anyway, the main thing is it works. You just need to shout in caps that it DOESN’T WORK IN XP. Maybe the morons would see it then.

630. Qiang Posted November 23, 2010 at 1:47 pm | Pe rma link I tried this solution. “List Disk” works on Vista, not XP.

631. Michael Posted November 24, 2010 at 12:34 am | Perm alink I don’t have any Drivers when I try to install Windows 7 on my Netbook with no OS, what do I do?

632. mallikarjun Posted November 25, 2010 at 11:08 pm | Perm alink hey… after copyin the files to usb, i tried to install it on other comp by changing the boot order… i’m getting a error BOOT MNGR MISSING… please help me with this…

633. Ryan Posted November 26, 2010 at 9:55 pm | Pe rma link i followed this instruction and I unfortunately 2 of my drives are now missing. i only have my drive C visible

i am running windows 7(32bit) with 1 SATA HD(had 3 partitions now only C is visible) and 1 IDE HD

can someone please help me with this??

634. magallanes Posted November 27, 2010 at 3:53 am | Pe rma link Thanks.

btw, you can do (if you know that you pendrive is not defective):

FORMAT QUICK FS=NTFS

instead of FORMAT FS=NTFS

635. Andreas Posted November 28, 2010 at 1:31 am | Pe rma link Hi, I’ve tried to install win 7 from usb using wintoflash but faild due to ther error that I need cd/dvd drivers. The solution was removing the usb and reinserting it then I cancelled the setup and went to repair options. I then chose command prompt. After reinserting the usb you will have 3 discs. Mine were X: which was the boot disc (supposedly the usb but it wasn’t) c: (the usb after inserting it again) and d: (the cd- rom). On the command prompt I had to navigate to X:\windows. (type: “cd X:\windows” without quotes) then type: “bootsect /nt60 C: “(this loads the bootmgr on the usb. the usb in my case was C: so you have to find yours) after that just restart and the setup will continue without errors. best of luck

636. gride420 Posted November 28, 2010 at 3:26 am | Pe rma link great how too now i want a very easy how too on putting x86 and x64 bit of windows and of vista on one disk. Then should be able to do this guide and have both on 1 thumb drive. In the process of putting each os from xp up on 1 thumb drive each. Much faster installs and no more burning disc. Thanks

637. ors Posted November 28, 2010 at 10:52 am | Perm alink All of you who get “Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.”

Try running cmd as administrator!

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