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This guide works 100% for Windows 7 and Windows 8 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 to install Windows 7 and Windows 8 from USB flash drive.
I just did this method on one of my friends machine and installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 . The main advantage is that by using USB drive you will be able to install Windows 7 or Windows 8 in just 15 minutes. You can also use this bootable USB drive on friend’s computer who doesn’t have a DVD optical drive.
The method is very simple and you can use without any hassles. Needless to say that your motherboard should support USB Boot feature to make use of the bootable USB drive. Requirements:
*USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB) *Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation files.
Follow the below steps to create bootable Windows 7/Windows 8 USB drive using which you can install Windows 7 or Windows 8 easily.
Procedure: 1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port and move all the contents from USB drive to a safe location on your system. 2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Command Prompt with admin rights.
*Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter. Or
*Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the command prompt:
First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.
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Pen Ajay Walid Govinda Karim 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 モハメド “Disk 1”.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step Ben Mukund Paul Kadomeka Abdul to confirm it. Facebook social plugin
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/Windows 8 DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter of the DVD drive. In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is “D” and USB drive letter is “H” (open my computer to know about it). 6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following command now: D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.
CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. 7. Type another command given below to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code. BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
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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 or Windows 8 DVD contents to the USB flash drive.
9. Your USB drive is ready to boot and install Windows 7 or Windows 8. 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 or Windows 8 using official tool. 23
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1299 Comments
1. Daryl Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:20 am | Permalink
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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 I don’t think XP shows usb 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 | Permalink 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 | Permalink i am also trying to do this from xp, and it doesnt work, im not sure if step 4 needs to be done in comand prompt (i formatted the stick in disk manager) but i got stuck on step 7 because there is no such thing as bootsect.exe
7. neodorian Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:23 pm | Permalink When I run bootsect.exe it says that this version 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 Windows Vista & 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 | Permalink THANK YOU! I was having problems getting the boot sector to work… and you fixed it. Definitely better than any other guide… SCREEN SHOTS = TEHWIN!, they help sooo much when you 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 | Permalink Hey man your methods does not working in XP. Please reinform us.
13. Omar Posted January 13, 2009 at 4:52 am | Permalink I was doing fine up until step 5. I figured the whole point of booting from a USB drive was to avoid having to burn a disc with the Windows 7 files on it, or install on a PC without a DVD drive. Anyway, I 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. 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
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16. Lincoln Posted January 13, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Permalink OK nevermind I just had to optimise the drive for performance… Sorry about that!
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?
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 | Permalink Leechie!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR XP!!!! Wow, I have been searching for past two days and you explained it in 4 steps, you are AWESOME! Thank you VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!
21. Rkee Posted January 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm | Permalink U can also achieve booting from a usb drive by using daemon tools. 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 | Permalink Hey, I followed all the steps, and everything worked perfectly until I booted from the Usb device and tried to install windows 7. It said that “Setup does not support installation to disks connected through a USB port. Is there a way around this?
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 | Permalink i downloaded windows 7 from microsoft and dont have a cd/dvd for it so what do i do do i extract it to the usb then restart using the flash drive or what?
26. tweakwindows Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:48 pm | Permalink
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@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?
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 | Permalink What if I want to create a x64 boot in a x86 environment? I get this error message. “This version of g:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows 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 Operating System 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 | Permalink
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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.
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 windows xp 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 | Permalink If I had Vista pre-installed when I purchased my computer — what different steps would I take to make a bootable USB drive?? Thanks, Bob
43. Andy Posted January 28, 2009 at 11:32 pm | Permalink Thanks mate for this, very detailed and very user friendly, i tried to install Win xp on my EEEpc 1000H but for some reason it wouldnt boot unless i put the USB stick in….lol, its mad when Win 7 is much easier to setup and install than XP.
Anychance of letting me know how to dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Easy Peasy ?
Thanks mate your a star
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 | Permalink Hi.
In the list disk step,I can’t see my USB drive. What’s wrong with it? (My Operating System is XP.)
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Does it only work in Vista?
Thank you for your teaching.
47. SENTY Posted February 4, 2009 at 12:29 pm | Permalink HEY I HAVE PROBLEM IN THE LAST STEP .. MY DVD ROM IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY.I HAVE IMAGE(NRG) OF WINDOWS VISTA.I LOAD IT USING A IMAGE READER SOFTWARE (POWER ISO),WHEN I TRYING TO EXCUTE THE LAST STEP USING VIRTUAL DVD ROM THAN THE ORIGINAL DVD ROM,I GOT A EXCEPTION “COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED” HOW CAN I SLOW IT ..?,PLS HELP ME .. SND ME MAIL ON MY MAIL ACCOUNT…
48. tweakwindows Posted February 5, 2009 at 2:15 pm | Permalink Sorry for the delay in replay.
@Man This method works fine on Vista and Windows 7 only. I will be writing a guide for XP users in a week. Stay tuned!
@Nick1 I wrote this guide to make the installation faster. In my personal experience Windows 7 took just 15 minutes to get installed from USB compared to 35 minutes DVD method. Of course, you can skip the step 5 if you can mount the image and copy the files.
@Andy Sorry, I am not planning on that. But, it should be easier if you install Linux over Windows 7.
@Bob Sauve Follow the same procedure. This method works on both Vista and Windows 7.
@Tyson Wait for few days to get a detailed guide.
@Fzang NTFS is faster than FAT.
Admin http://www.intowindows.com
49. ELPY Posted February 5, 2009 at 5:08 pm | Permalink Awesome,Think!!!
50. asd Posted February 11, 2009 at 3:44 am | Permalink well im gonna try this from my phone. hope everything works out ok
51. TY Posted February 12, 2009 at 4:58 am | Permalink About th LIST DISK command, I can not see my USB drive number (As you so the instruction below). so how? i see only my Hard Drive. what can i do?? pls help me!!
52. omg Posted February 17, 2009 at 8:47 am | Permalink
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 | Permalink Thanks Worked like a charm.
54. JD Posted February 26, 2009 at 3:25 pm | Permalink
No luck from XP on my Asus 1000HE…
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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 | Permalink Hi, i tried it using my 4Gb microSD but like Darin my HP mini-note 2133 (which offers boot option through “USB generic STORAGE DEVICE”) boot manager comes with an error “the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccesible”. I worked through all the steps as described above without any errors. But i notice that diskpart command DETAIL DISK shows that “Bootable = No” Si is it bootable yes or no and what might have gone wrong? thx, btw great job this site !!
56. Sjengie Posted February 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm | Permalink Correction, it works again ! noticed that i did not copy my w7 dvd properly great, you made linux disappear for us, thx again tweakwindows !
57. pete Posted March 2, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink Hi ive tried and tried but DISKPART wont see my usb key, can u help.
58. ajin Posted March 3, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Permalink hey it is showing cannot find bootmngr press crl alt del to restart
59. Anthony Posted March 5, 2009 at 2:10 am | Permalink Great guide. You need to update your requirements section to point out that these instructions only work when done on a Vista or Windows 7 platform, or specifically state they will not work on XP
60. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:38 am | Permalink Thanks for the reply. Will edit the post soon.
61. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:50 am | Permalink @ajin I hope you have followed my steps correctly. Try to repair your bootmgr file.
62. tweakwindows Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:52 am | Permalink 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 | Permalink 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 | Permalink 56% now. thos are way loong seconds.
65. Swanny Posted April 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Permalink I have try all the step by step but on the stage command E:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F: I got this message ‘Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. Any idea what went wrong. Please help. Thanks.
66. jickie Posted April 30, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink
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list disk DID NOT detect a 4GB or a 16GB memory stick
69. Quan Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:55 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink Great write up. Works perfectly!!
71. Brad Posted May 10, 2009 at 11:15 am | Permalink Thanks a lot! Worked no problem. It also fixed the partition tables on my USB key!
72. Cooper Posted May 10, 2009 at 10:08 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink When are the mongs gonna read and understand this guide does not work on xp.
74. Joeypesci Posted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Permalink 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 | Permalink
Just spotted someone beat me to it
76. J Posted May 13, 2009 at 6:11 pm | Permalink Works 100% in my Notebook. I wanted to install Vista Ultimate with a 8GB USB Pen and i made it! Thanks!
77. Christopher Posted May 13, 2009 at 11:02 pm | Permalink
Best write-up ever! Clear and concise. Oh, and it works!!!
Great job, and thank you!
78. Iam Posted May 14, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink Funny thing I noticed on Win7, when you EXIT the DiskPart and try to continue in Command Prompt, while copying the bootsector to device, you may face an error – Access Denied for no priviledge in copying the bootsector to device. Solution – just Exit the Command Prompt and Run it again (still need to Run as Administrator).
79. DanielRemains Posted May 20, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink 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 | Permalink Hey Bro can one dual boot using this…. ie. Vista and Windows 7
82. mads Posted May 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink perfect. great guide. thanks
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83. Omer Posted May 22, 2009 at 2:22 am | Permalink Dear,
I want to install windows 7 RC through USB/Pen drive. But when i open the command prompt and write LIST DISK there (after DISKPART), it only shows my hard drive there, that is DRIVE 0 only, though i try it after inserting USB.
Y is it so?
84. mike Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:12 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink I have a question for you, admin.
What if I want to rollback changes made to my USB drive? Or can I leave it like that (partitions, ntfs) for regular use after installing windows 7?
86. admin Posted May 22, 2009 at 11:26 pm | Permalink @Jay Yes, you can dual boot.
87. admin Posted May 22, 2009 at 11:28 pm | Permalink @ pirater2113 You can use this to create bootable USB on Vista and 7 only. If you have created on a Vista computer then you can use it on a XP computer to boot.
88. Yue Posted May 23, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink
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 | Permalink Can I do this with an SD card and USB adapter?
91. anil Posted May 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Permalink made a usb with above tutorial, will install windows 7 i wanted to install windows 7 64 bit but have 32 bit vista now in order to install windows 7 64 bit, it seems, i will have to burn a dvd
92. Tweakwindows Posted May 28, 2009 at 1:11 am | Permalink @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 | Permalink @All We are going to close the comments for this post.
94. JP Jones Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:35 am | Permalink I used this method successfully on two computers. I was very surprised that when I was unable to change the boot sequence to USB in the BIOS on an older laptop, windows 7 installed anyway. I was pretty sure that it 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 | Permalink this method from microsoft takes out the last part using bootsect. and it still works.
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96. Christian Saborio Posted May 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm | Permalink Worked like a charm, great instructions, thanks!
97. aaraza Posted May 31, 2009 at 12:40 pm | Permalink Hi, Great guide. However, I am stuck after:
bootsect.exe /nt60 h: (h is my usb drive letter)
The message I get is: “Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.”
I followed the steps twice niowand get the same result. Am I missing something? Would greatly appreciate any help…I have a netbook 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 | Permalink Please ignore my last message – I was not running command prompt as Administrator!
99. Saurabh Zagade Posted May 31, 2009 at 11:11 pm | Permalink I m very very thankful to U for such HELP…..
100. Ben Charlton Posted June 2, 2009 at 11:52 am | Permalink You can follow my guide to creating a bootable usb disk under windows xp then follow this guide from 5 onwards.
101. Giorell Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Permalink I want to ask something. Can I return my flash drive back to normal after this? Leave a tagg on my guest book or email me rather.
102. murtaza Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:30 pm | Permalink Hey..hv vista already installed on my pc..need 2 install win 7 as dual boot..i tried once dual bootin with xp bt resulted into bootin f only xp..cud u pls help me out hw 2 dual boot win 7 wid vista…
103. ferris Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:57 am | Permalink Best guide I have ever used… Thank you, hats off sir.
104. Bogdan Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:48 pm | Permalink I find it funny that you say this is a 100% working guide but you 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 | Permalink Other than that small piece of missing information, the guid e is great!
106. Jacob Posted June 6, 2009 at 8:34 am | Permalink
(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 | Permalink
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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 | Permalink Awesome work! Clear and very simple! For everyone having problems, keep in mind the guide is only for: - Windows 7 installing / not running from an USB drive - MB with USB boot support
Just follow the steps.
Thanks for this guide!
PS:
109. TSurF Posted June 6, 2009 at 11:47 am | Permalink Great guide… cheers bro!
110. Shaz Posted June 7, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial… I followed it all through until I boot through usb and setup program comes up. When I get to, select which drive you want the installation I cant select my usb drive it comes up with the message below:
“WINDOWS CANNOT BE INSTALLED TO THIS DISK. SETUP DOES NOT SUPPORT CONFIGERATION OF OR INSTALLATION TO DISKS CONNECTED THROUGH A USB OR IEEE 1394 PORT.”
I tried 3 different computers and a few new laptops and come up with same message. I read these forums and people successfully installing them, What am i doing wrong. Can you please Help. 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 | Permalink @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 | Permalink Thanks a lot for fast reply. Is there a way that I can install vista onto my external hard drive? if so how is it possible. Thank you
113. CMal Posted June 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink It works fine, except one problem: when I run the windows7 64bits RC1 \boot\bootsect.exe in my Vista 32, it doesn`t work. I did it running from the \boot folder of the windows7 Beta1 32bits and it is OK.
115. Laymain Posted June 9, 2009 at 11:47 pm | Permalink If you have a version problem with bootsec.exe, just use bootsec.exe from a Vista DVD. Put back your Windows 7 after and continue following the guide
116. Gregor
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Posted June 11, 2009 at 12:33 am | Permalink
Thanks ! Have a nice day.
117. xopher Posted June 11, 2009 at 9:37 am | Permalink very nice toot.
as an Ubuntu user I enjoyed being able to do this kind of stuff from Win7 7127 on my desktop to make this 7210 for my netbook without using linux.
imagine that.
118. JakeDK Posted June 11, 2009 at 4:06 pm | Permalink Great guide, thx
Had a problem with step six but thats because the written command is wrong, but I figured it out when 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 | Permalink I used this method and created a USB drive for my Windows 7 installation. Works flawlessly! Oh, and the installation of Windows now takes only 8 minutes.
120. Brantyr Posted June 22, 2009 at 3:28 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink Hello, TweakWindows, and thanks, but… I know what you mentioned about Vista, which I AM using, I used a Sandisk 8GB and waited half an hour for the formatting process (hardly a few seconds, but I 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!
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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 | Permalink I am getting a window at the installation process to select a driver. I can not go pass that.. any idea.. I tried to select windows/inf folder as well.. but no luck.. installation does not proceed.
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 hp mini 2140. But now I want to downgrade again back to Windows XP.
Can I use this guide again? but rather than to put the windows 7 installation in the usb it would be the windows xp? Or should I search another guide for this? I 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 | Permalink it works flawleslly tnx man
130. admin Posted July 20, 2009 at 11:06 am | Permalink 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 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 Master Boot Record so Windows boot loader will kick in, instead of Linux (GRUB).
137. admin Posted July 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm | Permalink @Peter Bootable Windows DVD or Image is required to make this happen.
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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 | Permalink Hi. I followed this guide to make a bootable Windows 7 usb drive a few weeks ago, and it worked perfectly! Now I have downloaded a new version of Win 7 (The RTM released just recently), and I wonder if I have to follow this guide from step 1 to remake the bootable drive, or is it enough for me to erase the content on the flashdrive and then copy from the image, the last step?
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 | Permalink Has anyone found out a solution to the problem of it sating BOOTMGR not found. Press ctrl alt dlt to restart when trying to boot it. I can’t get passed that.
144. Torpido Posted July 31, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink I have a U3 Software on my USB, its basically there for Exploring and locking the USB, if i copy entire system File(U3) and then paste it back after a format for the purpose of above guide will i be able to still use it the U3, and if yes must i format it back to FAT32?
145. Mark Posted July 31, 2009 at 10:06 pm | Permalink After trying over and over i finally got it. It was bringing up my vaio recovery tools, so I had to take my hdd out of the boot order and it worked like a charm.
146. Franck Posted August 1, 2009 at 2:35 am | Permalink I got the install to run on the X200 using the USB, but I had to deal with a “cannot create or locate system partition” error. That is an error linked to the usage of USB media and not DVD.
If the USB is first in the BIOS, then the Custom upgrade option simply fails to find the HDD where to create the system partition (100MB)… I initially wanted a dual-boot of my Lenovo- Vista, but I had to completely format the drive finally. Once blank, I could put it first in the BIOS (since not bootable yet)… and the system booted on the USB.
From that tricky point, it went smoothly. This guide is great.
147. 9shares admin Posted August 4, 2009 at 9:52 am | Permalink nice article..thanks
148. Yan Li Posted August 5, 2009 at 3:36 am | Permalink 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 | Permalink 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
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Posted August 8, 2009 at 3:38 am | Permalink If you click right, you get properties of the drive – any drive – and then click “format”. I think that will short this procedure of formating drive, for those who do not like to typing.
151. Hisham Posted August 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink 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 | Permalink 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 | Permalink its really works.
155. Pali Posted August 10, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink Thanks for this guide! Exelent job. Thank you again! Pali from Hungary.
156. Marleybrit Posted August 10, 2009 at 11:05 pm | Permalink does this work with XP?
157. Gaurav Akrani Posted August 11, 2009 at 6:38 pm | Permalink This article is really only awesome guide which works.
Worked 100% without any flaws and mind irritating drills.
Please 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.
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 | Permalink Troubles… I can boot from the USB stick into the Windows setup 7 fine. However, every time the computer restarts, it restarts the setup.
So… During the next restart I pulled the USB stick out and Windows “started”. The setup picked up where it left off. The green bar 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 safe mode or regular mode? There are 2 Windows 7 options there and every time I repeat the above, it adds another Windows 7 option.
What am I missing??
Thanks for any help….
159. Tried 4 times? Posted August 13, 2009 at 11:21 pm | Permalink
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Oh hey! Never trust a green bar… It worked after a loooong time.
160. Chris Leiter Posted August 15, 2009 at 1:59 am | Permalink Step 6 works more efficiently if you enter it as one line:
CD /D D:\Boot
161. NoR3N Posted August 15, 2009 at 5:19 am | Permalink thx a lot You save me many Hours from searching external dvd drivers… Perfect JOB!!!
162. RnR Posted August 15, 2009 at 8:37 pm | Permalink 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 | Permalink 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 | Permalink Thanks a bunch for this tute, it has saved me hours of frustration and bad words.
I created a USB install and will use it tonight on my guinea pig system.
165. JB Posted August 20, 2009 at 3:06 am | Permalink Thanks – the format took ages on my 16gb cruzer…
Also, my source was an ISO of the x64 RTM build. First try, I mounted this with MagicISO and copied files with explorer – had a problem with a missing file “boot\bcd”, so I started again, but used 7-zip to extract the iso, and am now through with the install, which flew by in just 20 or so minutes.
I think that copying files from the magiciso mounted iso was not the ideal way to go… 7-zip seems to have done the trick for me.
166. JONNYK Posted August 21, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Permalink GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!!!!
Go to device manager and go to properties and select policies, and select the “better Performance” the bottom one for you to use the BOOTSEC.EXE part.
You might have to reboot.
I also suggest you use KILL U3 utility for san disk.
167. Mindslight Posted August 22, 2009 at 11:42 pm | Permalink Thanks !
Johannes from France
168. Josh Posted August 25, 2009 at 4:57 am | Permalink 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 | Permalink Damnit, can’t do it on a x64 Win7 DVD from XP 32 :/
170. rockystuud Posted August 28, 2009 at 12:35 am | Permalink Hi ! Thanks. It works fine . Thanks a lot for your effort and clear instructions.
171. jiji Posted August 30, 2009 at 1:59 am | Permalink “FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds)”
This is bad . Very bad. It doesnt take few seconds. It does take very many seconds.
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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 | Permalink Just tryed it worked perfectley thanx!!!!!!!
173. YASEEN Posted September 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Permalink AWESOME!!!
174. vagothcpp Posted September 5, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink Replace format fs=ntfs with format fs=ntfs quick to make it format faster.
175. Harris Posted September 7, 2009 at 10:30 am | Permalink 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 | Permalink For those of having the 32/64 bit problem, just follow the beginning of the guide and after you finish formating, copy & paste (drag and drop) the contents of the dvd (which you can virtually mount on your hdd) onto the usb stick. it will be bootable and will work!
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 | Permalink XP users follow this method:
Just for completion
1. First create your bartpe files using UBCD4WIN 2. after you have done that create your usb flashdrive using UBUSB point to the files of your bartpe be sure you check create cd image and let de default Z in place check if you have selected the right drive press go
after finished you have a bootable usb drive which is able to get in a xp environment.
3. Now copy the content of your win XP CD to a folder XPCD on the flash drive (x:\xpcd) 4. after copying boot the drive in the PC and select Compatibility Mode (Memory Mapped) 5. after finished you select the commandline and type
X:\XPCD\i386\Winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource
6. first enter the xpkey and name of the computer and region then click next 7. Now 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 | Permalink Working. Perfect. Thanks for it, amazing work.
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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 | Permalink I have installed windows seven using the method provided by you but I am not able to play my pen drive in my car CD player. I mean when I try to play songs in my car, it do not work now. Please give a solution.
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 | Permalink 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 | Permalink 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
It works like a charm
thx alot
191. 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.
192. Martin Posted October 17, 2009 at 12:31 am | Permalink Hello,
I have the folders for Windows 7, and I want to burn a DVD to install from (I need to format my PC, so I can’t just install from within XP). However, I can’t just burn the files to the DVD,
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cus then it won’t let me boot from it. Any ideas on how to do just that? How do I make it bootable?
193. 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?
194. 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.
195. 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?
196. 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).
197. admin Posted October 19, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink @ Jackson You should be able to format it with FAT 32 or NTFS.
198. 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……
199. 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.
200. Andy Mac Posted October 21, 2009 at 5:02 pm | Permalink Great share, thanks. Worked on my DVD-less home server, saved me alot of time. Only problem I had was my systems BIOS settings, missing USB option in the boot order, but did let me enable boot from USB, just needed to remove memory stick at the right times during restarts. Thanks again.
201. 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
202. 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.
203. Raul Posted October 24, 2009 at 2:32 pm | Permalink Thanks, a great walktrough!
204. Xerxz Posted October 25, 2009 at 5:11 am | Permalink
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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.
205. admin Posted October 25, 2009 at 11:53 am | Permalink If you have Windows 7 ISO, you need to extract it first to a folder and then to the USB.
206. CHINMAY Posted October 26, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Permalink what if i hav 2 install windows xp??
207. John Posted October 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink Thanks dude, worked great!
208. 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!
209. Ralph R Posted October 29, 2009 at 3:19 am | Permalink I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and selected my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is there a way for me to restore the partition and data on the “slave” that I inadvertently cleaned and partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot!
210. 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?
211. 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!
212. 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.
213. Diptiman Posted November 6, 2009 at 11:50 am | Permalink 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
214. admin Posted November 7, 2009 at 12:02 am | Permalink @ Diptiman If you trying to create a Windows 7 or Vista on Vista/7 you should not face any such problems. And if you trying to create a bootable USB of Vista/XP/7 on XP, you will see error.
215. Eugene Ishchenko Posted November 9, 2009 at 12:44 am | Permalink Thank you for this wonderfull solution. It’s easy and worked for me.
216. Alex Posted November 10, 2009 at 3:24 am | Permalink 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
217. Michael Posted November 10, 2009 at 6:32 pm | Permalink 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
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Then proceed with step 7 Hope this helps
218. Tomasz Posted November 12, 2009 at 4:24 am | Permalink 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
219. Tomasz Posted November 12, 2009 at 4:43 am | Permalink OK I found it….when EEE PC starts you need to press ESC key in case to display BOOT DEVICE SELECTION menu
220. Chase Posted November 12, 2009 at 5:17 am | Permalink 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 /runas was sufficient, but I guess things are different in Vista/Windows 7.
221. hicom5 Posted November 14, 2009 at 6:42 pm | Permalink 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”
222. Jason Posted November 14, 2009 at 7:07 pm | Permalink 100% working… confirmed! Thanks for the tutorial… it was easy, and accurate.
223. Navster Posted November 17, 2009 at 4:56 am | Permalink Brilliant Guide… Worked a Treat….
224. NICERED Posted November 17, 2009 at 12:57 pm | Permalink Any method to know your win7 and vista compatibility (x64, x86…) before installing win7?
225. Euphie Posted November 18, 2009 at 9:53 am | Permalink Have you made the XP guide yet?
226. admin Posted November 18, 2009 at 5:53 pm | Permalink @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/
227. Lurvinzy Andrew Posted November 23, 2009 at 7:32 pm | Permalink Hi~ Thanks for the tutorial currently copying the files hope it works!
228. ahmed Posted November 24, 2009 at 6:46 am | Permalink I LOVE YOU!!!
my cd drive doent work so USB was the only option.
GREAT TUTORIAL!!!
229. Andrew J. COwell Posted November 25, 2009 at 4:08 am | Permalink Worked as advertised on my Dell Mini 9.
230. dsfjdifja Posted November 29, 2009 at 7:35 pm | Permalink why do all this when you can just make virtual cd drive and boot from it? 2 minutes work lol.
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231. Please Help me ! Posted November 29, 2009 at 11:49 pm | Permalink 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
I do it this: 2 Step Solution for XP users: Part 1: Go to Control panel -> 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 !!!!!!
232. pawan Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink great work ……………. thanks a lot
233. pawan Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:46 pm | Permalink great job ………. thanx a lot.
234. carl Posted December 1, 2009 at 10:00 pm | Permalink 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
235. Aaron Posted December 2, 2009 at 12:43 am | Permalink Finally found a method that works. This actually works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, awesome.
236. 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.
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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?
238. Kevin Posted December 3, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink 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?
239. 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 filter 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..
240. 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.
Thank you for the brilliant guide!!!
241. 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
242. 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: ?
243. Gabe Posted December 7, 2009 at 4:39 am | Permalink Works great, thanks.
244. 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.
245. 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.
246. Pown Posted December 9, 2009 at 11:50 pm | Permalink 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?
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247. matthew Posted December 10, 2009 at 8:22 am | Permalink worked great. thanks.
248. waseem Posted December 10, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink 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
249. killak Posted December 10, 2009 at 7:32 pm | Permalink 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?
250. RS232 Posted December 11, 2009 at 8:44 am | Permalink Thanks for this wonderful how to..GRRRRRRREATTTTT!!!
251. PARAS Posted December 13, 2009 at 7:16 am | Permalink 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
252. Gregory Posted December 13, 2009 at 8:48 pm | Permalink 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.
253. RPJ Posted December 16, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Permalink 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.
254. CrabQuiche Posted December 17, 2009 at 4:34 am | Permalink 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.
255. Piyush Posted December 17, 2009 at 10:57 am | Permalink 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
256. teejay Posted December 17, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Permalink ‘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.
257. Jake Posted December 18, 2009 at 12:53 am | Permalink Thank you very much, this worked perfectly for me.
258. kamlesh Posted December 18, 2009 at 2:31 pm | Permalink
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it is very very helpful for me. thank’s.
259. david dizzle Posted December 19, 2009 at 8:16 am | Permalink 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
260. admin Posted December 19, 2009 at 11:09 am | Permalink @ David Dizzle
It seems your PC doesn’t support USB booting, or your Windows 7 ISO is not bootable.
261. david dizzle Posted December 20, 2009 at 6:56 am | Permalink If it doesnt support usb booting then why is it an option in the boot sequence?
262. andrew panda Posted December 20, 2009 at 8:47 am | Permalink this works like a charm, did a vista install from usb. thanks!!!
263. chacha Posted December 20, 2009 at 11:23 pm | Permalink “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?
264. chacha Posted December 20, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Permalink Okay so, access isn’t denied anymore. but it still says the same thing besides that
265. Senior47 Posted December 21, 2009 at 2:19 am | Permalink 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!-)
266. JaFar Posted December 22, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink 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
267. hnnn Posted December 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Permalink thanks man for this guide!
268. rik Posted December 22, 2009 at 7:23 pm | Permalink 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?
269. toderu Posted December 24, 2009 at 5:51 am | Permalink
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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.
270. CroatianBoy Posted December 31, 2009 at 4:09 am | Permalink Hello and BIG THANKS FROM CROATIA
100% WORKING,
EASY AND FAST WAY TO INSTALL WINDOWS WITHOUT DVD
271. Z1pp3r Posted December 31, 2009 at 3:26 pm | Permalink This is AMAZING! THNX MAN! Nice Tutorial!
Keep doing making tuts like this!
272. Sam Posted January 1, 2010 at 2:15 am | Permalink 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)
–Sam
273. triple six Posted January 4, 2010 at 10:00 pm | Permalink thankx… its work.
274. 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.
275. KIRITH SIVA Posted January 5, 2010 at 4:46 pm | Permalink HEY,
MUCH APPRECIATED! GREAT TUTORIAL! AND IT WORKS!! YOU SAVED ME SOME DOLLARS. THANKS VERY MUCH!
KIRITH SIVA.
276. Paul Posted January 7, 2010 at 4:11 am | Permalink 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.
277. Nathan Posted January 7, 2010 at 6:21 am | Permalink Great guide, but MS has now made it much easier for us: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
278. Vaidy Mohan Posted January 9, 2010 at 2:00 am | Permalink Awesome. I could restore my system from what you could call as disaster.
Thanks so much.
Vaidy
279. Ahir @nurag Posted January 9, 2010 at 3:07 pm | Permalink thank for this update…….all of u………..
any new update so mail me this mail id……..
i will wait your reply………………….
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280. 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 super fast.
Thanks!
281. somebody Posted January 10, 2010 at 10:55 am | Permalink go here for these things in a nutshell from micro$oft http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
282. lucy Posted January 10, 2010 at 11:20 am | Permalink you cant copyright anything in the command prompt screenshots that you did using MSFT instructions for this process. dolt.
283. 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.
284. renren Posted January 13, 2010 at 3:36 pm | Permalink nice i will try this
285. XAce Posted January 17, 2010 at 6:03 am | Permalink Thank you,Streamlined instructions,it worked perfectly.
286. Robbie Posted January 19, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Permalink 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
287. slownie Posted January 20, 2010 at 12:59 am | Permalink Excellent work, thank you. This is good help the beginner users.
Many thanks bye slownie
288. zdarova Posted January 20, 2010 at 3:22 am | Permalink i had some problems at the begining, as i have raid 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!
289. kk kangan Posted January 20, 2010 at 2:50 pm | Permalink great.. thank you. it worked like a charm.
290. 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.
291. Patryk Posted January 22, 2010 at 8:42 am | Permalink
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;( 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?
292. 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
293. Paul Smith Posted January 26, 2010 at 6:49 pm | Permalink Worked perfectly. Thank you.
294. 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.
295. maseo Posted January 29, 2010 at 11:00 am | Permalink @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,
296. maseo Posted January 29, 2010 at 11:10 am | Permalink @ patryk
if you didnt get as far as format then you should be able to recover files, im assuming 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.
297. steve Posted January 30, 2010 at 12:21 pm | Permalink 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*****
298. SANRocks Posted January 31, 2010 at 4:03 pm | Permalink very very tankssssssssssssssssssss……my rateing is 5*****
299. lenny Posted January 31, 2010 at 10:26 pm | Permalink 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
300. Omega Posted February 3, 2010 at 4:47 am | Permalink 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
301. le Posted February 5, 2010 at 2:17 am | Permalink that sir, simply put, is ‘the bollox’, TUVM
302. antonio Posted February 6, 2010 at 8:50 am | Permalink Hi, does this step’s will reformat my flash drive?
303. admin Posted February 6, 2010 at 4:48 pm | Permalink
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@Antonio Yes, it will format your drive.
304. Geoff Posted February 10, 2010 at 9:01 am | Permalink
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.
305. Victor Aroma Posted February 11, 2010 at 7:27 am | Permalink This tutorial is awesome! Thanks for the helpful tips.
Cheers, Victor Aroma
306. Rohit Posted February 12, 2010 at 7:09 am | Permalink Perfect .. 10/10 !
Thanks for sharing this valuable info ..
307. duncan Posted February 12, 2010 at 12:14 pm | Permalink 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?
308. xkovi Posted February 12, 2010 at 2:10 pm | Permalink 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
309. zorzer Posted February 16, 2010 at 2:02 am | Permalink
thx! 100% working like you said
310. SG Posted February 16, 2010 at 2:03 am | Permalink 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!
311. aj Posted February 16, 2010 at 7:10 am | Permalink 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
312. The-Stoic Posted February 22, 2010 at 5:44 pm | Permalink You are a legend. Got a SFF here and no DVD or CD-Dom. Used your instructions to get Windows Home server up and running. Thanks for the info.
313. noneya bizness Posted February 24, 2010 at 2:16 am | Permalink yea, this is stupid…..just format and copy windows 7 files to usb…DONE
314. Harry Posted February 24, 2010 at 2:51 am | Permalink Thx dude !
315. Moosewad Posted February 24, 2010 at 11:23 am | Permalink once i hit “format fs=ntfs” it just says 0 percent and stays there.
Help!!
316. lakshay Posted February 25, 2010 at 7:10 pm | Permalink I am not getting my pendrive disk number.
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when i type list disk only disk 0 is visible
i have tried on all USB ports
317. Vicky Posted February 27, 2010 at 3:47 am | Permalink Excellent guide. I need to save this site on my pc. Extremely useful and helpful Thanxs.
318. DG3 Posted March 6, 2010 at 12:19 am | Permalink Thanks for the guide ^^ verry usefull! You saved me from CD/DVD’s with windows and others!
319. khizer Posted March 6, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Permalink nice work!!! can anyone tell me how to put xp in the usb and make it bootable..please thanks
320. deo Posted March 11, 2010 at 2:05 am | Permalink 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
321. Richard Borg Posted March 11, 2010 at 2:31 am | Permalink Excellent tutorial worked like a charm!
Thanks!
322. ralph Posted March 12, 2010 at 10:40 pm | Permalink Really helpful.
thnx
323. padam Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:01 pm | Permalink 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.
324. admin Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:43 pm | Permalink @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!
325. Kevin Woley Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Permalink Looks like you guys did a great job copying the instructions from here: “link removed”
Way to pass it off as your own. Kevin
326. padam Posted March 14, 2010 at 5:19 am | Permalink “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
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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]“
327. admin Posted March 14, 2010 at 8:45 am | Permalink @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.
328. AbhishekDatta Posted March 14, 2010 at 8:25 pm | Permalink AWESOME man! solved my prob.
I… AM… YOUR… FAN… NOW…
329. padam Posted March 14, 2010 at 9:13 pm | Permalink 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.
330. admin Posted March 14, 2010 at 9:48 pm | Permalink @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.
331. Andy Posted March 15, 2010 at 12:15 am | Permalink @admin y wasting time on useless things/people……..
plzz help me out through the problem soon…..
332. Rob Posted March 15, 2010 at 4:02 am | Permalink Works perfect. Thank you very much for youre efforts!
333. Andrew Posted March 15, 2010 at 7:17 am | Permalink 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.
334. Peje Posted March 16, 2010 at 6:25 pm | Permalink
Working fine & smooth.thanks for the tutorial!
335. Sanjay Posted March 17, 2010 at 6:09 pm | Permalink Thank you very much..it is working fine…..
336. mwawe Posted March 17, 2010 at 8:56 pm | Permalink 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 ??
337. mwawe
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Posted March 17, 2010 at 8:58 pm | Permalink correct:!!!!!
version F:\boot\bootsect.exe is NOT proper with….
338. MTL Posted March 18, 2010 at 7:37 pm | Permalink 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!
339. Diego Freniche Posted March 19, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Permalink Thanks! After trying a lot of “tutorials”, this one WORKED. I’ve finished installing my Asus 904 HD
Thanks again!
340. Sathya Posted March 20, 2010 at 12:30 am | Permalink 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.
341. visions Posted March 20, 2010 at 1:41 am | Permalink 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.
342. shakir Posted March 24, 2010 at 1:37 am | Permalink superb expalanation…. anyone will easily understand…keep it up..
343. Huy Nguyen Posted March 24, 2010 at 8:51 am | Permalink Excellent
Works great for me
Thanks
344. underworld666 Posted March 25, 2010 at 6:07 pm | Permalink Really great!!! This tips works fine for me.
Thanks!
345. david Posted March 28, 2010 at 3:51 am | Permalink 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
346. Oleg Posted April 1, 2010 at 7:55 pm | Permalink 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
347. RM Posted April 2, 2010 at 7:05 am | Permalink I did this from a Windows 7 computer and was able to install Windows 7 from USB with no issues at all.
Well done!
348. Patatattat Posted April 2, 2010 at 8:55 am | Permalink
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I did this process on a SATA SSD 16gb harddrive I had, and it worked! Beautiful.
349. Rishad Posted April 6, 2010 at 5:28 pm | Permalink Thanks Alot man, This is very usefull for me…….
Thanks buddy……
350. Rajesh Posted April 6, 2010 at 5:29 pm | Permalink 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:WindowsSystem32cmd.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..
351. Tim Posted April 12, 2010 at 4:42 pm | Permalink Thank you very much! Great detail!
352. Skyler Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:41 am | Permalink 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?
353. Amos Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:03 pm | Permalink 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
354. Amos Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Permalink 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”
355. Krim Posted April 15, 2010 at 2:46 am | Permalink 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.
356. Hannibal Posted April 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm | Permalink 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
357. Hannibal Posted April 16, 2010 at 2:51 pm | Permalink TO AMOS
make sure you fill all details in CAPITAL LETTERS and just take your time to go through it again.
358. Zaid rohid Posted April 16, 2010 at 5:33 pm | Permalink i hv problem with this technic.. the command sound like this..
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“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects : Access is denied. ” someone please help me….
359. VolN Posted April 18, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Permalink To Zaid
try to run cmd.exe as administrator and it will be fixed
360. Harjinder Singh Posted April 25, 2010 at 4:30 pm | Permalink 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.
361. miro Posted April 26, 2010 at 5:51 am | Permalink 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
362. izdelava spletnih st Posted April 27, 2010 at 10:57 am | Permalink Great article!
Helped my friend’s laptop
363. leahcim Posted April 28, 2010 at 9:14 am | Permalink i gotta try vpc mode…………… tnx
LeAhCiM
364. Zaid rohid Posted April 29, 2010 at 1:44 am | Permalink
THANK YOU… !!! YOU ARE THE GREAT!
365. hamedshaik Posted April 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Permalink 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/
366. Derick Posted May 2, 2010 at 6:52 am | Permalink insert the usb flash drive hit any key depending your pc you have to go to the system bios
367. 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!
368. Mohamed Posted May 4, 2010 at 6:33 pm | Permalink This excellent work / / / I will by experience
369. 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.
370. mani Posted May 12, 2010 at 2:39 pm | Permalink now microsoft provide their own tool to create a bootable usb drive to install windows vista/7/2008/2008-R2
371. Waqas Muhammad Akash
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Posted May 12, 2010 at 5:39 pm | Permalink 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….
372. litesh Posted May 13, 2010 at 10:22 pm | Permalink tnx i like it
373. litesh Posted May 13, 2010 at 11:10 pm | Permalink sir after installing windows i got error on pendrive that window was unable to format nw ho to format it into fat again.
374. Madhur Makwana Posted May 19, 2010 at 10:01 am | Permalink
Thanx man.. great work..
375. Bill Gates Posted May 21, 2010 at 5:50 am | Permalink Thanks man. Worked a treat!
376. setu Posted May 24, 2010 at 3:12 pm | Permalink May be I am in biggest trouble of my life with computer, I was following your steps without knowing that my main backup 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………..
377. admin Posted May 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm | Permalink @Setu
You can try EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard free edition to get back your data. I hope you will get back your data.
378. anon Posted May 28, 2010 at 1:41 pm | Permalink After copying is complete, delete the file ‘ei.cfg’ to make all Windows varients available.
379. oxygen Posted May 28, 2010 at 8:20 pm | Permalink or HP USB Format Tool
380. Matt Posted May 29, 2010 at 5:51 am | Permalink OMG, this works so well, thanks, i have tried so many other “guides” and they did work. THANKS
381. Benjamin Posted June 1, 2010 at 7:44 am | Permalink To anyone else still having the error in DiskPart, you MUST right click the CMD shortcut within your Accessories folder and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.
Otherwise, permission denied errors.
382. Suneev Posted June 1, 2010 at 11:35 am | Permalink I put forward my warm thanks for the help this post provided me.
This process is working fine with windows 7
Thanks Again
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Suneev [email protected]
383. Michael Posted June 1, 2010 at 1:27 pm | Permalink 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?
384. azhk Posted June 6, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Permalink Thanks a lot for the excellent guide!
385. Robin Posted June 7, 2010 at 10:43 pm | Permalink 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?
386. Peter Posted June 8, 2010 at 12:16 am | Permalink Thanks for the article, worked perfectly.
387. Dennis Posted June 8, 2010 at 2:25 am | Permalink Thanks! Works great!
388. somu Posted June 8, 2010 at 4:05 pm | Permalink 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.
389. MAN WITH NO NAME Posted June 9, 2010 at 6:31 pm | Permalink GREAT WORK THANK YOU !
390. Thankful29l Posted June 10, 2010 at 10:50 pm | Permalink Very well written guide, woks like charm
Thank you
391. ander Posted June 16, 2010 at 7:23 am | Permalink 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:
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
392. Taleeno Posted June 16, 2010 at 5:34 pm | Permalink 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?
393. mezvix Posted June 20, 2010 at 9:07 pm | Permalink
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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 usbs bootable .it even supports making xp bootable usb
394. SATADRU Posted June 21, 2010 at 11:12 am | Permalink 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]……..
395. joseph Posted June 24, 2010 at 3:30 am | Permalink Todo funcionó a la perfección. Gracias !!
396. Santhosh Posted June 24, 2010 at 10:20 pm | Permalink thank you………dis is very interesting..
397. Ahmad Bukhori Posted June 25, 2010 at 10:52 am | Permalink work wonderfull on my external hard drive… thank you.
398. Brad Posted June 26, 2010 at 9:21 am | Permalink
Just awesome. Very nicely done, easy to understand and exactly what I was after.
399. Raeef Posted June 26, 2010 at 12:52 pm | Permalink Thanks, I used it on my Sony Vaio upgrade media on my NW180J
It worked perfectly.
400. Harsha Madushan Posted June 26, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Permalink Thanx a lot !!! work perfectly……… Use full for me….
401. Anurag Posted June 26, 2010 at 7:06 pm | Permalink EXCELLENT GUIDE THANK U VERY MUCH…it worked in first time
402. Victor Fernandes Posted June 28, 2010 at 10:49 am | Permalink 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.
403. raksmey Posted June 28, 2010 at 3:07 pm | Permalink thank you post is very useful for me. but does it work?
404. Hudson Posted June 29, 2010 at 6:52 pm | Permalink 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)
405. Venthan Posted June 29, 2010 at 10:24 pm | Permalink Hey,
Thanks a lot, this helped me to resolve my issue after a 5 days struggle
406. nex Posted July 1, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Permalink 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
407. solem Posted July 2, 2010 at 2:48 am | Permalink
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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.
408. real1tyFTW Posted July 4, 2010 at 2:21 pm | Permalink 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
409. solarni sistemi Posted July 5, 2010 at 7:19 am | Permalink i found this article helpful because recently i had problems with usb and booting. THANKS
410. Jibba Posted July 6, 2010 at 2:15 pm | Permalink 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
411. twe Posted July 9, 2010 at 1:14 am | Permalink Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was easy and helped things run much more smoothly. What a relief!
412. Jan Posted July 10, 2010 at 12:15 pm | Permalink This guide didnt work for me. When I try to boot the USB drive it just says “invalid partition table” and halts.
413. Jan Posted July 10, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Permalink 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.
414. 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
415. 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
416. Igre Posted July 24, 2010 at 8:34 pm | Permalink Great written guide!
417. 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!
418. bat787 Posted July 29, 2010 at 10:10 am | Permalink Perfect explaination.. Many many.. many many..man thanks
419. Johnny Posted July 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Permalink 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
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420. 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 button..then what should i do??
421. 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.
422. 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.
423. Ghost Posted August 4, 2010 at 10:54 am | Permalink ThanX allot to whoever brain is behind all this…. Works 110% clean & safe install. No problems faced. Follow the steps as written
424. Cristian C. Posted August 6, 2010 at 5:26 pm | Permalink Thank you!!! Your tutorial is excelent! Simple, safe and easy to follow.
Thank you, thank you!
425. Adlantis Posted August 7, 2010 at 5:45 pm | Permalink Really great guide, easy to understand and follow, thanx a bunch!
426. Maneksh.V.Thomas Posted August 7, 2010 at 5:50 pm | Permalink
THANK YOU Soooooo Much Man… you saved me…
427. SHAILENDRA Posted August 8, 2010 at 5:20 pm | Permalink Your The Best Boss!!!!
428. Michelle Posted August 9, 2010 at 8:02 am | Permalink OMG.. This saved my whole day.. OMGH!!!!!!!! Im back on my own pc – it worked TYSM !!!!!!!!!! FANTASTIC.
429. junex Posted August 9, 2010 at 11:15 am | Permalink how can i sure that..this is working…and it is good to used it.?
430. avaton Posted August 10, 2010 at 12:37 am | Permalink excellent work m8
431. Steve Posted August 12, 2010 at 4:19 am | Permalink what a legend!! I was completely lost and you have saved me – worked a treat.
Many thanks -
432. Mack Posted August 12, 2010 at 8:43 am | Permalink 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.
433. adel Posted August 13, 2010 at 12:38 am | Permalink DiskPart> select disk 3 DiskPart> clean
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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.
434. AJ Posted August 13, 2010 at 8:04 am | Permalink 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!
435. Smithy Posted August 13, 2010 at 2:42 pm | Permalink Jesus, how many times has the guy got to say it. ITS FOR WINDOWS VISTA AND 7 NOT XP . Bunch of retards!
436. NLkiwi Posted August 15, 2010 at 11:43 pm | Permalink 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.
437. odotan Posted August 16, 2010 at 11:52 am | Permalink The easiest method yet OFFICIAL FROM MICROSOFT
http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
438. Tammi Posted August 17, 2010 at 2:21 am | Permalink 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. =)
439. rakesh Posted August 17, 2010 at 12:35 pm | Permalink 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
440. Rahul Posted August 17, 2010 at 6:41 pm | Permalink 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.
441. Abdullah Posted August 17, 2010 at 8:57 pm | Permalink This method worked for me 100%, i am installing right now from a 8GB USB. Thanks a lot !!!!!
442. Corey j Posted August 18, 2010 at 3:13 am | Permalink worked well with windows server 2008 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
443. LAP87 Posted August 18, 2010 at 11:15 am | Permalink 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
444. Johnsin Posted August 18, 2010 at 7:58 pm | Permalink 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
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445. Frankie Posted August 19, 2010 at 4:10 am | Permalink 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
446. DRBDANISH Posted August 19, 2010 at 5:17 am | Permalink It was a success.. Thanks mate…
447. admin Posted August 19, 2010 at 9:20 am | Permalink Frankie, put the disc that has Windows 7 on it. Good luck!
448. Roxy Posted August 19, 2010 at 12:48 pm | Permalink I followed this guide but when booting up i have an error message ‘A disk read error’
What is the problem?
449. Litlis Posted August 19, 2010 at 2:07 pm | Permalink 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??
450. good stuff Posted August 19, 2010 at 4:55 pm | Permalink 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.
451. Valdez Posted August 19, 2010 at 6:01 pm | Permalink 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
452. admin Posted August 19, 2010 at 7:47 pm | Permalink Try to do it on x64 version of Windows.
453. tavu Posted August 20, 2010 at 12:26 am | Permalink I can’t copy the autorun 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.
454. puneet Posted August 22, 2010 at 2:01 pm | Permalink Thanks dude great job, very easy & good explanation
455. Miss Pretty Posted August 22, 2010 at 10:07 pm | Permalink I want to know the detail steps on how you can repair window operating system.
Thanks
456. Miss Pretty Posted August 22, 2010 at 10:09 pm | Permalink Also i want some things on Virtual LAN, the problems and prospects of it.
Thanks for your help.
457. miss26 Posted August 23, 2010 at 3:35 pm | Permalink hi, have a problem in step 6..my dvd drive is E, and my usb is G……
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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
458. Uwais Posted August 24, 2010 at 7:21 am | Permalink 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
459. john Posted August 24, 2010 at 7:25 am | Permalink 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
460. admin Posted August 24, 2010 at 8:48 am | Permalink @ John Sorry, I have no idea about Mac OS.
461. DANNY Posted August 24, 2010 at 9:42 pm | Permalink Thanks man this is by far the best and accurate tutorial for making a win7/vista bootable usb…
462. DANNY Posted August 24, 2010 at 9:47 pm | Permalink @John, no you can’t as NTFS relates to windows file system only.
463. Dave D. Posted August 25, 2010 at 7:23 am | Permalink 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.
464. RAZON Posted August 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm | Permalink MANY MANY THINKS SIR BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM TO COPY “SETUP.EXE” FILE WHY IT NOT COPY. PLEASE EXPLINE ME SIR
465. Fi156 Posted August 25, 2010 at 3:21 pm | Permalink Nice How To, but the command: format fs=ntfs needs HOURS not minutes…
466. naveen kumar Posted August 26, 2010 at 7:08 pm | Permalink Works like magic….. Thanks
467. Madhav Posted August 27, 2010 at 1:01 pm | Permalink @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
468. KOUSHIK Posted August 28, 2010 at 12:08 am | Permalink 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.
469. Richard
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Posted August 28, 2010 at 11:16 am | Permalink You rock man! Thanks for this guide. I’ve spent two whole days trying to repair my 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!
470. Anku Posted August 28, 2010 at 9:51 pm | Permalink Thanx a lot mannn!! it really works!! u r awsum!!!!
471. Cheryl Posted August 29, 2010 at 10:39 pm | Permalink 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?
472. Amp Posted August 30, 2010 at 10:27 am | Permalink will this work for Windows 8?
473. zero Posted August 30, 2010 at 9:22 pm | Permalink 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…
474. Ed Posted August 31, 2010 at 3:46 am | Permalink 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 Password: “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
475. GEORGE Posted August 31, 2010 at 6:01 am | Permalink Worked like a charm!
476. zero Posted August 31, 2010 at 6:50 am | Permalink 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…
477. gaithat Posted September 1, 2010 at 8:06 pm | Permalink It was a perfect explanation.
Thanks for such a nice tutorial.
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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.
478. bulger Posted September 2, 2010 at 6:12 pm | Permalink 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!
479. I8bnsober Posted September 4, 2010 at 2:35 am | Permalink 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.
480. Karlo Antukin Posted September 5, 2010 at 7:13 pm | Permalink 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
481. bziz Posted September 5, 2010 at 9:13 pm | Permalink 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 taskbar right-click the icon for cmd and also right-click on command prompt then click on run as administrator
482. Darky Posted September 5, 2010 at 11:19 pm | Permalink 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
483. TechNazgul Posted September 6, 2010 at 12:49 am | Permalink 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).
484. young money Posted September 6, 2010 at 1:03 am | Permalink 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.
485. IceaTronic Posted September 6, 2010 at 10:42 pm | Permalink 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…
486. thedeamon Posted September 8, 2010 at 1:14 pm | Permalink 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.
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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.
487. Azmi Posted September 9, 2010 at 4:55 am | Permalink 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…
488. deeh Posted September 9, 2010 at 8:13 am | Permalink work just fine,.. thank you..
489. Andy Posted September 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm | Permalink Thank you so much! It’s so simple and yet I could not manage to install Windows from USB. Now it finally worked! Thanks!
490. 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.
491. Rets Posted September 12, 2010 at 6:47 am | Permalink 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 =<
492. mary Posted September 12, 2010 at 4:53 pm | Permalink Thank you so much, it worked like a charm!
493. matthew Posted September 13, 2010 at 1:40 am | Permalink 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
494. nando Posted September 13, 2010 at 2:28 am | Permalink 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!
495. MightyAL Posted September 13, 2010 at 3:53 pm | Permalink 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
496. 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?
497. Suraj Yadav Posted September 14, 2010 at 2:06 pm | Permalink Hi, Thanks very much.
498. mikaboshi Posted September 15, 2010 at 1:41 am | Permalink
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 charm!
Thnx allot! (again ^^):)
499. Shen Posted September 15, 2010 at 5:52 am | Permalink
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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?
500. ICHI Posted September 15, 2010 at 1:38 pm | Permalink AWESOME GUIDE!! IT WORKS WHEN I INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE. YOU’RE A BOMB!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS.. KEEP IT UP!
501. 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.
502. Boy XatZ Posted September 16, 2010 at 6:58 pm | Permalink amazing… this guide really worked!!! plus you don’t need to use any programs.. /heh
503. 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????
504. Ryan Posted September 17, 2010 at 12:03 pm | Permalink Maybe a few minutes….
505. weeds season 6 Posted September 17, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Permalink Great write up!! this really helped me out and btw this can work on non-vista computers if you use an external hard drive
506. rohit Posted September 17, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Permalink I got “Bootmgr is missing”. I m using dell
507. saif Posted September 18, 2010 at 3:22 am | Permalink hi i m using win xp above all steps done n my bios have option usb hdd but i its not booting plz help
508. Nith Posted September 19, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Permalink This works perfect. Thanks !!
509. Lorem ipsum generato Posted September 19, 2010 at 6:40 pm | Permalink I was just looking for this guide! Tnx!
510. Bane Posted September 19, 2010 at 7:04 pm | Permalink 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!
511. darkan9el Posted September 19, 2010 at 8:09 pm | Permalink Awesome tut, just got windows 7 32bit on my nieces Acer Aspire 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!
512. justme! Posted September 21, 2010 at 3:42 am | Permalink 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?
513. Sudheera
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Posted September 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm | Permalink Great work….it worked for the first time…thanks a lot …..
514. Tom Posted September 23, 2010 at 2:49 am | Permalink Hey, Thanks! great guide. I even got it to work using Windows XP! Tom
515. geoff Posted September 24, 2010 at 4:59 pm | Permalink 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?
516. dallas fox Posted September 24, 2010 at 9:23 pm | Permalink what if the windows 7 copy isn’t on a dvd but has been downloaded iso?
517. kevin Posted September 25, 2010 at 5:59 am | Permalink 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…”.
518. are_peace22 Posted September 26, 2010 at 10:12 am | Permalink nice thx for the guide
519. unification Posted September 26, 2010 at 1:37 pm | Permalink 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.
520. Lucas Posted September 27, 2010 at 10:13 am | Permalink Perfeito com Windows7 ENG. Muito obrigado
521. unification Posted September 27, 2010 at 7:57 pm | Permalink please help me. i need to this.
522. unification Posted September 28, 2010 at 4:54 am | Permalink 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.
523. marcus Posted September 28, 2010 at 6:28 am | Permalink i cant do the “clean” bit. error occured, unable to access. help pweez
524. jainil Posted September 28, 2010 at 8:54 am | Permalink i cant see my pendrive in command prompt in list disk… what i have to do ???
525. daniel plasencia Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:33 am | Permalink 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?
526. ehsan Posted September 29, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Permalink thanks alot dude!
527. Prithviraj Posted September 29, 2010 at 4:34 pm | Permalink
Thanks a lot . Worked like a charm, very detailed and precise. Great job keep it up
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528. Dave Sanders Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm | Permalink 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
529. Peyman Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:59 pm | Permalink Great JOB . Thanks
530. admin Posted September 29, 2010 at 8:00 pm | Permalink Thanks for your kind words Dave Sanders.:)
531. 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.
532. turnkey website Posted October 1, 2010 at 7:31 pm | Permalink 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?
533. 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
534. Donna Posted October 2, 2010 at 10:06 am | Permalink
Thanks again
535. Sharma Mohit Posted October 3, 2010 at 9:57 pm | Permalink plz tell me how to edit bios settings?
536. Trevor Posted October 4, 2010 at 12:56 am | Permalink This works great, thanks alot.
537. Erik Hurtig Posted October 4, 2010 at 2:43 am | Permalink 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?
538. Jay Bee Posted October 4, 2010 at 6:40 am | Permalink This thread is getting long, but it is only fair to say thank you for this great guide. Thanks a lot.
539. AJIT Posted October 4, 2010 at 12:34 pm | Permalink MAN ITS AWESOME IT WORKS GREAT
540. Modeste Posted October 4, 2010 at 9:22 pm | Permalink Tres bonne solution elle marche à merveille
541. Ankit Posted October 5, 2010 at 1:27 am | Permalink 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.
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542. Anggi Posted October 5, 2010 at 9:55 am | Permalink Thank for tutorial installing windows 7
543. Doug Posted October 7, 2010 at 3:24 am | Permalink 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.
544. unification Posted October 7, 2010 at 5:09 am | Permalink 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.
545. JB Posted October 9, 2010 at 1:47 am | Permalink 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?
546. 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.
547. Nishant Posted October 10, 2010 at 12:26 am | Permalink 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..!
548. 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 dvds….the problem you are facing is due to wrong installation files
549. Kir Posted October 11, 2010 at 6:01 pm | Permalink Thank you very much!
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
550. Leo Posted October 12, 2010 at 1:13 am | Permalink Can i use this for install windows xp to?
551. 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.
552. Ionut Posted October 13, 2010 at 1:34 am | Permalink Thanks a lot. Worked perfectly!
Very well described.
553. Jamie Kitson Posted October 13, 2010 at 5:44 pm | Permalink
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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
554. Jony D Rico Posted October 14, 2010 at 7:40 am | Permalink Excelent it works great thank you, you save my life
555. 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.
556. pempoy Posted October 16, 2010 at 12:36 pm | Permalink Worked great! Thanks a lot.
557. 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!
558. JACK91 Posted October 16, 2010 at 10:46 pm | Permalink Thanks a lot dude..it is awesome..installed in 11 minutes..WOW
559. 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?
560. 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.
561. AJ Posted October 18, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Permalink Works perfect, thank you.
562. dvhirst Posted October 19, 2010 at 4:47 am | Permalink Well, it worked as advertised (Windows7), but only after going to Control Panel – User Account Control 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!
563. KGB1953 Posted October 19, 2010 at 1:19 pm | Permalink
Nice Tut man. Easy to follow and love the pics
564. KGB1953 Posted October 19, 2010 at 1:22 pm | Permalink If you have an .iso file just mount it with magiciso. Google it.
565. c0de Posted October 19, 2010 at 11:58 pm | Permalink 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 ^^
566. Jaimie Posted October 21, 2010 at 7:08 am | Permalink Nice one works a treat.
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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!
567. 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?
568. elise sayer Posted October 24, 2010 at 7:02 am | Permalink make it work
569. 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.
570. nikhil Posted October 25, 2010 at 10:54 am | Permalink Ultimate guide..Fully working on Lenovo..
571. Albert Posted October 25, 2010 at 11:10 am | Permalink hey, i keep getting “… invalid ms-dos command” when copying the disk content in step 8.
572. Albert Posted October 25, 2010 at 11:18 am | Permalink and my explorer crashed. I created this in win 7.
573. 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.
574. 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
575. SATHISH Posted October 30, 2010 at 12:46 am | Permalink
Hey Sorry For My Previous Post .., I Tried once again these steps i finally got thanks
Its Working Great …. Thanks
576. paras kumar Posted October 30, 2010 at 8:56 pm | Permalink i have no cd drive so haw to make bootable pen drive
577. mukesh Posted October 31, 2010 at 2:37 pm | Permalink thanks dear its greet. working and help me lot thanks again
578. 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..!!
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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..!!
579. Jeffrey Posted November 1, 2010 at 6:03 pm | Permalink i tried but it does boot.
580. SherwinQ Posted November 4, 2010 at 10:03 am | Permalink It works great, thanks for sharing this man.
581. marshmallow Posted November 5, 2010 at 8:45 am | Permalink where u download window 7 file
582. 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.
583. Alex789045 Posted November 6, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink THANKYOU finally one of these guides works YES!!!!
584. 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
585. bINK Posted November 6, 2010 at 11:59 pm | Permalink 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, basic, 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
586. 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
587. sandy Posted November 7, 2010 at 2:40 pm | Permalink i solved that prob…. thanks for the artical….
588. 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.
589. 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.
590. James Posted November 10, 2010 at 6:59 am | Permalink Awesome write up, worked like a charm! Thank you!
591. Deepak kumar Posted November 10, 2010 at 8:13 pm | Permalink after giving this command BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: it gives error
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could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied
592. Alan Posted November 11, 2010 at 3:22 pm | Permalink 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.
593. 1234 Posted November 11, 2010 at 7:43 pm | Permalink 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?
594. removals companies Posted November 12, 2010 at 2:26 pm | Permalink this tutorial was what i was needing for my cd driveless laptop
595. David Brennan Posted November 12, 2010 at 5:38 pm | Permalink 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.
596. dark8soul Posted November 14, 2010 at 8:52 am | Permalink for those who have trouble with all these instructions try downloading wintoflash. very simple to use
597. A random dude Posted November 15, 2010 at 12:06 am | Permalink 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!
598. lacie Posted November 16, 2010 at 2:47 am | Permalink thank you!
599. Scott Posted November 16, 2010 at 4:51 pm | Permalink 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 version of windows I’m running….. suffice to say I’m PRETTY MUCH flabbergasted at this point, any help hopefully? pending thats enough information
600. Ståle Posted November 16, 2010 at 6:05 pm | Permalink A very good and easy to follow guide. Thank you.
601. Agana Posted November 16, 2010 at 7:04 pm | Permalink this is great. it works great. thanks!
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602. SREEJITH Posted November 19, 2010 at 6:48 am | Permalink I did this and installed Windows 7 Ultimate successfully….
THankx….
603. Vici Posted November 19, 2010 at 5:50 pm | Permalink Great tehnical post! Tnx for sharing!
604. Purushotham Posted November 20, 2010 at 12:07 am | Permalink 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.
605. Jason Posted November 20, 2010 at 2:11 am | Permalink Thank you Thank you Thank you easy to follow and worked like a charm! Thank you Thank you Thank you
606. King Matt 85 Posted November 21, 2010 at 12:32 am | Permalink Awesome. Well done pal!
607. Zaq Posted November 21, 2010 at 1:19 am | Permalink 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!
608. NEERAJ Posted November 21, 2010 at 2:06 pm | Permalink yOU ARE GREAT tHANK,S
609. kyle Posted November 22, 2010 at 4:46 am | Permalink um in stuck at spet 7 help plz it says it does not recognize “bootsect.exe as an interal or external command”
help plz
610. kyle Posted November 22, 2010 at 4:47 am | Permalink im stuck not “in stuck” sorry typo
611. Žan Posted November 22, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Permalink I get Invalid MS-DOS function and I cannot copy boot folder… Thanks for help!
612. deamon Posted November 23, 2010 at 3:32 am | Permalink works great,… thanks man. cheers
613. freddyzdead Posted November 23, 2010 at 10:38 am | Permalink 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.
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.
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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.
614. Qiang Posted November 23, 2010 at 1:47 pm | Permalink I tried this solution. “List Disk” works on Vista, not XP.
615. Michael Posted November 24, 2010 at 12:34 am | Permalink I don’t have any Drivers when I try to install Windows 7 on my Netbook with no OS, what do I do?
616. mallikarjun Posted November 25, 2010 at 11:08 pm | Permalink 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…
617. Ryan Posted November 26, 2010 at 9:55 pm | Permalink 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??
618. magallanes Posted November 27, 2010 at 3:53 am | Permalink Thanks.
btw, you can do (if you know that you pendrive is not defective):
FORMAT QUICK FS=NTFS
instead of FORMAT FS=NTFS
619. Andreas Posted November 28, 2010 at 1:31 am | Permalink 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
620. gride420 Posted November 28, 2010 at 3:26 am | Permalink 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
621. ors Posted November 28, 2010 at 10:52 am | Permalink All of you who get “Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.”
Try running cmd as administrator!
622. l0stb3ta Posted November 30, 2010 at 2:35 am | Permalink Out of curiosity, do folder permissions have to be set so that hidden files and folders must be enabled? I tried this with my USB stick, and I get a missing operating system error. I copied everything I could see from my Win7 DVD, but if there are hidden files on the DVD that could explain the missing operating system error that both Jonathan and I are getting.
623. Daniel Posted November 30, 2010 at 7:44 am | Permalink I have a Net Book that came with Windows 7 Starter. I would like to install the Ultimate Edition on it but it has no CD Drive. I got my hands on the Windows file but they are in ISO
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format ready to be copied to a disk and boot off of said disk. Is there a way I can copy these files onto a Flash drive instead and boot off of the Flash drive?
624. Gamer Posted December 1, 2010 at 8:34 am | Permalink Thanks!
625. nik Posted December 1, 2010 at 9:15 am | Permalink what happens to pendrive is it able to function normally after this…
626. anand Posted December 3, 2010 at 4:34 am | Permalink Thanks man it really worked
627. shane Posted December 3, 2010 at 8:12 am | Permalink i did this to a tablet pc that had no dvd-rom, and did NOT support USB boot option….i simply yanked the drive from the tablet pc, connected it to a different pc via usb bridge, followed the procedures above, put the hard drive BACK into the tablet pc, fired it up, and windows began installation. Worked great, and didnt even create a second partition to do it lol
628. Eye Webmaster Posted December 4, 2010 at 3:22 am | Permalink Thank for this article I’ve made a working bootable USB of my own. I need this to make my computer renewed and prepare it for my SEO work task.
629. Naval Posted December 4, 2010 at 4:36 pm | Permalink I haven’t the window 7 dvd disk. can I use above tips for Windows Xp or where can I get win 7 files. pls help.
630. LWN Posted December 6, 2010 at 9:04 pm | Permalink We’re in 2010, and for those of you that have had no success (ISO-file not recognized for example) using the Microsoft ISO-tool mentioned on occasions in this thread, the real solution that ALWAYS works is here:
http://firesage.com/bootsage.php
631. MD Posted December 7, 2010 at 6:28 am | Permalink
AWESOME dude!! This worked 1st time, better than buttered popcorn
632. Thomas Posted December 9, 2010 at 12:33 am | Permalink For those who had the error Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.
REMEMBER TO OPEN CMD WITH ADMINISTRATOR PERMISSIONS!!!
633. zORG Posted December 9, 2010 at 10:07 pm | Permalink admin permissions doesn’t fix this problem thomas
634. bukag Posted December 10, 2010 at 6:40 am | Permalink how do they do it??
635. Easy123 Posted December 10, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Permalink I have used this method several times and it works GREAT. Instruction are very easy to follow.
For those having trouble with not being able to copy the contents of the DVD to the thumb drive b/c you dont have a DVD drive. I would suggest to either perform these steps on a PC that has a drive or if you have a iso or a rar image of a DVD you can use magiciso (free) to create a virtual CD ROM drive and then mount the image to a virtual Drive.
Works GREAT.. I used this for Vista and Windows 7 32 and 64 bit.
If you cant figure it out READ the instructions Carefully or take your USB thumb drive and DVD to a local computer shop and have them do it for you. Make sure you give them this sites URL b/c it works just fine. Quick and Easy.
Thanks
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636. Juan Posted December 11, 2010 at 4:53 am | Permalink Thank you! I keep this page on my favorites and use it often. This worked without issues. Those having problems are either using the wrong drive letter, have a syntax error, or don’t have the USB as the first boot device on the BIOS. Another thing to consider is that not all boards allow booting from a USB drive – especially older one. Don’t drive yourself crazy if the option is there, your computer is somewhat old, and it doesn’t work. Chances are booting from USB is not supported.
Good luck.
637. George Posted December 11, 2010 at 12:32 pm | Permalink I was installing Windows XP on old laptop, but installation process aborted in the midway giving me some error, while I was using similar guide to install XP. So, I have removed HDD (2.5 with IDE interface) and formatted it on using another laptop which is running on Windows 7 (I used IDE to USB adapter to connect it). Thus, now when HDD is clean and I try to boot up from USB (setting it in BIOS to boot up from USB), it gives me only blinking cursor and it does not go anywhere. If I remove USB and tries to boot up from HDD it gives:
BOOTMGR is missing Press ctrl+alt+del to reboot
As I remember on Win 98 there was ‘copy SYS’ command to start command prompt. Any alternative on XP? I simply need to get command prompt started and than I’ll take it from there to install XP.
Please help if any one can!
638. ice Posted December 11, 2010 at 7:29 pm | Permalink if you get this 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.”
meaning you are running 32 bit windows and trying to execute a 64 bit bootsect.exe
all you have to do to fix this is to copy your 64 bit windows 7 on to the usb and then insert a 32 bit dvd and execute the 32 bit bootsect.exe on to your usb
639. Senthilkumar Posted December 12, 2010 at 8:16 am | Permalink Awesome. Worked exactly.
640. Khalid Posted December 12, 2010 at 12:39 pm | Permalink it required software like “wintoflash”
641. Khalid Posted December 12, 2010 at 12:42 pm | Permalink please me give more details through email for this process
642. Khalid Posted December 12, 2010 at 12:44 pm | Permalink please me give more details it required any software like “wintoflash”
643. George Posted December 14, 2010 at 5:40 am | Permalink To ice
Any idea about my issue?
644. Li Xin Posted December 14, 2010 at 3:44 pm | Permalink It is working! Good instructions,and easy to follow. Thanks
645. sM4llziE Posted December 14, 2010 at 6:57 pm | Permalink Wait.. There’s an official tool? You could have put that at the beginning xD
646. Ice Posted December 15, 2010 at 12:08 am | Permalink To George reasech how to get BOOTMGR back on the HD. The orginal problem, before you formated the HD, sounds like a bad Ram, run a memory test in bios if you have it, or get a new ram chip if you can to make sure.
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647. LefterisTR Posted December 15, 2010 at 2:51 am | Permalink win7 usb
648. paulette Posted December 15, 2010 at 7:28 am | Permalink Hi. I have been trying to do this and I get stuck on this part where it says to do: Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:
D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.
CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: Is there something Im doing wrong? Also can this be done on a computer running windows 7 for a vista? My desktop is windows 7 and my laptop which im trying to fix was vista. I erased everything on the laptop hard drive on my windows 7 computer so did that mess it up? I would appreciate any help. Thanks
649. paulette Posted December 15, 2010 at 7:31 am | Permalink To George: Did you figure it out? My laptop does the same thing with the blinking cursor and I have tried everything I can think of. Thanks
650. Phil Posted December 15, 2010 at 6:23 pm | Permalink I used this guide 3 times now, still havent gotten the commands tattooed on my backbone.. but.. works 100% every time. I installed win7 on my own laptop, my pc, one work pc, and now using it on my girlfriends laptop. thanks a lot for the simple guide, everyone saying it doesn’t work, either aren’t following the steps, or should check to see that they arent trying to install windows on their washing machine or something. if u follow the steps, it will work. I actually get a error message on the final step, but I have still been able to complete the installation every time. thanks man, people like you are what makes the www great. Sincerely Phil
651. Nihar Posted December 17, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink Thanks a lot ……i was having problem in cd/dvd drive….u solved it…thanks again.:)
652. sintayehu Posted December 17, 2010 at 7:06 pm | Permalink I am very glad right now. I was highly frustrated because I thought my computer is not gonna be compatible for windows 7. I tried many things even went to repair guys. Only this page worked for me. I thank you guys! really I’m happy!
653. Michael Posted December 17, 2010 at 9:17 pm | Permalink Nice Guide, took me 5 minutes to complete this tutorial. You Rock!
654. Ajmal Posted December 18, 2010 at 12:01 pm | Permalink I am using a 8GB usb, but in “LIST BOOT” command Disk 0 mean only hard disk is mentioned no other disk there.
SO what to do?
655. George Posted December 18, 2010 at 12:10 pm | Permalink To Ice Thanks, I’ll give a try. I do not think its RAM issue though.
To Paulette Once I try it, I’ll update you here.
656. lambang Posted December 18, 2010 at 12:39 pm | Permalink how do I get the uninstall windows 8? please in reply
657. lambang Posted December 18, 2010 at 12:45 pm | Permalink how do I get the windows 8 install? please in reply
658. hisham Posted December 18, 2010 at 8:39 pm | Permalink
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itz awesome thankz alot ………. i thought it may not work but it worked after that thankz thankz can i know ur name plzzz itz awesomw
659. maryam Posted December 18, 2010 at 9:02 pm | Permalink excellent.. Thanks a lot
660. sumit Posted December 19, 2010 at 6:08 pm | Permalink hi……… i have not yet checked it whether this works or not but hope for best….
661. Stanislavsky Posted December 19, 2010 at 11:16 pm | Permalink Thank you sooo much for the guide, really simple to follow up !!!
Kudos for you and your website !!
662. BOSS Posted December 20, 2010 at 5:29 am | Permalink I FOLLOW ALL THE PRECEDURE THEN ITS GAVE ME BOOTMGR IS MISSING
663. Srinivasan Posted December 20, 2010 at 10:43 am | Permalink Perfectly worked for me… Just followed your instructions…. Great and Thanks… I was actually trying to install over the network where two systems were connected to the same home group, But it was little scary. This one was easy. Appreciate if you could give a tutorial for the installation over the same network.
Thank Srini
664. raj Posted December 20, 2010 at 10:41 pm | Permalink *Waits for a 200GB HDD to format F_F *
665. sms Posted December 22, 2010 at 2:05 am | Permalink
it works like a charm i’ve installed windows 7 in my precision workstation 490 Thanks alot
666. Jaques Posted December 22, 2010 at 4:02 am | Permalink Been going through guides and suggestions all over the place this evening, but I found this;
http://www.computerbild.de/download/WinToFlash-4776317.html?dl=1
That just works, you just need your Win CD and a 4GB+ USB drive and you are all set…
667. mar mar Posted December 22, 2010 at 4:15 am | Permalink ok what do i do if i dont have the disk but i do have all the stuff i need saved on another flash drive?
668. Max Posted December 22, 2010 at 8:15 pm | Permalink I have only one question, can i make the bootable flash drive on any win, i mean, im using xp and i want to make win7 x64 bootable flash drive, is that possible?
669. victor Posted December 22, 2010 at 10:01 pm | Permalink Works great! Keep up the good work. Thank you.
670. peety Posted December 22, 2010 at 11:43 pm | Permalink very nice guide. thanks. only issue im having is its taking FOREVER to format a 8gb usb drive
671. peety Posted December 22, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Permalink
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i am thinking i mightve been better off specifying ‘quick’ in the format
672. Xao Posted December 23, 2010 at 12:24 am | Permalink this tutorial works only with the computer u have made the changes? or if i plug out the usb and put it in other computer it will work!?
673. MSW SUX Posted December 23, 2010 at 1:00 am | Permalink I DIDNT GET A VISTA DISK WITH MY PC, IT CAME PRE-INSTALLED!!
674. Win7easyinstall Posted December 23, 2010 at 1:27 am | Permalink Hi all!
Here are some tips. 1. Can only be created from a computer running Windows 7 or Vista 2. You can only create a drive that is the same type as the os your using. i.e. 64bit drives cannot be made on 32bit installed! 3. Do not install to flash/pen/usb drive, install to hard drive! 4. Make sure you have backed up all your data since this is clean install. 5. Format and install speeds vary depending on your flash drive and its capacity. i.e. A 4GB drive will be quicker at formatting than a 8GB model.
Hope this helped!
@marmar Download a program that can create .iso files or if you have the .iso on another drive simply mount with Virtual Clone Drive or Daemon Tools (Virtual Clone Drive is easier, once you have got the .iso with all the files in mount and use the virtual disk drive letter in the cmd and it should be easy!
Thanks, Win7easyinstall
675. Win7easyinstall Posted December 23, 2010 at 2:56 pm | Permalink I am going to reinstall my Win 7 now! WAs having problems with when on startup it would say File: James and the ‘OPEN WITH’ box i would have it close 3 of them every time! :/ Hopefully this works cause my pc take months to load up win 7 ultimate (1GB Ram) also I get blue screen of death! (I got too many programs on startup )
win7easyinstall
676. Chandan SIngh Posted December 24, 2010 at 1:12 am | Permalink Thanx, it’s 100% working.
thank u for giving this code
677. Bill Brown Posted December 24, 2010 at 4:41 am | Permalink Please help me its not working!??!?!!? I got an error during my first install so I checked to make sure my hardrive was okay. I opened it up and noticed a wire was disconnected so I soldered it back in place(I’m rather smart hardware type stuff) and then I further proceeded to make sure the physical hard drive disk didn’t have any scratches on it (it was pretty clean). So yea, It is beyond me why it is not working, have any ideas?
678. WildSchatz Posted December 24, 2010 at 6:59 am | Permalink Man, thank you for making my Win7 USB installation as easy as possible. You steps worked like a charm. Had to go this route after the DVD installation would error out. Thanks again!!
679. Eddie K. Posted December 24, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Permalink Use your brain, put the UPDATE call in the first line not in the last one! This is all a waste of time since MS Tool does it all instantly.
680. LlF Posted December 24, 2010 at 2:49 pm | Permalink have anyone used this tool: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
681. spag Posted December 26, 2010 at 11:55 pm | Permalink Hey, the instructions were great! during the installation process, setup returned to the initial installation screen instead of restarting after expanding the files. I rebooted the computer and after that it finished setup without issue.
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682. Bradley Rimbleus Posted December 27, 2010 at 3:59 am | Permalink I followed this guide and succesfully installed windows on a computer.
However using the same USB on another computer, I get the following error (yes, all bios settings are correct, such as boot from usb, usb legacy)
I have the right version (32bit).
A disk read error occurred; Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
any solution to this?
683. Andrew Benson Posted December 27, 2010 at 1:10 pm | Permalink Thou art a god among men, and I shalt worship thou as such. No seriously this is the most useful thing I have seen the past two years. You have saved what little life I actually have.
684. Ted Allen Posted December 27, 2010 at 11:07 pm | Permalink Awesome! Well written, easy to understand, and worked well. Thank you!
685. james mccoy Posted December 28, 2010 at 5:31 am | Permalink awesome tutorial
686. Alan Posted December 28, 2010 at 9:01 am | Permalink Thanks a huge huge amount!! Acer Aspire One froze while running XP recovery. Dead computer… Used your instructions and loaded Windows 7. Worked Great!
687. lee Posted December 28, 2010 at 2:08 pm | Permalink awseome
688. Mark D Posted December 29, 2010 at 2:38 am | Permalink Make sure you run the command prompt as Administrator if you are doing this within Windows 7.
689. Anthony Maes Posted December 29, 2010 at 8:50 pm | Permalink Hi, thanks for the tutorial, this was thew only one that worked over network. LAN. BooT.
690. arthur Posted December 30, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Permalink this is great! I accidentally erased all the content of my external drive during the process but its my fault.that doesn’t matter anyway I can install Windows 7 Ultimate to a computer from usb flash drive now.thank you!
691. Tobias Posted December 31, 2010 at 3:03 am | Permalink Wonderful, i fixed my netbook. Super
692. chrisNova777 Posted January 1, 2011 at 6:19 am | Permalink the steps are nowhere near difficult to follow, but this just flat out doesnt seem to work for me, I always always always get the BCD Boot Error :
file : BootBCD status : 0xc000000e info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration
when trying to boot.. Can anyone point out what could be causing this? which thumbdrives are people using here that have experienced success?? ive tried with a patriot Xporter XT 8gb and a Lexar 8gb Secure and no go so far with either of them…
693. chrisNova777 Posted January 1, 2011 at 6:35 am | Permalink ok so i just tested the usb from the patriot xporter XT and it works on the machine ive created it on, but not on the machine im trying to use it to install on, do you have to make the disk on the machine that you are using it on?
694. TheOriginalPol Posted January 1, 2011 at 12:29 pm | Permalink
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THANK YOU! I really do appreciate you writing instructions on how to properly do this. I saw a bunch of those guides where folks said to just ‘copy all the files over to a FAT32 drive’ and I knew that couldn’t be right… sure enough it wouldn’t work for me. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
695. vamsee Posted January 3, 2011 at 1:02 am | Permalink its working fine.. but problem is that… booting started automatically from pen drive and files expanded… then when it restarted in the middle… again booting started from beginning by reading files from usb… its an unending cycle… wat to do??? im panicked…. tell a solution asap…
696. darkathena Posted January 3, 2011 at 3:24 am | Permalink hey guys to make the format faster enter..
FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK OVERRIDE
DarkAthena
697. Tastyklean Posted January 3, 2011 at 5:22 am | Permalink I like the fact that people will follow all steps but fail to read the title. Its A Tutorial For Vista And 7 Based Systems. Xp Does Not Have The Tools To Do This. Anyway. Life Saver Thanks Buddy !
698. Bradley Posted January 3, 2011 at 9:59 am | Permalink awesome. worked on the first try. you rule.
699. Jeremy Posted January 4, 2011 at 4:49 am | Permalink Hello,
Some motherboards, (like mine,) DO support booting from USB, but the bis lists USB devices as ‘Hard Disk’s instead of ‘Removable’. So in order to get it to boot from USB you must change the hard disk boot order. So when you are installing windows 7 it comes to a point where it needs to reboot to finish the installation. But when it reboots it begins the install sequence all over again. This is because it booted from the USB again. FIX: -just watch and wait for the reboot, then hold ‘del’ or whatever key gets you to your bios on your system. then switch the hard disk boot order back to device #1 being the partition where you chose to install windows. voila! your install will continue as normal.
BTW my motherboard is ASUS P5N-D
Also, this guide is totally awesome – works perfectly, thank you. Jeremy
700. Jeremy Posted January 4, 2011 at 5:10 am | Permalink my previous post was directed to ‘vamsee’ of post #713 to answer the question there.
701. Saravanan Posted January 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm | Permalink When i am trying to boot from Pendrive i am getting below error message.
A disk read error accoured. ctrl+alt+Del to restart.
I am using Asrock P4i45GV Mothoer board with Bios versio 3.0.
Anyone can help me?????????????????
702. Grafi?no Oblikovanje Posted January 7, 2011 at 6:09 am | Permalink Thanks a lot! This help me so much, expecialy because my dvd was broken…
703. FREDDY U. Posted January 7, 2011 at 9:02 am | Permalink IT WORKED 100% JUST FOLLOW EVERY STEP AND THAT’S IT.
704. Danny Posted January 7, 2011 at 10:55 pm | Permalink I wonder if anyone has accidentally formatted the wrong drive aka Disk 0. Would be a laugh.
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705. ankkit Posted January 8, 2011 at 10:31 pm | Permalink i got error coping bootmgr code it said program to big to fit i m using 4gb kingston pendrive plz help……
706. dallas Posted January 9, 2011 at 4:35 am | Permalink hey… so if i put my copy of windows 7 on flashdrive it should boot right…. i do not have windows 7 disk the file is just in my computer…. so do i just put it on flashdrive then follow next steps
707. ARC™ Posted January 9, 2011 at 11:32 am | Permalink not working the 1st time i try it. im on 2nd attempt now. the thing is, i keep my windows installer file and everything on my hard disk(H) and not dvd/cd. So, does it mean that I have to alter the 6th step correspond to the letter of my hard disk?
708. japex Posted January 9, 2011 at 6:12 pm | Permalink “No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click ok”
i can reach the “Install” part but then it comes up with the error message above. i cannot load drivers since when i browse. i cannot seem to see the USB. ive put an AHCI and Chipset driver there but cant browse because i cant see it. help pls.
help please. putang ina kasi tong gumawa ng tutorial eh. gago.
709. Damon D. Posted January 10, 2011 at 1:08 am | Permalink Works Great , Thank you very much
710. Andreas Posted January 10, 2011 at 4:17 pm | Permalink Just for the record;
You don’t have to do the steps after step 4. All you need to do after step 4 is to copy the contents of the Win7 DVD to the flash drive and then it’s good to go.
711. romance Posted January 10, 2011 at 6:10 pm | Permalink hi, in step 4, u’ve mentioned to format the pen drive. i did it but the process is very slow because the format command is applicable for thorough formatting. can i format the pen drive in that step in quick mode? thnkx
712. Juna Posted January 11, 2011 at 5:11 am | Permalink I followed these instructions to the letter. Diskpart showed my USB drive to be disk 3. I formatted disk 3. Whoops, my 250 Gb data drive just lost everything on it! <:-{
Why tell people to use such a truly shit utility as diskpart when you can format a disk from Windows Explorer?
713. David C. Posted January 11, 2011 at 6:37 am | Permalink Worked like a charm! Thanks!!!
714. sd Posted January 12, 2011 at 1:31 pm | Permalink 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. “
715. Ankit singh Posted January 12, 2011 at 3:08 pm | Permalink hi, my cd drive is not working and when i put any usb drive and boot my system it shows some error like disk not found. please help me. i want to use windows 7 on my laptop.
716. Chucho Posted January 13, 2011 at 7:14 am | Permalink Can I do this to install it on a new pc? dont have any OS on it.
717. D.R.Kurrey Posted January 13, 2011 at 11:20 pm | Permalink
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There is problem ! “Operating System not found”
718. D.R.Kurrey Posted January 13, 2011 at 11:21 pm | Permalink problem arise at the time of booting from usb
719. Shivams Posted January 14, 2011 at 2:11 pm | Permalink Thanks for ur post. But when i’m installing win7 through usb wen it is restarting for the first time it is again automatically going boot again. Thus my installation stopped in the middle. Please help me in installing my OS.. Thanks, regards, Shivams
720. Anshul Kataria Posted January 14, 2011 at 4:28 pm | Permalink hey bro i dont have cd of windows 7 but i have an iso image of it in my drive. How to use this process without cd? please tell
721. admin Posted January 14, 2011 at 4:34 pm | Permalink Anshul Kataria, please use Virtual Clone Drive (free) software to mount the ISO file.
722. TED E Posted January 14, 2011 at 8:27 pm | Permalink I locked at step 5… i thing the problem was my anti virus program… turn it of and voila!
723. Tyler Perry Posted January 15, 2011 at 12:43 pm | Permalink 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.
724. PIyush Posted January 15, 2011 at 8:09 pm | Permalink Thanks
725. Moniz Posted January 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm | Permalink Thanks man, it’s worked…
726. GLa5s Posted January 17, 2011 at 3:34 am | Permalink What if I am doing this on a netbook where there is no dvd drive but I have the files on my desktop already? I am lost on what to type in when the instructions say to insert dvd
727. kathir Posted January 19, 2011 at 9:59 am | Permalink thanks a lot..its working !!!!!…
To open cmd prompt,please do the following All programs—>accesories—>cmd—>right click and click run as administrator… then follow the instructions given in the guide… once again thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
728. Ankit Posted January 19, 2011 at 2:40 pm | Permalink thanks m8, many many thanks.. with my optical drive malfunction, I had no other option to reinstall the OS, you really hav been of great help.. thanks again..
729. Helmi Posted January 19, 2011 at 7:15 pm | Permalink Its work…thank you..:D
730. walent Posted January 20, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Permalink Works on Windows 7, even without bootsect.. thanks!!
731. kregg Posted January 21, 2011 at 4:42 am | Permalink Uhh… guys… You do realise there is a Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool that does all this ridiculous hard work for you, right? And it’s from Microsoft too.
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Save yourself 5 hours and use that instead.
732. juozas Posted January 21, 2011 at 2:28 pm | Permalink Thanx work good.
733. Sanjay Posted January 21, 2011 at 11:13 pm | Permalink Really it was helpful to me. @Brandon Only Works on VISTA AND WINDOWS 7.
734. Jonathan Posted January 22, 2011 at 6:43 pm | Permalink Excellent post. Very helpful.
735. Eumesmo Posted January 24, 2011 at 3:44 am | Permalink You can also try BOOTICE to set partition active and write Windows 7 boot sector
736. denbang Posted January 24, 2011 at 5:53 pm | Permalink Double thumbs up!
737. GOOD WORK Posted January 24, 2011 at 8:14 pm | Permalink thanks alot
738. Shashi Posted January 25, 2011 at 12:59 am | Permalink Goog for this information and we can load two operating system in USB so that we can insatll at time windows 7 or windows server 2008
739. Thebest** Posted January 25, 2011 at 4:01 am | Permalink The best tutorial, i have used this many times without any problems and it rocks any time with no problems …thanks for posting this
740. Chris Posted January 25, 2011 at 5:58 am | Permalink Hey followed the instructions and everything seems to work to a point. When windows starts it gives me the splash screen that says “Install Windows” or whatever, when I click it the box disappears for a second, and then reappears. Can’t actually get to the install, weird.
741. bohari Posted January 25, 2011 at 6:04 am | Permalink its rewlly good abd i try it later
742. Manjunath Posted January 26, 2011 at 3:42 pm | Permalink Helped me very much to install windows 7 using usb. Just ensure that you run Command Prompt as Run As Adminstrator (Right Click Option on cmd). I wasted much time using normal mode.
743. bmac3 Posted January 26, 2011 at 9:23 pm | Permalink Guys please help me. CMD crashed when I was doing the FORMAT FS=NTFS at 23%. Now my USB-Stick isn’t working because it is displayed as NTFS. I can’t access it at all. How can I get it right again?
744. vikrant Posted January 27, 2011 at 12:32 am | Permalink Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial
745. Cristian Posted January 27, 2011 at 2:09 am | Permalink i did everything but i wanted to install but what will i have to do in the bios setup?
746. Shaikh NOman Nasir Posted January 27, 2011 at 3:43 am | Permalink Hey i am trying to follow your steps… But when i write BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F:(MY USB DRIVE LETTER IS F) THEN I GOT THIS MSG
“TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.
COULD NOT MAP DRIVE TO THE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT
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WHAT TO DO ?
747. shahin Posted January 27, 2011 at 9:55 pm | Permalink Thanks….
748. Jan Posted January 28, 2011 at 9:56 am | Permalink Hi. i have followed you guide and i got to boot the usb successfully, but when windows 7 starts. it doesn’t get to the installation process, it’s just stock on the windows 7 background and the mouse pointer, what do you think is the problem? is my motherboard not compatible ? i have asus p5sd2-vm. or is it with my installer that has the problem?
thanks in advance!
749. piet Posted January 29, 2011 at 7:44 pm | Permalink
dude, you so rock!!! i hav espent hours creating stupid osis using low quality tools to get to this point.. and yet it was so simple this way!! thumbs up dude
750. Tony Posted January 29, 2011 at 8:58 pm | Permalink Super…USB win7 boot disk is working fine…Thanks a lot !!!!!
751. Putra Haikal Posted January 29, 2011 at 9:46 pm | Permalink Hi there,
this guide is working fine.
thank you for shared with us
752. gez Posted January 30, 2011 at 4:48 am | Permalink @ Jan Just leave it, it will eventually bring up the language option and continue..it just takes about 5-10 mins and appears as nothing is happening..just be patient!
753. hAMMAD Posted January 30, 2011 at 3:57 pm | Permalink Some times /nt60 do not work for whatever reason then we can use /nt52.
754. Eason Posted January 30, 2011 at 10:13 pm | Permalink Its 100% working
BUT since its other laptops bios are new now. Its not removable devices for me but Hard Drive
755. just me Posted January 31, 2011 at 1:21 am | Permalink wish you would have stated that if you do not have a win 7 dvd/cd, and the info is already on your flash drive, proceed to step #x. I just wiped out my usb drive which had all of my win 7 data on it. thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
756. Al Posted January 31, 2011 at 4:25 am | Permalink Hi I’m facing the same error as sandy in post #601.
Access denied error running Bootsect.exe Please help!
Thanks, –Al
757. Joe Posted January 31, 2011 at 6:50 am | Permalink Thank you so much for your help. It’s very cool.
758. Bachir Posted January 31, 2011 at 11:22 pm | Permalink Any one faced this message when trying to copy file into USB stick? “”Can’t read from the source file or disk. bootsect.exe.mui’”". When I presses skip I got same message for other file names!!!!!
Post #441 had teh same problem
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regards
759. Thomas Posted February 1, 2011 at 2:15 am | Permalink If you have access denied error, run cmd in run as adminstrator mode.
760. Andreas Posted February 1, 2011 at 9:35 am | Permalink Works just as described. Thanks very much, saved my bacon after realizing Mom-in-Law’s PC didn’t have DVD drive. To Al: had same error. Make sure you are running CMD as Admin. If it doesn’t prompt you for permission on launch, you didn’t launch it right. Use the right-click “run as administrator” option.
761. balaji Posted February 2, 2011 at 1:39 am | Permalink Hi, i would like you to guide me that how can i deploy xp/vista/windows7 wherein the os to be loaded from the centralized server to the client desktops. Is there any software or freewares available. Can anyone help me how to proceed with
762. PerT Posted February 2, 2011 at 3:44 am | Permalink Hi Al
I had the same – look at #577 and change to “never notify” BUT I had to reboot – after I changed to “never notify” – before it worked. After reboot – you can go step 6 – by open the cmd again.
763. Dark Posted February 2, 2011 at 5:48 am | Permalink F**king awesome!!! Thanks brawah Works great!
764. Shane Posted February 2, 2011 at 2:13 pm | Permalink Worked a treat !! Thanks !
(remember guys – right click on the cmd to run as administrator or the boosect.exe wont work)
765. NOOR Posted February 4, 2011 at 3:41 pm | Permalink HI !!! I’m Palestinian , So please excuse my English!! I want to ask about the commands SELECT DISK 1 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) ASSIGN EXIT
Are these commands affect the machine I’m working in ?
I have a windows CD BUT My lptp DVD machine is out of work , and i need to install windows 7 on my lptp
IF I used this guides to install the CD contents to USB on my friend lptp ,,, does this affect hers ?
Thanks a lot
766. phil Posted February 4, 2011 at 8:17 pm | Permalink if step 7 fails, run command prmopt as administrator.
767. anjan rai Posted February 5, 2011 at 1:31 am | Permalink Hey man, thanks a lot. i was searching this type of method from last few days and now i got sucess. it really worked. THANKS alot bro.
768. lunjanie2 Posted February 6, 2011 at 2:15 am | Permalink After using BOOTSECT letter on the USB drive chnaged from F: to G:, if that is of help for someone there. Check the drive letter before doing step 7
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769. Katherine Posted February 6, 2011 at 1:20 pm | Permalink I can’t figured out whats going on >__> I’ve changed the bios and I get an error. “bootmgr cannot be found”
770. Manindra Agrawal Posted February 6, 2011 at 7:48 pm | Permalink hi Thnx a lot its work properly. if i want to make Bootable USB for XP is i will follow above steps or some other steps
Thnx for it
771. Israel Posted February 6, 2011 at 10:21 pm | Permalink Worked perfect… Tryed with 7, 32 and 64 bits Ty
772. Bhupend Posted February 8, 2011 at 10:45 pm | Permalink it works
773. moksha Posted February 10, 2011 at 7:12 pm | Permalink Thanks a million tonne. You’re a savior. This really works. My DVD drive isn’t working and I had no choice.
774. LeAnna Posted February 10, 2011 at 8:32 pm | Permalink Thanks for the great DIY article! One question: what to do for people without the Windows7/Vista DVD? Software came pre-installed with licenses stick to the bottom of the netbook.
775. DR Posted February 12, 2011 at 1:10 am | Permalink How do i get my USB flash drive to function as a mass storage device again?
776. Florin Posted February 12, 2011 at 1:52 am | Permalink I tried to install the way this tutorial said but at the formating the memory stick as NTFS it taked me samething more than 1 hour and got an error of formating also. So I had formated as NTFS in Windows 7 and copyed the files from the win7 image mounted with daemon tools (drag & drop – I had unchecked “Hide protected operating system files” from Folder and search options)and worked just fine with installing windows 7 on another computer.
777. nainglinn Posted February 12, 2011 at 11:59 pm | Permalink It can do bootable usb with Transcend . I have tried to do bootable drive with Verico usb but I cann’t .
778. DIODIM Posted February 13, 2011 at 1:38 am | Permalink wonderfull guide man…you rock!!
779. Jason Posted February 13, 2011 at 3:49 am | Permalink Thanks! This really help me out in a jam. Not having a dvd-rom with my netbook can be a pain at times.
780. Joao Posted February 14, 2011 at 7:46 pm | Permalink Worked great! Dell Optiplex 160 – no DVD ram, only USB. Thanks!
781. JIM Posted February 16, 2011 at 10:05 am | Permalink thanks alot
782. Michael Posted February 16, 2011 at 4:22 pm | Permalink LIST DISK only shows my 2 local harddisk, and not the USB flash drive.
783. Jaideep Arora Posted February 16, 2011 at 11:52 pm | Permalink Pappi Boss Aap Chaa Gaye !!!!!
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Master Brain Bhai!1 kya baat hai, It helps me a lot on my mini laptop to install windows on my own.
Thanksss!!! Bravo Yaar
784. Elli Bagelman Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:55 am | Permalink Thanks! worked like a charm
785. Jaideep Arora Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:31 am | Permalink So Dammnn Good, Marvolous Work, Grt, U Must be some Windows Co-worker na.
Win 7 get installed only in 15 min compare to DVD Rom drive which takes 20-30 min. Time, Money & Pressure, CD Cost etc. everything I saved I purchased a new Flash Drive of 8GB and it works for me so good. Bye, Have more fun and also give me the XP Booting related post. Thanks Admin
786. anonymous Posted February 17, 2011 at 6:24 pm | Permalink sir when i type list disk , my USB volume is not listed, please help !!!
787. killer_boy Posted February 18, 2011 at 6:01 pm | Permalink i’ve been follow ur steps and instruction to the last steps.. but after the bootsect.exe part i’ve got this
“target volumes will be update with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access denied.”
can u help me with this thing please..
788. asanka Posted February 18, 2011 at 9:33 pm | Permalink Thnx man, it workd
789. josh Posted February 19, 2011 at 2:47 am | Permalink can i use win to flash and get the file on to my usb and follow the steps? if so what file type should it be after i format so the cpu can read it?
790. RAJU THOKAR Posted February 19, 2011 at 6:10 pm | Permalink How to copy the windows 7 on Flash drive, directly copy and paste as we usually do in Flash drive or through command?
791. Christian Posted February 20, 2011 at 9:30 am | Permalink Thank you so much – this was the easiest install I’ve ever done.
792. Arjun3111 Posted February 20, 2011 at 10:24 am | Permalink thank u very much…..a sigh of relief…..phewww…..!!! god bless u…. keep rocking….
793. Erik Posted February 20, 2011 at 12:32 pm | Permalink can i do that all that work in my desktop for formating my laptop, or all this work have to be in that computer wich will be formated?
794. franz99 Posted February 20, 2011 at 2:44 pm | Permalink I followed sucessfully all the steps of this guide under Windows 7 Pro but when booting on my USB pendrive I get the same error as mentionned earlier by madmax : file : \Boot\BCD status : 0xc000000e info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration
I could not find in this discussion above any answer to madmax’s question so could please help us Do you think this error message related to the preparation of the USB pendrive or to the capabilities of my mainboard ?
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I get the same error message when using the official MS Tool http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-usb-to-install-windows-7- from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/
795. Asger Posted February 20, 2011 at 3:14 pm | Permalink
100% is nothing … MANY THANKS!!!!!!!!
796. flex Posted February 21, 2011 at 1:14 am | Permalink Fantastic guide… thanks!
797. Alex Posted February 22, 2011 at 4:15 am | Permalink Hi, thanks for the support it worked perfectly!!! i have a little problem altough, i used my phone memory card as boot usb and now i can’t use it in the phone again, somehow the phone can’t recognise it… how can i fix it?
798. Gaurav Posted February 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm | Permalink Yes it is “100% working.”
Thanks dude!!
799. Ajmat husain Posted February 24, 2011 at 2:16 pm | Permalink i am very happy bcz it is very simple formula.
800. Sunmaster14 Posted February 25, 2011 at 8:07 am | Permalink to avoid ACCESS DENIED errors, run cmd from system 32 folder “Run As Administrator”
801. HakuginLabs Posted February 25, 2011 at 3:33 pm | Permalink For those having issues with not having a dvd to copy the files from. Use a virtual drive, there are a few good free programs that will mount iso images into a virtual dvd drive. For people having issues with the bootsect.exe step, you will need to make sure you are using a 64bit OS to create a 64bit usb installer. I ran into this myself using 32bit vista on one of my laptops. I had to use my 64bit vista laptop to create a 64bit windows 7 usb isntaller for my netbook.
And remember to run Command Prompt as admin, if you run into issues with cmd prompt dropping admin privileges after exiting diskpart, you may be having an issue with the UAC. Just open a new cmd prompt as admin (easiest fix).
Great guide btw. Allowed me to format and reinstall 7 (using the DVD provided by the manufacturer) on a netbook without using an external dvd drive which I did not have the money to buy.
802. HakuginLabs Posted February 25, 2011 at 3:37 pm | Permalink @Alex Sorry, forgot to add this to my previous comment. There are a few options for restoring the memory card to being usable in your phone.
Option 1: Delete the partition and create a new fat32 partition (I’ve noticed a lot of phones don’t recognize ntfs easily, some do). This is the easiest option
Option 2: This is for advanced pc users.. You can download and burn off a “Live” version of linux that will boot from disc and provide a full linux environment and use a disk partitioning program like gparted or Disk Utility
I recommend option 1, worked for a co-worker that had run into the same issue.
803. alexander Posted February 26, 2011 at 6:13 am | Permalink hi,
thanks for the answer! sorry for being stupid, but how do i delete the partition? :)
804. Mark Anthony Posted February 27, 2011 at 7:14 am | Permalink hope this works.. I need to reinstall my windows 7
805. Sunil Rana Posted February 27, 2011 at 2:58 pm | Permalink
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I have got a problem with my laptop that it is comfortably running the video DVD’s but it is not detecting the bootable DVD. How can i install the windows. Shall i copy the contents of DIsc image file in to USB and then make USB bootable and boot through it.. Please suggest …..
806. nobbler Posted February 27, 2011 at 10:57 pm | Permalink Great stuff. Worked like a charm. I tried another method that didn’t boot at all, but this one worked on the 1st try. I dir get an ACCESS DENIED when it tried to lock the disk for the ‘bootsect.exe /NT60 h:’ command, but it worked anyway. If you do it this way you’ll end up where you wanna be. Thanks!
807. Ajmal Khan Posted February 28, 2011 at 6:43 pm | Permalink Hi I have got the problem in step 4. In step 4 my flash drive do not show in command promt. please solve the problem and reply me. Thanks
808. joe Posted March 1, 2011 at 5:35 am | Permalink Can I use an sd card instead? I tried and it can’t create a partition when I type in create partition primary.
809. bharathp Posted March 1, 2011 at 10:48 am | Permalink i tried the steps suggested to format laptop using usb . in second step i typed LIST DISK
810. bharathp Posted March 1, 2011 at 10:58 am | Permalink i tried the steps suggested to format laptop using usb after insert the usb(pen drive 4gp) in usb port. in second step i typed LIST DISK . it list out disk0 only. it did not list any other disks such as disk1 for usb that i was inserted. so i cant proceed further .please tell me that how can i proceed further.
811. Ryan Posted March 1, 2011 at 2:32 pm | Permalink Everything went smoothly and I could boot from the USB but after that there is a message thy says: Bootmgr missing press ctl alt del to restart how to fix?
812. aRjay T. Posted March 2, 2011 at 12:35 am | Permalink Hi! I have been using this Howto coz its really working. One observation though, after I converted the usb as a bootable win7 installer, I couldnt use it as file storage anymore. This happend to a brand new usb as well as my good old usb that has write protect switch.
Everytime I try to store files on an already bootable usb, its as if the the system releases the usb (like as if I ejected it) then after a few seconds, the system detects it again that its there and will offer for a scan for error. If I choose to scan, it wont push through and re- offers it again and again.
Btw, I cant format nor do anything to the usb’s partition.
813. puthea Posted March 2, 2011 at 5:43 am | Permalink when i install. it can not create system partition. why?
814. Clint Sulis Posted March 2, 2011 at 7:07 am | Permalink This is a perfect guide that does exactly what it says. Anyone who has problems with this guide is a noob.
815. Del Posted March 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm | Permalink Help boots from usb, loads ok, then restarts but just starts the “load windows 7″ process again. if i take out usb it says no operating system. sorry, as you can probably guess, i am a bit dim at this stuff
816. WILL Posted March 2, 2011 at 3:25 pm | Permalink hi i got to step 7 and tryed it but got
could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied.
can someone please help
817. GREAT JOB
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Posted March 3, 2011 at 4:24 am | Permalink Tnx a lot! mounted .ISO with daemoon… works perfect But is possible to make multi boot usb key? windows X64 + 86 + Linux I now linux don’t like ntfs… Can be this created on fat32 oh “forget it should be linux tool” Tnx for this!!!
818. GREAT JOB Posted March 3, 2011 at 4:33 am | Permalink ok it’s already in your site…
819. SmVueno Posted March 5, 2011 at 3:36 am | Permalink Thanks! i’we been using this guide soo much now it’s almost abusive.
820. Bek Posted March 5, 2011 at 11:16 pm | Permalink I get stuck on step 4; how do i know which disk is for my usb? I selected disk 1 anyway and typed in CLEAN. its tells me VIRTUAL DISK SERVICE ERROR: there is no media on the device.” i didnt think anything of it because the usb didnt have anything on it to begin with. so I typed in Creat Partition Primary then tells me “No usable free extent could be found. it may be that there is insufficent free space to creat a partition at the specified size and offset….” I dont know what that means. my usb is 4GB, is that too small? am I doing it wrong?
821. Zham Posted March 6, 2011 at 1:55 pm | Permalink I compelete all the steps but when I use it in my laptop, I get this message “BOOTMGR is missing”. I don’t know what is the problem.
822. sumit Posted March 6, 2011 at 10:09 pm | Permalink I m stuck here.. please help..
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.0.6001 Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: SUMIT1-PC
DISKPART> LIST DISK
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt ——– ———- ——- ——- — — Disk 0 Online 186 GB 0 B Disk 1 Online 3875 MB 0 B
DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> CLEAN
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
There is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don’t specify either to create the maximum sized partition.
DISKPART>
823. Vibhakar Lal Posted March 7, 2011 at 1:54 am | Permalink Awsome , This work like Charm, All we me People must follow are steps, Religiously, I am able to install in 12min .
824. Hey Bek Posted March 7, 2011 at 1:58 am | Permalink Hey Bek. Normally the DISK # would be the last on the list. Before you start, unplug any other external device from your system. And note if you have more than one internal hard
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drive. So if you have 2 internal drives and the one usb drive (the one you want to load the boot on), then the list would be:
Disk 0 (1st internal) Disk 1 (2nd intermal) Disk 2 (external)
Also the Size column, in your case should be a little under 4 gig. Will show something like 3242 MB.
Hope that helps
825. 11225e Posted March 8, 2011 at 8:43 am | Permalink Hi. I’ve read all the posts hoping to solve my issue – but no luck. I hope someone has the answer… I am trying to make my 1TB eGo USB 2.0 Desktop Hard Drive bootable. I am running Win 7. The bios hardware supports booting from a USB drive, and I am able to select the USB drive from the boot menu. But when I choose the USB drive, I get: A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart I am able to read/write from the USB drive normally via Win 7 with no problems. The USB drive is formatted NTFS and could this matter – my computer is 64 bit and the USB drive is formatted with whatever you get when you select NTFS – would that be 64 bit in my case? Lastly, when I try the Windows 7 USB Tool, I can’t even get past selecting an ISO file – it says mine are invalid. Is there any help for me??
826. shaheryar Posted March 9, 2011 at 6:20 pm | Permalink please help me i am having an error (could not map drive the partition to the associated volume device object:access is denied) please help me
thank you
827. chetan Posted March 10, 2011 at 1:39 pm | Permalink Hello, I am trying to install win7 ,I am reaching till getting install option after boot but I am getting error like “required cd/dvd drive device driver is missing.if you have a driver floppy disk,cd,dvd or usb flash drive,please insert it now…plz help me urgent
828. karthik0000 Posted March 11, 2011 at 7:50 am | Permalink Installing operating system through usb flash drive is really a difficult task how ever installing vista and windows 7 are now made easy using the usb flash drive. The above listed post explains a step wise approach to installation using sub flash drive. impressive post , keep updating more important stuff.
829. TianYi Posted March 13, 2011 at 11:17 am | Permalink Great Guide Man Working Very well.
Thanks for your Post………
830. Juan Posted March 13, 2011 at 2:38 pm | Permalink Thanks much, had a problem with access denied but read thread and I was not running CMD as administrator. Went back and ran CMD as admin and worked great!, needed win 7 for a NETBOOK format and reload. thank you for this guide!.
831. Myat Min Posted March 14, 2011 at 3:05 pm | Permalink I get following error message after BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G: command
832. Nigel Posted March 15, 2011 at 2:46 am | Permalink If I make the key on an ASUS windows 7 will it work to repair a totally f-ed up medion vista who always gets a blue screen while booting in evey single mode?
833. Major Posted March 15, 2011 at 7:30 am | Permalink I have made an usb also with this methos, i have always the same problem. at the first it does not ask me to press any key to boot which it begins automatically. So it never finishes the installation since when the system reboots after the first phase, the installation starts again loading the files. any suggest please? From a DVD there is no problem since it asks me to press any key to boot…
834. saddavi Posted March 15, 2011 at 1:38 pm | Permalink
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Thanks a lot. u really really helped me. keep it up.
835. Cheers Posted March 15, 2011 at 5:35 pm | Permalink Had problem at bootsect but this [http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/magazine/dd535816.aspx] simple one worked at windows vista 32bit to install a windows 7 64bit.
836. Cheers Posted March 15, 2011 at 5:39 pm | Permalink forgot to add: use the ntfs instead of fat32, it’s better for larger (>4GB) drives
837. michal Posted March 16, 2011 at 12:24 am | Permalink hi all got a problem. try to instal windows 7 from pendrive and after i make a choice with language time etc, on next screen showing me message i havent got some drivers and i need put a cd with windows. what i cant do becouse i havent got a dvd rom.
838. karthik Posted March 16, 2011 at 1:04 pm | Permalink when i turn on my system it’s comming as BOOT ERROR, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.. my os has geen corrupted nd i dont have the DVD drive also.. can u tel me hw to install Windows7 using Pen Drive….
839. style Posted March 17, 2011 at 7:05 pm | Permalink well thanks alot brother for this usiful lesson but i have a small problem , my windows which i want to download is not original , and its crack is built in it , when the setup reboots i had to change the boot priority from flash USB to HDD in order to complete instalation BUT when i do so the windows will not be cracked !!! what shall I Do ;
840. Amadeu Posted March 17, 2011 at 8:48 pm | Permalink I’m trying this on a portable without any hard disk nor cd/dvd reader. It has just 2 USB entries. It works fine with Linux (no surprise!)
Thanks for your work ! Amadeu
841. Kairoko Posted March 19, 2011 at 9:47 pm | Permalink Is there a way to get the USB to work for other purposes again afterward? Please reply to me asap, and preferably by email, if you can see it.
Regards, Kairoko
842. toto Posted March 22, 2011 at 1:46 am | Permalink Installing Windows 7 SP1 HOME PREMIUM on Emachines E528 in 6 minutes. Super!
843. Jake Posted March 22, 2011 at 4:49 am | Permalink Kairoko,
Hi – all you have to do is plug it into any machine and right click on the drive and format to either FAT32 or NTFS and then VOILA!
844. Admiralis Posted March 22, 2011 at 7:19 pm | Permalink awesome as i`m a tech noob i`m returning over and over to this site its awesome helped me several hundreds of times (a false exaggeration) keep making posts like this tnx a million (ROFL i like to roll on floor allot)
845. MetalMadness Posted March 23, 2011 at 4:36 am | Permalink i cant get past step 3 lol, im on win 7 x64 and ive typed in diskpart and its shows the first part of the msg but not the diskpart> bit :S it wont let me type either.
i have left it alone for a while just incase it was having a moment of fail and being slow, ive even tried it from the start again (making sure i follow perfectly step by step and i still get the same thing.
im not a complete noob on computers but this is new to me
846. lovejeet singh Posted March 23, 2011 at 9:33 am | Permalink
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hi.. when a am execute bootsect.exe /nt60 f: (f is my usb drive letter) command the message I get is:
“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.”
please give me the solution i’ve been follow ur steps and instruction 4 times…
847. jadajada Posted March 23, 2011 at 10:17 am | Permalink does this process work on older systems which do offer booting from USB devices for instance a dell dimension 2400 please post when you get a moment.
848. jadajada Posted March 23, 2011 at 10:43 am | Permalink WOW big ups to you sir, i can confirm it does work on older systems. Provided the system has the option to boot from a USB device,it will work. everything went great! thanks you very much.
p.s this was my first attempt at booting from a USB device and you made it very clear and straight forward.
i can’t thank you enough. keep up the great work. K + + +
849. DaGoof23 Posted March 23, 2011 at 9:20 pm | Permalink Not sue if this has been mentioned before, if so, please delete my post.
First of many thanks for this great guide!
Created a Bootable pen drive with it and pluged it in only to get the message: “BootMGR file is missig”
Solution in my case: Removable device Boot in Bios was enabled, but the Bios maped the Pen as a harddrive, so even if i manually chose: “Boot from removable device” BIOS didn’t find any and jumped to boot from Harddisk where it found no BootMGR.
When inspecting bootsequence in BIOS i could expand the entry “Harddrive” the expanded entry showed the built in harddrive as first device and the pen as second. Well i switched the pen to first device and it worked.
Sry for this long explanation, i hope it can help.
850. rey Posted March 24, 2011 at 2:53 pm | Permalink ON STEP #8: MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS FIRST THING TO DO BEFORE I COPY WIN7 INSTALLER INTO THE USB..BTW I GET THE INSTALLER IN TORRENT WITH THE .UIF EXTENSION.
851. jrr Posted March 24, 2011 at 9:35 pm | Permalink hey thanks so much this was so hopeful keep it up man. hey and once you figure a way to install xp please post the link thanks.
852. Achal Posted March 25, 2011 at 8:04 pm | Permalink My friend’s computer is not working. The system starts, says windows is starting and then again goes to first stage of statrup and this cycle goes on. I have pen drive which has Windows 7 Ultimate installation files in it. How to do it now.
853. SUVIGYA Posted March 26, 2011 at 3:09 pm | Permalink HELLO I DON,T THIS ON XP NO DISK 1 APPEAR IN CMD COMMAND LIST DISK I HAVE NO DVD WRITER SO HOW I COPY THE FILE FROM DVD TO PENDRIVE PLS SEND ME FOLLOWING STEP THROUGH EMAIL FOR XP
854. chaky Posted March 26, 2011 at 5:53 pm | Permalink nice how-to, thanks
just add explanation that if your flash drive already has some letter, that last ASSIGN command is not needed (actually it will give error)
855. Mickey Posted March 27, 2011 at 5:52 am | Permalink
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GREAT GUIDE!
856. john Posted March 27, 2011 at 11:14 am | Permalink my optical drive is damaged and in step 5 it is written that insert windows disk………..can u help me?
857. Sabya Posted March 27, 2011 at 1:41 pm | Permalink I have the contents in my PC to copy but don’t have the CD with me how to proceed help. I am at the stage of DISKPART>EXIT now it shows C:\windows\system32> how to proceed. Regards
858. minhalarabi Posted March 28, 2011 at 3:44 am | Permalink hi gys i found that problem…… Hlp is here XD ….late but Got it 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 QUICK
(Format process may take few min)
EXIT…
u will be back to c: then again type…your drive name “D:” (DVD Drive name) AND SAME AS GIVEN THERE D: CD BOOT D:BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
Relly u did it Finaly Thx..tweakwindows….add like be your frend i am your fan…xd:P
859. minhalarabi Posted March 28, 2011 at 3:49 am | Permalink thx for this tweakwindows boz of this i got how to use pendrive in ps2 ……thx alot hope u have more prowrfull idea….
860. Mazahyr Posted March 28, 2011 at 4:56 am | Permalink Hi i’m able to do all the steps right but i can’t make it sure whether it is bootable or not. When i attempted all the mentioned step the windows “icon” appeared on the USB drive. Now when i open it by double clicking instead of opening the autorun setup window, it explores the USB. Wat indication will help me know whether it has become bootable or not. Plz urgent help required.
861. riz Posted March 28, 2011 at 1:41 pm | Permalink what if my windows 7 dvd is not a bootable 1??will it work ??like will it copy all the files on the usb and work as a bootable 1?
862. aaron Posted March 29, 2011 at 10:35 pm | Permalink guys, you gotta remember to move the files on the root of the USB drive. IF THEY are in a CD_ROM folder, Bootmngr will not be found by the BIOS
good luck and thanks for the awesomeness
863. Smo Posted March 30, 2011 at 8:13 pm | Permalink Thanks so much for the effort here, really comprehensive guide, saved me alot of hair pulling. A very important webpage! Keep it up!
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864. Jashan Posted March 30, 2011 at 8:45 pm | Permalink Thanks man working 100 percent
865. admin Posted March 31, 2011 at 10:34 pm | Permalink @Mazahyr
Try it on VMWare or VirtualBox.
866. admin Posted March 31, 2011 at 10:37 pm | Permalink @Jogh
If you don’t have a working optical drive and have an ISO file of Windows 7, simply mount it using Virtual Clone Drive.
867. ali_J Posted April 2, 2011 at 9:21 am | Permalink hey i am also getting the error “a disk read error occured Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart” after trying to boot from the usb
i see there are several people who has this issue but is not resolved. admin if there is no solution, can u please provid an expaination
868. Chaz Posted April 2, 2011 at 10:43 pm | Permalink To all those receiving ‘disk read error’
I had this problem and strangely evaded it by simply having a second USB stick in the computer at boot up.
It was a Ubuntu USB boot that I had made but strangely somehow it managed to prompt the Windows 7 Install USB to boot.
Makes no sense at all but it worked!
Good luck
869. feyaz Posted April 4, 2011 at 4:22 am | Permalink hey, I screwed another hard disk with these codes, it’s obvious that I made a mistake. I had more than 600gb data in it. Now when I double click on it in my computer it says it’s not been formatted. Is there a way I can recover my files?
870. Aaron Posted April 5, 2011 at 5:26 am | Permalink @feyaz no if it said its not formatted then all the data on it is already gone.
On another note, this worked great thanks.
871. 3rdEye Posted April 5, 2011 at 10:47 am | Permalink I don’t know why my last entry wasn’t posted. Did I do something wrong?
872. tarun Purohit Posted April 5, 2011 at 11:15 am | Permalink i am create a bootable for 2 gb pen drive for xp. but pen drive is 1time runing and then second time create bootable 2 gb than my pen drive is finish.
873. someone Posted April 6, 2011 at 4:38 am | Permalink If you want a easy way (no need using command prompt, also avoid the problem of not seeing your usb drive when using the ‘list disk’ command) for creating a bootable usb drive for installing windows 7, download and use the tool from here. You can find the instructions here http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-usb-to-install-windows-7- from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/
874. Willi Posted April 6, 2011 at 9:27 pm | Permalink Hi, I followed the guideline upto step 7. I used a 4GB usb stick but the Windows 7 DVD contents are 4,78 GB large. How is it supposed to fit into the stick. Thanks
875. hamoosh
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Posted April 7, 2011 at 3:36 am | Permalink very good in addition for ppl who downloaded windows on their pc , in step 6 u first extract iso file of windows if it is then u type that command but not choosing D: the driver letter u jst write first letter of drive u saved extracted files then CD full path of location of ur files.
876. AlKHOlIc Posted April 8, 2011 at 10:35 pm | Permalink freaking awsome worked great thanks bunch and i tried like 5 differnt program that where just headache you saved the day THANK YOU
877. Anil Posted April 8, 2011 at 10:46 pm | Permalink thank u so much, i tried many other trick but i fail all the time. this guide and screen shots make it easy and i succeed. once again thank’s a lot. it makes me ur fan.
878. Shivam Posted April 9, 2011 at 8:09 pm | Permalink I dont have a windows 7 dvd but i have windows setup in my computer can i make bootable usb from this. If yes plz tell me how
879. Tejinder Singh Posted April 10, 2011 at 12:38 am | Permalink sir i dont have dvd drive. I have copied the installation files of windows 7 on my hard disk .I am not able to get how to use D; CD BOOT command
880. Siby Posted April 11, 2011 at 4:24 pm | Permalink can we use that USB drive for further use ?
881. Rooli Posted April 11, 2011 at 7:00 pm | Permalink Thank you for your post, it helped a lot, every step was correct, and it is faster, than using DVD.
882. Al Posted April 12, 2011 at 2:45 pm | Permalink This is so so cool. I’ve done it and it’s working 100%. Thank you very much for this guide.
883. potter3 Posted April 12, 2011 at 7:31 pm | Permalink thanks a lot but , can i do this without DVD / Flash ?
884. sam Posted April 13, 2011 at 12:04 am | Permalink hey guys wy wasing time on windows try linux mint one dvd will install all of ur needs. vlc open office image editor all drivers and u can boot live using a pen drive no need to install it!!! and best part no viruses and a very stable system with superfast booting time give it a try
885. SuperTareFrate Posted April 13, 2011 at 9:06 pm | Permalink Works 100%, tested and running windows 7 installed from USB Stick! Nice work!
886. SUDHEESH Posted April 14, 2011 at 5:20 pm | Permalink Tnx bro. Tnx for sharing such valuable info. May GOD BLESS U.
887. Darko Posted April 14, 2011 at 6:18 pm | Permalink how to make usb noramal. I cant format my usb pls help
888. Gi joe Posted April 14, 2011 at 10:17 pm | Permalink Diskpart is different on XP to Vista and Windows 7. So the above guide probably won’t work in XP because some features of Diskpart that work in Vista and Windows 7 don’t work in XP. We found this out at work over a year ago when attempting to do the same thing.
889. Julian Posted April 15, 2011 at 2:25 am | Permalink Extremely useful guide – you’re a STAR!!!
890. sanjay
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Posted April 15, 2011 at 1:06 pm | Permalink thanks a lot dude
891. samraat Posted April 15, 2011 at 2:11 pm | Permalink Can we format our pen drive or sd card after installation?? Can that be used as a normal pendrive after installation??
892. Karaciite Posted April 15, 2011 at 4:13 pm | Permalink hey, can the USB be used again as it was before copying windows 7 setup in it? or its turned into permenently a Windows 7 setup drive ?
893. admin Posted April 15, 2011 at 5:32 pm | Permalink @Karaciite
You will able to use it again for other purpose.
894. SupaTom Posted April 15, 2011 at 5:35 pm | Permalink For some of you who cannot get the USB to recognize or the USB to boot, chances are your USB flash drive itself doesn’t like to be a boot device.
My 4GB Cruzer Micro refuses to be a boot device, while my 4GB OCZ ATV has no problem. Keep this in mind.
895. Shang Posted April 15, 2011 at 6:50 pm | Permalink Wow…Thanks…That’s great
896. Shang Posted April 15, 2011 at 8:53 pm | Permalink Oh My God, I cant do anything when the error display the message in the empty box: ” Install WIndows No dirves were found. Click Load Driver to provide a mass storage dirver for installation” ” Notice: I did step – by – step as 9 steps above,all ok. But when I install windows 7 (set BIOS priority to USB ok), the error displayed. I hope you help me.
897. Karaciite Posted April 16, 2011 at 2:06 am | Permalink ok thnx
898. ABHINAV Posted April 18, 2011 at 9:28 pm | Permalink dude…. it just stuck in 100 percent!!!!! what should i do??????????
899. Mike Vango Posted April 19, 2011 at 1:21 am | Permalink Works Perfect with Windows 7. Followed the guide and worked like a dream..! Thanks for a super duper guide.!!
900. codifus Posted April 19, 2011 at 7:01 pm | Permalink Did this with Windows 2008 R2 .iso Worked flawlessly. Thanks TweakWindows!!
901. John W Posted April 19, 2011 at 10:15 pm | Permalink
Excellent article. Got it working first time. Saved me ball ache! Thanks mate.
902. Ricardo Posted April 21, 2011 at 9:12 pm | Permalink Great post!!!
By any chance do you have a similar one for Windows XP?
Thanks
903. Max Posted April 21, 2011 at 10:05 pm | Permalink Just wanted to say “thank you”, I’ve been using this guide for a while and it always works and always helps! Thank you
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904. John C Posted April 23, 2011 at 2:10 am | Permalink For those getting the error of “There is insufficient free space to create a partition” …
I was getting the same error. I had to CLEAN again and then it worked. You might also have to clean all.
Hope that helps.
905. CK Posted April 24, 2011 at 2:32 am | Permalink Thanks for this guide, it saved me having to replace an external DVD rom, for all those that got the problem of “read error” all you need to do is substitute fs=ntfs to fs=fat32, that fixed my problem.
906. Bob Posted April 24, 2011 at 4:49 am | Permalink Update to Post 911.
For what it’s worth – this post worked for me:
http://reboot.pro/9196/
907. soodabeh Posted April 24, 2011 at 4:41 pm | Permalink Hi, Thanks for your help and article. I test it and it work.
908. Jeff Posted April 24, 2011 at 8:43 pm | Permalink Thanks for he helpful tip. I just got a new CPU/MOBO and turns out it doesn’t have any IDE interfaces, and I have no SATA DVD drive! I used to image XP machines from a USB drive using GHOST and an HP/Thin Client utility… I figured there had to be a way to do this in Windows.
909. sibin Posted April 24, 2011 at 9:15 pm | Permalink Thank you very much , …… I was looking for this from a log time , i tried and is success. Thnks once again …..
910. Vig Posted April 25, 2011 at 2:43 am | Permalink This guide is much better than any other I’ve come across, esp for how to format the usb drive. Thanks!
911. Andy Posted April 25, 2011 at 3:59 am | Permalink it worked perfectly! thank you so much!!
912. Moe Ali Posted April 25, 2011 at 10:08 pm | Permalink Hello,
I just wanted to thank you for this step-by-step guide.
It was amazing and it worked PERFECTLY fine.
Thank you again.
913. ATUL Posted April 26, 2011 at 2:41 pm | Permalink I completed the task upto 4th step completely.. as i m not having the optical drive, is there any other way because i am having the setup files of windows7 in my harddisk.
914. Addelini Posted April 26, 2011 at 11:59 pm | Permalink Hey there, I don’t know if this question has been answered before but, can i use this on my external harddrive ? And can i use this without having the installation files? since i dont have a Installation DVD is the installation files somewhere on the current harddrive?
915. Prerit Posted April 28, 2011 at 1:06 am | Permalink
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Can i know how to restore my usb drives lost space? Actually when I was trying the upper steps..my usb is showing 125Mb memory while it was of 16GB….Please help somebody….
916. Adrian Posted April 28, 2011 at 5:55 am | Permalink Awesome post. thank you very much. worked fine for installing SBS 2011.
917. Jrei Posted April 28, 2011 at 7:35 pm | Permalink Question:
If my optical drive is not working (that’s why I need this tutorial to reinstall/reformat my PC using Bootable USB) and I have my ISO image (also the extracted file) of Windows Vista on my hard disk, how about step 6? am I still using the CD BOOT command on this matter? Help, thanks!
918. Hero Posted April 30, 2011 at 2:51 am | Permalink mine says couldnot map drive partitions to the associated volume device object: access is denied
PLEASE HELP!!
919. phil Posted April 30, 2011 at 6:55 am | Permalink sir when i type the command “BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:” IT SAYS that”could not map drive H:to an associated volume device ” what should i do man?
920. Ari Posted May 8, 2011 at 2:23 pm | Permalink hey,please tell me how to do the same work in windows xp
921. Kar Fai Posted May 8, 2011 at 9:46 pm | Permalink Hey for people having problems you should explore other ways to do it lol http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx try this site or just google windows 7 usb evangelist the first link is the site anyway i used to try this method but odd enough i couldn’t get past after certain step and as pointed out by those that fail even when the method works during installation problem occur so here you go i wasn’t going to type my comment in at first till i realize its 2011 and more than ever people are still doing this so here is an alternative cheers
922. Mike Posted May 9, 2011 at 6:32 am | Permalink Genius! Worked like a charm. Thanks for posting.
923. Jhayz Posted May 9, 2011 at 12:01 pm | Permalink WinToFlash applications works perfect. Im using Windows XP on my laptop and i want a usb bootable thumb drive containing windows 7 to install on my another desktop pc.. I’ve used wintoflash and it works great on my Kingston 4gb usb thumb drive.
924. leo Posted May 10, 2011 at 12:35 pm | Permalink thanx…. 100% working great tutorial… illustrated….
925. leo Posted May 10, 2011 at 12:37 pm | Permalink @phil type the command after restarting your pc… same problem occured here…. i just restarted my pc and it worked
926. joshua Posted May 10, 2011 at 1:17 pm | Permalink Greetings! can you give me a link where i can download win7 ulti 32bit?
thanks
927. skalig Posted May 10, 2011 at 4:20 pm | Permalink Thank you very much for this tutorial. Works great!
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@phil: H: has to be the drive letter of you USB Stick!
928. ateh Posted May 11, 2011 at 9:26 am | Permalink why windows 7 starter cannot set picture at desktop?
929. admin Posted May 11, 2011 at 11:04 am | Permalink @ joshua Check this post: http://www.intowindows.com/download-windows-7-enterprise-90-day-trial- now/
930. pravin Posted May 12, 2011 at 11:43 am | Permalink Hi Thanx allot handsome. Its 100 percent working.I was under presser with a Laptop you helped me. Wish u all the best. Tc
931. valy Posted May 12, 2011 at 9:11 pm | Permalink Hello. I have a 8gb kingston pen drive. I have did all the steps. At the end i have copied the files from the dvd win 7 ultimate to the stick. On boot it says : pen drive without operating system. Please help.\
932. valy Posted May 12, 2011 at 9:21 pm | Permalink I did a mistake. Now i now what it was. My stick is bootable. Thanks for this tutorial.
933. vice245 Posted May 13, 2011 at 12:51 am | Permalink thank u so much work perfectly. it really help
934. Maverick Posted May 14, 2011 at 6:56 pm | Permalink how to revert the flash drive back to normal file transfer usage?
935. George Posted May 15, 2011 at 10:11 pm | Permalink Thanks my friend the command line way works really nice!
936. Bharat Posted May 15, 2011 at 10:12 pm | Permalink i want to intall windows 7 using bootable pendrive but they show me error drives not found so what can i do? plz mail me suggestions
937. Ronel Posted May 16, 2011 at 2:09 pm | Permalink Hi, i have one concern because you see i have already a soft copy of the windows 7 installation files. There is no DVD file on it. So, my concern is that what am i gonna do in step 6 and step 7? what should i skip? or is there something else i should do? Please Help. email me PLEASE..
938. kamran Posted May 16, 2011 at 5:26 pm | Permalink hi tnx i did evry rules but i have a problem in boot select in bios i have 4 USB choos usb cd rom usb zip usb hdd usb fdd\ which one i shoul choos ? when i choos USB HDD an error acored that press crt+del+alt to restart and cant boot why ?
939. Mads M. Eriksen Posted May 17, 2011 at 11:37 am | Permalink Thx for the advises
THe thing is, that is has been impossible for me to do it from my laptop. But when using my friends stationary there is not any problem. when using the command function, it can only find my harddrive (C:)
940. Darek Posted May 17, 2011 at 9:07 pm | Permalink Working perfect Big Thanks!!!
941. Themba
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Posted May 18, 2011 at 9:40 pm | Permalink I got this Error in step4: bootsect.exe/NT60 E:
” Target volumes will updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. could not map drive partitions to associated volume device objects: access denied.”
942. hamza Posted May 18, 2011 at 11:41 pm | Permalink hi, i am the whole process, it works fine but in the end it states “could not map drive partition to the associated volume device object: access is denied” can somebody please help me with this!
943. Nicholas Corona Posted May 19, 2011 at 2:23 am | Permalink @EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD THE “BOOT MGR MISSING ERROR”
SOMEONE ELSE HAS ALREADY MENTIONED THIS, BUT IT WAS RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE AND UNNOTICEABLE. IF YOU ARE HAVING THIS ERROR CHANCES ARE THAT ON YOUR USB FLASHDRIVE OR HARDDRIVE THE NECESSARY FILES ARE SAVED IN A FOLDER PROBABLY CALLED “CD-ROM”. YOU MUST EXTRACT THE FILES FROM THAT FOLDER AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE AT THE ROOT OF YOUR FLASHDRIVE/HARDDRIVE INSTEAD OF BEING TRAPPED IN SOME ADDITIONAL FOLDER.
HOPE THIS HELPS!!
944. Lee Posted May 19, 2011 at 4:51 am | Permalink I was able to do all the steps on a 4 gb flash drive, but i ran out of space so I purchased an 8 gb. When I get to step 4 – creating the partition I get the following error: there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and off set. Specify different size and offset values or don’t specify either to create the maximum size partition.
I have tried several times with same error. As I noted above the first time on the smaller flash drive it worked fine. Any idea?
945. sia Posted May 19, 2011 at 8:25 am | Permalink why it said no device driver were found??i have followed all the steps to transfer the file from dvd to usb device. Plz help..thx
946. JHONNY"X" Posted May 20, 2011 at 11:34 pm | Permalink hey man i was just wondering if i can copy the file of both windows vista and windows 7 on the same pen drive.
Thanks for the steps..
947. R.B. Posted May 21, 2011 at 2:22 am | Permalink God Bless … Thanks sooooooooo much!
948. nishiki Posted May 24, 2011 at 2:53 am | Permalink This has got to be the best how-to for usb boot I’ve come across. Thank you very much for it.
949. Anjan Bhowmik Posted May 25, 2011 at 3:51 am | Permalink Yep! It does work!
Thanks m8!
950. Kevin Harms Posted May 25, 2011 at 9:05 pm | Permalink Great docs, easy to understand. What I found is I had to do the bootsect /NT60 h: after the file copy, then it seemed to work.
951. Charlie Posted May 25, 2011 at 11:11 pm | Permalink
This works everytime Been using this every now and then and it works allways! Really great tutorial. Works just as well with Windows Server 2008 R2. Thanks for a great tutorial.
952. Tony Posted May 26, 2011 at 12:25 am | Permalink
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Didn’t work…. When I typed in LIST DISK it first showed only my hard drive… Then I put my flash Drive in another port (K) and when I typed in LIST DISK it gave me a list of dos commands…. Do you know why? Thanks
953. Tony Posted May 26, 2011 at 2:36 am | Permalink OK I get it… Doesn’t work with xp
954. Ross Posted May 26, 2011 at 4:17 pm | Permalink Has any one done a write up for doing this for XP? And if so what is the web address? OR what are the steps for doing this for a XP installation?
955. Amiel Posted May 30, 2011 at 5:53 am | Permalink Works great for windows 7! At first I was afraid of what’ll happen to my USB drive. After typing CLEAN, it displayed an error report and my USB device light kept blinking. I exited disk part and restarted the procedure. This time it worked perfect. I was able to reformat my HP laptop flawlessly. Thanks!
956. Bilal Posted May 31, 2011 at 8:34 pm | Permalink “BOOTMGR is missing ” I m getting this message although everything else was successful as mentioned in the guide and then I copied the Win 7 all files into the USB flash .. but its not working and displaying the message i mentioned at the start .. plz guide
957. paul Posted May 31, 2011 at 9:38 pm | Permalink Thank you so so much!
I was an idiot and tried to use my previous DVD Drive to install on a new system, just for my luck I had a I/O error…
I followed this guide and it was perfect… Windows installed in minutes!
The only hiccup that I encountered was a failure in CMD to do a format, so I just used the Right Click > Format > NTFS and then did the CD Boot commands and it worked wonders
Thank you, Sir.
PS – Your face should be printed on money!
958. Mostafa Posted May 31, 2011 at 9:42 pm | Permalink you said Format process may take few seconds ! but it take few hours for me ! why ? thanks
959. Simon the Pieman Posted May 31, 2011 at 10:47 pm | Permalink This is awesome, My DVD drive on my laptop allowed me to format my hardrive before trying (and failing) to install Windows 7. I have struggled for hours to get my drive to read the DVD correctly and install an operating system to no avail. This guide has basically turned my laptop from a paperweight with no OS to a fully functioning Windows 7 machine once again. Cant thank you and the work you have done on publishing this enough, very much appreciated !
960. Jatin Kumar Posted June 1, 2011 at 3:06 am | Permalink This is the best “Make Win7 bootable pendrive” post. Thanks dude
961. abhijit Posted June 1, 2011 at 12:48 pm | Permalink great information……. thank u so much for sharing
962. rajat Posted June 1, 2011 at 2:13 pm | Permalink can it will work on netbook
963. krisna Posted June 2, 2011 at 2:55 pm | Permalink ur guide is almost done. but at the end part i did format the “c” drive and click “NEXT” button.so its display a error massage that is “setup was unable to create a new system partition Or locate an existing system partition.see the setup log files for more information”. so plz rly to me.thanks to u
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964. boat parts Posted June 2, 2011 at 7:35 pm | Permalink hi,Thanks to you for sharing this.Actually my DVD drive was not working and i was not getting any way to install my new copy of windows so i copy all my data in my USB drive attached with other desktop machine and by using this process i installed windows on my laptop.It is really an amazing way for installation.
965. Mike Posted June 3, 2011 at 9:01 am | Permalink Worked like a charm! I was having network connection difficulties on my HP mini 210. It would connect wireless for about 15 minutes then drop and not come back. HP determined that it might be a windows issue and wanted me to reinstall Windows 7 Starter with their USB drive. Rather than wait over 5 days for the drive, I followed these steps (very clear btw) and it booted right into the reinstall and it kicked off just fine. Now I can put a fresh install of 7 Ultimate on and see if that fixes it. Thanks!
966. norbeey Posted June 5, 2011 at 8:46 pm | Permalink All the steps went fine and I have set the removables to the 1st place at the boot priority order but still nothing happens. Why?
967. eru88 Posted June 6, 2011 at 2:08 am | Permalink I did everything but when i try to install the operating system it says Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x8007045D
I try deleting and saving the files from the dvd again to the usb but the same thing happen. I am mounting the iso and saving those files, does it not work like that?
968. Emirates Skeptron Posted June 6, 2011 at 2:43 am | Permalink Please see below, what’s wrong? =(
———————————————————X:\BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 M: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
M: (\\?\Volume{41bc0891-3a3e-11e0-92ec-1c6f6590ed84})
Updated NTFS filesystem bootcode. The update may be unreliable since the volume could not be locked during the update: Access is denied.
Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.
X:\BOOT> ———————————————————
969. Aakash Posted June 7, 2011 at 5:37 am | Permalink Hey,
I tried doing this on my external HDD and it didn’t work. So I used a USB Flash Drive and it worked great. But now when I try to use my External HDD, it won’t work at all. Any help?
Thanks.
970. Fanctron Posted June 7, 2011 at 8:21 am | Permalink Man, works like a charm. Tks very much.
Cheers
971. espen Posted June 8, 2011 at 4:10 pm | Permalink fantastic!
972. sam Posted June 8, 2011 at 11:58 pm | Permalink nice update it really help keep it up,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
973. sandip karmakar Posted June 9, 2011 at 9:08 am | Permalink how to windows7 install from usb drive detail
974. vinay Posted June 9, 2011 at 3:41 pm | Permalink
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ihave a doubt in the 8th step,where u say to copy the windows files to usb.there what’s copying,does it mean to copy image file?.
975. Shaun Posted June 9, 2011 at 4:43 pm | Permalink Thankyou, after running into the problem of the windows 7 installation hanging when it expands files when i used the dvd was doing my head in, then using this method and booting the setup via usb, made it work like a charm
976. Arjen Posted June 9, 2011 at 7:28 pm | Permalink Hmz, you can skip the step with Diskpart
mostly because it takes too long (16gb stick)
You can just reformat it quickly into NTFS format.
then do the step that comes after Diskpart.
Works like a charm aswell.
977. Jude Posted June 10, 2011 at 12:51 pm | Permalink I had follow all your instruction and I got it all smooth. But when I tried to use my USB to boot my Acer 4530, I got the message BOOT MGR MISSING. What’s wrong?
978. Rajmohan Posted June 10, 2011 at 1:18 pm | Permalink great !!!
979. yusri Posted June 10, 2011 at 6:43 pm | Permalink my problem is, ‘BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file.
what i need to do?
980. Patrick Posted June 10, 2011 at 10:11 pm | Permalink Why not “show hidden folders and files” in folder options and open the windows 7 disc and copy all the files to a flash drive. works for me 100% of the time
981. Navid Posted June 12, 2011 at 6:10 pm | Permalink
How can i understand what is my usb disc number? pls help
982. Ash Posted June 13, 2011 at 12:33 pm | Permalink i will try this process ok bt thanks for this
983. MouZ Posted June 13, 2011 at 1:34 pm | Permalink M gonna try this right now. My cd/dvd-rom are not working since 2 months. I thought i wont be able to format until i get it right.. lets see if it works:-)
984. Victor Posted June 13, 2011 at 9:08 pm | Permalink Thank you very much, the guide was extremely helpful!!! great stuff!!
985. MouZ Posted June 13, 2011 at 11:22 pm | Permalink 1. My disk no. of USB flash drive is disk 2. Do i need to type SELECT PARTITION 1 or 2 in my case?
2. My CD-ROM and DVD-ROM are not working, it don’t detect any CD or DVD. Everything went smooth till i typed F: CD BOOT (F is my DVD RW drive). The error comes: “The device is not ready”. What should i do now??
986. GCC1401 Posted June 13, 2011 at 11:23 pm | Permalink For those who got the message “COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED” you did not run cmd as administrator that is why the access is denied. So, close de de cmd and open it as describe in step 2:
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*Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
987. shyam Posted June 14, 2011 at 5:40 pm | Permalink I know very well that one windows 7/xp/vista in one bootable pen drive but i don’t know that how to creat Bootable flash/pen drive of Windows 7, Vista, or XP in one pen/flash drive please help me
988. Gus Posted June 14, 2011 at 5:41 pm | Permalink |Used your method as described, works great, thank you.
989. dzul Posted June 14, 2011 at 6:13 pm | Permalink U save my day…thank u…
990. Troy Posted June 14, 2011 at 11:36 pm | Permalink Followed to the letter, multiple times. Doesn’t work for me. Says bootmngr is missing, and yes USB is set as primary boot drive. Help?
991. pherenika Posted June 15, 2011 at 12:50 am | Permalink On windows 7 removable drives will not appear in the list of disks. If your usb is not showing up in the list of disks, instead of LIST DISK and SELECT DISK 1, type LIST VOLUME and SELECT VOLUME 1.
992. pherenika Posted June 15, 2011 at 12:52 am | Permalink
Oh, and cheers for a great guide!
993. Tony Posted June 15, 2011 at 3:47 am | Permalink I have a question why doesn’t Windows Copying 100% all files it is just copying 10% the files ? please answer
994. Benjamin Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:26 pm | Permalink Just a notice. I downloaded a fresh copy of Vista, and i used daemon tools to mount the iso file. And everything worked 100%.. GL, and great guide, best out there, Would be nice with a guide for XP too
995. kittu Posted June 18, 2011 at 10:14 am | Permalink hi sir,its good but end of part its shows error msg that ìs set up was unable to create an system partition or locate an exits system partition.see the setup log files . plz how could u slove this. and rly to me
996. DK Posted June 18, 2011 at 10:40 am | Permalink Ben… try this…
Type “G:” (g being the flash drive and with out the quotations) Then press -Enter-
xcopy h:\*.* /a /e /k (H: being the drive where your windows 7 disk is) Then press -Enter-
997. DK Posted June 18, 2011 at 10:44 am | Permalink Opps Tony not Ben…
998. Steve Ollis Posted June 20, 2011 at 3:05 am | Permalink Thanks for this. The DVD drive in my kid’s PC died just before they managed to destroy the XP install that was on there. I was going to have to rat a DVD from another machine until I found this article.
999. iqbal Posted June 20, 2011 at 4:22 am | Permalink Thanks a lot !! it worked just fine on the second attempt…Very useful..keep up the good work
1000. Curbup Posted June 20, 2011 at 6:10 am | Permalink hi there…
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!
u made my day… thanks bro..
1001. Muralidhar Posted June 20, 2011 at 6:14 pm | Permalink Great dude… Thanks..
1002. Mutherfarqwa Posted June 23, 2011 at 3:39 pm | Permalink Good onya mate.
1003. Ali Posted June 25, 2011 at 2:35 am | Permalink That’s great
1004. chad Posted June 25, 2011 at 9:22 pm | Permalink It worked. Thanks for the article. 5 stars on the clarity, compare your solution to others, refer to a simpler soluiton for less technical users, and make it #1 rank on search engine.
1005. martin Posted June 26, 2011 at 10:09 pm | Permalink i got same problem like few ppl here which someone described like this
“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. ”
I SOLVED IT
just unomounted the iso from virtual drive and did all the steps again.. BUT I found out that i mounted wrong file to virtual drive! this is why ppl got this problem just mount the instalation of w7 in the drive. do this all steps and it will work for sure! good luck
1006. Claire Posted June 27, 2011 at 7:48 pm | Permalink Hey great Tutorial. Tried it on my laptop and works like a charm
But the second time around when I accidentally chose my Backup disk, during the FORMAt FS=NTFS process I realize it was my hardisk. So I closed CMD, and there it was my Harddrive was gone and undetected by my Comp. Can Someone help me? Really appreciate your help guys
1007. jim Posted June 28, 2011 at 3:49 am | Permalink Could someone please help me? I have basicaly 3 issues.
1. My Dvd player is not running (reason why I’m here) 2. I erased the partition containing the official Windows 7 file… 3. No OS running on my PC.. so no VPC possible.
Could someone please guide me where I could find downloadable Windows 7? I have an official OEM Windowns 7 key. But realised I did not receive any CD with.
Can I create a bootable USB key without burning DVD? Thanks
1008. rishi Posted June 30, 2011 at 12:22 am | Permalink hey man u rock.!! although i did it from a win 7 32 bit version for a 64 bit win 7 setup and it did give an error as many of the above comments have..yet i continued with the copying all the files and EUREKA… the usb became bootable!! thanks a lot man…u r a genius..!!
1009. tina Posted June 30, 2011 at 3:32 am | Permalink plzz…ma laptop says”BOOTMGR is compressed”….ma cd rom isnt working so…am using usb..i copied the recovery disk to the disk but its stilll showing the same thing..plz help
1010. tina
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Posted June 30, 2011 at 4:32 am | Permalink i tried ur command prompt n its telling me cannot map drive partition, access is denied
1011. John V Posted June 30, 2011 at 8:08 pm | Permalink For anyone having problems with the initial setup starting again from scratch when the computer restarts, it isn’t necessary to remove the USB drive at any point.
Simply monitor the installation process closely and when the computer restarts for the first time, re-enter BIOS immediately and change the boot device priority so that the (non-USB) hard drive is the first boot device. Save settings and exit BIOS.
This only needs to be done once and the rest of the installation will complete successfully, regardless of the number of restarts.
1012. Ryan Posted July 2, 2011 at 3:12 pm | Permalink That was an excellent guide. Well done.
1013. Devang Vyas Posted July 2, 2011 at 5:48 pm | Permalink Yep. Worked fine for windows 7. Good technique without using any kinda software. Thanx for d info.
1014. fc3232 Posted July 3, 2011 at 12:37 am | Permalink Confirm that this works on Windows XP computer being used to download the torrent
First I got an error so I used an 8GB FlASHDRIVE drive and then it worked
Cool!
1015. vivek.J Posted July 3, 2011 at 1:59 pm | Permalink i’m having an error that “bootmgr file is missing” what can i do for tat…
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1017. nong Posted July 6, 2011 at 9:59 pm | Permalink thanks a lot.u rock man.
1018. Korea Song Posted July 7, 2011 at 3:40 pm | Permalink Thank you, it works.
1019. hringriin Posted July 8, 2011 at 6:38 pm | Permalink Hi …
Well, it actually worked perfectly according to my Windows installation but in “damaged” my usb device in some kind. I usually use that one for having live Linux-Images handy, created by “UNIVERSAL-USB- INSTALLER” from pendrivelinux.com … The thing now is, that it is not possible for me to get that working again. I think this is caused by the action of BOOTSECT.EXE … Is there any possibility to undo the changes bootsect.exe has made? I’d be very glad, if you can help me. I will also write a more detailed description if needed.
Regards hringriin
1020. layne Posted July 9, 2011 at 11:42 pm | Permalink Thank you so much! stroke of awesomeness! I have used this guide now 15 times! and have it permantly saved on my hard drive! You are amazing and your that kind of people that make the internet not complete trast
1021. brian Posted July 10, 2011 at 4:55 am | Permalink this is the best tutorial ever!!!!!!!!!!!! A total retard can do this!!!!!!!!
1022. OPACITY Posted July 10, 2011 at 9:45 am | Permalink
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thank you, really! it works…….Gracias…. Gran idea. funcional..!
1023. Sunny Posted July 11, 2011 at 10:16 am | Permalink could you help me PLEASE!! i followed everything up until bootsec.exe /nt60 g:
“it tells me that acces is denied”
any suggestions?
1024. leroy cozier Posted July 11, 2011 at 11:45 am | Permalink ty i love how u explaned it u should be on every problem site. ty again
1025. steady Posted July 11, 2011 at 6:33 pm | Permalink i followed all the steps mentioned in the guide and all went well, until… when i boot into the usb drive successfully, it says “no operating system detected”? why doesn’t it start the setup files?
1026. Algis Posted July 14, 2011 at 6:14 pm | Permalink Hi,
I had ‘disk read error’ with Transdcend 8Gb card. I switched to aData 8Gb card and everything worked fine.
Regards, Algis
1027. jayvcc Posted July 14, 2011 at 9:42 pm | Permalink thanks tweak it works smoothly on windows 7 this really help a lot. very detailed on explanations and job well done. =)
1028. jeff Posted July 15, 2011 at 10:41 am | Permalink hi there!
this is really great, i just have 1 question though when you Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive, do you need to create a folder first or just copy all the files to the USB.
also does it matter if the windows 7 is in .iso format? or you need to extract all files first and then copy to USB? thank you so much!
1029. LEKA Posted July 16, 2011 at 3:28 am | Permalink BRO I LOVE YOU YOU ARE A GENIOUS I WORKS IS PERFECT YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
1030. Tom Posted July 18, 2011 at 3:59 am | Permalink Hey
Firstly to the author of this article, this was terrific. A fantastic guide with very clear instructions. Thanks very much for this.
Secondly to Jeff; you don’t need to create a folder. After following the instructions set out here, make sure that there is nothing on the USB drive and then copy the contents of the windows disk (in their entirety) onto the drive. Make sure that the BIOS loads from the drive first, or press F12 during boot, and you’re set.
Tom
1031. Wolfos Posted July 20, 2011 at 2:57 am | Permalink Can’t get it to work, I can boot Linux distributions fine with this BIOS settings and I followed all steps.
1032. eDadou Posted July 20, 2011 at 7:59 pm | Permalink Thank you so much, i’m copying the files right now, you are saving me a lot of frustration if this works !
1033. mayank Posted July 21, 2011 at 3:11 am | Permalink Hey some one pease help me
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I am getting this error while creatimg primary partition:
There is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don’t specify either to create the maximum sized partition.
My USB is 8 gb and completely empty and formatted
PLZ help I need this to work
1034. failmatic Posted July 21, 2011 at 5:01 am | Permalink This guide is terrific. I’ve been using this for years. The directions are clear and concise. If you cant follow it, perhaps, you shouldn’t be installing windows via usb and go grab yourself an external dvd drive.
1035. KEIM Posted July 21, 2011 at 7:43 am | Permalink BLESS!!!!!! TO THE FULLEST fatB……Jamaica
1036. Alex Posted July 21, 2011 at 11:09 pm | Permalink does this work if the laptop im trying to use the usb with is windows 7 starter?
1037. KIRK Posted July 22, 2011 at 7:27 am | Permalink I am stuck at part 6. when in CMD entering D:CD BOOT IT TELLS ME D:CD is not a recognized command so I entered D: to bring me into D: and entered CD BOOT that brought me to D:\Boot> after entering BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G it says that is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Can anyone help me navigate around this problem?
1038. admin Posted July 22, 2011 at 10:28 am | Permalink @ Alex
Should work fine.
1039. BIGTWEZZY Posted July 23, 2011 at 6:02 am | Permalink worked perfect for me,,really got me out a bind,,,thanks
1040. AA Posted July 24, 2011 at 8:48 am | Permalink I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU!!! I have trying to boot and install Windows 7 my stubborn HP mini all day – you just save me over $200!!!! Thanks so much. Keep up the good work!!!!
1041. SysAdmin Posted July 24, 2011 at 2:55 pm | Permalink Great how-to. Thanks
1042. Metin Posted July 25, 2011 at 2:11 pm | Permalink Thanks so much, I repaired my computer with a USB Win 7 64 bit, by using your help guide. Praying for you…
1043. Steve Posted July 26, 2011 at 11:52 pm | Permalink Thanks alot! Worked like a charm!
1044. Muhammad arsalan Posted July 27, 2011 at 5:09 pm | Permalink awesom information very good thanks for sharing.
1045. Striky Posted July 28, 2011 at 1:08 am | Permalink Hi there thank you for the great guide, it worked well!!
ButI do face some weirdo problem here. I am installing Win7 64bits and the install will require a reboot. At the beginning usually we press any key to enter the windows setup but after the reboot it is not required.
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However by using pendrive as bootable driver the “press any key to continue” screen doesn’t appear anymore and it keep self entering the setup and stopped me from completing the setup…anyone have clue on this problem?
1046. Sohaib Ikram Posted July 28, 2011 at 10:12 pm | Permalink please describe this in a video
1047. Nik Posted July 28, 2011 at 11:16 pm | Permalink Can I install windows 7 64bit version on a windows 7 32 bit version? if yes… then how can I do this?
thnx =)
1048. vino Posted July 29, 2011 at 5:29 pm | Permalink man how to find whether my mother board supports usb bootable,,…
1049. SAHU Posted July 30, 2011 at 9:12 pm | Permalink Amazing! i never thought I could do it by myself. Thanx for ur help.
1050. lui Posted July 31, 2011 at 3:51 pm | Permalink hey dude, nice guide.. now i can use my usb as a primary boot device cause my netbook doesnt have a cd/dvdrom.
1051. beingthere Posted July 31, 2011 at 4:03 pm | Permalink Cool,thanx dude. This help me a lot
1052. green house Posted July 31, 2011 at 11:13 pm | Permalink Hi there i have done this and put my USB in and it sarted to take me throgh the set up process, but the computer is then asking me for the drivers. The drivers are on a seperate disk and i have no idea what drivers it would need etc. can you please help me??
1053. eggsas Posted August 1, 2011 at 1:59 am | Permalink Striky just change your bios on restart to start hard drive before usb. It worked perfectly for me…
1054. Tatsat Posted August 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Permalink My system copy installation files and extract files and restarts and after that again and again system restarts
1055. Kaustav Dey Posted August 2, 2011 at 6:37 pm | Permalink great article, thanks
1056. Vipin dass Posted August 3, 2011 at 9:34 pm | Permalink Thanks dear
1057. DarthZelda Posted August 4, 2011 at 12:13 am | Permalink So… I got through the guide splendidly, the PC booted, but the data were somehow corrupt, so the installation couldn’t get to an end. But when I inserted the stick and wanted to rewrite the data, so I could do all that again, Win just couldn’t find it. No trace of inserting anywhere. Anyone any hints? I never heard about making a brick out of USB, but I might have just done that xD
Cheers, - DZ
1058. mohammad Posted August 4, 2011 at 2:19 am | Permalink its very slow format i think that will take a days for formating my flash only
Thanks anyway for shared information
1059. phuser Posted August 4, 2011 at 6:07 pm | Permalink very concludent guide, ty
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1060. Mikey Posted August 5, 2011 at 10:56 am | Permalink As other have said above me (#286 for one), you don’t need to type “D: CD BOOT” and then “CD BOOT” the first command “D:” and then the second command “CD BOOT” is fine. Anything after the space in the “D:” command was ignored. All you are doing is navigating the command prompt to “D:\BOOT”. That’s just how the command line works.
1061. Mikey Posted August 5, 2011 at 10:57 am | Permalink p.s. Aside from the above mentioned bug, great article. I didn’t know you could do all this with just command line tools
1062. andrian Posted August 5, 2011 at 3:03 pm | Permalink Thanks, it works perfectly!
1063. Brandon Posted August 7, 2011 at 10:29 am | Permalink okay i did every ting step by step and i still get when i put it into my laptop boot manager missing :/ any suggestions?
1064. unknown Posted August 8, 2011 at 10:29 pm | Permalink hello sir i did exactly what you said.process was a complete. But when i tried it in my system it showed “A disk error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”.
Please reply ASAP
1065. redbeard Posted August 9, 2011 at 4:27 pm | Permalink i have followed this tutorial to the letter and the usb boot works perfectly but on installation i get ” No device drivers were found make sure instalation media contains the corect drivers ” the media i used installs on any machine i have and works perfect … any idea why it dont install from usb
thanks in advance
redbeard
1066. syahrein Posted August 10, 2011 at 8:40 am | Permalink hi man. it used to be as easy as copying the windows 7 ultimate cd to my ext hdd and i’d be able to use it to boot up. but suddenly it didnt work anymore. after finding this site, i’m able to install frm my ext hdd.
thanks loads man!
1067. Sethunath Posted August 11, 2011 at 10:13 am | Permalink my problem is i don’t have optical drive.
1068. Lee Posted August 11, 2011 at 10:03 pm | Permalink If you’re having trouble finding your disk in list disk you can just type “select volume D:” for example (where D: is the drive letter of your usb). Also for the format selection you can also type FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK so the format is a quick format rather than a 5-10 minute one.
Good Luck!
1069. say Posted August 12, 2011 at 10:47 am | Permalink hello.
i just have one question: after formatting the usb, and i don’t have windows 7 installed in cd but i have a copy of windows 7 activator.
will i just send a copy of windows 7 on my reformatted usb?
thanks a lot and god bless . ..
1070. Rudi Posted August 13, 2011 at 3:02 pm | Permalink Please note that Windows 7 setup doesn’t support USB 3.0 device to boot from. This causes a error during installation that the installer needs drivers. Very simple solution is to put the USB stick into a USB 2.0 port!
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Thanks for this guide, works perfect for me!
1071. Ram Posted August 14, 2011 at 4:06 pm | Permalink I tried using this and it worked. But when the setup is restarting the system, it again loads windows 7 and installs a copy again. The setup isn’t getting completed.
1072. mark Posted August 14, 2011 at 7:54 pm | Permalink Is it ok if my ext hdd has other content?will it be erased or be affected if I will follow your process?
1073. Stephanie Posted August 14, 2011 at 8:08 pm | Permalink I cannot get past step 1. After I type in diskpart all bthe shows up except diskpart> so I can’t enter the rest of the commands.
1074. CRAFT Posted August 15, 2011 at 1:51 am | Permalink works like a charm ,thanks a ton
1075. wonwon Posted August 15, 2011 at 7:43 am | Permalink Thanks,i was tried and it works perfectly!
1076. maggie Posted August 15, 2011 at 11:48 am | Permalink works like a charm. I’d buy you a beer or 3 for all the time you saved me. cheers!
1077. Ivan Posted August 15, 2011 at 12:57 pm | Permalink hey i got a multi boot usb key with win 7 in it but when trying to instal windows it says it can’t find drivers for HDD but useing a dvd it finds the drivers. Please help
1078. Dete Posted August 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm | Permalink Great. Don’t have any idea what i just did but it worked. Followed every step carefully and my netbook is right now next to me finishing the install. Thank you!
1079. Kakashi Posted August 15, 2011 at 7:44 pm | Permalink Tried it and it works 100%
Great tutorial
1080. Joshjuniorr Posted August 16, 2011 at 1:00 pm | Permalink When i go to boot from my usb device it tells me i’m missing the boot manager and to hit ctrl alt del to reboot.
i followed all the steps and the boot manager step installed correctly. Any idea what the problem could be?
1081. RZPogi Posted August 16, 2011 at 10:06 pm | Permalink It works on windows 7 32bit. gonna try on 64bit
1082. irul Posted August 17, 2011 at 11:24 am | Permalink thanks bro…for share…
1083. keeks Posted August 19, 2011 at 6:05 am | Permalink Worked a treat! Thanks!
1084. Shashank Posted August 19, 2011 at 7:31 am | Permalink Guys…My USB is working with this things
1085. Ali Posted August 19, 2011 at 12:44 pm | Permalink Thank you very much for this guide. This is a great effort.
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1086. NOMAN Posted August 19, 2011 at 8:08 pm | Permalink THANKS MAN ITS WORKS I AM HAPPY COZ OF YOU THANKS A LOT
1087. omar Posted August 20, 2011 at 11:56 pm | Permalink thank u verry much for this tuto
1088. Dean Posted August 21, 2011 at 3:25 am | Permalink Hi. I tried this twice now and have seemingly ruined 2 seperate usb thumb drives (Lexar Echo and Verbatim Tuff n Tiny). An error appeared after attempling to clean the thumb drives. After that point the drives are no longer functional and I can’t complete the rest of the process. Any ideas?
I’m running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit on an HP Mini
Thanks
1089. Viji Posted August 21, 2011 at 9:26 am | Permalink Great Teacher, very well explained free-of-cost unlike to most web sites which takes the readers a ride and finally request for credit cards. You are a Bonafide Samaritan…. Good Job and keep it go…. We are there with you… Viji, Sri Lanka.
1090. phantom_IT Posted August 21, 2011 at 4:09 pm | Permalink hi , any one knows below pls help me. I just tried this and works fine. I just installed win 7 from the USB pen drive. but after that my pendrive is not working. Its just blinking and i see its size as zero (0). Who can help me fix this. pls pls pls pls pls
1091. admin Posted August 21, 2011 at 10:35 pm | Permalink @ phantom-IT
Please try to format the pen drive.
1092. admin Posted August 21, 2011 at 10:38 pm | Permalink @ Dean
Sorry to hear that your USB thumb drives are not working after trying out this guide. Is Windows detecting the drive? Can you see the drive in My Computer or Computer?
1093. Akshay Posted August 22, 2011 at 10:24 am | Permalink wooo it works 100%…. thanks dude
1094. Dean Posted August 23, 2011 at 1:45 am | Permalink The thumb drives are no longer recognised. It’s no big deal as I just returned one of them to Best Buy. I would really like to know how to re-install windows on my netbook though so I’m wondering is there’s any work-around to the clean process. Or if there’s some other way of formatting the thumb drive for the installation process.
Thanks for the help.
1095. John Theo Posted August 23, 2011 at 3:53 am | Permalink u rule man .. works like a glove
1096. SPARK Posted August 23, 2011 at 2:26 pm | Permalink to enable listdisk in windows xp download this tool
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=23711
1097. Tomislav Posted August 23, 2011 at 8:27 pm | Permalink darnn… you should’ve wrote the quict ntfs forman command, not the standard, it’s taking forever on this aspire one xD
1098. coolio Posted August 25, 2011 at 5:28 am | Permalink hey man i havnt got the windows 7 cd but got a torrent. do you know exactly what files i need to download/mount. thanks.
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1099. Windows 8 Posted August 25, 2011 at 9:37 am | Permalink Technology make me live and without advance and new tech life is not good.. New OS With New features Windows 8
1100. Hem lal gautam Posted August 25, 2011 at 4:57 pm | Permalink Hi i want to block this side please help me. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh My God
1101. Ethien Posted August 26, 2011 at 7:29 am | Permalink THANK YOU!
1102. Moeed Awais Posted August 26, 2011 at 10:33 pm | Permalink u r awesome, m a big fan of urs,u rock…..:)
1103. MeMe Posted August 27, 2011 at 12:31 pm | Permalink Just one small problem, it doesn’t seem to detect my flash drive I’ve tried everything I know and no matter what, it doesn’t appear when I type List Disk. Any advice?
1104. CRIZZ Posted August 28, 2011 at 4:57 am | Permalink guys igot my usb “no media” … can you help me out.? i almost done it.. but i might have skip a step..:(
1105. Akeles Posted August 28, 2011 at 4:57 am | Permalink u r rock man..
1106. CRIZZ Posted August 28, 2011 at 6:47 am | Permalink I ALREADY MADE IT WORK.(USB) JUST THAT IT SAYS THE DEVICE IS NOT READY WHEN I TYPE “D: CD BOOT”
1107. Pramod Posted August 28, 2011 at 7:09 am | Permalink Step 6,7 are very important. Otherwise the install will say Device Driver missing.
1108. aditi Posted August 28, 2011 at 3:25 pm | Permalink hey i created bootable pen drive n i want to install windows 7 in boot options they r showing usb-hdd,usb-fdd,usb-zip i do not know from where to boot pl tell
1109. CRIZZ Posted August 29, 2011 at 1:21 am | Permalink but isn’t that dvd drive would already be the usb.coz the dvd files(win7 instalation files are in usb already)? it only says device not ready TT
1110. sukuwan Posted August 29, 2011 at 11:13 pm | Permalink Thank u very much , this thing really worked for me. I appreciate ur work!!!!!
1111. Nate Posted August 30, 2011 at 4:38 am | Permalink how would u install from usb if you don’t have the windows 7 disk but have the windows 7 iso file on the usb onto a pc with no operating system?
1112. Ryan Posted August 30, 2011 at 10:14 am | Permalink Thanks, I have been wondering how to do this!
1113. pradip chaudhari Posted August 30, 2011 at 3:40 pm | Permalink Can you please explain me step no 8. How to copy windows 7 content in usb drive. I mean wheter we should exit commaond prompt after step no 7?
1114. Ograje Posted August 31, 2011 at 5:13 am | Permalink thank u very much for this tutorial!
1115. Jeanard Guinto
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Posted September 2, 2011 at 7:56 am | Permalink thanks dude….,,,
1116. kunal Posted September 3, 2011 at 12:42 pm | Permalink thanks man
1117. Kazrob Posted September 3, 2011 at 1:57 pm | Permalink Works fine. But the total beginner needs to be told that they need to have bootsect on their machine and perhaps a link to download it.
1118. atta Posted September 3, 2011 at 11:57 pm | Permalink hey man i have win7 ultimate files in my sony walkman who could i copy those using cd boot command i’ve tried this command g: cd boot as my sony walkman is on g drive but it didn’t work and showed this msg diskpart> can you help me
1119. Gars Posted September 4, 2011 at 12:00 am | Permalink keep the good work man!
1120. Juan Posted September 6, 2011 at 1:21 pm | Permalink You’re my hero
1121. lobz Posted September 6, 2011 at 1:37 pm | Permalink is there any way tat i can disable this on my usb?
1122. Install os using pen Posted September 6, 2011 at 3:13 pm | Permalink Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn and post comments in your site.
1123. SAscha Posted September 6, 2011 at 3:35 pm | Permalink Hello and help, I tried this on my eeePC 1005PE but it is not recognizing the USB stick, I tried 6 of them but nothing. Always: “Reeboot and select a propper boot device …”
What can I do? My current win 7 installation is not working anymore. I tried even to reset the Cmos and removed the battery … but nothing…. help please, i am going mad…
any idea??
cheeers
1124. Stefan Posted September 8, 2011 at 1:07 pm | Permalink I had some troubles with step 7 as well, but found out I needed to run the command as an Administrator and had nothing to do with x64 and/or x86.
1125. NIRDESH Posted September 9, 2011 at 12:25 am | Permalink it works…. could i convert my usb again to previous version…???
1126. Kevin Posted September 9, 2011 at 4:38 am | Permalink AWESOME!!! Thanks.
1127. PRiYam Posted September 12, 2011 at 12:27 am | Permalink Great post … works like a charm … 10 out of 10 dear!!!
1128. Jagdish Singh Charan Posted September 12, 2011 at 3:12 pm | Permalink I had some troubles with step 7 as well, but found out I needed to run the command as an Administrator and had nothing to do with x64 and/or x86.
1129. Tomasz Posted September 13, 2011 at 12:20 pm | Permalink
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Great! It worked perfect and fast. Very good guide. Thank You!
1130. David E Posted September 14, 2011 at 7:03 pm | Permalink TO – MADMAX, franz99, Doug, chrisNova777, and anyone else experiencing the BOOT 0xc000000e when trying to boot to the flash drive, I have firgured it out. I tried this with 3 different flash drives and every one of them gave me the EXACT same 0xc000000e message when trying to boot. c:\bootsect.exe /nt60 x: /force That did it for all 3 drives. 1 Patriot drive, 1 PNY, and 1 Super Talent, 1 SanDisk, and 1 Kingston and they all worked just fine after using the “/force” command after /nt60 – I hope this helps all who encounter this problem.
1131. Finn Andersen Posted September 15, 2011 at 1:50 pm | Permalink Great guide A good idea is to share the USB stick with full acces for everyone – I got an error when trying to write to my 8G usb pen – but after sharing , nada problem
// Finni
1132. Physica Posted September 16, 2011 at 12:37 am | Permalink Hey, This is a great guide. however I was wondering how can I format the usb back to the original OS?
1133. Welsey Posted September 16, 2011 at 2:32 am | Permalink Great… Good Guide!!! Thanks
1134. ali Posted September 16, 2011 at 5:17 am | Permalink I have boot usb but when I plug it to boot the screen put a flashing dash and nothing happen ?
Help !!
1135. okazii Posted September 16, 2011 at 8:15 am | Permalink nice info, but easy to use win2flash, anyway that software make errors some times, so manual metod it;s better
1136. Robin @ Windows 8 Posted September 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm | Permalink Must wait till the beta release come out. hope they will make it quick..
Robin.
1137. Ankit Posted September 17, 2011 at 2:02 pm | Permalink I followed all the steps but when i booted message appears boot manager missing..Plzz help!!
1138. Dusan Posted September 18, 2011 at 12:17 am | Permalink E:\BOOT\BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 I:
COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ACCOCIETED VOLIUME DEVICE OBJECTS: ACCESS IS DENIED
Always returns the same message…. WHY?
1139. Tom Posted September 18, 2011 at 2:46 am | Permalink not working on Vista on typing J: cd boot getting message the device is not ready. In windows explorer I can see and browse dvd drive J, not problem. Any idea?
1140. Sam Posted September 18, 2011 at 7:33 pm | Permalink I followed all the steps but when i try to us eit it says BOOTMGR is missing
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press ctrl+alt+del to restart Can someone pleasee helpp?
1141. Leo Posted September 19, 2011 at 7:40 am | Permalink It works perfect!!! This guy is the bomb!
1142. McKracken Posted September 19, 2011 at 12:48 pm | Permalink Works perfect, used this guide to install 7 like 10 times! Thanks!
1143. insane Posted September 19, 2011 at 11:36 pm | Permalink
perfect.. awsome procedure.. thnxx..
1144. Devendra Posted September 20, 2011 at 6:26 pm | Permalink Really awesome work.. 1st time I am writing any comment on ny pst to thnk.. tyvm..
1145. Shayan Posted September 21, 2011 at 7:51 pm | Permalink Hello, I have Toshiba NetBook With Win 7 Starter
And im trying to install win7 on it again But I have a Problem My Windoes Not Responding And it wont Install Any Hardwere of a USB flash device or External CD/DVD rom
When I Turn It On It Just Shows:
Reboot And Select Proper Boot Device Or Install Boot Media In Selected Boot Dvice And Press A Key
If You Know What To Do Plz Helpme!
Thanks, Shayan
1146. Musse Posted September 21, 2011 at 8:01 pm | Permalink Im getting a “The Device Is Not Ready” when i do step 6 with the CD Boot
1147. Srikanth Reddy Posted September 22, 2011 at 11:15 am | Permalink Hai I have diskparted my usb stick by following the above mentioned steps successfully. But while copying the contents of Windows 7 Dvd to my Usb drive i see this error message… (can’t read the file INSTALL.WIM from the source)…..i even tried copying it individually….but i can’t..please help me out….
thanks….
1148. ALEX Posted September 22, 2011 at 3:14 pm | Permalink My thumb drive is undetectable now. Till step 4 every thing was good and when I inserted the dvd and followed the step 5.I encountered the below error. Included from the end of step 4
======Leaving DiskPart…
C:\Windows\system32>D: CD BOOT
D:\>CD BOOT
D:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
Could not map drive G: to an associated volume device object. ======
when I tested my thumb drive in Linux, it said it is an “Unmounted removable medium”
any body know what to do to make my thumb drive working
1149. Roshan Chauhan Posted September 22, 2011 at 9:24 pm | Permalink
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after BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 I: WHEN I HIT ENTER…..”could not map drive partition to the associated volune device objecs:Access is denied”
plz help me…………what to do……
1150. RonaldEron Posted September 23, 2011 at 11:22 am | Permalink what about windows 8 beta? I had this software and i want to install it on my netbook… and i want to use my usb to install it. Is this tutorial can also work to windows 8?
1151. David Posted September 24, 2011 at 7:40 am | Permalink works great on my laptop Windows 7 ultimate x64…… thanks…….. its very helpful to boot from usb…
1152. Gustavo Posted September 24, 2011 at 8:14 am | Permalink Roshan, you must open Command Prompt with Administrator rights to execute it.
1153. Marius Posted September 24, 2011 at 11:57 pm | Permalink
I EFFIN LOVE YOU!!!!!
1154. ayush Posted September 25, 2011 at 11:50 am | Permalink hey!! i hv acer emachines 350. in d boot priority list d options r : 1 IDE0 :TOSHIBA MK1665GSX 2 IDE1 3 USB HDD 4 USB FDD 5 Network boot 6 USB CDROM
M instaling windows 7 thru pendrive …. SO WICH OPTION SHOULD BE PUT TO 1st
1155. Hoang Posted September 25, 2011 at 1:20 pm | Permalink Thanks Gustavo!
1156. John Posted September 25, 2011 at 2:58 pm | Permalink “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.”
Hummmmm. Doesn’t work for me. I have no USB drive listed when I use list disk command in diskpart.
1157. scottG Posted September 26, 2011 at 4:43 am | Permalink Great!! I had tried multiple instructions with all failures. This worked perfect and I took my all versions image and it worked so that I could choose from all versions of either 32 bit and 64bit versions. Now all I would like to do is include a SP1 slipstreamed onto the flash drive and I would be really happy:)) Any suggestions to being able to modify configuration for a slipstream update? Thanks, Scott
1158. khubbaib Posted September 27, 2011 at 2:39 am | Permalink great job well done
1159. Daniel Sayles Posted September 28, 2011 at 3:23 am | Permalink
this works for the windows 8 beta too thanks man
1160. Mrugesh Posted September 28, 2011 at 1:26 pm | Permalink Not able to “CLEAN”. You mentioned in the 4th step. Can please provide the solution. Thanks in advance.
1161. peric Posted September 28, 2011 at 4:49 pm | Permalink
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Thank you for sharing your valuable knowlege, It has saved alot of Hardwork and times trying to install from a Slow DVd and CD, Thanks man, See you in future with more informations and knowlege,God bless You
1162. Sasa Posted September 28, 2011 at 5:17 pm | Permalink Great! Thanks a lot.
1163. THOMAS Posted September 28, 2011 at 7:06 pm | Permalink STEP 8: Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive.
Do you mean that one should copy Dvd contents using cmd ? Can I simply copy and paste the files as usual ?
1164. admin Posted September 29, 2011 at 12:22 pm | Permalink @ Thomas Simply copy using the the copy and paste option available in Windows Explorer.
1165. Vasco Posted September 30, 2011 at 4:11 pm | Permalink Thanks for the info, it was most valuable. I’ve been trying to reinstall my SO from the recovery DVD but my cd drive went nuts… this was the only option, and it worked fine. Thanks again and keep up the good posts….
1166. juminten Posted October 1, 2011 at 5:25 pm | Permalink
thanks, it work
1167. Pete Posted October 2, 2011 at 9:25 pm | Permalink Great Article – Works a treat -Much appreciated
1168. motorcycle fairing Posted October 3, 2011 at 2:41 am | Permalink Nice post. Been looking for this step by step method. Keep up the good work!
1169. opb Posted October 4, 2011 at 9:00 am | Permalink thanks man its really working.Good job keep it up.
1170. Dumplump Posted October 4, 2011 at 9:16 am | Permalink This Blows. I Google Searched for How To Install Windows TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO a USB External drive not FROM. so disappointed. Took all that time just to come up short.
1171. admin Posted October 4, 2011 at 9:23 am | Permalink @Dumplump This guide is only to prepare a bootable USB so that you can install Windows 7 from USB. If you want to install Windows 7 to an external USB drive, check out our this guide: http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7-to-usb-external-hard-drive-must- read/
1172. Open Source Search Posted October 4, 2011 at 9:42 am | Permalink Yea why only windows 7 from usb and not the other way around?
1173. Ran Paskal Posted October 5, 2011 at 1:27 am | Permalink Thanks a lot!
1174. Salman Posted October 5, 2011 at 1:09 pm | Permalink
Thanks a lot..!!!! Really help me this
1175. vlado Posted October 5, 2011 at 5:13 pm | Permalink Please create a video!
1176. saurabh Posted October 5, 2011 at 10:14 pm | Permalink It works fine, please guide me to install xp, i want to install xp from pen drivr..
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1177. hari Posted October 6, 2011 at 4:44 pm | Permalink hi this is hari it is a good one to install the windows7 i have already use it but now i want to install the windows xp using the same following procedure can i do it please tell me if not whats the reason…..
1178. Eric Posted October 7, 2011 at 3:12 am | Permalink Its not working for me. I don’t know if that’s because I don’t HAVE an optical drive, which was the whole point of this tutorial.
1179. Aravind Posted October 8, 2011 at 8:15 am | Permalink plss do help me bro.. as am not eble to complete the process sucessfully, i think its just because am not having a proper dvd drive in my pc.. i tried using a usb flash drive bt the cmd is showing that they cannot recognise the file…. so plss do help me in this situation…
1180. admin Posted October 8, 2011 at 7:51 pm | Permalink @Aravind If you are having issues in following the above guide, do check out this guide: http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-usb-to-install-windows-7- from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/
1181. dan meanock Posted October 12, 2011 at 4:28 am | Permalink URE A GOD! thanks very much!
1182. rene martesano Posted October 13, 2011 at 7:48 am | Permalink please could you help me i did to format the fs=ntfs so i saw the 100 percent completed but when i go to 5,6 and 7 i could not able to go in the cd boot and i was tried to type the bootsect.exe /nt60 h: so when i enter that it’s not working…. hope you gonna help me for this problem thank you
1183. nishant Posted October 14, 2011 at 4:39 am | Permalink While running and cmd.exe from windows; go to system32 folder in windows installed on your pc. then find cmd.exe and right click on it and select “Run as administrator” to run the cmd.exe You will not get any error in the above given process…
1184. villa Posted October 14, 2011 at 12:24 pm | Permalink hi… everything i have done properly but my usb device doesn’t work..and do not run auto..only i shows the win7 logo on my usb device give me a solution about how to autorun and boot …….
1185. abhay singh Posted October 14, 2011 at 12:49 pm | Permalink i have only C drive in 500 GB HDD in my Acer Laptaop. in that C drive i have company loaded original window 7 home basic. i want the partition of my C drive without format my window7. plz give me a solution about how i can partition of my C drive 500 GB HDD.
1186. Dmn Posted October 15, 2011 at 6:44 am | Permalink ALL DONE. all steps, commands, etc. But I had a problem:
Status:0xc0000017
Ramdisk device creation failed due to insufficient memory.
QUESTION: What could I do?
1187. BATZZZ19 Posted October 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm | Permalink WHEN I PUT THE CD IN MY DRIVE
AND START A NEW PAGE OF CMD WITH ADMINISTRATOR THEN I PUT D: CD BOOT AND CD BOOT THEN BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: FOR MY FLASH I GET A MESSAGE SAYING
This version of D:\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see wheter you need x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the sofware publisher.
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so i was guessing i need to do the setup of cmd from a x64 bit computer to make my flash drive get the info from cd x64 to the flash drive
but im clueless now, since i dont think that matters since it didn’t read the disk yet, any suggestions?
1188. QT Posted October 16, 2011 at 11:03 am | Permalink Hi sir, thanks for your share.but the ‘FORMAT FS=NTFS’command line just to install legacy Win7 O.S. only. It can’t install the UEFI Win7 O.S with Win7 64bit DVD Disc.
You can changed the command line like as ‘FORMAT QUICK FS=FAT32′ to format the USB flash disk.
Thanks!
Tim.
1189. QT Posted October 16, 2011 at 11:11 am | Permalink Hi BATZZZ19,
To create 64BIT O.S. to USB flash disk, you need to install 64 bit O.S. to your platform and then typing the ‘BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E:’ command line with cmd prompt under 64 bit O.S.
Best regards, Tim
1190. Filip Posted October 16, 2011 at 7:37 pm | Permalink This f*cker CMD took me 30min to format 16gb USB.
1191. mohammad Posted October 17, 2011 at 2:53 pm | Permalink Hey guys, It also work fine with me,just a few tips that already said above. 1.open cmd in admin mode only,if dont ur access will be denied. 2.if you are running win 32 bit(x86) and wants to install a 64bit(x64)windows you will have a problem.you should find a win 32bit and try to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code with that dvd.after that you can put your win64bit files on USB and change the boot priority at the BIOS to USB from the HDD or CD ROM drive. notice that you need to change this priority after copying win files into HDD to continue installing from HDD.
1192. Please Help!!!!!!!!! Posted October 18, 2011 at 3:13 am | Permalink Hi. I used a 8 gb flash drive to do the steps but after i finished the steps my WD 1tb it’s not recognized by windows i try 3 other laptop but same. it’s working perfect b4 i do the steps. Please help it’s has all my data and i don’t have the backup for it
1193. Abinash Posted October 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm | Permalink It shows a error that “boot manager missing”
1194. akshay Posted October 18, 2011 at 5:49 pm | Permalink does it works for intel g31 board………. with hp pen drive 4gb……. if i set my boot device priority as 1. usb 2.cd rom 3. hard disk..
plz ans. and thanxs in advnce…..
1195. Patrick Posted October 19, 2011 at 8:26 am | Permalink I have done this all, and when restarted with bios boot from usb, install screen came up, it copied windows files, then expanded windows files, it then self restarts and instead of finishign nstall process it bring me back to install screen to reclcik install and select which partition? why is that?
1196. xereon Posted October 19, 2011 at 12:14 pm | Permalink Works like a charm! Ta!
1197. waseem Posted October 20, 2011 at 1:18 am | Permalink
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after typing bootsect.exe /NT60 G: I GET MESSAGE “bootsect.exe is not a valid win32 application”.My current OS is Windows 7 (32-bit).however my G: drive is a virtual drive
1198. marc Posted October 20, 2011 at 1:29 am | Permalink thank you so so so much for this guide….it works like a charm and you ended a nightmare for me….thank you
1199. eight86six Posted October 20, 2011 at 3:35 am | Permalink tnx so much man, this guide just saved my life. successfully instaled W7 on sony vaio. tnx alot once again cheers
1200. Niko Posted October 20, 2011 at 7:36 am | Permalink Works fine! Thanks! I did in XP using VMWARE to create a Windows7 virtual machine, then installed it on my other laptop.
1201. Jagdish Singh Charan Posted October 20, 2011 at 1:54 pm | Permalink i proper support for this guide and i make pendire bootable for window 07 and installed window 07 successful from jaipur Rajasthan
1202. anil Posted October 20, 2011 at 9:09 pm | Permalink gr8 work…. im looking for dis frm a long time.thnks a lot
1203. ravikotafx Posted October 21, 2011 at 3:18 am | Permalink thnx a lot dude…..
1204. JEMAI Posted October 21, 2011 at 5:34 am | Permalink how can i copy the OS file after the procedure 7. can i use GUI or CMD?
1205. JEMAI Posted October 21, 2011 at 5:47 am | Permalink thanks mate i did using GUI to copy the files and it works. I don’t need to buy a external dvd. its really help-pull
1206. Jami Posted October 21, 2011 at 4:22 pm | Permalink The shortcut version: 1. Format your USB to NTFS using the Windows GUI and keep it plugged in 2. Open your iso using MagicISO or some other app and extract boot/bootsect.exe 3. Run bootsect.exe /nt60 : 4. Copy all contents of iso to your USB
1207. saqib jan Posted October 21, 2011 at 11:37 pm | Permalink i hope that this method will be useful. sir when i insert the usb in my pc it get conneted but when i type “”list disk”" in cmd it shows me only my harddrive not the connected usb flash drive to continue this process plz help me as soon as possible i will be thanksfull to you.
1208. CinCityNewKid Posted October 23, 2011 at 5:59 am | Permalink Found everything was pretty self explantory Great Guide. The only that that tripped me up was copying the files. I had them in a subdirectory… As soon as I put them in the root of the drive it worked like a charm. Thanks for posting this guide.
CinCityNewKid
1209. azrul zz Posted October 24, 2011 at 5:08 pm | Permalink Help!! please help ..
Master, I have problems after doing these four parts. FORMAT FS = NTFS (Formats the process may take several seconds) at first it went well up to 20 per cent, after that it turned to 0 per cent to wait too long. So I did re-from the first part, and it does not run again. So how to return the flash drive to the original as not doing the things above? Please, I hope the Master can help my problem.
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DISKPART>LIST DISK Disk###(Disk 2) Status(Online) Size(3819 MB) Free(0 B)
DISKPART>SELECT DISK 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART>CLEAN
DiskPark has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified. See the System Event Log for more information.
Please Help
1210. Bruno Posted October 25, 2011 at 6:23 pm | Permalink Hi all, i just see this great tut and i diced to try!
I buy a TDK 4GB usb pen. when i try to copy all the DVD files, i says you need 87MB more space! and i see the USB pen i have 3.77. =/ WTF
What can i do now?? plz some one hellp me here! can i zip some files?
1211. jet Posted October 25, 2011 at 9:29 pm | Permalink Hi, can I ask for help in making this work? I’ve done the all the steps several times already on an 8GB usb drive but I can’t seem to make it bootable.
Also, if it helps, the autoplay to Setup.exe does not work. I am trying to install Windows 7 on a laptop with a brand new HDD.
1212. Patrick Posted October 26, 2011 at 1:35 pm | Permalink I downloaded a IMG file from Microsoft, how to continue from there?
1213. jason Posted October 28, 2011 at 12:05 pm | Permalink i have been successful in setting bootsect.exe /nt60
i’ll start to setup…hope it will work…
1214. anon Posted October 29, 2011 at 1:11 am | Permalink
This will take a few seconds (Yeah right! even my 8gb sticks takes 10min to format… doing my 700gb hdd atm… 15min gone, and still at 1%.
but love this guide, used it a few times, just as a quick look up for the commands.
1215. anvt Posted October 29, 2011 at 10:56 pm | Permalink super sexy man…thanx a lot…gt sum minor glitches if u get any error stating “install drivers from the select folder” then jus plug ur USB in USB 2.0 port. USB 3.0 drivers are nt installed by default
thanx a lot man
1216. ieee488 Posted October 30, 2011 at 2:33 am | Permalink Thanks!
Worked for me with a Dell Precision M6300.
My 8GB USB stick took more than a few seconds to format in step #4. More like minutes.
Also, in step #8, typing ‘robocopy D:\ H:\ /MIR’ in the command prompt box worked for me.
1217. Dave Posted October 30, 2011 at 6:17 pm | Permalink Excellent guide, thanks. You can use daemon tools to mount a disc image of OS and then use the drive letter it assigns as your DVD drive.
1218. Eonix90 Posted November 1, 2011 at 8:18 am | Permalink Thanks..its work…..
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1219. Nilammani Posted November 3, 2011 at 5:42 pm | Permalink Thank you for this post. I tried to step 6, it is going to fine. When I reach step 7 and type BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 I: in H:\boot> prompt It will be something wrong! what happen? Please someone help me. Detail for Error message… H:\>CD BOOT H:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 I: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. H:\boot> ————————————————— Note: H: is Windows 7 DVD drive and I: is USB drive ————————————————— Thank you!
1220. sandeep soni Posted November 10, 2011 at 9:47 am | Permalink this trick is not working so plz any one can help me plzzzzzzzzzzzzz its very urgent because my cd drive is not working…
1221. Spy Posted November 10, 2011 at 12:05 pm | Permalink Hey, i tried following this but when my laptop boots i cant continue with the format because it says that I am missing the drivers for the hard disk!! The iso i am using for the setup is the legit downloadable copy of win 7 home prem. any ideas?
1222. Spy Posted November 10, 2011 at 12:45 pm | Permalink by the way, step 8 failed for me as I couldnt copy the files, but i had to mount the win image on another drive and then copy to the usb
1223. Tony Posted November 11, 2011 at 12:02 am | Permalink Easy to follow, commands were correct, good job on the tutorial brotha.
-Tony
1224. Marvin Posted November 11, 2011 at 9:26 am | Permalink Hey to all, i Just have a question,after i make a bootable usb drive to install windows and if im already finish in installing,can i still use usb for saving files,or after the installation is complete can i still erase the installer of windows 7 from usb?Thank you guyz,and i will be waiting for your opinion
1225. Abdul Waheed Posted November 11, 2011 at 6:48 pm | Permalink can you explain the installation of Win07 OS without an optical CD drive in the machine
1226. Abdul Waheed Posted November 11, 2011 at 6:51 pm | Permalink Can I know the procedure to install the OS on a system that has no optical CD-Drive??
1227. Sahil Sharma Posted November 13, 2011 at 7:03 am | Permalink Thnks dude, Worked like a charm just 25 mins to install windows 8.. Keep it up..
1228. que Posted November 13, 2011 at 11:23 pm | Permalink I’ve tried this 3 times now, and only get as far as formating to 100% complete, but then it never returns to say “Diskpart successfully formated the volume”, nor does it return to a prompt that I can type further commands.
I’ve tried searching through all these responces to find an answer, but I’m just not seeing one.
Thanks for your help
1229. ExCuSe Posted November 14, 2011 at 4:43 am | Permalink n0thing 2 say. JUST PERFECT!
1230. mung Posted November 15, 2011 at 6:29 pm | Permalink
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i’m at step 9..but after i click ‘instal now’ , the screen display was ‘setup starting’ for the rest of mu life…whats the problem?
1231. Myrdhin Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:11 am | Permalink Very, very nice tutorial. My PC didnt boot on the USB when priority was set to ‘Removable’. Worked fine however, when set to HDD. Weird eh..
1232. Chandan Posted November 18, 2011 at 2:22 pm | Permalink From where did DVD came to picture. At starting you assumed DVD drive is not working?
1233. Hans Posted November 19, 2011 at 11:22 pm | Permalink Greate guide. Worked perfect. Quick and excellent.
1234. ahmad Posted November 22, 2011 at 8:54 pm | Permalink this is not working for me,the process stop until format and before that automatically hang on the command prompt..
1235. stim Posted November 22, 2011 at 10:02 pm | Permalink nice,worked a treat. cheers.
1236. Anwar Ali khan Posted November 23, 2011 at 8:50 am | Permalink the above commands are not working for winxp,so plz any help for winXp.
1237. ryan Posted November 23, 2011 at 9:34 am | Permalink awesome.
1238. Lakmini Gunatilake Posted November 23, 2011 at 3:06 pm | Permalink Great, It Works well, A very good post
1239. Milad Posted November 25, 2011 at 5:43 pm | Permalink Hi . I am Milad . I form Iran .. Help Me to PLS : I have 1TB Hdd USB Hard Drive And I Need a use it for Setup Windows 7 But I Cant Make Bootablet It .. HELP ME To make Bootable HDD Drive
1240. Glenn Posted November 27, 2011 at 3:15 am | Permalink Works a treat with windows 7, no problems at all, simple instructions, big thanks for posting this up.
1241. alan Posted November 29, 2011 at 12:37 am | Permalink superb…post..thnks man
1242. Theventhran Posted November 30, 2011 at 11:50 pm | Permalink hi there, you have done simple and easy tutorial. i just finished reformat using your instructions. millions thanks to you..
1243. Riyabul Posted December 1, 2011 at 12:02 am | Permalink HOW TO FIX ERROR WIN32. PLS HELP ME
1244. Riyabul Posted December 1, 2011 at 12:14 am | Permalink I was formatting win xp. while windows is set up time show blue screen, how to fix blue sceen in formatting time. pls help me. thanx
1245. hhgygy Posted December 1, 2011 at 8:25 pm | Permalink This one really works. If you get the message:
BOOTMGR not found. Press ctrl alt dlt to restart
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try to make the bootsect.exe command with the /force tag That’s what helped in my case.
Thanks for the great tutorial
1246. andres Posted December 4, 2011 at 9:44 am | Permalink Thanks dude. Awesome instructions, worked PERFECTLY!!
1247. Undik Posted December 4, 2011 at 8:20 pm | Permalink
I am sir. Thanksalot
1248. eh? Posted December 5, 2011 at 8:30 am | Permalink Should you also copy over the auto run from the windows disc? It asked me if i wanted to keep, replace, or use both auto-runs.
I didn’t know an auto-run was already created on the USB drive but I opted to keep the one on the USB drive and it seemed to work. Would it not work if i had used the auto-run file from the windows disc?
1249. Spyder Posted December 7, 2011 at 4:35 am | Permalink Excellent tutorial, thanks Possibly worth adding that you can speed up the format process by typing “FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK” at Step 4
1250. John T Posted December 7, 2011 at 11:40 pm | Permalink These instructions are like a gift from the heavens! I got to “permission denied” when running bootsect.exe, but just read the other comments above to get past that roadblock.
Now I’ve got XP and 7 running on my netbook… ohhh, it’s a good day!
1251. firdaus Posted December 8, 2011 at 8:47 pm | Permalink done..thanz….
1252. acegeezer Posted December 9, 2011 at 10:48 pm | Permalink Absolutely perfect.. many thx!
1253. Ranjeet Posted December 10, 2011 at 7:37 am | Permalink after doing this all…my pendrive became slow………my pendrive is of 16 gb from sandisk
1254. Ali Posted December 10, 2011 at 3:13 pm | Permalink Thanks Dude It works…
1255. Daniel Posted December 13, 2011 at 1:14 am | Permalink I’ve followed this to the letter, but still can’t seem to get it to work. Upon trying to boot I get message “BOOTMGR IS MISSING, PRESS CTRL ALT DELETE TO RESTART” ….Updated bios, and went through the whole process again and got the same result. Any help?
ASUS Sabertooth 990fx Corsair Vengeance 8gb 1600mhz AMD Phenom II BE 3.2GHZ WD Caviar Blue 500gb XFX 6870 HD 1gb DDR5
1256. jessie barber Posted December 16, 2011 at 1:45 pm | Permalink hey thanks man u fucking confused me with disk 1 i was supposed to put disk 2 and now ive lost a whole 500 gb hadd my only hdd is there any way to get this data compltey back as i had shitloads of movies n game iso’s n fmaily pictures tht cant be replaced ?????
1257. admin Posted December 16, 2011 at 10:22 pm | Permalink I am sorry if I confused you! Sorry to hear that you have lost some valuable data. You can try out some data recovery software.
1258. Yasin Khan Posted December 17, 2011 at 5:14 pm | Permalink
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Thanx buddy,, its great………
1259. Carl Posted December 18, 2011 at 1:20 pm | Permalink This works perfectly. I was pointed here from ##windows IRC Even though I use Linux as my main OS, I was easily able to follow this guide.
1260. John Posted December 19, 2011 at 11:26 pm | Permalink Works perfect, thanks!
1261. akdogan Posted December 20, 2011 at 5:02 pm | Permalink Really helped Dude… thanks a lot, u just saved my lifeJ
1262. Rafique Posted December 21, 2011 at 9:18 am | Permalink Hi Admin,
I have the same issue as Daniel
“BOOTMGR IS MISSING, PRESS CTRL ALT DELETE TO RESTART”
How can I resolved this?
1263. buddkika Posted December 21, 2011 at 10:07 pm | Permalink i love that
1264. tushar Posted December 22, 2011 at 3:19 am | Permalink thanks bro i was about to buys a new dvd rom for my laptop many thanks love it
1265. Gumz Posted December 22, 2011 at 9:50 am | Permalink Thanks you very much… works like a charm…
1266. Zaf Zafran Posted December 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm | Permalink Thank’s a lot. It’s works…
1267. galileo gallilei Posted December 28, 2011 at 1:21 pm | Permalink Thanks!!! It works great
1268. chandana Posted December 31, 2011 at 1:38 pm | Permalink thanks………………..
1269. Huzi Posted January 1, 2012 at 9:49 pm | Permalink A little thing i ran into is that if it won’t boot from the USB (in my case my Acer Aspire One ZG5 just beeped constantly) try another usb slot. If anyone has a ZG5 (AOA-150) try the slot on the right closest to the front.
1270. Je Posted January 2, 2012 at 10:47 pm | Permalink Thanks! Worked perfectly!
1271. Erik Karlsson Posted January 3, 2012 at 2:01 am | Permalink I see atleast 3 people asking about which usb *** to use at boot sequence selection… I have the same problem I’ve got usb cd rom usb zip usb hdd usb fdd to choose from… none of the other atleast 3 people got any answer…
1272. mn Posted January 3, 2012 at 2:38 am | Permalink Very good guide. Thanks. Just used it now. One thing to note, though. In diskpart I used “format fs=ntfs quick”.
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I have a 16gb stick and it took way too much to fully format it. A quick format took only a few seconds indeed.
1273. admin Posted January 3, 2012 at 8:51 am | Permalink @ Erik Karisson
It’s simple. If you are using a flash drive (they are mostly small thumb drives with 4, 8, 16, or 32 GB capacity), then select USB FDD. FDD If you are using an external hard drive, select USB HDD.
1274. Sonnya Posted January 6, 2012 at 3:54 am | Permalink I have a question…..if you can help me!!!!! I did all the steps, till the fifth….because now i`m using my mother`s computer, and I downloaded the windows….so…..my windows, is on the pc, not on a dvd…… what i have to write at the sixth step? cuz is not D: CD BOOT….and don`t wanna do smth to ruin my mother`s windows…… Thank you….
1275. brittany Posted January 6, 2012 at 2:26 pm | Permalink Here is a simple way to do it, no typing in cmd needed:
Acquire Windows 7 .iso (do not unzip)
Get an empty USB flash drive with 8GB+ space
Format the drive to NTFS if it’s not already (Start -> Computer -> right click the drive -> Format… -> select NTFS, uncheck “quick format”)
Google “Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool” and download from the first link, microsoft store
Install, open and follow directions to make a bootable USB.
1276. jhomssss Posted January 10, 2012 at 5:31 am | Permalink Thanks.. it works..
1277. Andres Posted January 11, 2012 at 1:10 am | Permalink Thanks, very easy to follow guide. Congrats
1278. Sam Posted January 11, 2012 at 8:48 pm | Permalink hello
i need help, quick i have managed to get up step 6. but when i type D:CD BOOT is just said incorrect function. i need to re-boot my computer asap PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
1279. anonymous Posted January 11, 2012 at 11:30 pm | Permalink i use this to boot from hard disk
thanks alot
1280. makabrys Posted January 13, 2012 at 1:21 am | Permalink Hi all.thank you very much i just hit the installation button all works fine,nice guide i will make a pdf from it ..thank you again
1281. MFX Posted January 13, 2012 at 12:36 pm | Permalink Awesome, works really well
1282. mirage Posted January 14, 2012 at 5:28 pm | Permalink Well it just works like the man says great work….
1283. sam Posted January 14, 2012 at 8:53 pm | Permalink what is d cmmand to copy os from dvd to usb
1284. Mark Stewart Posted January 15, 2012 at 5:59 am | Permalink This is incorrect information for those using SSD SATA for the operatiing system (Dell 2012). Must use CLEAN ALL, not CLEAN. BTW: CLEAN ALL will not run from USB device, so
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unable to properly format SSD to install Windows. E.g., any registry problems will simply pick upo where they left off. Sorry folks. Win 8 may, “may” resolve.
1285. anup Posted January 15, 2012 at 6:17 pm | Permalink what if the windows don’t start? How do we install windows then?
1286. anup Posted January 15, 2012 at 6:22 pm | Permalink + cd roms isn’t working.
1287. admin Posted January 15, 2012 at 10:22 pm | Permalink @ Anup Do you have the ISO file??
1288. mohan Posted January 16, 2012 at 12:28 am | Permalink Thanks…it also reduced the installation time significantly…….
1289. Daryl Posted January 16, 2012 at 9:34 pm | Permalink i did on ‘exit’ as the last on step 4 and it did close the cmd. i am using virtual machine for win7 installer. as i go on step 6 it says ‘the system could not find the path specified’
and my flash disk was wasted.. can my flash disk still be recovered? how?
1290. stephanie Posted January 17, 2012 at 3:12 am | Permalink I have windows xp on my netbook and i would like to install windows 7 instead but I do not have a slot for CD’s since it is a netbook. Can I install windows 7 from a pen drive and do i first have to remove windows xp and then install windows vista?
1291. Martin Posted January 17, 2012 at 12:21 pm | Permalink I have the same problem as Daryl over me here, I used exit to get of the “Diskpart” part of the guide.
Now my External drive dossn’t have an assigned letter, It dossn’t let me assign a letter and it dossn’t show up in “My computer”
I used a program called “USBDeview” and I could see that the External drive was infact still connected, but diddn’t have an assigned drive letter nor could i assign one.
My question here I guess is: “How do i “Recover” the drive and after doing that do i have to format it and all again?”
Because that took 5-6 hours on my 500gb drive on this shitty pc, and would just seem like a waste of time. Therefore if you cannot help me with this I’m off to go buy some fucking CD-R’s and do it the old way
1292. jai Posted January 18, 2012 at 2:18 pm | Permalink super that is working
1293. Bill Posted January 19, 2012 at 8:59 am | Permalink I keep hitting this wall….
“The system cannot execute the specified program.”
I have nothing browsed the web, have nothing for troubleshooting. . .
1294. VIVEK Posted January 19, 2012 at 7:25 pm | Permalink thanx for the tutorial. I did as you mention in the tutorial but after 4th step i got message disk part sucessfully the volume but in cmd window its in disk part only when i punch cd boot command it show some help kindly help me
1295. Arsh Posted January 20, 2012 at 6:35 pm | Permalink nice tutorial my cd drive got damaged and i could not find any solution until i chked ur article it worked out for me….thanks for sharing this useful information
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1296. Costa Posted January 20, 2012 at 7:32 pm | Permalink
Thank you very match one of the best guides, kep up the good work
1297. Julian Luna Posted January 22, 2012 at 8:53 pm | Permalink Didn’t quite work, as I was using a netbook without CD case… the netbook was believing it was a CD, needed to boot the usb with usb booting with the universal usb installer… I don’t really know what happened, what I can guess is that the Netbook was believing to have a Cd inside since it started to ask me to insert a volume with the CD/DVD device’s drivers
1298. ujjwal Posted January 22, 2012 at 11:45 pm | Permalink the method u explained worked properly..but when the windows installs and it shows windows restarting in 15 seconds then when restarts windows 7 load as usual and itz wriiten setup is updating registry then setup is starting services then completing installation tier shows an error…i think in that part pendrive doesn’t load files..!
1299. lokster Posted January 25, 2012 at 5:53 am | Permalink
works! for sony viao on windows 64bit thank you! even though this article is a few years old still works on 2011 models!
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