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How To: Install Windows 7 Or Windows 8 From USB Drive [Detailed 100% Working Guide]
Posted January 11, 2012 3:58 pm in: Vista T weaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides

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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 dont 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.

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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 friends computer who doesnt have a DVD optical drive. The method is very simple and you can use without any hassles. Needless to say that your motherboard should support USB Boot feature to make use of the bootable USB drive. 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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Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB flash drive. In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 1. 4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is Disk 1.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above

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step to confirm it. So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one: SELECT DISK 1 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) ASSIGN EXIT Dont close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.

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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 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: the following

Where H is your USB drive letter. Once you enter the above command you will see the below message.

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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 wont explain it as its just the matter the changing the boot priority or enabling the USB boot option in the BIOS. Note: If you are not able to boot after following this guide means you havent set the BIOS priority to USB. If you got any problem in following this guide feel free to ask questions by leaving comment. Update on Jan 11, 2012: 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. This guide works 100% for Windows 8 as well. Make sure you follow all steps correctly and launch the Command Prompt with admin rights (as given in the guide) to avoid errors. Good luck!
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1691 Comments 1.

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

Hey thanks! Id love to try this soon

I hope its working

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Brandon
Posted January 12, 2009 at 3:22 am | Permalink

I dont think XP shows usb drives in list disk, or maybe its just me. Is there any other alternative to step 4? 3.

Casmir
Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:31 am | Permalink

This is coolHope it will work the same way with an external HDD. Keep up the good work bro 4.

tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 7:59 am | Permalink

^ Thats why I have mentioned only Vista & Windows 7. 5.

tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 8:01 am | Permalink

Works 100% on Vista & Windows 7..Thanks. 6.

ben
Posted January 12, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

i am also trying to do this from xp, and it doesnt work, im not sure if step 4 needs to be done in comand prompt (i formatted the stick in disk manager) but i got stuck on step 7 because there is no such thing as bootsect.exe 7.

neodorian

Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:23 pm | Permalink

When I run bootsect.exe it says that this version isnt compatible with my version of windows even though it is running the vista version. 8.

tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

Please use Vista or Windows 7 as bootsect.exe is not present in XP CD.This guide only works on Windows Vista & 7 9.

tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

This guide doesnt work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7..I have mentioned in the title of the post. 10.

tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:35 pm | Permalink

@ben Please follow the guide step-by-step and dont skip any step. 11.

Paul
Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:27 pm | Permalink

THANK YOU! I was having problems getting the boot sector to work and you fixed it. Definitely better than any other guide SCREEN SHOTS = TEHWIN!, they help sooo much when you cant see what youve done wrong, even picked up a few new cmd tricks. Im a fan, thanks man. 12.

?lhan
Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

Hey man your methods does not working in XP. Please reinform us. 13.

Omar

Posted January 13, 2009 at 4:52 am | Permalink

I was doing fine up until step 5. I figured the whole point of booting from a USB drive was to avoid having to burn a disc with the Windows 7 files on it, or install on a PC without a DVD drive. Anyway, I dont have any blank DVDs, so I was trying to install it from my USB drive, but I cant get past step 5, since I dont have my Windows 7 files on a disc. They are on my hard drive, and my USB drive. Help! 14.

John
Posted January 13, 2009 at 5:00 am | Permalink

Got it working in the second attempt.good guide. 15.

EiNS
Posted January 13, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

Thanksvery excellent guide

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any working method for xp usb drive installation? Tried manybut non of them working 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.

BlogPiG
Posted January 13, 2009 at 7:41 pm | Permalink

This worked an absolute treat. Nice write-up. I did it on an XP box using Windows 7 mounted onto a virtual DVD drive. I had to do the format using the windows tools as wasnt available as part of diskpart in XP. All the rest worked as described. 18.

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!!! 19.

vikrant
Posted January 13, 2009 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

Does it also mean that we can install windows 7 on a usb drive? 20.

eden
Posted January 13, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

i just formated my usb pen, and done show all files on the DVD and copied the contents over. i didnt use the diskpart tools. installed w2in 7 fine 21.

Rkee

Posted January 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm | Permalink

U can also achieve booting from a usb drive by using daemon tools. Dont mean to dis on the author graet walkthrough by the way. Its just an alternative, and no need for any command prompt scripting. 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 youre having. The error means, your motherboard doesnt support USB booting. I have also mentioned this in my guide. And there is no way to boot USB unless your motherboard support. @Vikrant No this guide doesnt for the users who like to install Windows 7 on USB. @Omar If you dont have a DVD drive/USB(4GB) then use my guide Installing Windows 7 without using USB/DVD drive. There are two methods, direct and via VPC method. Please follow my guides. @All I am glad that this guide helped you to install Windows 7. Thanks. 25.

Joey
Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

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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

@Joey If you dont have a DVD/USB then use my below guide which shows Installing Windows 7 without using USB/DVD drive http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-2/ http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-1/ 27.

gabontz

Posted January 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

Hello i cant see my usb stick with diskpart. all i can see, is my 4 HDDs on my computer. What can i do in this case? 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 youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit) or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. 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 youre running. Check your system information yada yada contact software publisher. I am running Vista 32-bit, trying to create this USB boot thingaby for Windows 7 64-bit. Thanks mate. 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 anyones 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??? Ive tried many times and it doesnt seem to work, it always gets stuck at 5% or 8%. Sometimes it errors out with the error code: 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

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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

First of all, sorry for the delay in reply. @ PeterNLD Of course, you can use as a replace to DVD. @ Laker_Fan32 Sorry for the delay. I think you need to copy all the files once again. Just try it. @ Siddarth I didnt try that method. But I have another method which works on XP as well. Will post the guide soon. @ Nick Make sure you copy all the Windows 7 files to USB correctly. @Suavi Basically, I havent tested this method on 64-bit machine. So, I cant find a solution for you. Thank you. Into Windows 38.

tyson
Posted January 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

Hi, I read d comments & got confirmed that this method works although i didnt try it. I want to install windows xp by USB method. Can you also give a method like this for windows xp also?? I am currently running windows vista & dont have an optical drive. 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 youll have to run the bootsect command from a 32-bit W7 DVD, because the version on the 64-bit DVD will not run on a 32-bit OS. 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, couldnt you have skipped step 5 and onwards? You just need to do the diskpart and then copy contents of the CD to your USB, at least, thats what worked for me Also, why are you formating to NTFS instead of FAT32? Just wondering.. 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 Im wrong, but step 5 states that we need a DVD. I use this guide because I

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dont 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 cant see my USB drive. Whats wrong with it? (My Operating System is XP.) Does it only work in Vista? Thank you for your teaching. 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 im on Vista x86 and i was trying to make a usb with Vista x64 on it, but the cmd prompt gave me this error!

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This version of X:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a x86 or x64 version of the program, and then contact the software publisher Is it that i need Vista x64 to create a USB x64!?? Pls help 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 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 cant find see your USB drive in the DISKPART command, I cant help you. However, if you have only one hard drive, then you can use the 1 as your USB key. But try this on your own risk. 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.

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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 im 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

list disk DID NOT detect a 4GB or a 16GB memory stick 69.

Quan
Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:55 pm | Permalink

Lets say I have a hdd box with 2 partitions (Y, Z), can I use your method to create boot install for Vista on partition Y and for Windows 7 on partition Z? 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 dont 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, its because thats an XP issue. The way XP and Vista handles USB drives, Vista sees them in Diskpart but XP tends not to. There is a reg hack to fix it but I havent bothered to search for it. 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.

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DanielRemains
Posted May 20, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

Im sure this is another arrengement with MS and USB driver manufactuer to make money LOL joke Nice guide I will have to steal my girlfriends USB drive (Which I bought her for christmas LOL) to try this. Looks like its worth it thanks 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 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, its 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 wont 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 its working on vista tomorrow i will try on win 7. 10x a lot 90.

trav
Posted May 27, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

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

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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 dont mention that fact that the Win 7/Vista USB boot drive needs to be created on computer running Windows 7 or Vista. That should really be added to the Requirements section so you can call your guide 100% working. I seen a few comments from people saying it doesnt work because theyre trying to make the boot drive from within XP. 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

(Im hoping HTML will work

trying the F:CD BOOT command (where F is my DVD drive location), it returns the following functions Firstly, from DISKPART (which you didnt say to leave, not sure if you meant to or not) Secondly, from C:\Windows\System32 (where your screenshot is taken from) 107.

Jacob
Posted June 6, 2009 at 8:38 am | Permalink

Sorry, images werent displayed from html Ill just explain it from C:\Windows\System32, after running the F:CD BOOT it returns a simple Parameter is incorrect. from DISKPART it gives me a list of about 25 sub commands not sure about the right word for that thankyou but, your guide seems very will explained (just having some technical issues 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. Ive been at this for almost 2 weeks. I can boot from usb but cant install onto it. I am trying to install vista.

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admin
Posted June 7, 2009 at 11:14 pm | Permalink

@Shaz You cant install Windows on USB using this guide. You can only use this guide to create a bootable USB and then use it as installation media. 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. Couldnt 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

Posted June 11, 2009 at 12:33 am | Permalink

Thanks ! 117.

Have a nice day.

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: dont you guys know if you hit winkey + R you get the oldschool run box which automatically starts whatever you run from it with admin privledges? 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.

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Hello, TweakWindows, and thanks, but I know what you mentioned about Vista, which I AM using, I used a Sandisk 8GB and waited half an hour for the formatting process (hardly a few seconds, but I wasnt surprised, and Id like to know how you get that on a 4GB flash drive), I followed each of your steps in order twice while running an Administrator command session, with positive feedback after each command was completed, and then I reordered my BIOS boot priority (which had the same effect as hitting F12, other than F12 not requiring another BIOS session to boot normally from your hard disk again). Looks like I did everything right, and STILL I cant boot from a flash drive. I see most others have not had that problem, but I made sure that I did what you said, with the right stuff, and still I crashed with this error: BOOTMGR NOT PRESENT (or MISSING, something similar), and that was after the BOOTMGR.EXE /NT60 command completed with success! I know nothing of boot managers, much less repairing them, but I sure would appreciate a clue (wherever it is)! I am close to hopelessly frustrated on this, even if this is the best tutorial Ive seen so far, and if I cant resolve it here I will probably give up please help! 123.

DaveG
Posted July 11, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink

Ohdid I misunderstand that this is for making use of an image file? Is that not how Vista is normally distributed, on a normal DVD? I am trying to install a modified version of Vista, distributed by .iso, for two very good reasons: 1) Im on a bloatware diet, and 2) Im trying to replace what I already paid for, after it got wiped (yeah, the whole freakn disk), and if you Microsoft pirate hunters have a problem with that, then you can go impale yourselves on your own swords! To any who would clue me in on what else may be needed besides the image file (after following the above steps), or explain any non-troll reasons why this method would not work with what I am trying to do, Id be most grateful. 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. Its 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 Its so much faster! 126.

????????
Posted July 15, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

Thanks! This would really help me a lot installing on Vaio Type P. 127.

kuld33p
Posted July 19, 2009 at 12:02 am | 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, Ive already tried this guide a week ago and it works. I have windows 7 in my hp mini 2140. But now I want to downgrade again back to Windows XP. Can I use this guide again? but rather than to put the windows 7 installation in the usb it would be the windows xp? Or should I search another guide for this? I havent tried it yet. I just want to ask here first before I try. Regards, 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,

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ive
Posted July 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

some bios dont recognise NTFS formatted usb keys as boot device, so you might still want to format as FAT32, even if it makes your key slower 133.

Jean-Sbastien

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. 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

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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 cant 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 LenovoVista, 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. Ive used this several times already, since I felt my original windows 7 64-bit was not to my liking on my new laptop. I found out why the bootmgr is missing message was showing after correctly carrying out all the instructions. I put the Windows 7 ISO on my usb instead of the folders/files inside the Windows 7 ISO/CD! 149.

VladamirTOM
Posted August 7, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

Great guide. Worked perfectly thanks a lot. Now I dont have to worry about finding a disc drive just for a folding rig. 150.

Kusta
Posted August 8, 2009 at 3:38 am | Permalink

If you click right, you get properties of the drive any drive and then click format. I think that will short this procedure of formating drive, for those who do not like to typing. 151.

Hisham
Posted August 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm | Permalink

I have a problem here !! someone could help me please ?? When Im formatting the USB Drive and after it finish I got this msg: DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect. See the System Event Log for more information. Whats that supose to mean ?? Could anyone give me the solution please. 152.

Minh Tran

Posted August 8, 2009 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the guide. Perhaps you should update it with Shoms comment(#137). I was using a usb stick that formerly had the linux grub loader on it. I was getting the missing bootmgr error message until I used the /force /mbr option like Shom suggested. Also, formatting is very slow I would add the QUICK option on the format command. Although in Windows 7, I can just right click on my usb drive letter in my computer & quick format it using NTFS bypassing DISKPART altogether. 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!

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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 dont try this on your Windows XP Pro Operating system and waste your time. It is only for Windows Vista and/or Windows 7 Beta users. I tried it as instructed on windows 7 beta and worked like charm. Can somebody please tell me similar 100% working guide for triple booting Windows 7 + Windows XP + Ubuntu Linux. Any help in this regard is highly appreciated. Rds, Gaurav Akrani 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 wasnt 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

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, Im going to boot it in a few seconds from nowTHANX 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

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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 didnt even create the boot sector. This worked like a charm. Thanks! 169.

Anonyme

Posted August 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

Damnit, cant 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. 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

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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 youre asked if you want to upgrade to the XP NTFS filesysten, select NO for this then hit Next. 8. Itll now see Copying installation files and the familiar green progress bar. Shortly after Copying Installation Files is complete, setup will close without notice or any type of prompt, this is normal. 9. remove the flash drive and Reboot your computer and setup will continue from the hard drive where you can choose to install XP or do a repair install if XP is already installed. http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11375&st=570 181.

Malone
Posted September 27, 2009 at 2:48 pm | Permalink

Working. Perfect. Thanks for it, amazing work. Kingston 8GB Windows 7 RC on Dell Optiplex GX270, BIOS A07 Only little mistake at point 6: Quote: D:CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. The right command is: D: CD Boot Need space between D: and CD BOOT See screenshot. 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.

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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 isnt 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
Hello,

Posted October 17, 2009 at 12:31 am | Permalink

I have the folders for Windows 7, and I want to burn a DVD to install from (I need to format my PC, so I cant just install from within XP). However, I cant just burn the files to the DVD, cus then it wont let me boot from it. Any ideas on how to do just that? How do I make it bootable? 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

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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 cant 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

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.

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Posted October 26, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Permalink

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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

Its not that cool dear. I am trying to do the same(i mean using bootsect.exe) from Vista. Still there is a problem saying Your version of bootsect.exe is not compatible with the current version of windows. Please suggest. Thanks 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. Its 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 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 doesnt wanna boot from USBI checked BIOS

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settings couple of times and it is set to boot from removable devicewhich is correct I guessno 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 (its free) tool to check compatibility issues. Here is the link: http://www.intowindows.com/test-your-pc-software-compatibility-with-windows-7-usingwindows-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. 231.

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Posted November 29, 2009 at 11:49 pm | Permalink

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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 cant access it. before the problem,my HDD appeard as drive H: I wouldnt be half as frustrated if it hadnt 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 080070241? 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 Id only need once. Many thanks. 237.

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Posted December 3, 2009 at 11:12 am | Permalink

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 cant thank you enough.. my dvd-rom has been down, tryed fixing with the filter delete but computer still doesnt 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 didnt 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 dont 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 cant partition using win 7. installation stopped there. what to do? tried it on asus Eee mini.

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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? 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 Im 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, Ill be installing Win7 using microsofts 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 XPs 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 errorplz help me.i changed the BIOS priority to USB HDD.there were other options USB FDD,USB CDROM,USB ZIP.

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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

it is very very helpful for me. thanks. 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 doesnt 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 couldnt even find an iso file in the windows 7 files. (Its 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 ive 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 isnt 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

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(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

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

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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. 280.

Brandon
Posted January 10, 2010 at 6:04 am | Permalink

This worked flawlessly for upgrading my wifes 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, its 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)

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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 isnt 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

;( 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, ive deleted all my most important files;( i reached active, i didnt 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 didnt 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.nxtgo 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 opencopy 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/driveif 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 (egzampletype 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 tankssssssssssssssssssssmy rateing is 5***** 299.

lenny
Posted January 31, 2010 at 10:26 pm | Permalink

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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 steps will reformat my flash drive? 303.

admin
Posted February 6, 2010 at 4:48 pm | Permalink

@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 didnt fit on my 4gig USB stick. Than I tried an 8 Gig microSD card and that did fitand 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 elsetested 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 charmThanks! 311.

aj
Posted February 16, 2010 at 7:10 am | Permalink

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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 usbDONE 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. 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/DVDs 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.

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Just a couple of weeks after its posted here: link removed You turn around and post it here. You can try to deny it, but its 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 cant create a bootable disk by entering those commands in random order. So steps will be same if you refer other sites too. I cant blame other sites for that right? You need to execute the step 1 first and then 2.. You cant 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 [...]? Its 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, Im even more convinced you have no idea what any of the commands posted do as youre misleading users into thinking that bootsect doesnt work on XP installs or vista installs with XP as the target. Its a matter of changing the /n60 argument to /nt52 for it to use the master boot code thats 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 doesnt work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7.. [snip] 327.

admin
Posted March 14, 2010 at 8:45 am | Permalink

@Kevin I dont 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 dont 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 dont like to argue on a useless topic. 331.

Andy
Posted March 15, 2010 at 12:15 am | Permalink

@admin

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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
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. Ive 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.

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Posted March 24, 2010 at 1:37 am | Permalink

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superb expalanation. anyone will easily understandkeep 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

I did this process on a SATA SSD 16gb harddrive I had, and it worked! 349.

Beautiful.

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..

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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 dont 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?

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Amos
Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

Hi, excellent instructionsIm 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? im on Vista 354.

Amos
Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

actually you cant 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 Ive 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.. 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

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Great article! Helped my friends 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 !!! 365.

YOU ARE THE GREAT!

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-flashpendrive-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


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

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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 dont get my data back I will be at zero.al my work and everything was in it n I dont have a dvd back up as well..i know its stupid fuced 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 Suneev suneev.lpu@gmail.com 383.

Michael
Posted June 1, 2010 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

Ive used this guide before with success, but its not working this time. Every time I type in cd boot, I get an error message stating The system cannot find the path specified. Ive 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 isnt working either. Whats 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.

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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 dont 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

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 satadruhalder@yahoo.co.in.. 395.

joseph
Posted June 24, 2010 at 3:30 am | Permalink

Todo funcion a la perfeccin. Gracias !! 396.

Santhosh
Posted June 24, 2010 at 10:20 pm | Permalink

thank youdis is very interesting.. 397.

Ahmad Bukhori

Posted June 25, 2010 at 10:52 am | Permalink

work wonderfull on my external hard drive

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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 MUCHit 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

Im currently at the copying files to USB end stage. But for anyone who reads down here, make sure to check that youve 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 Ive got a server backup. DONT 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 cant detect my bootable drivemay i lack this ideahelp me out ..thanks 407.

solem
Posted July 2, 2010 at 2:48 am | Permalink

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 its 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 cant 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

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Jibba
Posted July 6, 2010 at 2:15 pm | Permalink

Dont 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) sons 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. Its working for me. PS. Not sure if it has been said, but not looking through all the comments lol 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 DVDbut 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

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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 workingand 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 Cant 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 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
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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 Im 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 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)

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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 youre running. Check your computers 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 cant 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 E: CD BOOT

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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 cant 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 lotive tried other guides with no success but your guide is fantastickeep up the good workthis 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

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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 dont 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

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suggestion that how i am recover from this problem so iam glad ti you. 469.

Richard
Posted August 28, 2010 at 11:16 am | Permalink

You rock man! Thanks for this guide. Ive 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 youre getting an Access Denied error when trying to map partitions, its because you didnt run the command prompt as Administrator. Right click on the Command Prompt program as select Run as Administrator - When setup has completed, dont 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

ive 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 installationhow 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

ive 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 installationhow to overcome this problem?please help me

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gaithat
Posted September 1, 2010 at 8:06 pm | Permalink

It was a perfect explanation. Thanks for such a nice tutorial. Only problem, I faced with BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:command. Once you invoke Command Prompt like run as Administrator there was nothing like Windows Xp does not recognize removable drive under: LIST DISK segment. Pl. keep it up. 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

HeyCan 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 Im 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.

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We have to use Vistas bootsect.exe which can reinstall XPs 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. 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 dont 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! Its 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 im 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

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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

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. YOURE 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 dont 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!

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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. Id 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 simples lol! 512.

justme!

Posted September 21, 2010 at 3:42 am | Permalink

looks like a nice method but! how do i reverse the disk-on-key properties to its 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
Posted September 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

Great work.it worked for the first timethanks 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 isnt 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) its the partition number OF the drive (0 as its formatted) otherwise youll 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

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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 528.

Dave Sanders
Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm | Permalink

Great step by step instructions. Even though Ive done this dozens of times, its 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

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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 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. 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 Im trying to make a LiveCD bootable through USB, its not a normal official Windows 7 CD, and there is no BOOTSECT.EXE whatsoever, so I cant 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 pendrivecomparatively faster than cd or dvds.the problem you are facing is due to wrong installation files

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Kir
Posted October 11, 2010 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much! Im Russian, but I didnt 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

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

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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. 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, its probably either your antivirus trying to scan the empty drive, or its 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. Im 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 isnt 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

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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 . 576. Thanks

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..!! 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 ive read all the instructions, ive never try it myself but on about the comments above, its 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

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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 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 wouldnt 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

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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 Ive 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 Ive booted up my PC with it? Can it be done? How? Maybe it works anyway? I dont want to ruin a good 16GB USB for it otherwise. 2. Ive 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 Im running.. suffice to say Im PRETTY MUCH flabbergasted at this point, any help hopefully? pending thats enough information 600.

Stle
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! 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 technical 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!

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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.

an
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. And I think the BOOTSECT.EXE part is redundant because DISKPART prolly already did that. Thats 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 DOESNT 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 dont 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 im 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

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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, Ive 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 wasnt) 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 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
Thanks!

Posted December 1, 2010 at 8:34 am | Permalink

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 Ive made a working bootable USB of my own. I need this to make my

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computer renewed and prepare it for my SEO work task. 629.

Naval
Posted December 4, 2010 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

I havent 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

Were 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: 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 doesnt 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 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 dont 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. Dont drive yourself crazy if the option is there, your computer is somewhat old, and it doesnt 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

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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 Ill 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 youre 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.. Theres 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. 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

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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 doesnt work, either arent 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 itthanks 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 Im 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, Ill give a try. I do not think its RAM issue though. To Paulette Once I try it, Ill 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

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.

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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 ive installed windows 7 in my precision workstation 490 Thanks alot 666.

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? 667.

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? 668.

victor
Posted December 22, 2010 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

Works great! Keep up the good work. Thank you. 669.

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 670.

peety
Posted December 22, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

i am thinking i mightve been better off specifying quick in the format 671.

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!? 672.

MSW SUX
Posted December 23, 2010 at 1:00 am | Permalink

I DIDNT GET A VISTA DISK WITH MY PC, IT CAME PRE-INSTALLED!! 673.

Win7easyinstall
Hi all!

Posted December 23, 2010 at 1:27 am | Permalink

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.

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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 674.

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 675.

Chandan SIngh
Posted December 24, 2010 at 1:12 am | Permalink

Thanx, its 100% working. thank u for giving this code 676.

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(Im rather smart hardware type stuff) and then I further proceeded to make sure the physical hard drive disk didnt have any scratches on it (it was pretty clean). So yea, It is beyond me why it is not working, have any ideas? 677.

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!! 678.

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. 679.

LlF
Posted December 24, 2010 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

have anyone used this tool: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool 680.

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. 681.

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? 682.

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.

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Ted Allen
Posted December 27, 2010 at 11:07 pm | Permalink

Awesome! Well written, easy to understand, and worked well. Thank you! 684.

james mccoy
Posted December 28, 2010 at 5:31 am | Permalink

awesome tutorial 685.

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! 686.

lee
Posted December 28, 2010 at 2:08 pm | Permalink

awseome 687.

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. 688.

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. 689.

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 doesnt matter anyway I can install Windows 7 Ultimate to a computer from usb flash drive now.thank you! 690.

Tobias
Posted December 31, 2010 at 3:03 am | Permalink

Wonderful, i fixed my netbook. Super 691.

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 692.

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? 693.

TheOriginalPol
Posted January 1, 2011 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

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 couldnt be right sure enough it wouldnt work for me. You are a gentleman and a scholar. 694.

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 695.

darkathena
Posted January 3, 2011 at 3:24 am | Permalink

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hey guys to make the format faster enter.. FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK OVERRIDE DarkAthena 696.

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 ! 697.

Bradley
Posted January 3, 2011 at 9:59 am | Permalink

awesome. worked on the first try. you rule. 698.

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 Disks 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 699.

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. 700.

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????????????????? 701.

Grafi?no Oblikovanje
Posted January 7, 2011 at 6:09 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot! This help me so much, especially because my dvd was broken 702.

FREDDY U.

Posted January 7, 2011 at 9:02 am | Permalink

IT WORKED 100% JUST FOLLOW EVERY STEP AND THATS IT. 703.

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. 704.

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 705.

dallas
Posted January 9, 2011 at 4:35 am | Permalink

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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 706.

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? 707.

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. 708.

Damon D.
Posted January 10, 2011 at 1:08 am | Permalink

Works Great , Thank you very much 709.

Andreas
Posted January 10, 2011 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

Just for the record; You dont 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 its good to go. 710.

romance
Posted January 10, 2011 at 6:10 pm | Permalink

hi, in step 4, uve 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 711.

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? 712.

David C.
Posted January 11, 2011 at 6:37 am | Permalink

Worked like a charm! Thanks!!! 713.

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 youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit) or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. 714.

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. 715.

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. 716.

D.R.Kurrey
Posted January 13, 2011 at 11:20 pm | Permalink

There is problem ! Operating System not found 717.

D.R.Kurrey

Posted January 13, 2011 at 11:21 pm | Permalink

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problem arise at the time of booting from usb 718.

Shivams
Posted January 14, 2011 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

Thanks for ur post. But when im 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 719.

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 720.

admin
Posted January 14, 2011 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

Anshul Kataria, please use Virtual Clone Drive (free) software to mount the ISO file. 721.

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! 722.

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. 723.

PIyush
Posted January 15, 2011 at 8:09 pm | Permalink

Thanks 724.

Moniz
Posted January 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

Thanks man, its worked 725.

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 726.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!! 727.

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.. 728.

Helmi
Posted January 19, 2011 at 7:15 pm | Permalink

Its workthank you..:D 729.

walent

Posted January 20, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Permalink

Works on Windows 7, even without bootsect.. thanks!! 730.

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 its from Microsoft too. Save yourself 5 hours and use that instead.

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juozas
Posted January 21, 2011 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

Thanx work good. 732.

Sanjay
Posted January 21, 2011 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

Really it was helpful to me. @Brandon Only Works on VISTA AND WINDOWS 7. 733.

Jonathan

Posted January 22, 2011 at 6:43 pm | Permalink

Excellent post. Very helpful. 734.

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 735.

denbang
Posted January 24, 2011 at 5:53 pm | Permalink

Double thumbs up! 736.

GOOD WORK
Posted January 24, 2011 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

thanks alot 737.

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 738.

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 739.

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. Cant actually get to the install, weird. 740.

bohari
Posted January 25, 2011 at 6:04 am | Permalink

its rewlly good abd i try it later 741.

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. 742.

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 isnt working because it is displayed as NTFS. I cant access it at all. How can I get it right again? 743.

vikrant
Posted January 27, 2011 at 12:32 am | Permalink

Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial 744.

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? 745.

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.

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COULD NOT MAP DRIVE TO THE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT WHAT TO DO ? 746.

shahin
Posted January 27, 2011 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

Thanks. 747.

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 doesnt get to the installation process, its 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! 748.

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 749.

Tony
Posted January 29, 2011 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

SuperUSB win7 boot disk is working fineThanks a lot !!!!! 750.

Putra Haikal
Posted January 29, 2011 at 9:46 pm | Permalink

Hi there, this guide is working fine. thank you for shared with us 751.

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! 752.

hAMMAD

Posted January 30, 2011 at 3:57 pm | Permalink

Some times /nt60 do not work for whatever reason then we can use /nt52. 753.

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 754.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 755.

Al
Posted January 31, 2011 at 4:25 am | Permalink

Hi Im facing the same error as sandy in post #601. Access denied error running Bootsect.exe Please help! Thanks, Al 756.

Joe
Posted January 31, 2011 at 6:50 am | Permalink

Thank you so much for your help. Its very cool. 757.

Bachir

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Posted January 31, 2011 at 11:22 pm | Permalink

Any one faced this message when trying to copy file into USB stick? Cant 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 regards 758.

Thomas

Posted February 1, 2011 at 2:15 am | Permalink

If you have access denied error, run cmd in run as adminstrator mode. 759.

Andreas
Posted February 1, 2011 at 9:35 am | Permalink

Works just as described. Thanks very much, saved my bacon after realizing Mom-in-Laws PC didnt have DVD drive. To Al: had same error. Make sure you are running CMD as Admin. If it doesnt prompt you for permission on launch, you didnt launch it right. Use the right-click run as administrator option. 760.

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 761.

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. 762.

Dark
Posted February 2, 2011 at 5:48 am | Permalink

F**king awesome!!! Thanks brawah Works great! 763.

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) 764.

NOOR
Posted February 4, 2011 at 3:41 pm | Permalink

HI !!! Im 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 Im 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 765.

phil
Posted February 4, 2011 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

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if step 7 fails, run command prmopt as administrator. 766.

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. 767.

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 7 768.

Katherine

Posted February 6, 2011 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

I cant figured out whats going on >__> Ive changed the bios and I get an error. bootmgr cannot be found 769.

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 770.

Israel
Posted February 6, 2011 at 10:21 pm | Permalink

Worked perfect Tryed with 7, 32 and 64 bits Ty 771.

Bhupend
Posted February 8, 2011 at 10:45 pm | Permalink

it works 772.

moksha

Posted February 10, 2011 at 7:12 pm | Permalink

Thanks a million tonne. Youre a savior. This really works. My DVD drive isnt working and I had no choice. 773.

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. 774.

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? 775.

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. 776.

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 cannt . 777.

DIODIM

Posted February 13, 2011 at 1:38 am | Permalink

wonderfull guide manyou rock!! 778.

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. 779.

Joao
Posted February 14, 2011 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

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Worked great! Dell Optiplex 160 no DVD ram, only USB. Thanks! 780.

JIM
Posted February 16, 2011 at 10:05 am | Permalink

thanks alot 781.

Michael
Posted February 16, 2011 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

LIST DISK only shows my 2 local harddisk, and not the USB flash drive. 782.

Jaideep Arora
Posted February 16, 2011 at 11:52 pm | Permalink

Pappi Boss Aap Chaa Gaye !!!!! 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 783.

Elli Bagelman

Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:55 am | Permalink

Thanks! worked like a charm 784.

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 785.

anonymous
Posted February 17, 2011 at 6:24 pm | Permalink

sir when i type list disk , my USB volume is not listed, please help !!! 786.

killer_boy

Posted February 18, 2011 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

ive been follow ur steps and instruction to the last steps.. but after the bootsect.exe part ive 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.. 787.

asanka
Posted February 18, 2011 at 9:33 pm | Permalink

Thnx man, it workd 788.

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? 789.

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? 790.

Christian
Posted February 20, 2011 at 9:30 am | Permalink

Thank you so much this was the easiest install Ive ever done. 791.

Arjun3111

Posted February 20, 2011 at 10:24 am | Permalink

thank u very much..a sigh of relief..phewww..!!! god bless u. keep rocking.

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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? 793.

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 madmaxs 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 ? 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-windows7-from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/ 794.

Asger
Posted February 20, 2011 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

100% is nothing MANY THANKS!!!!!!!! 795.

flex

Posted February 21, 2011 at 1:14 am | Permalink

Fantastic guide thanks! 796.

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 cant use it in the phone again, somehow the phone cant recognise it how can i fix it? 797.

Gaurav
Posted February 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm | Permalink

Yes it is 100% working. Thanks dude!! 798.

Ajmat husain

Posted February 24, 2011 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

i am very happy bcz it is very simple formula. 799.

Sunmaster14
Posted February 25, 2011 at 8:07 am | Permalink

to avoid ACCESS DENIED errors, run cmd from system 32 folder Run As Administrator 800.

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. 801.

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.

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Option 1: Delete the partition and create a new fat32 partition (Ive noticed a lot of phones dont 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. 802.

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? 803. :)

Mark Anthony
Posted February 27, 2011 at 7:14 am | Permalink

hope this works.. I need to reinstall my windows 7 804.

Sunil Rana
Posted February 27, 2011 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

I have got a problem with my laptop that it is comfortably running the video DVDs 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 .. 805.

nobbler
Posted February 27, 2011 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

Great stuff. Worked like a charm. I tried another method that didnt 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 youll end up where you wanna be. Thanks! 806.

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 807.

joe
Posted March 1, 2011 at 5:35 am | Permalink

Can I use an sd card instead? I tried and it cant create a partition when I type in create partition primary. 808.

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 809.

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. 810.

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? 811.

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 usbs partition.

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puthea
Posted March 2, 2011 at 5:43 am | Permalink

when i install. it can not create system partition. why? 813.

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. 814.

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 815.

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 816.

GREAT JOB
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 dont like ntfs Can be this created on fat32 oh forget it should be linux tool Tnx for this!!! 817.

GREAT JOB
Posted March 3, 2011 at 4:33 am | Permalink

ok its already in your site 818.

SmVueno
Posted March 5, 2011 at 3:36 am | Permalink

Thanks! iwe been using this guide soo much now its almost abusive. 819.

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? 820.

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 dont know what is the problem. 821.

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

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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 dont specify either to create the maximum sized partition. DISKPART> 822.

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 . 823.

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 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 824.

11225e
Posted March 8, 2011 at 8:43 am | Permalink

Hi. Ive 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 cant even get past selecting an ISO file it says mine are invalid. Is there any help for me?? 825.

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 826.

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 nowplz help me urgent 827.

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

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updating more important stuff. 828.

TianYi
Posted March 13, 2011 at 11:17 am | Permalink

Great Guide Man Working Very well. Thanks for your Post 829.

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!. 830.

Myat Min
Posted March 14, 2011 at 3:05 pm | Permalink

I get following error message after BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G: command 831.

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? 832.

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 833.

saddavi
Posted March 15, 2011 at 1:38 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot. u really really helped me. keep it up. 834.

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. 835.

Cheers

Posted March 15, 2011 at 5:39 pm | Permalink

forgot to add: use the ntfs instead of fat32, its better for larger (>4GB) drives 836.

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. 837.

karthik
Posted March 16, 2011 at 1:04 pm | Permalink

when i turn on my system its 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. 838.

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 ; 839.

Amadeu
Posted March 17, 2011 at 8:48 pm | Permalink

Im 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

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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 841.

toto
Posted March 22, 2011 at 1:46 am | Permalink

Installing Windows 7 SP1 HOME PREMIUM on Emachines E528 in 6 minutes. Super! 842.

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! 843.

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) 844.

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 845.

lovejeet singh

Posted March 23, 2011 at 9:33 am | Permalink

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 ive been follow ur steps and instruction 4 times 846.

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. 847.

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 cant thank you enough. keep up the great work. K + + + 848.

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 didnt find any and jumped to

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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. 849.

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. 850.

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. 851.

Achal
Posted March 25, 2011 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

My friends 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. 852.

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 853.

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) 854.

Mickey
Posted March 27, 2011 at 5:52 am | Permalink

GREAT GUIDE! 855.

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? 856.

Sabya
Posted March 27, 2011 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

I have the contents in my PC to copy but dont 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 857.

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

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ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK (Format process may take few min) EXIT u will be back to c: then again typeyour 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 fanxd:P 858.

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. 859.

Mazahyr
Posted March 28, 2011 at 4:56 am | Permalink

Hi im able to do all the steps right but i cant 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. 860.

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? 861.

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 862.

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! 863.

Jashan
Posted March 30, 2011 at 8:45 pm | Permalink

Thanks man working 100 percent 864.

admin
Posted March 31, 2011 at 10:34 pm | Permalink

@Mazahyr Try it on VMWare or VirtualBox. 865.

admin
Posted March 31, 2011 at 10:37 pm | Permalink

@Jogh If you dont have a working optical drive and have an ISO file of Windows 7, simply mount it using Virtual Clone Drive. 866.

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 867.

Chaz

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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 868.

feyaz
Posted April 4, 2011 at 4:22 am | Permalink

hey, I screwed another hard disk with these codes, its 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 its not been formatted. Is there a way I can recover my files? 869.

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. 870.

3rdEye
Posted April 5, 2011 at 10:47 am | Permalink

I dont know why my last entry wasnt posted. Did I do something wrong? 871.

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. 872.

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-windows7-from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/ 873.

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 874.

hamoosh

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. 875.

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 876.

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 thanks a lot. it makes me ur fan. 877.

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

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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 879.

Siby
Posted April 11, 2011 at 4:24 pm | Permalink

can we use that USB drive for further use ? 880.

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. 881.

Al
Posted April 12, 2011 at 2:45 pm | Permalink

This is so so cool. Ive done it and its working 100%. Thank you very much for this guide. 882.

potter3
Posted April 12, 2011 at 7:31 pm | Permalink

thanks a lot but , can i do this without DVD / Flash ? 883.

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 884.

SuperTareFrate
Posted April 13, 2011 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

Works 100%, tested and running windows 7 installed from USB Stick! Nice work! 885.

SUDHEESH
Posted April 14, 2011 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

Tnx bro. Tnx for sharing such valuable info. May GOD BLESS U. 886.

Darko
Posted April 14, 2011 at 6:18 pm | Permalink

how to make usb noramal. I cant format my usb pls help 887.

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 wont work in XP because some features of Diskpart that work in Vista and Windows 7 dont work in XP. We found this out at work over a year ago when attempting to do the same thing. 888.

Julian
Posted April 15, 2011 at 2:25 am | Permalink

Extremely useful guide youre a STAR!!! 889.

sanjay
Posted April 15, 2011 at 1:06 pm | Permalink

thanks a lot dude 890.

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?? 891.

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 ? 892.

admin
Posted April 15, 2011 at 5:32 pm | Permalink

@Karaciite

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You will able to use it again for other purpose. 893.

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 doesnt 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. 894.

Shang
Posted April 15, 2011 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

WowThanksThats great 895.

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. 896.

Karaciite
Posted April 16, 2011 at 2:06 am | Permalink

ok thnx 897.

ABHINAV

Posted April 18, 2011 at 9:28 pm | Permalink

dude. it just stuck in 100 percent!!!!! what should i do?????????? 898.

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.!! 899.

codifus
Posted April 19, 2011 at 7:01 pm | Permalink

Did this with Windows 2008 R2 .iso Worked flawlessly. Thanks TweakWindows!! 900.

John W
Posted April 19, 2011 at 10:15 pm | Permalink

Excellent article. Got it working first time. Saved me ball ache! Thanks mate. 901.

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 902.

Max

Posted April 21, 2011 at 10:05 pm | Permalink

Just wanted to say thank you, Ive been using this guide for a while and it always works and always helps! Thank you 903.

Bob
Posted April 22, 2011 at 3:53 pm | Permalink

Hi, Great doc thanks. Ive done this now 4 times but I get stuck at the end. The whole process works as described, and I *can* boot from the external USB disk. Interestingly, the bios quickly flashes that there is no boot device but then it does boot from the external USB disk and runs the Win7 installer. Howeverwhen I try to install Win7 (clean install) and I list the 2 partitions (1st one is the

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main C: Drive and the second listed in the USB partition [Disk 1 Partition 1]) I get the message: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks connected through a USB or IEEE 1394 port. Any hints? The bios does allow booting to USB and as above, the laptop does boot OK into Win7 installer I just cant install it? Thanks. 904.

Bob
Posted April 22, 2011 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

Additional to post 909; On a separate PC, boot from Win7 CD try to install Win7 to the external USB disk and get the same message as above. Not sure why its not working for me. 905.

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. 906.

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. 907.

Bob

Posted April 24, 2011 at 4:49 am | Permalink

Update to Post 911. For what its worth this post worked for me: http://reboot.pro/9196/ 908.

soodabeh

Posted April 24, 2011 at 4:41 pm | Permalink

Hi, Thanks for your help and article. I test it and it work. 909.

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 doesnt 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. 910.

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 .. 911.

Vig
Posted April 25, 2011 at 2:43 am | Permalink

This guide is much better than any other Ive come across, esp for how to format the usb drive. Thanks! 912.

Andy
Posted April 25, 2011 at 3:59 am | Permalink

it worked perfectly! thank you so much!! 913.

Moe Ali

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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. 914.

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. 915.

Addelini
Posted April 26, 2011 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

Hey there, I dont 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? 916.

Prerit
Posted April 28, 2011 at 1:06 am | Permalink

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. 917.

Adrian

Posted April 28, 2011 at 5:55 am | Permalink

Awesome post. thank you very much. worked fine for installing SBS 2011. 918.

Jrei
Posted April 28, 2011 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

Question: If my optical drive is not working (thats 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! 919.

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!! 920.

phil
Posted April 30, 2011 at 6:55 am | Permalink

sir when i type the command BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: IT SAYS thatcould not map drive H:to an associated volume device what should i do man? 921.

bujar
Posted April 30, 2011 at 5:01 pm | Permalink

I am getting BOOTMGR is Missing any solutions ? 922.

sandy
Posted April 30, 2011 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

thanks a lot man!!! this realy works !!! its awesome 923.

aLVIS
Posted May 1, 2011 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

Youre amazing, thanks 924.

Shankaranand
Posted May 3, 2011 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

Hi Team, I have a problem with my DVD writer. Hence, I could not be able to do the Step 5. Please advice. 925.

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Posted May 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

What if the USB drive is already formatted in NTFS file system? Is it ok to skip the FORMAT FS=NTFS step? Reply me as soon as possible. 926.

darryl
Posted May 5, 2011 at 12:33 am | Permalink

Ive used this guide 4 or 5 times in the last week. Lots of users here seem to be getting cd/dvd drive-less laptops. Even the walkthrough on MSs website doesnt have step 7. Great walkthrough for booting to a Windows 7 installation from USB. Thanks very much. 927.

darryl
Posted May 5, 2011 at 12:34 am | Permalink

@phil and @Hero, Make sure youre aopening the command prompt with admin rights. Start menu -> cmd -> right click Run as admin 928.

andoc
Posted May 5, 2011 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

its still works on may 2011.simple, clear and awesome guide. 929.

Buford
Posted May 6, 2011 at 8:44 am | Permalink

Did exactly what you said and it worked exactly as you said it would. Excellent documentation. 930.

Ari

Posted May 8, 2011 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

hey,please tell me how to do the same work in windows xp 931.

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 couldnt 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 wasnt 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 932.

Mike

Posted May 9, 2011 at 6:32 am | Permalink

Genius! Worked like a charm. Thanks for posting. 933.

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.. Ive used wintoflash and it works great on my Kingston 4gb usb thumb drive. 934.

leo
Posted May 10, 2011 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

thanx. 100% working great tutorial illustrated. 935.

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 936.

joshua
Posted May 10, 2011 at 1:17 pm | Permalink

Greetings! can you give me a link where i can download win7 ulti 32bit?

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thanks 937.

skalig
Posted May 10, 2011 at 4:20 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much for this tutorial. Works great! @phil: H: has to be the drive letter of you USB Stick! 938.

ateh
Posted May 11, 2011 at 9:26 am | Permalink

why windows 7 starter cannot set picture at desktop? 939.

admin
Posted May 11, 2011 at 11:04 am | Permalink

@ joshua Check this post: http://www.intowindows.com/download-windows-7-enterprise-90-daytrial-now/ 940.

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 941.

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.\ 942.

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. 943.

vice245

Posted May 13, 2011 at 12:51 am | Permalink

thank u so much work perfectly. it really help 944.

Maverick
Posted May 14, 2011 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

how to revert the flash drive back to normal file transfer usage? 945.

George
Posted May 15, 2011 at 10:11 pm | Permalink

Thanks my friend the command line way works really nice! 946.

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 947.

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.. 948.

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 ? 949.

Mads M. Eriksen
Posted May 17, 2011 at 11:37 am | Permalink

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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:) 950.

Darek
Posted May 17, 2011 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

Working perfect Big Thanks!!! 951.

Themba
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. 952.

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! 953.

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!! 954.

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 dont 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? 955.

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 956.

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.. 957.

R.B.

Posted May 21, 2011 at 2:22 am | Permalink

God Bless Thanks sooooooooo much! 958.

fieznur
Posted May 21, 2011 at 4:47 pm | Permalink

COOL!!! This is the most easy & most detail instructions ever! Thanks a million! 959.

didii
Posted May 22, 2011 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

@Themba & hamza: Be sure to run the cdm (or command prompt) as administrator. Step 2. Thanx for the method But be sure not to do the clean action on just a partition of your drive. Clean works for the whole disk (even if you selected just a volume/partition). Just lost

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350Gb of files because of that -_But thanx anyway 960.

didii
Posted May 22, 2011 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

btw: if you just have an iso, you could mount it with Deamon Tools (free) 961.

Unknown Singer
Posted May 23, 2011 at 7:25 am | Permalink

read your post..followed the steps. really worked for me .. thanks a bunch. 962.

silky systems

Posted May 23, 2011 at 8:36 am | Permalink

there are a bunch of idiots in all these post this method works fine and even works to creat a xp install from usb but for all the dummies who dont read the directions right just leave your computer the way it is yes you need x86 to create 32 bit boot disk as you need x64 version to creat x64 also less you doo all this from a virtual machine you can bypass all the steps after diskpart and use the simple xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ with the actual disk or mounted iso image or for even the short buss cumputer techs on here just download win to flash if you dont know how to code or understand the simple comands given to you thanks for your great work TWEAKWINDOWS 963.

Souvik Dey
Posted May 23, 2011 at 8:10 pm | Permalink

Hi, Since i have my Win 7 files as an iso file, i have extracted the image onto d drive. Can i use the steps you mentioned and instaed of D: CD BOOT, i can use the drive i have the files in and proceed as you mentined but just changing the drive letters accordingly.???? 964.

nishiki

Posted May 24, 2011 at 2:53 am | Permalink

This has got to be the best how-to for usb boot Ive come across. Thank you very much for it. 965.

Anjan Bhowmik
Posted May 25, 2011 at 3:51 am | Permalink

Yep! It does work! Thanks m8! 966.

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. 967.

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. 968.

Tony
Posted May 26, 2011 at 12:25 am | Permalink

Didnt 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 969.

Tony
Posted May 26, 2011 at 2:36 am | Permalink

OK I get it Doesnt work with xp 970.

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? 971.

Amiel
Posted May 30, 2011 at 5:53 am | Permalink

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Works great for windows 7! At first I was afraid of whatll 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! 972.

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 973.

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! 974.

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 975.

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 ! 976.

Jatin Kumar

Posted June 1, 2011 at 3:06 am | Permalink

This is the best Make Win7 bootable pendrive post. Thanks dude 977.

abhijit
Posted June 1, 2011 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

great information. thank u so much for sharing 978.

rajat
Posted June 1, 2011 at 2:13 pm | Permalink

can it will work on netbook 979.

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 980.

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. 981.

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

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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! 982.

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? 983.

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? 984.

Emirates Skeptron
Posted June 6, 2011 at 2:43 am | Permalink

Please see below, whats 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> 985.

Aakash
Posted June 7, 2011 at 5:37 am | Permalink

Hey, I tried doing this on my external HDD and it didnt work. So I used a USB Flash Drive and it worked great. But now when I try to use my External HDD, it wont work at all. Any help? Thanks. 986.

Fanctron
Posted June 7, 2011 at 8:21 am | Permalink

Man, works like a charm. Tks very much. Cheers 987.

espen
Posted June 8, 2011 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

fantastic! 988.

sam
Posted June 8, 2011 at 11:58 pm | Permalink

nice update it really help keep it up,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 989.

sandip karmakar

Posted June 9, 2011 at 9:08 am | Permalink

how to windows7 install from usb drive detail 990.

vinay
Posted June 9, 2011 at 3:41 pm | Permalink

ihave a doubt in the 8th step,where u say to copy the windows files to usb.there whats copying,does it mean to copy image file?. 991.

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

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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. 993.

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. Whats wrong? 994.

Rajmohan
Posted June 10, 2011 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

great !!! 995.

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? 996.

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 997.

Navid
Posted June 12, 2011 at 6:10 pm | Permalink

How can i understand what is my usb disc number? pls help 998.

Ash
Posted June 13, 2011 at 12:33 pm | Permalink

i will try this process ok bt thanks for this 999.

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:-) 1000.

Victor
Posted June 13, 2011 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much, the guide was extremely helpful!!! great stuff!! 1001.

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 dont 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?? 1002.

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: *Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. 1003.

shyam
Posted June 14, 2011 at 5:40 pm | Permalink

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I know very well that one windows 7/xp/vista in one bootable pen drive but i dont know that how to creat Bootable flash/pen drive of Windows 7, Vista, or XP in one pen/flash drive please help me 1004.

Gus
Posted June 14, 2011 at 5:41 pm | Permalink

|Used your method as described, works great, thank you. 1005.

dzul
Posted June 14, 2011 at 6:13 pm | Permalink

U save my daythank u 1006.

Troy

Posted June 14, 2011 at 11:36 pm | Permalink

Followed to the letter, multiple times. Doesnt work for me. Says bootmngr is missing, and yes USB is set as primary boot drive. Help? 1007.

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. 1008.

pherenika
Posted June 15, 2011 at 12:52 am | Permalink

Oh, and cheers for a great guide! 1009.

Tony

Posted June 15, 2011 at 3:47 am | Permalink

I have a question why doesnt Windows Copying 100% all files it is just copying 10% the files ? please answer 1010.

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 1011.

kittu
Posted June 18, 2011 at 10:14 am | Permalink

hi sir,its good but end of part its shows error msg that s 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 1012.

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 -Enterxcopy h:\*.* /a /e /k (H: being the drive where your windows 7 disk is) Then press -Enter1013.

DK
Posted June 18, 2011 at 10:44 am | Permalink

Opps Tony not Ben 1014.

Steve Ollis
Posted June 20, 2011 at 3:05 am | Permalink

Thanks for this. The DVD drive in my kids 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. 1015.

iqbal
Posted June 20, 2011 at 4:22 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot !! it worked just fine on the second attemptVery useful..keep up the good work 1016.

Curbup
Posted June 20, 2011 at 6:10 am | Permalink

hi there

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Muralidhar
Posted June 20, 2011 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

Great dude Thanks.. 1018.

Mutherfarqwa
Posted June 23, 2011 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

Good onya mate. 1019.

Ali
Posted June 25, 2011 at 2:35 am | Permalink

Thats great 1020.

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. 1021.

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 youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit) or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. 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 1022.

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 1023.

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 Im 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 1024.

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 manu r a genius..!! 1025.

tina
Posted June 30, 2011 at 3:32 am | Permalink

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plzzma laptop saysBOOTMGR is compressed.ma cd rom isnt working soam using usb..i copied the recovery disk to the disk but its stilll showing the same thing..plz help 1026.

tina
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 1027.

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 isnt 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. 1028.

Ryan

Posted July 2, 2011 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

That was an excellent guide. Well done. 1029.

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. 1030.

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! 1031.

vivek.J
Posted July 3, 2011 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

im having an error that bootmgr file is missing what can i do for tat 1032.

Cheap Vibrators
Posted July 4, 2011 at 7:03 pm | Permalink

A really usefull post Thank you very much I wish you will not mind me writting about this post on my website I will also link back to this post Thank you 1033.

nong
Posted July 6, 2011 at 9:59 pm | Permalink

thanks a lot.u rock man. 1034.

Korea Song
Posted July 7, 2011 at 3:40 pm | Permalink

Thank you, it works. 1035.

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 UNIVERSALUSB-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? Id be very glad, if you can help me. I will also write a more detailed description if needed. Regards hringriin 1036.

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

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make the internet not complete trast 1037.

brian
Posted July 10, 2011 at 4:55 am | Permalink

this is the best tutorial ever!!!!!!!!!!!! A total retard can do this!!!!!!!! 1038.

OPACITY
Posted July 10, 2011 at 9:45 am | Permalink

thank you, really! it works.Gracias. Gran idea. funcional..! 1039.

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? 1040.

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 1041.

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 doesnt it start the setup files? 1042.

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 1043.

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. =) 1044.

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! 1045.

LEKA
Posted July 16, 2011 at 3:28 am | Permalink

BRO I LOVE YOU YOU ARE A GENIOUS I WORKS IS PERFECT YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 1046.

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 dont 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 youre set. Tom

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Wolfos
Posted July 20, 2011 at 2:57 am | Permalink

Cant get it to work, I can boot Linux distributions fine with this BIOS settings and I followed all steps. 1048.

eDadou
Posted July 20, 2011 at 7:59 pm | Permalink

Thank you so much, im copying the files right now, you are saving me a lot of frustration if this works ! 1049.

mayank
Posted July 21, 2011 at 3:11 am | Permalink

Hey some one pease help me 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 dont 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 1050.

failmatic
Posted July 21, 2011 at 5:01 am | Permalink

This guide is terrific. Ive been using this for years. The directions are clear and concise. If you cant follow it, perhaps, you shouldnt be installing windows via usb and go grab yourself an external dvd drive. 1051.

KEIM
Posted July 21, 2011 at 7:43 am | Permalink

BLESS!!!!!! TO THE FULLEST fatBJamaica 1052.

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? 1053.

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? 1054.

admin
Posted July 22, 2011 at 10:28 am | Permalink

@ Alex Should work fine. 1055.

BIGTWEZZY
Posted July 23, 2011 at 6:02 am | Permalink

worked perfect for me,,really got me out a bind,,,thanks 1056.

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!!!! 1057.

SysAdmin
Posted July 24, 2011 at 2:55 pm | Permalink

Great how-to. Thanks 1058.

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

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JP
Posted July 25, 2011 at 9:24 pm | Permalink

Instead of using format fs=ntfs use format quick fs=ntfs This will take a few seconds, where just format can take up to a few minutes depending on the USB drive. 1060.

Steve
Posted July 26, 2011 at 11:52 pm | Permalink

Thanks alot! Worked like a charm! 1061.

Muhammad arsalan

Posted July 27, 2011 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

awesom information very good thanks for sharing. 1062.

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. However by using pendrive as bootable driver the press any key to continue screen doesnt appear anymore and it keep self entering the setup and stopped me from completing the setupanyone have clue on this problem? 1063.

Sohaib Ikram
Posted July 28, 2011 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

please describe this in a video 1064.

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 =) 1065.

vino

Posted July 29, 2011 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

man how to find whether my mother board supports usb bootable,, 1066.

SAHU
Posted July 30, 2011 at 9:12 pm | Permalink

Amazing! i never thought I could do it by myself. Thanx for ur help. 1067.

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. 1068.

beingthere
Posted July 31, 2011 at 4:03 pm | Permalink

Cool,thanx dude. This help me a lot 1069.

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?? 1070.

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 1071.

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

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Kaustav Dey
Posted August 2, 2011 at 6:37 pm | Permalink

great article, thanks 1073.

Reaz Mahmud Shezan


Posted August 3, 2011 at 11:13 am | Permalink

Recently my DVD drive is being damaged. I could not setup windows. This USB windows setup tips helps me a lot. Thanks to the author.. 1074.

Aritra Roy

Posted August 3, 2011 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

Wonderful posti am installing windows with this method. 1075.

Vipin dass
Posted August 3, 2011 at 9:34 pm | Permalink

Thanks dear 1076.

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 couldnt 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 couldnt 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 1077.

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 1078.

phuser
Posted August 4, 2011 at 6:07 pm | Permalink

very concludent guide, ty 1079.

Mikey
Posted August 5, 2011 at 10:56 am | Permalink

As other have said above me (#286 for one), you dont 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. Thats just how the command line works. 1080.

Mikey
Posted August 5, 2011 at 10:57 am | Permalink

p.s. Aside from the above mentioned bug, great article. I didnt know you could do all this with just command line tools 1081.

andrian
Posted August 5, 2011 at 3:03 pm | Permalink

Thanks, it works perfectly! 1082.

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? 1083.

lord universe
Posted August 7, 2011 at 6:28 pm | Permalink

Dont bother reading those computer nerd guides that never works. After spending hours of reading similar guides, i finally saw someone in the comments field mentioning the program win2flash, that made it work in a few seconds! *** USE Win2Flash (if you want to save time and troubles) *** 1084.

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.

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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 1086.

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 id be able to use it to boot up. but suddenly it didnt work anymore. after finding this site, im able to install frm my ext hdd. thanks loads man! 1087.

Sethunath

Posted August 11, 2011 at 10:13 am | Permalink

my problem is i dont have optical drive. 1088.

Lee
Posted August 11, 2011 at 10:03 pm | Permalink

If youre 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! 1089.

say
Posted August 12, 2011 at 10:47 am | Permalink

hello. i just have one question: after formatting the usb, and i dont 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 . .. 1090.

Rudi
Posted August 13, 2011 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

Please note that Windows 7 setup doesnt 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! Thanks for this guide, works perfect for me! 1091.

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 isnt getting completed. 1092.

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? 1093.

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 cant enter the rest of the commands. 1094.

CRAFT
Posted August 15, 2011 at 1:51 am | Permalink

works like a charm ,thanks a ton 1095.

wonwon

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Posted August 15, 2011 at 7:43 am | Permalink

Thanks,i was tried and it works perfectly! 1096.

maggie

Posted August 15, 2011 at 11:48 am | Permalink

works like a charm. Id buy you a beer or 3 for all the time you saved me. cheers! 1097.

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 cant find drivers for HDD but useing a dvd it finds the drivers. Please help 1098.

Dete
Posted August 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

Great. Dont 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! 1099.

Kakashi

Posted August 15, 2011 at 7:44 pm | Permalink

Tried it and it works 100% Great tutorial 1100.

Joshjuniorr

Posted August 16, 2011 at 1:00 pm | Permalink

When i go to boot from my usb device it tells me im 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? 1101.

RZPogi
Posted August 16, 2011 at 10:06 pm | Permalink

It works on windows 7 32bit. gonna try on 64bit 1102.

irul
Posted August 17, 2011 at 11:24 am | Permalink

thanks brofor share 1103.

keeks
Posted August 19, 2011 at 6:05 am | Permalink

Worked a treat! Thanks! 1104.

Shashank

Posted August 19, 2011 at 7:31 am | Permalink

GuysMy USB is working with this things 1105.

Ali
Posted August 19, 2011 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much for this guide. This is a great effort. 1106.

NOMAN
Posted August 19, 2011 at 8:08 pm | Permalink

THANKS MAN ITS WORKS I AM HAPPY COZ OF YOU THANKS A LOT 1107.

omar
Posted August 20, 2011 at 11:56 pm | Permalink

thank u verry much for this tuto 1108.

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 cant complete the rest of the process. Any ideas? Im running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit on an HP Mini Thanks 1109.

Viji

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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. 1110.

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 1111.

admin
Posted August 21, 2011 at 10:35 pm | Permalink

@ phantom-IT Please try to format the pen drive. 1112.

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? 1113.

Akshay

Posted August 22, 2011 at 10:24 am | Permalink

wooo it works 100%. thanks dude 1114.

Dean
Posted August 23, 2011 at 1:45 am | Permalink

The thumb drives are no longer recognised. Its 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 Im wondering is theres any work-around to the clean process. Or if theres some other way of formatting the thumb drive for the installation process. Thanks for the help. 1115.

John Theo
Posted August 23, 2011 at 3:53 am | Permalink

u rule man .. works like a glove 1116.

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 1117.

Tomislav

Posted August 23, 2011 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

darnn you shouldve wrote the quict ntfs forman command, not the standard, its taking forever on this aspire one xD 1118.

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. 1119.

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 1120.

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 1121.

Ethien
Posted August 26, 2011 at 7:29 am | Permalink

THANK YOU!

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Moeed Awais
Posted August 26, 2011 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

u r awesome, m a big fan of urs,u rock..:) 1123.

MeMe
Posted August 27, 2011 at 12:31 pm | Permalink

Just one small problem, it doesnt seem to detect my flash drive Ive tried everything I know and no matter what, it doesnt appear when I type List Disk. Any advice? 1124.

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..:( 1125.

Akeles
Posted August 28, 2011 at 4:57 am | Permalink

u r rock man.. 1126.

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 1127.

Pramod
Posted August 28, 2011 at 7:09 am | Permalink

Step 6,7 are very important. Otherwise the install will say Device Driver missing. 1128.

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 1129.

CRIZZ
Posted August 29, 2011 at 1:21 am | Permalink

but isnt 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 1130.

sukuwan
Posted August 29, 2011 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

Thank u very much , this thing really worked for me. I appreciate ur work!!!!! 1131.

Nate
Posted August 30, 2011 at 4:38 am | Permalink

how would u install from usb if you dont have the windows 7 disk but have the windows 7 iso file on the usb onto a pc with no operating system? 1132.

Ryan
Posted August 30, 2011 at 10:14 am | Permalink

Thanks, I have been wondering how to do this! 1133.

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? 1134.

Ograje
Posted August 31, 2011 at 5:13 am | Permalink

thank u very much for this tutorial! 1135.

Jeanard Guinto
Posted September 2, 2011 at 7:56 am | Permalink

thanks dude.,,, 1136.

kunal

Posted September 3, 2011 at 12:42 pm | Permalink

thanks man 1137.

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.

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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 ive tried this command g: cd boot as my sony walkman is on g drive but it didnt work and showed this msg diskpart> can you help me 1139.

Gars
Posted September 4, 2011 at 12:00 am | Permalink

keep the good work man! 1140.

Juan
Posted September 6, 2011 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

Youre my hero 1141.

lobz
Posted September 6, 2011 at 1:37 pm | Permalink

is there any way tat i can disable this on my usb? 1142.

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. 1143.

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 1144.

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. 1145.

NIRDESH
Posted September 9, 2011 at 12:25 am | Permalink

it works. could i convert my usb again to previous version??? 1146.

Kevin
Posted September 9, 2011 at 4:38 am | Permalink

AWESOME!!! Thanks. 1147.

mehrnaz

Posted September 9, 2011 at 3:24 pm | Permalink

thank you very much. it was very very helpful. it saved my computer 1148.

PRiYam
Posted September 12, 2011 at 12:27 am | Permalink

Great post works like a charm 10 out of 10 dear!!! 1149.

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. 1150.

Tomasz
Posted September 13, 2011 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

Great! It worked perfect and fast. Very good guide. Thank You!

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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. 1152.

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 1153.

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? 1154.

Welsey
Posted September 16, 2011 at 2:32 am | Permalink

Great Good Guide!!! Thanks 1155.

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 !! 1156.

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 1157.

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. 1158.

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!! 1159.

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? 1160.

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? 1161.

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 press ctrl+alt+del to restart

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Leo
Posted September 19, 2011 at 7:40 am | Permalink

It works perfect!!! This guy is the bomb! 1163.

McKracken
Posted September 19, 2011 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

Works perfect, used this guide to install 7 like 10 times! Thanks! 1164.

insane

Posted September 19, 2011 at 11:36 pm | Permalink

perfect.. awsome procedure.. thnxx.. 1165.

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.. 1166.

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 1167.

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 1168.

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 (cant read the file INSTALL.WIM from the source)..i even tried copying it individually.but i cant..please help me out. thanks. 1169.

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 1170.

Roshan Chauhan

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Posted September 22, 2011 at 9:24 pm | Permalink

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 mewhat to do 1171.

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? 1172.

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 1173.

Gustavo
Posted September 24, 2011 at 8:14 am | Permalink

Roshan, you must open Command Prompt with Administrator rights to execute it. 1174.

Marius

Posted September 24, 2011 at 11:57 pm | Permalink

I EFFIN LOVE YOU!!!!! 1175.

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 1176.

Hoang
Posted September 25, 2011 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

Thanks Gustavo! 1177.

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 dont use proper commands in this guide. After spending many hours I have come up with this 100% working guide. Hummmmm. Doesnt work for me. I have no USB drive listed when I use list disk command in diskpart. 1178.

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 1179.

khubbaib
Posted September 27, 2011 at 2:39 am | Permalink

great job well done 1180.

Daniel Sayles

Posted September 28, 2011 at 3:23 am | Permalink

this works for the windows 8 beta too thanks man 1181.

Mrugesh
Posted September 28, 2011 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

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Not able to CLEAN. You mentioned in the 4th step. Can please provide the solution. Thanks in advance. 1182.

peric
Posted September 28, 2011 at 4:49 pm | Permalink

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 1183.

Sasa

Posted September 28, 2011 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

Great! Thanks a lot. 1184.

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 ? 1185.

admin
Posted September 29, 2011 at 12:22 pm | Permalink

@ Thomas Simply copy using the the copy and paste option available in Windows Explorer. 1186.

Vasco
Posted September 30, 2011 at 4:11 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the info, it was most valuable. Ive 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. 1187.

juminten
Posted October 1, 2011 at 5:25 pm | Permalink

thanks, it work 1188.

Pete
Posted October 2, 2011 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

Great Article Works a treat -Much appreciated 1189.

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! 1190.

opb
Posted October 4, 2011 at 9:00 am | Permalink

thanks man its really working.Good job keep it up. 1191.

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. 1192.

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-drivemust-read/ 1193.

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? 1194.

Ran Paskal
Posted October 5, 2011 at 1:27 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot! 1195.

Salman
Posted October 5, 2011 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

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vlado
Posted October 5, 2011 at 5:13 pm | Permalink

Please create a video! 1197.

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.. 1198.

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.. 1199.

Eric
Posted October 7, 2011 at 3:12 am | Permalink

Its not working for me. I dont know if thats because I dont HAVE an optical drive, which was the whole point of this tutorial. 1200.

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 1201.

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-windows7-from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/ 1202.

dan meanock
Posted October 12, 2011 at 4:28 am | Permalink

URE A GOD! thanks very much! 1203.

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 its not working. hope you gonna help me for this problem thank you 1204.

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 1205.

villa
Posted October 14, 2011 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

hi everything i have done properly but my usb device doesnt 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 . 1206.

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. 1207.

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.

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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 youre running. Check your computers system information to see wheter you need x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the sofware publisher. 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 didnt read the disk yet, any suggestions? 1209.

QT
Posted October 16, 2011 at 11:03 am | Permalink

Hi sir, thanks for your share.but the FORMAT FS=NTFScommand line just to install legacy Win7 O.S. only. It cant 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. 1210.

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 1211.

Filip
Posted October 16, 2011 at 7:37 pm | Permalink

This f*cker CMD took me 30min to format 16gb USB. 1212.

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. 1213.

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 its not recognized by windows i try 3 other laptop but same. its working perfect b4 i do the steps. Please help its has all my data and i dont have the backup for it 1214.

Abinash
Posted October 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm | Permalink

It shows a error that boot manager missing 1215.

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

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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? 1217.

xereon
Posted October 19, 2011 at 12:14 pm | Permalink

Works like a charm! Ta! 1218.

waseem
Posted October 20, 2011 at 1:18 am | Permalink

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 1219.

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 1220.

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 1221.

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. 1222.

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 1223.

anil
Posted October 20, 2011 at 9:09 pm | Permalink

gr8 work. im looking for dis frm a long time.thnks a lot 1224.

ravikotafx
Posted October 21, 2011 at 3:18 am | Permalink

thnx a lot dude.. 1225.

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? 1226.

JEMAI

Posted October 21, 2011 at 5:47 am | Permalink

thanks mate i did using GUI to copy the files and it works. I dont need to buy a external dvd. its really help-pull 1227.

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 1228.

saqib jan

Posted October 21, 2011 at 11:37 pm | Permalink

i hope that this method will be useful.

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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. 1229.

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 1230.

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. 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 1231.

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? 1232.

jet
Posted October 25, 2011 at 9:29 pm | Permalink

Hi, can I ask for help in making this work? Ive done the all the steps several times already on an 8GB usb drive but I cant 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. 1233.

Patrick
Posted October 26, 2011 at 1:35 pm | Permalink

I downloaded a IMG file from Microsoft, how to continue from there? 1234.

jason
Posted October 28, 2011 at 12:05 pm | Permalink

i have been successful in setting bootsect.exe /nt60 ill start to setuphope it will work 1235.

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. 1236.

anvt
Posted October 29, 2011 at 10:56 pm | Permalink

super sexy manthanx a lotgt sum minor glitches if u get any error stating install drivers from the select folder

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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. 1238.

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. 1239.

Eonix90

Posted November 1, 2011 at 8:18 am | Permalink

Thanks..its work.. 1240.

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! 1241.

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 1242.

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? 1243.

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 1244.

Tony
Posted November 11, 2011 at 12:02 am | Permalink

Easy to follow, commands were correct, good job on the tutorial brotha. -Tony 1245.

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 1246.

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

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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?? 1248.

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.. 1249.

que
Posted November 13, 2011 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

Ive 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. Ive tried searching through all these responces to find an answer, but Im just not seeing one. Thanks for your help 1250.

ExCuSe
Posted November 14, 2011 at 4:43 am | Permalink

n0thing 2 say. JUST PERFECT! 1251.

mung
Posted November 15, 2011 at 6:29 pm | Permalink

im at step 9..but after i click instal now , the screen display was setup starting for the rest of mu lifewhats the problem? 1252.

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.. 1253.

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? 1254.

Hans
Posted November 19, 2011 at 11:22 pm | Permalink

Greate guide. Worked perfect. Quick and excellent. 1255.

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.. 1256.

stim

Posted November 22, 2011 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

nice,worked a treat. cheers. 1257.

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. 1258.

ryan
Posted November 23, 2011 at 9:34 am | Permalink

awesome. 1259.

Lakmini Gunatilake
Posted November 23, 2011 at 3:06 pm | Permalink

Great, It Works well, A very good post 1260.

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

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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. 1262.

alan
Posted November 29, 2011 at 12:37 am | Permalink

superbpost..thnks man 1263.

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.. 1264.

Riyabul
Posted December 1, 2011 at 12:02 am | Permalink

HOW TO FIX ERROR WIN32. PLS HELP ME 1265.

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 1266.

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 try to make the bootsect.exe command with the /force tag Thats what helped in my case. Thanks for the great tutorial 1267.

andres

Posted December 4, 2011 at 9:44 am | Permalink

Thanks dude. Awesome instructions, worked PERFECTLY!! 1268.

Undik
Posted December 4, 2011 at 8:20 pm | Permalink

I am sir. Thanksalot 1269.

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 didnt 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? 1270.

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 1271.

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 Ive got XP and 7 running on my netbook ohhh, its a good day! 1272.

firdaus
Posted December 8, 2011 at 8:47 pm | Permalink

done..thanz. 1273.

acegeezer
Posted December 9, 2011 at 10:48 pm | Permalink

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Absolutely perfect.. many thx! 1274.

Ranjeet
Posted December 10, 2011 at 7:37 am | Permalink

after doing this allmy pendrive became slowmy pendrive is of 16 gb from sandisk 1275.

Ali
Posted December 10, 2011 at 3:13 pm | Permalink

Thanks Dude It works 1276.

Daniel
Posted December 13, 2011 at 1:14 am | Permalink

Ive followed this to the letter, but still cant 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 1277.

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 isos n fmaily pictures tht cant be replaced ????? 1278.

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. 1279.

Yasin Khan
Posted December 17, 2011 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

Thanx buddy,, its great 1280.

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. 1281.

John

Posted December 19, 2011 at 11:26 pm | Permalink

Works perfect, thanks! 1282.

akdogan
Posted December 20, 2011 at 5:02 pm | Permalink

Really helped Dude thanks a lot, u just saved my lifeJ 1283.

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? 1284.

buddkika
Posted December 21, 2011 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

i love that 1285.

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 1286.

Gumz
Posted December 22, 2011 at 9:50 am | Permalink

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Thanks you very much works like a charm 1287.

Zaf Zafran
Posted December 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot. Its works 1288.

galileo gallilei
Posted December 28, 2011 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

Thanks!!! It works great 1289.

chandana
Posted December 31, 2011 at 1:38 pm | Permalink

thanks.. 1290.

Huzi

Posted January 1, 2012 at 9:49 pm | Permalink

A little thing i ran into is that if it wont 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. 1291.

Je
Posted January 2, 2012 at 10:47 pm | Permalink

Thanks! Worked perfectly! 1292.

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 Ive got usb cd rom usb zip usb hdd usb fdd to choose from none of the other atleast 3 people got any answer 1293.

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. I have a 16gb stick and it took way too much to fully format it. A quick format took only a few seconds indeed. 1294.

admin

Posted January 3, 2012 at 8:51 am | Permalink

@ Erik Karisson Its 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. 1295.

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. 1296.

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 its 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.

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jhomssss
Posted January 10, 2012 at 5:31 am | Permalink

Thanks.. it works.. 1298.

Andres
Posted January 11, 2012 at 1:10 am | Permalink

Thanks, very easy to follow guide. Congrats 1299.

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!!!!!!! 1300.

anonymous

Posted January 11, 2012 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

i use this to boot from hard disk thanks alot 1301.

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 1302.

MFX
Posted January 13, 2012 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

Awesome, works really well 1303.

mirage
Posted January 14, 2012 at 5:28 pm | Permalink

Well it just works like the man says great work. 1304.

sam
Posted January 14, 2012 at 8:53 pm | Permalink

what is d cmmand to copy os from dvd to usb 1305.

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 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. 1306.

anup
Posted January 15, 2012 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

what if the windows dont start? How do we install windows then? 1307.

anup
Posted January 15, 2012 at 6:22 pm | Permalink

+ cd roms isnt working. 1308.

admin

Posted January 15, 2012 at 10:22 pm | Permalink

@ Anup Do you have the ISO file?? 1309.

mohan
Posted January 16, 2012 at 12:28 am | Permalink

Thanksit also reduced the installation time significantly. 1310.

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? 1311.

stephanie
Posted January 17, 2012 at 3:12 am | Permalink

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I have windows xp on my netbook and i would like to install windows 7 instead but I do not have a slot for CDs 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? 1312.

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 dossnt have an assigned letter, It dossnt let me assign a letter and it dossnt show up in My computer I used a program called USBDeview and I could see that the External drive was infact still connected, but diddnt 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 Im off to go buy some fucking CD-Rs and do it the old way 1313.

jai

Posted January 18, 2012 at 2:18 pm | Permalink

super that is working 1314.

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. . . 1315.

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 1316.

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 1317.

Costa
Posted January 20, 2012 at 7:32 pm | Permalink

Thank you very match one of the best guides, kep up the good work 1318.

Julian Luna
Posted January 22, 2012 at 8:53 pm | Permalink

Didnt 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 dont 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 devices drivers 1319.

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 errori think in that part pendrive doesnt load files..! 1320.

lokster
Posted January 25, 2012 at 5:53 am | Permalink

works! for sony viao on windows 64bit old still works on 2011 models! 1321.

thank you! even though this article is a few years

mcgoma

Posted January 27, 2012 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

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Nice. This one actually works. 1322.

Matthew
Posted January 29, 2012 at 7:59 am | Permalink

An oversight by Microsoft ensured that I cant use a 64bit install DVD on a 32bit system without booting from the DVD. Part of this oversight also prevented the DVDs from being able to boot AND their process for making a 64bit bootable flashdrive doesnt work on a 32bit system. Your explanation for how to make a bootable flashdrive allowed my to use the 32bit bootsect.exe from the 32bit DVD to turn my nook into a bootable drive with the 64bit install software. My solution is jury-rig, but your explanation was a fine piece of work! Bravo! 1323.

JAMES

Posted January 30, 2012 at 6:31 am | Permalink

Used this on a linux machine running Virtual Box when I gave the FORMAT FS=NTSF command it gave a virtual disk manager error. Did the rest of the steps and exited DISKPART, then formatted the drive through windows explorer (NTSF quick format). Worked great. Thanks, the only way to install on my netbook. 1324.

Ringo
Posted January 31, 2012 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

Thank you, works perfectly 1325.

happs
Posted February 1, 2012 at 1:41 am | Permalink

Plz help me for how to make a dual partition(Dual windows) through USB flash drive in cmd 1326.

Nice

Posted February 4, 2012 at 6:14 am | Permalink

Dude your awsome! THis works! 1327.

Casper
Posted February 4, 2012 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

Hi, great article, very helpfull!!! I had win xp on my pc at home and had trouble with cd rom as it didnt read any cds so i couldnt rewrite the windows. This guide solved my problem. The only thing id like to add is that it takes ages if you are formating a 64gb usb. Thanks very much! 1328.

Jess
Posted February 5, 2012 at 7:50 am | Permalink

I would like to know if it only works for windows 7 32 bit ? i have a windows 7 64bit 1329.

admin
Posted February 6, 2012 at 10:18 am | Permalink

@Jess Yes, you can use it to create both 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. 1330.

happs

Posted February 6, 2012 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me for how to make a bootable pendrive as dual partition(Dual windows:xp & win7) through USB flash drive in cmd 1331.

admin
Posted February 7, 2012 at 9:44 am | Permalink

@ happs Check out this guide: http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-multiboot-usb-flashdrive-with-windows-7-and-xp-in-just-three-steps-simple-guide/ 1332.

Keats
Posted February 7, 2012 at 3:23 pm | Permalink

normally i use the WindowsPe(windows?????)and Wim Installer and Windowss mirror like *.wim(such as install.wim),its so quickly and it doesnt need reboot sorry,my english is so poor,im chinese 1333.

happs
Posted February 7, 2012 at 10:43 pm | Permalink

thanx admin for reply my question, but my problem is that :-how to make a bootable pendrive through command prompt as a dual partition(Dual windows xp & win 7).Send to me all commands of bootable pendrive to sort out this problem. 1334.

frank

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Posted February 8, 2012 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

after I finished how can I restore my flash drive? I mean how can I make it to be a normal drive again instead of a booting disk? 1335.

happs
Posted February 10, 2012 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

thanx admin for reply my question, but my problem is that :how to make a bootable pendrive through command prompt as a dual partition(Dual windows xp & win 7).Send to me all commands of bootable pendrive to sort out this problem. 1336.

BarbaricFellow
Posted February 12, 2012 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

THX for this clear list.I agree there are a lot of non working manualson the net.I also tried the Windows usb/dvd download tool but it wont show my USB ext.hard disk in the drop down box. I have a question. I have a 1 TB USB ext. disk connected to my PC, but I also have a 1 TB hard disk inside the PC I am working on. And I cant tell which is which using disk part. Both look identical showing as 931 GB disks with no empty space. It might be a stupid question but I really cant find the answer. How do I identify(command)hard disks inside disk part? THX in advance. 1337.

DanielF

Posted February 16, 2012 at 4:04 am | Permalink

when i hit bootsect.exe /nt60 h: apears : could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied can someone help me ? 1338.

PREET
Posted February 16, 2012 at 11:38 am | Permalink

leave that crazy method its really confused one to format a usb in NTFS just simply go to your device manager look out for your usb check its properties and go to policies tab than check the optimize for performance button after that format usb in NTFS. USING NORMAL FORMAT METHOD. XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXXOXOXOXOXOXOXO 1339.

Mariano
Posted February 17, 2012 at 3:06 pm | Permalink

Thanx from Argentina!!! Very useful guide!!! 1340.

rppp
Posted February 19, 2012 at 11:26 pm | Permalink

It does not work in xp. yor title is misleading twat. i am using xp to create a bootable usb to install win7. twat! 1341.

deBoer
Posted February 20, 2012 at 5:03 pm | Permalink

I see a lot of complaints, but I just want to say that it works perfect. I used it several times without any problems and Im not an IT-expert! Many thanks for this tutorial! 1342.

Tekola
Posted February 20, 2012 at 6:10 pm | Permalink

Hello GuysHow r u! When I make ready for My USB to be bootable I have type this code: But it replies a message like this So what can I do.Thanx 4 Ur support.. 1343.

JT

Posted February 21, 2012 at 5:40 am | Permalink

@DanielF Does your thumb drive or SD card have a write protect switch on it? If not, chances are your card/drive is dead most of the time the ability to write dies first, so you can read the

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contents of a drive, but not write to it. I would try another thumb drive to see if the problem persists across devices. 1344.

rete
Posted February 23, 2012 at 12:08 am | Permalink

Thanks! Almost perfect guide. This works flawlessly, but all little boys and girls should be told that they are going to have driver instalation problems in very begining of w7 instalation if they use usb3 port instead usb 2. i had this gaind problem when i was using usb 3 port: A 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. Note: If the Windows Installation media is in the Cd/DVD drive, you can safely remove it for this step After i changed my usb stick to usb 3 port instalation works just fine. =) 1345.

rete
Posted February 23, 2012 at 12:11 am | Permalink

typo *to usb 2 port 1346.

Justin
Posted February 24, 2012 at 4:32 am | Permalink

Honestly, I thought this absolutely amazing! I have searched high and low, most sites want to install software to apparently do what you instructed, while saving a minute or two, which also lead to an array of annoyances. Thank you for the input. 1347.

Tanmeet
Posted February 24, 2012 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

The skin and the all the steps of installing will remain the same know? 1348.

Tanmeet
Posted February 24, 2012 at 11:00 pm | Permalink

could not access please help! 1349.

xnamkcor
Posted February 25, 2012 at 12:30 am | Permalink

Exactly what part of those pictures validates the use of the Copyright symbol? Do you own copyright on MS-Dos or Command Prompt? Do you own copyright on the process of formatting a drive? Did you know it is illegal to claim copyright of something you have no rights to? 1350.

Tanmeet
Posted February 26, 2012 at 11:22 am | Permalink

Can i keep win 8 & 7 in a same usb drive if it is bugger in size? 1351.

Max

Posted February 26, 2012 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

You dont mention Microsoft Windows as a requirement ie you have to already have a copy of Microsoft Windows installed on your computer in order even try this. I only have the iso files for Microsoft Windows 7 (and lang pack) my computer is running Ubuntu (or no OS at all, of course). 1352.

admin
Posted February 28, 2012 at 10:12 am | Permalink

@xnamkcor I know Microsoft is the copyright holder of Windows and everything that comes with it. I have added watermark to prevent other spam sites from using my pictures. 1353.

juriel
Posted February 29, 2012 at 8:54 am | Permalink

what if the dvd content is at my desktop? everytime i write C: cd boot it goes to c:\windows \system32 1354.

Rex

Posted March 1, 2012 at 9:21 am | Permalink

Need help.. F:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 g: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. 1355.

Jeroen
Posted March 2, 2012 at 12:16 am | Permalink

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Wow the extra step described here @ 6 and 7 was REALLY necessary to got my USB working otherwise I kept getting these annoying No Device Driver Error error. Was installing Windows 2008 server. THANKS MAN!!!! Why isnt Microsoft aware of this??? 1356.

Pepijn
Posted March 2, 2012 at 3:31 am | Permalink

@Rex Start the command prompt with administrator rights. That fixed the problem on my PC. 1357.

L.
Posted March 3, 2012 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

It worked perfect as you said. Thank you! 1358.

Roro

Posted March 4, 2012 at 10:59 pm | Permalink

Use WinToFlash instead if you are having errors showing up in command prompt. 1359.

PB
Posted March 5, 2012 at 1:55 am | Permalink

the installation started but when the netbook restarts the installation starts again.. please help.. 1360.

hemraj
Posted March 6, 2012 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

can i download win 7 ultimate from net, if yes share link, n can i further copy it (as in step 8)in booting pendrive ?? plz reply soon.. 1361.

J Lopes
Posted March 7, 2012 at 4:46 pm | Permalink

Awesome. No applications needed Very helpfull 1362.

szilike

Posted March 7, 2012 at 5:13 pm | Permalink

Hy! It will work if i creat the bootable usb on computer with xp? 1363.

D. Vicente
Posted March 9, 2012 at 1:47 am | Permalink

Cristal Clear, I believe you could improve the article adding a description regarding how to mount a dvd virtually. cheers and tks. 1364.

Charan
Posted March 11, 2012 at 11:38 am | Permalink

In my pc pen drive is not showing in my command prompt as active disk resolve me pls 1365.

Nano

Posted March 11, 2012 at 10:54 pm | Permalink

I have done all but i choose my virtual drive as optical and i coppied files from it there is no problem but my sistem when i choose that i want to boot from my flash detects some problem on flash,btw bios is detecting it only as hdd and dont say me just use your optical drive bcs its complicated so if there is anyone who knows how to solve this yust reply. CHeers 1366.

Chris
Posted March 12, 2012 at 7:54 pm | Permalink

Thank you. The best guide 1367.

Olaug N
Posted March 13, 2012 at 12:00 pm | Permalink

Remember to show hidden files before copying the content from cd

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Radhakrishnan
Posted March 14, 2012 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

I have tried what u posted. i had problem that after LIST DISK command, mine pen drive disk is not shown i mean it reports only hard disk. whats wrong in this can u please help me 1369.

tanmeet
Posted March 14, 2012 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

can i use this for mac os x 1370.

admin

Posted March 15, 2012 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

@tanmeet Sorry, I have no idea about Mac. It wont work if you want to install Mac from USB. But if you want to install Windows 7/Windows 7 on Mac, follow this guide: http://www.intowindows.com/install-windows-8-on-mac/ 1371.

Emma
Posted March 15, 2012 at 3:17 pm | Permalink

thanks for the help.what about returning the flash to the normal working i.e the way it was before before putting on that OS? 1372.

Taha
Posted March 15, 2012 at 4:26 pm | Permalink

Awesome simple THANK YOU 1373.

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admin

Posted March 15, 2012 at 6:30 pm | Permalink

@Emma A format should do the job. 1374.

Claudio
Posted March 17, 2012 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

This is a simple guide that works perfectly. Grazie! 1375.

suyogya
Posted March 18, 2012 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

my command prompt shows 100% completed (format step)and then it doesnt says that diskpart successfully formatted volume and i cant type commands any more.please help sir 1376.

aadil
Posted March 20, 2012 at 6:49 am | Permalink

ok thanks a lot 1377.

Xeeshan
Posted March 21, 2012 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

In the list disk step,I cant see my USB drive. Whats wrong with it? (My Operating System is XP.) tell me hurry up plzzzzzzz 1378.

Rajey
Posted March 22, 2012 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

Hey thanks dear! u really solve my problem. Ill love to try this soon, I hope it work properly. Thanks 1379.

davd

Posted March 22, 2012 at 8:03 pm | Permalink

dudeif I were a chick Id bang ya.this worked like a charm..buddy had a laptop that had vista on it that went corruptI could boot to a Winxp disk every time but NOT Win 7, tried multiple disks..??.followed your instructions and it installed from my flash no problem3 1/2 years later and this thread is still getting the lovefinally a well written tutorial on this subjectprops brother 1380.

Sk.Razee
Posted March 23, 2012 at 11:54 pm | Permalink

Excellent may allah bless you 1381.

TANGO
Posted March 24, 2012 at 9:10 pm | Permalink

i got an error after this command: bootsect.exe /nt60 f: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

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saroj kumar
Posted March 25, 2012 at 12:51 am | Permalink

you have said to insert windows7/8 dvd into optical drive, but i dont have that cd rather i have those files in my hard disk. so how to make it????? 1383.

sevs
Posted March 25, 2012 at 4:50 am | Permalink

Umm Is there any alternative to step 5? I dont have my OS on a disk, neither do I have any disk drive on my laptop. I have the OS as an ISO file on my computer. 1384.

Andy
Posted March 25, 2012 at 3:33 pm | Permalink

Hi there, Step 4, FORMAT FS=NTFS i get this error a concurrent second call is made on an object before the first is completed i have used your guide many times before and it has always worked. could anyone please help with this error? Thanks heaps. 1385.

Nenad
Posted March 28, 2012 at 1:08 am | Permalink

just wanted to say thanx 1386.

maddog

Posted March 29, 2012 at 3:48 am | Permalink

will this work on external hard dive 1387.

VIJAY
Posted March 29, 2012 at 10:53 pm | Permalink

I have tried this upto 4 step,but iam getting error there.so i withdraw my plan to install os from usb.and when i tried to format the usb it was showinng the error that windows cannot format the drive.please help me in formatting my usb .it very important for me to have my usb back.so please help me. 1388.

James
Posted March 31, 2012 at 8:52 am | Permalink

@Andy That error means something is trying to format the drive already. Either wait until it is done or reboot and try again. It also helps(is quicker) to use the command: FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK That command does a quick format which takes significantly less time. @Sevs Decompress the iso file in a folder on your C Drive, so the directory will be C:\Win7\(winrar will do this) and then instead of : cd boot bootsect.exe Run this:C:\Win7\Boot\bootsect.exe H:(where H: is your drive letter for the USB) 1389.

sounaloa
Posted April 1, 2012 at 2:10 am | Permalink

thanks james, that was just the thing i was looking for 1390.

sounaloa
Posted April 1, 2012 at 2:41 am | Permalink

but it doesnt work :S 1391.

Yasitha
Posted April 1, 2012 at 11:25 am | Permalink

100% working. 100% recommended Thanks dude.. 1392.

bhargav
Posted April 2, 2012 at 6:23 pm | Permalink

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i understood but not proper. so can u make a video and upload in youtube? i have windows 8 in my usb { image file } so i am not getting idea to install it so wt to do.. please help me.. 1393.

Chamara
Posted April 2, 2012 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

Perfect!!! Thanx..Keep Continue Good Work Friend 1394.

J
Posted April 3, 2012 at 3:35 am | Permalink

Thank you so much!!! worked like a charm 1395.

Marius

Posted April 6, 2012 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

It worked perfectly! Thank you so much, fantastic work! 1396.

Mindaugas
Posted April 8, 2012 at 10:38 pm | Permalink

thanks 1397.

abbas
Posted April 8, 2012 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

wow very nice 1398.

Liam
Posted April 9, 2012 at 2:13 am | Permalink

Hi, I have a simplistic question. how is the ISO file copied over to the USB? is it simply drag & drop or use the command prompt to copy it? could you please outline these steps. everything went fine upto this point. Thank you for this post, I know it will work for me and bring my Toshiba back to life again. 1399.

adelo
Posted April 9, 2012 at 3:17 am | Permalink

thanks a lot, working great !!! 1400.

admin
Posted April 9, 2012 at 10:37 am | Permalink

@Liam Just extract the ISO file contents using WinRAR, WinZip or 7-Zip software to the USB. 1401.

DiskPart
Posted April 9, 2012 at 2:35 pm | Permalink

(Format process may take few seconds) Lol just Lol. 1402.

admin
Posted April 9, 2012 at 4:51 pm | Permalink

I Know, at times, it takes it takes hours. 1403.

gerald

Posted April 12, 2012 at 12:51 pm | Permalink

good day! please help! i did the first and second step, but it seems that my removable 8 gig doesnt appear on the list disk command. what should i do with this.. 1404.

MissMaru
Posted April 13, 2012 at 2:35 pm | Permalink

Im having a small issue with the guide, my laptop restarted overnight after format fs=ntfs, but before assign, and if i redo the steps now he will not select partition 1 anymore even though it is in the partition list. I tried reformatting the USB through windows and redo all from the start, but it seems the partition is still there, and so i cannot create partition primary again, cause theres not enough space. Is there any way around this or should i find a different USB? 1405.

Vadim
Posted April 15, 2012 at 7:14 pm | Permalink

Is that possible to install windows 7 on usb,because windows during the installation not

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calvin
Posted April 16, 2012 at 3:34 pm | Permalink

diskpart is not showin my usb driveplz help me.. 1407.

Kael
Posted April 17, 2012 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

This procedure worked perfectly. The key is to follow the instructions exactly. No skipping. Thanks very much. 1408.

listoss
Posted April 21, 2012 at 3:58 pm | Permalink

Well if you run cmd from the run box ctr + shift + enter doesnt seem to work. your bootsect.exe /nt60 g: comand would be denied as admin so kindly run you ctr+shift+enter after typing cmd from the search programs text box. thanks 1409.

Krish

Posted April 22, 2012 at 7:45 am | Permalink

Very useful guidance indeed but I have a win8 OS file extracted from image and I want to reconvert that extracted file to bootable image which could be burnt in the DVD. As I lost the image file.. Is there any mechanism to do so? I need to format my Computer soon Please RSVP this post. 1410.

admin
Posted April 22, 2012 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

@Krish Use a free tool named Windows Bootable Image Creator. Google it. Its free and does the job for you. 1411.

felipe
Posted April 22, 2012 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

thanks!! 1412.

Kai
Posted April 25, 2012 at 12:10 am | Permalink

This is by far the best guide Ive read. It has simple yet detailed explanation, but the formatting might take a few seconds part.. makes me mad, I am at 10% right now.. and its already been 5 minutes.. damn USB. Anyway, I will post again when I get to try it out. 1413.

Ahmed Yahia Sebeka


Posted April 26, 2012 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

Thanks so much for these awesome information i tried this way and it really works with me when i was running windows seven but if i have running windows xp list disk dose not appear disk 1 so is any other method to make a windows 7 bootable usb bt with running xp system ?? 1414.

Fayaz Ahmed
Posted April 26, 2012 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

Hello, its working good nice job. 1415.

echenze
Posted April 27, 2012 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

I have written extensively about this and I can confirm that the above method works 100%. 1416.

adi
Posted April 27, 2012 at 10:38 pm | Permalink

hi, i tried the way you listed on this webpage but when i go to install the os from the pendrive it says BOOTMCG not found or missing or something like that. i tried each and every step . please help me its iregunt. i think it might be late if you answer it afterwards but still i need a solution.

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Carlos
Posted April 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm | Permalink

Hi! First of all, this tutorial is great and I just loved it! Second of all, I was wondering if its possible to use this method with windows XP? I havent been able to so far, Ive tried formatting with ntfs and using /nt60 with bootsect, and tried formatting with fat and using /nt52 with bootsect, but when i try to boot it keeps saying either bootmgr or ntldr is missing, am I doing something wrong? Thanks! 1418.

Carlos
Posted April 30, 2012 at 4:52 pm | Permalink

@Kai Use format quick fs=ntfs without quotes to make a quick format. 1419.

Gabe
Posted May 10, 2012 at 2:41 am | Permalink

Thanks so much for the tip, it works like a charm on Windows 7 Pro Cheers! 1420.

Nero

Posted May 13, 2012 at 9:05 am | Permalink

Thank you for this! Everything works smoothly. I just hope that you can format the usb faster. Cheers! 1421.

Windows 7 USB Instal


Posted May 13, 2012 at 11:44 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the great tutorial. I would definitely give it a try as I think its much easier and quicker than using Windows 7 DVD. 1422.

Windows 7 USB Instal


Posted May 15, 2012 at 6:17 am | Permalink

Great Tutorial.. Will definitely give it a try! 1423.

criewelik
Posted May 18, 2012 at 1:54 am | Permalink

easy to follow no errors and works like a charm- great tip tutorial 1424.

Sreeram

Posted May 18, 2012 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

Hi all very good guide finally i successfully installed but i spent time in problem-loop with command BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G: with error message of COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED even i am in admin accounte only thing i scuessed after browse C:\windows\system32\ right click on cmd.exe select RUN AS ADMIN thanks for this guide 1425.

navin

Posted May 19, 2012 at 11:06 am | Permalink

hey can we re convert our usb to normal from bootable pls reply 1426.

Dinesh Raja
Posted May 19, 2012 at 6:43 pm | Permalink

HI,i have installed backtrack5 R2 (64-bit)linux os in my hard disk as side by sidealong with my windows7 now i want to uninstall bactrack from my hard disk..but i dont know in which block it has been installedbut among my 5 partitions 2 partitions F: and H: some total of 20 GB is missing..in those drives i am able to see an file bootsqm Video CD movie file in both F:&H: drives..please give complete step by step procedure to uninstall backtrack from my hard disk.. 1427.

admin

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Posted May 19, 2012 at 9:23 pm | Permalink

@ Navin Performing a full format should bring back the USB drive to normal state. 1428.

SAYR
Posted May 19, 2012 at 10:58 pm | Permalink

FOR WINDOWS XP THE PROPER COMAND IS BOOTSECT.EXE /NT52 X: (WARE X THE USB DRIVE) HOPE THIS INFO HELPS 1429.

geoffrey
Posted May 20, 2012 at 1:03 am | Permalink

hey thanks for the guide but i just had a problem with step 7 i didnt get the exact message that appeared i got this Drive E: maps to volume \\?\volume{4cefea49-42b9-11e1-b384-806e6f6e6963}. This volume does not appear to connect to any disk partitions. Volume bootcode is always unused in the absence of associated partitions. what should i do? 1430.

LaY-Z
Posted May 20, 2012 at 2:11 am | Permalink

Works great!!! 1431.

C. K.

Posted May 20, 2012 at 11:28 pm | Permalink

Thank you, it works like a charm! One question though. Can I add an extra folder with some irrelevant files? For example, can I add a folder with pictures etc.? Has anyone tried it? Thank you. 1432.

admin
Posted May 21, 2012 at 9:29 am | Permalink

Where would you like to add pictures? If you meant on the bootable USB drive, yes, you can create a new folder and then place the pictures in that folder. But if you are looking to add new wallpapers and themes to Windows setup, you should check out our http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-include-new-gadgets-themes-wallpapersand-screensavers-in-windows-7-setup-iso-file/ guide. 1433.

shaan23
Posted May 22, 2012 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

hello, admin, ok my system has been running on 32-bit,Windows 7 Home Premium, 2gb RAM, which i want to upgrade to possibly 8gb, so based on my research 32-bit(MAX.3.5GB) doesnt actually utilize all of ehm, this leaves me to upgrade to 64-bit, could i? if possible, then do i need to separately install all the drivers & stuff by myself, or is it when i install the windows Ultimate 64, has all the drivers, except all the software of course that i need to install form scratch, i dont know much about drivers, 1434.

admin

Posted May 22, 2012 at 10:11 pm | Permalink

@Shaan23 Yes, you need do a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit and then install all drivers and software. 1435.

sivakumar
Posted May 24, 2012 at 12:09 pm | Permalink

bootmgr is missing pls select ctrl+alt+delete to restart. what can i do? 1436.

Lupe
Posted May 25, 2012 at 10:37 am | Permalink

On step 4 once you select disk 1 and enter clean in the command prompt. everything on disk one will be erased correct. Can you get anything back that gets erased? 1437.

Matt
Posted May 25, 2012 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

This does work, but there are steps in here that are not needed and there is a method in which you can use any Windows OS. Here are the follwing commands, this 100% works and is alot easier. Insert flash drive. Run cmd as administrator In CMD type ;

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DISKPART LIST DISK SELECT DISK X (X being the USB drive letter, seen in list disk command) CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 FORMAT FS=FAT32 QUICK ACTIVE EXIT your drive is now ready to use, simply copy the contents of your instalation media, or extract an iso file to the usb drive itself. * make sure on the target pc you have USB drive as 1st boot device and this will work for any windows install. 1438.

steve
Posted May 26, 2012 at 6:13 am | Permalink

Matt, your simplified steps work perfect, at least for Win7. Thanks! Just have to make sure the media you are copying already has the boot manager files in the root directory. 1439.

jay
Posted May 29, 2012 at 3:44 pm | Permalink

the step format fs=ntfs is working for much time. it took 1 hour 1hr for 35% format. i am using dell inspiron with i3 processor and win7 as os 1440.

Marko del banana


Posted May 29, 2012 at 6:10 pm | Permalink

Hi! Thanks a lot! Gr8 & simple manual! Special note When you try to run bootsect.exe from win7-32bit PC, to create bootusb of win7-64bit, its said that you cant run it, due to some incompatibility of 64bit boot disk. I use 64bit PC to overrun this problem. Beware! End of special note 1441.

steve
Posted May 31, 2012 at 3:35 am | Permalink

@jay, did you try @Matts way of doing it in post number 437? 1442.

Tony G

Posted June 2, 2012 at 5:15 am | Permalink

Nice work. Thanks for the info! 1443.

raj
Posted June 2, 2012 at 5:15 pm | Permalink

i have windows 7 setup on my drive d not on dvdi have done first 4 steps but how can i do step 5,6,7,8.? thanks..please help me.. 1444.

ololade
Posted June 4, 2012 at 11:37 am | Permalink

Tnxx..got it working on d 7th round wen I ran command prompt as admin. My Problem However is that after the computer restarts during the final stage of the installation should I remove the USB or leave it there???? Have been struck here since yesterday. 1445.

Rnk
Posted June 4, 2012 at 5:43 pm | Permalink

How to add ms office in windows 7 usb installation 1446.

admin
Posted June 5, 2012 at 10:29 am | Permalink

@ Rnk This guide should help you: http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-include-new-gadgets-themes-wallpapersand-screensavers-in-windows-7-setup-iso-file/ 1447.

admin
Posted June 5, 2012 at 10:35 am | Permalink

@ololade You may remove the USB during the final round.

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some
Posted June 6, 2012 at 1:12 am | Permalink

retard: bootect fails if the cmd is not elevated Thanks :* 1449.

tEEJAN
Posted June 8, 2012 at 1:54 am | Permalink

I just wanted to ask what if I dont have any CD/DVD drive attach to my computer, is there any chances to proceed step 5->9 in order for me to continue installing using USB? any advice would be help..T_T 1450.

Kevin

Posted June 8, 2012 at 4:24 am | Permalink

Works flawless when I used step #437 windows ultimate ssd hdd gigabbyte mobo usb3 core i7 4gb memory 1451.

sanjoe
Posted June 8, 2012 at 2:35 pm | Permalink

Thanks a ton for the simple and well explained tutorial. Keep writing!! 1452.

Monzer
Posted June 8, 2012 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

Hey working good with windows8 i tried it on Ubuntu its not working anyway is formating my usb will get it to it first condition ? 1453.

Xo3e

Posted June 9, 2012 at 1:13 am | Permalink

For the format part since i know it takes a long time to do the full format, heres is the quicker way: FORMAT QUICK FS=NTFS. I dont know why it says it takes a few seconds when on low specced machines it takes a good hour. 1454.

Dave \W/
Posted June 9, 2012 at 10:59 am | Permalink

Thanks great for great fix. It used to be much easier to make a disk bootable. I will leave this drive as is permanently for future problems. 1455.

Rachit
Posted June 9, 2012 at 6:22 pm | Permalink

well i have used a simpler way:format a 4GB USB to NTFS file system and then copy the contents of windows 7 installation disk to pendrive. Restart your computer and press F12 for boot menu. last select your USB drive in the list and press enter. Windows 7 installation begins. i have tested it on 7 not 8. 1456.

gent
Posted June 10, 2012 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

does it delete all your things in your usb?????please answer 1457.

Guest
Posted June 11, 2012 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

ok so if u dont have a Win 7 cd and u have a iso file mount it with PowerISO now have a dirve letter then fallow the steps to do the copy and past part go to myComputer find the drive u mountd right click on it then click open then copy and past to the usb flash drive 1458.

trevor
Posted June 13, 2012 at 6:29 pm | Permalink

What about if I have 2 DVDs to copy onto my USB pen drive? Are the commands the same? Do I simply remove one DVD and proceed to copy the second one onto the pen drive? HELP PLEASE!!!!

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thanks. 1459.

Anubis
Posted June 13, 2012 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

Thanx tweakwindows!!! a lot!!! @Windows 7 USB Instal quicker?? i guess not, it takes more time to prepare the disk 1460.

PIXT
Posted June 13, 2012 at 11:08 pm | Permalink

thanks bro 1461.

cody
Posted June 14, 2012 at 5:16 am | Permalink

what do you do if when you type in the bootsect.exe /nt60 H: and then the computer says could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. This what I keep getting 1462.

Klaus
Posted June 14, 2012 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

Hi! Your Tut works like a charm! Thanks for your time! 1463.

karthik
Posted June 16, 2012 at 5:13 pm | Permalink

hi. i followed all the steps but i m not able to do the BOOTMGR part. I have my installation files in my hard disk as a folder not in cd/iso file. below is the error i got H:\windows 7 setup\BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 J: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. H:\windows 7 setup\BOOT> please help me in this 1464.

karthik
Posted June 16, 2012 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

IN REF TO COMMENT NUMBER 449. i got dat error i tried dat without admin rights..thanks for ur help 1465.

admin
Posted June 17, 2012 at 7:45 am | Permalink

@Gent Yes, when you format the drive, all data on the drive will be erased. 1466.

cipan

Posted June 17, 2012 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

for those who are using 32bit(x86) system and would like to install to do this step for win7 64bit, you need to be in a 64bit system to perform the bootsect /nt60 command. else you will received This version of E:\boot>BOOTSECT /NT60 E: is not compatible with this version of Windows. Check your system information to see whether you need a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program. error. 1467.

aiden
Posted June 18, 2012 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

the bootsect thing didnt work if its in a folder called boot so do this command instead cd D:boot then do the bootsect command 1468.

MATT
Posted June 20, 2012 at 3:29 am | Permalink

hey i got all the steps completed to format my usb until step 5. but im using a netbook with no optical drive. i have the windows 7 files on my computer via torrent. Is there any other steps in order for my usb to be able to boot windows 7. or is it still going to be able with just the steps ive taken (steps 1-4). thanks 1469.

Diogo
Posted June 20, 2012 at 8:24 am | Permalink

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This is just perfect, thank you a million times! Cheers!!! 1470.

admin
Posted June 20, 2012 at 9:40 am | Permalink

I believe you have an ISO copy of Windows 7 on your netbook. If so, please Virtual Clone Drive software to mount the ISO file as a DVD and then follow the same steps. 1471.

techgal
Posted June 20, 2012 at 10:12 am | Permalink

Awesome. Worked great. Up to this point was trying to get an Acer Aspire One netbook to install a fresh version of Win7 (killing XP). It doesnt have a internal CD, so using external Sony DVD drive. Kept getting a DVD missing driver error with the install disk. Created the USB install per your directions (from the same DVD I was using to install from external) and it breezed right by that missing driver issue. One note when it goes to restart the Windows installation after the fourth step, you need to remove the USB stick from the computer, else it will try to boot again from it and it looks like it wants to start the installation again. If it does that to you, just turn off the machine, pull the stick and re-start. Windows 7 install will pick up where it left off. Terrific, concise directions! Thanks more than I can say! 1472.

MAROON
Posted June 21, 2012 at 12:50 am | Permalink

i tried all the steps and all goes well, but when i tried to boot on the other Pc, a message appears: BOOTMGR is missing press ctrl + alt+ delete to restart. i restart it but same problem any body can help please?????? thanks 1473.

Hassuka
Posted June 21, 2012 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot, I appreciate your effort. It worked in windows 7. 1474.

karen
Posted June 21, 2012 at 11:25 pm | Permalink

Hi! I tried following your guide and at first its working good but after the partitioning the next step which is the Load Drivers part, it cant detect my drivers, Ive tried selecting the files on the USB drive but still not working. I hope u could help me out on this. Thanks! 1475.

Seeb
Posted June 22, 2012 at 8:13 am | Permalink

Amazing guide! Thank you so much for preparing such a well guided instruction page. I really needed help installing Windows 7 without a DVD drive and this was very helpful. I mean cmon now, who really even uses discs anymore? lol

1476.

Seeb
Posted June 22, 2012 at 8:15 am | Permalink

@Maroon. What do you mean, other PC. Did you accidently copy over the bootmgr files from your other computers hard drive to the flash drive? Maybe put those files back.?? 1477.

Seeb
Posted June 22, 2012 at 8:15 am | Permalink

@Maroon. or maybe you need to change your bios back to booting from hdd instead of usb drive. 1478.

lovepreet
Posted June 22, 2012 at 8:39 am | Permalink

thanks man thax a ton!! 1479.

Victor

Posted June 23, 2012 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

Dude, your instructions are very easy to follow and 100% spot on! Thanks for this great and easy instructions.

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Chris
Posted June 27, 2012 at 9:45 am | Permalink

Man that was a GREAT tutorial!!! Thank you!!!! 1481.

Da Phault
Posted June 27, 2012 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

What is wrong with most of you people? While there is no such thing as a dumb question, that doesnt mean you should challenge that expression. Would it kill you to at least try to do a little research before posting? Damn, people. 1482.

Simone
Posted June 30, 2012 at 1:51 pm | Permalink

for the problem: Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. You have to run cmd.exe as Administrator, then execute the istructions bye 1483.

TheGuru
Posted June 30, 2012 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

For all you people who get Error while trying to install, try taking out one of your ram slots as sometimes windows 7 doesnt install whilst both DIMMs are populated.. sounds silly but it works on most occasions.. Also when installing windows 7 on a laptop or pc with 2 hard drives take the secondary hard drive out first because win7 will install the MBR record not on the primary but on the secondary. Hope this helps 1484.

Sanjib Halder
Posted July 1, 2012 at 4:54 pm | Permalink

i tried this but when i try to boot pc or laptop from my pendrive it shows that there is a problem occurred because of changing or replacing any hardware. try to start the pc with boot cd and repaire the bootfile. this msg shows for every system. what shout i do or is someting missing when i tried to set the usb? plz help me 1485.

Markie

Posted July 4, 2012 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

Awesome job you guys!! My HDD crashed. My ODD (optical disc drive) failed to work and with your post, I was able to grab a friends notebook, created a USB installer of Windows 7!!! My thanks to the team!! 1486.

browse around this


Posted July 4, 2012 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

Awesome! Its in fact remarkable article, I have got much clear idea regarding from this post. 1487.

chucles
Posted July 6, 2012 at 11:03 am | Permalink

This is an awesome guide. Followed each step and worked like a charm. Hard drive crashed and the DVD drive that is hardly ever used failed to work! 1488.

MD. ELIAS HOSSAIN

Posted July 6, 2012 at 5:04 pm | Permalink

Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode could not map drive I: to an associated volume device object. where I is my usb pendrive. Until this step all are ok. can you please tell me the next step of this procedure 1489.

abhishikha

Posted July 7, 2012 at 6:58 pm | Permalink

Hi friends I have used this .its realy working good job thanks 1490.

Javier
Posted July 10, 2012 at 12:46 am | Permalink

Thanks very much for your guide. I would like to ask further: how do you load the Win7 DVD when it is an ISO file in your Hard drive? Someone mentioned it above, but I dont fully understand, Thanks 1491.

admin
Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:42 am | Permalink

@javier You can mouse the ISO file using VirtualClone Drive (free). When you mount the ISO file,

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you will see another DVD drive in the Explorer with a drive letter. Let me know if you need more info on this. 1492.

Javier
Posted July 10, 2012 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

Dear Admin, thanks very much for your answer. Yes, I understand now. I have a question, though. In step 6, I am in diskpart, and when I type [DVD Unit]: CD BOOT it only lists all possible diskpart commands. I have mounted the Win7 Iso with UltraIso, and checked the drive letter, but diskpart does not change its prompt to c:\windows\system 32 like in the image you show. Can you advise? Thanks 1493.

Javier
Posted July 10, 2012 at 3:19 pm | Permalink

Dear Admin, sorry, I did not know I had to exit diskpart. I have done now and everything has followed alright. thanks again for your work and patiente 1494.

Javier
Posted July 10, 2012 at 3:35 pm | Permalink

and excuse my English! 1495.

mitch
Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:55 pm | Permalink

Works also on my version of windows 8 had to reset it to 7 and you guide helpt me thanks

1496.

revarcz

Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:47 pm | Permalink

I didnt quite understand the part where you have to copy the contents of the Windows 7 to the USB drive. Is it has to be done using the command or we drag straight out from the disc to the USB drive? Please help. 1497.

admin
Posted July 11, 2012 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

@ Revarcz You can copy without the help of Command Prompt as well but make sure you execute all other commands as described in the guide. 1498.

revarcz
Posted July 12, 2012 at 7:33 am | Permalink

@admin Thanks, I got it right i have executed the commands as described in your guide and copy the contents of the Windows 7 DVD like I said and it did works Again, thanks for the successful guide. 1499.

revarcz
Posted July 12, 2012 at 7:44 am | Permalink

Dear admin, I have a netbook Toshiba NB505. The problem was that it has a system corruption where it does not able to boot to the desktop. At first I was trying to restore the OS using the built in recovery and it wasnt successful. I then tried using the flash drive I made using your guide and still unsuccessful. What do you think would be the problem? 1500.

sander
Posted July 12, 2012 at 5:39 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the guide, but my usb flash drive isnt working after that.. help please 1501.

gostf

Posted July 12, 2012 at 7:22 pm | Permalink

again, why would you take the effort to do the via-USB-installation if you have an optical drive. 1502.

Gaby
Posted July 12, 2012 at 10:03 pm | Permalink

Hello there, first of all thanks for the awesome guide i did everything u said step by step, i am currently running Win 7 32 bit, and i did the procedure you stated on a USB Flash drive , TO install Windows 7 x64 bit , everything worked like a charm, the only problem is , when i try to restart my computer, i am unable to boot from my usb flash drive. even thought its been set to primary priority.

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My Mobo does supports, USE BOOT and still i am unable to do it, the name of my Mobo is Asus P7H55D-M Pro . More Info : I downloaded a x64 bit win 7 from torrent which works, it was a ISO file, so i extracted it, and copied the files to my USB Flash drive, and i did copy all of my files as well. Can you help me with what could be the problem? or a Solution Thanks 1503.

Gaby
Posted July 12, 2012 at 10:19 pm | Permalink

and when i try to manually run the setup when logged in, it says >> This version of J:\boot>BOOTSECT /NT60 E: is not compatible with this version of Windows. Check your system information to see whether you need a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program. error. 1504.

hvrio
Posted July 13, 2012 at 9:52 am | Permalink

WORKED WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS! THANK YOU! Asus EEE PC 1015PX 8GB Flash Drive Windows 7 Ultimate 1505.

admin
Posted July 13, 2012 at 10:17 am | Permalink

@Gaby It looks like you are trying to install Windows 7 on USB. This guide is to help you install Windows 7 on a hard drive from USB instead of DVD. If you want to install Windows 7 on USB, check out this guide : http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7-to-usbexternal-hard-drive-must-read/ 1506.

admin
Posted July 13, 2012 at 10:21 am | Permalink

@ Perform a full format (and not quick format) to restore your USB to the original state. 1507.

Gaby
Posted July 13, 2012 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

@Admin Oh no sir, i am not trying to install windows 7 on my USB, what i am trying to do is, install windows 7 64bit from Usb to my Hard drive. I am currently running Windows 7 32 bit on my hard drive. I also tried to use the software which is being given here to download from microsoft, after all the steps it all also stated that your USB was succesfully turned into a bootable flash USB, but when i try to boot it doesnt works, and when i try to run the setup from USB to install it on my hard disk, it does not let me do it. My current windows : Win 7 32 bit What i wanna do is : Install win 7 64 bit , from USb to my hard disk. Problem is: its not letting me, even after following all the steps. All the steps followed right with thorough confirmation: YES! Please help me. i hope i am clear to u know, for what the problem is, i can provide you a screen shot, if you desire. ty 1508.

steve
Posted July 15, 2012 at 12:45 am | Permalink

@Gaby, you can not install 64-bit Windows on top of 32-bit. You must completely wipe the hard drive first (format). 1509.

Gaby

Posted July 15, 2012 at 1:14 am | Permalink

@steve Oh thanks bro. that might be the problem which i was not aware of, i will try wiping it off and see if it works then ty ^^ 1510.

erki
Posted July 17, 2012 at 2:38 am | Permalink

Works like a dream thanks, man!!! 1511.

mrVynes
Posted July 17, 2012 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

Good guide, thanks! (P.S. Step6> D: YO MAMA) 1512.

Jayrad

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Posted July 19, 2012 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

Thanks man, this is ingenious. It beats WinToFlash any day! 1513.

Diogo

Posted July 20, 2012 at 7:50 pm | Permalink

Thank you! This step-by-step works perfectly and was very useful to me. 1514.

SHubham
Posted July 20, 2012 at 10:00 pm | Permalink

hello sir after step 6 it says the system cannot find the apath sepcified please help me out of this !!!! 1515.

SHubham
Posted July 20, 2012 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

IT SAYS the system cannot find the path specified 1516.

admin
Posted July 21, 2012 at 8:39 am | Permalink

@ Shubham Make sure that you are typing the right USB and your DVD/virtual drives drive letter in the command. 1517.

Aung Naing Linn


Posted July 21, 2012 at 11:52 pm | Permalink

Thanks for your post. i tested your method. finally, i can do successfully. from all danger. i will see and learn your other posts. 1518.

May you be free

Happy Sharma
Posted July 22, 2012 at 12:30 am | Permalink

Tx dude very helpful info. 1519.

mIND
Posted July 22, 2012 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

Thnks its really cool! itS really USUFULLY 1520.

Ali

Posted July 22, 2012 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

thank you it was very useful info 1521.

VIVEK
Posted July 23, 2012 at 12:41 am | Permalink

i got the steps.. but i want 1 more help.. Plzzzz tell me a link for windows 7 64 bit plzzz.. 1522.

Greg

Posted July 24, 2012 at 9:16 am | Permalink

What if i have windows 7 image file, what commands will i use? 1523.

admin
Posted July 24, 2012 at 10:36 am | Permalink

@ Greg If you have an image file (.ISO), first mount it using Virtual Clone Drive (free) software and then use the drive letter of the new virtual drive in commands. 1524.

samet
Posted July 25, 2012 at 4:29 am | Permalink

its work thank you 1525.

Amarnath
Posted July 26, 2012 at 12:01 pm | Permalink

i am trying to install windows 8. i dont ve a dvd drive so i try to install via pendrive i tried the above steps i had some doubts y i need to mention the CD boot, since my drive s not working i have to mention usb drive alone know ie my usb drive is j 1526.

Lioninwinter
Posted July 26, 2012 at 10:30 pm | Permalink

Thank you so much for this guide it was just what I needed. CLear, simple, and

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thescreenshots made everythign so much easier. Props to you and thank you for taking the time to publish it and saving me time in the process. Good job man. 1527.

Devasish
Posted July 27, 2012 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

..why to do all this just download and install power iso works every where xp/vista/win7.:) 1528.

Cameron Peet

Posted July 28, 2012 at 10:58 am | Permalink

Hey I had same problem with the list disk stuff you need to get a program that turns your Removable drives into a local drive, i used this thing called himati microdrive, all u have to do is a few steps like getting ur usb id and then paste it into a section of code, then lastlyy you update your usb drives with the .inf file that u edited and presto!! ur removable drive is now local 1529.

Teddy
Posted July 29, 2012 at 3:38 pm | Permalink

Thanks man you saved me with my mini notebook!! 1530.

Marty
Posted July 29, 2012 at 9:46 pm | Permalink

Great job man. Thanks a lot for the time you spared to do this. 1531.

yagna

Posted July 30, 2012 at 12:28 am | Permalink

thanks mate worked l ike a charm.. 1532.

steve
Posted July 30, 2012 at 7:20 am | Permalink

@Devasish: Maybe because the free version has 300mb limit. 1533.

Idress
Posted July 30, 2012 at 1:30 pm | Permalink

After the format process is completed ,it does not go according to the commands,after that if you can explain that!@ 1534.

idress
Posted July 30, 2012 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

when I enter d:cd bood it says that the system cant find the specified path?? 1535.

nikhil
Posted July 30, 2012 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

my usb is only alloted 100 mb space how can i copy 4 gp windows in it? 1536.

steve
Posted August 1, 2012 at 3:01 am | Permalink

@nikhil You cant. Have to get a bigger usb flash drive. Instructions state 4gb minimum. They are quite cheap now. 1537.

idress
Posted August 1, 2012 at 10:54 am | Permalink

plz help me and give me my answer,when I type d: cd boot and after that cd boot ,it says the system can not fine the specified path? what should I do?waiting,,,,,,,,,,,, 1538.

steve
Posted August 2, 2012 at 1:37 am | Permalink

@idress, is d your dvd drive letter or is something else? The d is just an example. Plus the DVD you are using must have a Boot directory on it. If not, the boot images may be in the root directory of the DVD. 1539.

steve
Posted August 2, 2012 at 1:41 am | Permalink

@idress You can also try the way given in comment #1437 if the boot information is in the main directory of your DVD. 1540.

David Denny
Posted August 2, 2012 at 7:53 am | Permalink

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Thank youworks GREAT 1541.

hamed930
Posted August 2, 2012 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot .. worked perfectly 1542.

Frank
Posted August 3, 2012 at 12:37 am | Permalink

GOD LIKE ++ thanks I hope Google keeps you high 1543.

Aijaz

Posted August 3, 2012 at 7:24 pm | Permalink

Perfecto!!! 1544.

EZOOO
Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:16 am | Permalink

Thank youworks GREAT 1545.

Tanmay
Posted August 5, 2012 at 3:49 pm | Permalink

Can i keep win 8 consumer preview an windows 8 developer preview to gather on a same pen drive 1546.

ONKAR
Posted August 5, 2012 at 9:14 pm | Permalink

GOOD IT WORKED THANKS 1547.

Steve

Posted August 6, 2012 at 9:23 am | Permalink

the command prompt tells me that the path is not designated when I try to D: CD BOOT -> CD BOOT 1548.

Sahl
Posted August 8, 2012 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

brilliant tutorial, very descriptive and I can confirm working , installed via USB stick on my Asus N61JV laptop 1549.

costecon
Posted August 8, 2012 at 2:31 pm | Permalink

Perfect Thank you !!! 1550.

how to use fiverr


Posted August 9, 2012 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

Very soon this website will be famous amid all blogging viewers, due to its pleasant articles 1551.

Jarvis
Posted August 9, 2012 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

hi there: your tutorial was awesome thanks and great work! ;P

can you tell me how to install mac osx snow leopard on regular windows based computer. hopin ull help thanks in advance 1552.

Josh Rune

Posted August 9, 2012 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

You forgot to mention that win8 64bit bootsect doesnt work in any x86 OSs. I have to boot a virtual machine in 64 bit mode and run bootsect there. 1553.

How to undo?
Posted August 10, 2012 at 2:33 am | Permalink

How to clean usb and undo all actions if I no more require windows on usb? 1554.

Prathap
Posted August 10, 2012 at 10:36 am | Permalink

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Thank you very much man I appreciate the way you demonstrated the solution. 1555.

steve
Posted August 10, 2012 at 8:47 pm | Permalink

@How to undo? Just format the usb flash drive. 1556.

IBRAHIM
Posted August 11, 2012 at 8:53 am | Permalink

YOU ROCK thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank youu YOUR POST has just fixed my damn problem BIG THANK YOU ADMIN. 1557. ))

SonyHren
Posted August 12, 2012 at 2:37 am | Permalink

I get an error that Im missing drivers. Can somebody please help me because Im really stuck here for days now. 1558.

steve

Posted August 13, 2012 at 6:35 am | Permalink

@SonyHrenMissing drivers? For what, what step? 1559.

R.
Posted August 14, 2012 at 11:51 am | Permalink

hi, Ive got a problem and i do not understand why.It is happenning in the step 7 after we just have typed BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: and click enter i get this message could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:access is denied if anyone knows the solution it will hepl me Thanks 1560.

R.

Posted August 14, 2012 at 8:33 pm | Permalink

finally i resolve it alone, I ran command prompt as an administrator and it worked 1561.

stompah
Posted August 15, 2012 at 12:27 am | Permalink

why does the format take forever to do? its been 15 min and its only 1% any help ? 1562.

mons
Posted August 16, 2012 at 1:11 am | Permalink

had access denied at step 7, then i used the esy guide. it was much easier and faster 1563.

steve
Posted August 16, 2012 at 5:22 am | Permalink

@stompah, just do quick format. 1564.

Greg
Posted August 16, 2012 at 6:19 am | Permalink

This guide isnt fool proof. I cant install autorun to my flash drive it wont allow me. Thanks for nothing. 1565.

nikhil

Posted August 16, 2012 at 5:12 pm | Permalink

thanks ya 1566.

master
Posted August 16, 2012 at 11:28 pm | Permalink

y do so much commands just download wintoflash and make ur pendrive bootable 1567.

Aaron Morgan
Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:50 am | Permalink

Great Tutorial mate, I have used it so many times and never have failed 1568.

ZANK
Posted August 20, 2012 at 2:54 am | Permalink

im going to give it a try and see how it goes thankyou for this post very helpfull.

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cris
Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

u r gr8.i owe u man.i was looking fr dis kind of method frm a long timeu rock.. 1570.

jone
Posted August 21, 2012 at 10:06 pm | Permalink

If boot wont startup try program galled YUMI(Your Universal Multiboot Installer). YUMI is very ease to use. Install it and add isofile and reformat usb stick with yumi program. Yumi work in xp, win7 in linux, and 32 and 64 bit computers. It builds MBR etc. I did like this page and it worked on my 64 bit computer, but not in my 32 bit computer. In my 32 bit computer freese on startup and get message press control alt del. With yumi it worked. google yumi. 1571.

Balsimran
Posted August 24, 2012 at 1:03 am | Permalink

Thank you so much! My dads computer wouldnt read a cd so i used this to install Windows 7! Thanks again and I will spread this guide to many other people! 1572.

Arunkumar N

Posted August 24, 2012 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

Thank u so much..bootsect /nt60 H: didnt work for me..but the device became bootable. 1573.

bejo
Posted August 24, 2012 at 11:24 pm | Permalink

thank you sir,,, it is working 100%.. 1574.

Maz
Posted August 26, 2012 at 12:45 pm | Permalink

My host OS is windows 7 and I have installed VMware for some R&D purpose but unable to install in VMware. Install media is not detect at the initial step. need help 1575.

Kiran
Posted August 29, 2012 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

after bootsect.exe/nt60 H:i get this target volumes will be updated with boot mgr compatability boot code. could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied i use windows 7 . 1576.

Chetan
Posted August 29, 2012 at 11:34 pm | Permalink

Hey .! Thnx for this method i got upto step 7 but at step 7 i got an errro: Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. & as i enetred assign in diskpart it removed my existing D drive & now i cant get access to my D volume in disk manager it shows an healthy empty drive please tel me how i can get to that drive back . !!!! thank you . 1577.

steve
Posted August 30, 2012 at 7:08 am | Permalink

@Kiran, makes sure you started cmd.exe with administrator rights. 1578.

David
Posted August 30, 2012 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

Wow thank you. Also just did this with Windows Server 2008. 1579.

steve

Posted August 30, 2012 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

@Chetan, I hope you are not talking a physical HDD D drive you partitioned and formatted. If so you lost all the data on it. The instructions clearly state to substitute the flash drive number you see using List Disk then Select Disk. If you entered your D drive then all is lost.

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lokster
Posted August 31, 2012 at 7:25 am | Permalink

for those people with copying the autorun problem, turn off your Antivirus and copy it to the USB again, normally its the antivirus preventing you from copying. Enjoy Works on windows 8 and 7 ISO x64 1581.

wheatthlns
Posted August 31, 2012 at 10:11 am | Permalink

Is there any workaround to the Must be in 64 bit mode to make a boot-usb of 64 bit ISO? The official windows USB maker does not seem to want to recognize my WD Passport. Am looking to install official Windows 8 copy. 1582.

Kio

Posted September 1, 2012 at 10:04 pm | Permalink

Thanks alot. Simple and very useful. Great Job. 1583.

Nabil
Posted September 1, 2012 at 11:56 pm | Permalink

Amazing , i cant thank you enough . 1584.

Syed
Posted September 2, 2012 at 2:35 pm | Permalink

Hello. I dont have a windows installation disc, but i have downloaded the files onto my computer. Now i need to get it to boot from the flash drive but i dont have the bootsect file though. i have downloaded that too in C:\Users\SDAJ\Downloads Now what should i do to load it? 1585.

Shmuel

Posted September 3, 2012 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

@Syed: If you have the Windows installation ISO file you can burn it to a DVD. Then you will have a Windows installation disc. You can use Nero or CDburnerXP (http://cdburnerxp.se /en/download) to burn an ISO image to a disk. 1586.

Shmuel
Posted September 3, 2012 at 7:56 pm | Permalink

Thanks tweakwindows. Works nicely! 1587.

priyanka
Posted September 4, 2012 at 5:32 pm | Permalink

After changing boot sequence to USB drive and exiting its saying BOOTMGR is missing.. now what to do? 1588.

Fityfirity

Posted September 7, 2012 at 5:25 am | Permalink

I used my spare HDD as bootable installing device and it all works. 1589.

andrew
Posted September 8, 2012 at 2:45 am | Permalink

sorry i meant how do i install windowes if i have no os or cd drive 1590.

Munna
Posted September 9, 2012 at 7:32 am | Permalink

i am going to try it now ..hope it will works.if it works i will definately come back to u 1591.

Washington
Posted September 10, 2012 at 1:45 am | Permalink

5. Next insert your Windows7/Windows 8 DVD into the optical drive Man, sorry, but if I had an Windows DVD I wouldnt need this guide, would I?? I have an ISO in my HDD and I dont wanna burn it in DVD. How do I install? 1592.

Dfoo
Posted September 10, 2012 at 7:21 am | Permalink

Excellent guide. 1593.

admin
Posted September 10, 2012 at 11:28 am | Permalink

@ Washington If you have the ISO, simply mount it and then follow step 5.

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dhanun
Posted September 11, 2012 at 6:32 pm | Permalink

thanks for guide, will my pen drive also be a storage jst like before? 1595.

Israels
Posted September 12, 2012 at 3:10 pm | Permalink

Hi wonderful Adminnice worki have a problemi have an Acer Core i7, 4GB RAM and its a kind of mini with no in-built DVD drive.i formated it wit my Bootable USB and im getting 4GB RAM (2.61 Usable) 32bitpls how do i change it to 64bits..thanks 1596.

Israels
Posted September 12, 2012 at 3:17 pm | Permalink

Hi wonderful Adminnice worki have a problemi have an Acer Core i7, 4GB RAM. Windows 7 64bit and its a kind of mini with no in-built DVD drive.i formated it wit my Bootable USB and im getting 4GB RAM (2.61 Usable) 32bitpls how do i change it to back to 64bits..thanks 1597.

admin
Posted September 12, 2012 at 6:10 pm | Permalink

@ Israels You need to install Windows 7 64-bit all over again by formatting your current 32-bit installation as 32-bit doesnt support 4GB of RAM. 1598.

steve

Posted September 13, 2012 at 8:23 am | Permalink

For those who do not know, Daemon Tools Lite is great for mounting iso files. 1599.

beni
Posted September 13, 2012 at 6:29 pm | Permalink

FORMAT FS=NTFS This command not working, trying to do it in windows xp, any suggestions? 1600.

heello
Posted September 14, 2012 at 3:01 pm | Permalink

thank you too much its 100% work 1601.

Beau
Posted September 15, 2012 at 3:56 am | Permalink

I followed your instructions to the T but now when I try to put the ISO file on the SD card it says Access Denied: Read Only. but I cannot change the permission and now I have a useless card 1602.

khwaish

Posted September 15, 2012 at 12:40 pm | Permalink

It really worked, thanks.. 1603.

best site
Posted September 16, 2012 at 4:21 am | Permalink

Your style is so unique in comparison to other people I have read stuff from. Many thanks for posting when youve got the opportunity, Guess Ill just bookmark this site. 1604.

Anandhagiri
Posted September 16, 2012 at 11:15 am | Permalink

Superb!!!!!!!!!! In my personnel laptop DVD ROM is not working. I tried this option Boot from USB i could able to install windows 7. Really awesome tips Thanks a lot!!!!!!!! Regards, Anand 1605.

amarock
Posted September 16, 2012 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

is it okay if i add other folder in the usb? bcoz i thought it will be a good idea if i can add all the required driver files into the usb ie; graphic card, soundcard, gaming mouse, etc..tq 1606.

admin
Posted September 16, 2012 at 8:30 pm | Permalink

@amarock Yes, you can place a folder in the USB to save your favorite programs and hardware drivers. 1607.

steve
Posted September 17, 2012 at 5:48 am | Permalink

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@Beau, are you in Administrator mode? 1608.

ANKUL AGARWAL
Posted September 20, 2012 at 1:08 am | Permalink

like u said bro it before getting into this site i also followed several guides but to no helpu r the manit really saved me the pains..thanks a ton..wud like to keep in touch n updated:):)kudos 1609.

ken
Posted September 20, 2012 at 10:30 am | Permalink

hi, i get this error when i ran create partition primary. my disk space is 3894 MB. its a 4GB USB thumbdrive. are there any other options ? thanks. There is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or dont specify either to create the maximum sized partition. 1610.

Joey

Posted September 20, 2012 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

Hello Admin! how will i use step 8? am i just going to open the content of dvd, copy all the content and send it to my usb stick? pls reply. Thnks. 1611.

Md yusuf khan
Posted September 21, 2012 at 10:56 pm | Permalink

hi pls tell me that if i have no CD drive but i have the whole setup file in my system then how i make my pen drive as bootable and one thing is that i dont want to re partition my HD thanks 1612.

Paul
Posted September 22, 2012 at 2:10 am | Permalink

It takes my USB fucking 40 minutes to format, omgosh. 1613.

admin

Posted September 22, 2012 at 7:20 am | Permalink

@ MD Yusuf Khan Yes, you can create bootable USB even if you have setup files. In the last step, you need to copy all setup files to the USB instead from the DVD. 1614.

admin
Posted September 22, 2012 at 7:21 am | Permalink

@ Yes, simply copy all setup files from DVD to USB. 1615.

wirowi
Posted September 22, 2012 at 4:56 pm | Permalink

Im so sad. Ive tried everything to install w7 on my desktop from my USB flash disk. It just doesnt work. So, I completed all the stepts. I go to bios and make sure the USB is the first boot option. Then I enter windows 7 setup. I select language, time and date format and so on and it starts installing and at 70% in expanding windows files I get this error: Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 080070570. I tried installing from the same usb stick on my laptop and it doesnt work there either, but the dvd(the exact one I made the usb flash after) boot with no problem. Guess Ill just have to get a dvd-rw and install normaly from a dvd 1616.

admin
Posted September 22, 2012 at 8:25 pm | Permalink

@ wirowi It seems one or more installation file(s) are corrupted. We suggest you try installing on a virtual machine to make sure that setup files arent corrupted. 1617.

The Monj

Posted September 23, 2012 at 7:34 pm | Permalink

WOW fantastic, worked a treat with no problems what so ever ! this method has definately got me out the Sh*! and I cant thank you enough, super thankyou 1618.

donsity
Posted September 30, 2012 at 7:25 am | Permalink

Got Access Denied On the very last step Message says: Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects.

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koko
Posted September 30, 2012 at 11:12 pm | Permalink

Excellent tutorial, thanks! 1620.

Asif Mahmood
Posted October 1, 2012 at 11:07 am | Permalink

Prior to following this guide, I was using win-8 RTM version, I followed the onscreen instructions and finally the result was a big SUCCESS!. Truly awesome guides to do the trick. 1621.

Idress
Posted October 1, 2012 at 11:46 am | Permalink

By pressing the last code ( bootsect.exe /nt60 H:) it denies and I get this message Target volume will be updated with bootmng compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partiton to the associated volume device objects: access is denied . Can any body help me out and solve it? 1622.

Filipe
Posted October 2, 2012 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

Works fine. Cheers! 1623.

tryfatur
Posted October 4, 2012 at 7:35 am | Permalink

Absolutely working, great job 1624.

Slacko

Posted October 4, 2012 at 8:06 pm | Permalink

How to extract windows 7 from folder on hard disk to USB, if I dont have windows 7 on DVD? 1625.

Jo
Posted October 4, 2012 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

Dislike it when walkthroughs wont take you to the very end. Here it leaves us hanging where it says: 8. Copy your Windows 7 or Windows 8 DVD contents to the USB flash drive and doesnt explain how! 1626.

admin

Posted October 5, 2012 at 9:11 am | Permalink

@ Jo Open your DVD drive, copy all contents, open USB drive, and then paste. Thats it! 1627.

admin
Posted October 5, 2012 at 9:13 am | Permalink

If you have an ISO file of Windows 7, use 7-zip or Winzip to extract. To extract, right-click on the ISO file, select 7-zip > Extract option to extract everything to your USB. And if you already have extracted files on your hard drive, simply copy all items and then paste them in USB drive. 1628.

Jo
Posted October 5, 2012 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

Thank you admin x-/ 1629.

Copy and paste (9.11) I understood, but nothing about ISO files (9.13)

houx

Posted October 8, 2012 at 4:55 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot, did work from the first time. you are awesome bro 1630.

Robin
Posted October 9, 2012 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

Hi. i am having problem with the bootsect. it says This tool can only be run on systems booted using was booted using EFI or some other firmware type. Can you advise how i can solve it? I have copied the files into my flash drive. thanks 1631.

Robin

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Posted October 9, 2012 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

Hi. i am having problem with the bootsect. it says This tool can only be run on systems booted using PC/AT Bios. This System was booted using EFI or some other firmware type Can you advise how i can solve it? I have copied the files into my flash drive. thanks 1632.

Jason
Posted October 10, 2012 at 12:21 am | Permalink

Prolly already been said. Thank you for these instructions. The DVD drive was killing my with a brand new computer. Just kept failing. These instructions worked perfectly for me. 1633.

RUBAN
Posted October 10, 2012 at 4:29 pm | Permalink

i hav a problem in bootsect.exe.wat to do?i am using 32-bit os.. 1634.

RUBAN
Posted October 10, 2012 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

wen i enter bootsect.exe it shows like tiswat to do? Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. 1635.

JohnH
Posted October 11, 2012 at 7:21 pm | Permalink

Very nice tutorial. I didnt read all the comments, so this may be a duplicate, but I might suggest that a quick format works just as well and cuts the time way down. (Somebody posted early on that a full format took 40 minutes. I also had to wait a looooong time.) Just add a space and the word quick after the format command. It will then look like: FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK The % counter wont increment upward, but the format should be finished in less than a minute. 1636.

neil
Posted October 14, 2012 at 1:32 am | Permalink

buddy i have tried this method 100s of time. each time it worked only difference is i used fat32 file system, which changes the last step.. but today it is not working at all. sop trying ur method now.. hope it works.. usb drive is not at all booting even after changing the boot priority 1637.

Jack
Posted October 16, 2012 at 6:53 am | Permalink

After using install win 7 from flashdisk, can i format flashdisk again to use as normal flashdisk ? 1638.

vishvesh
Posted October 18, 2012 at 11:09 pm | Permalink

i cant see my usb drive in disk partitions list please answer.. anyone .???? 1639.

Rims
Posted October 20, 2012 at 2:41 pm | Permalink

thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1640.

mithi

Posted October 24, 2012 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

Thankz this ws very helpful !!! 1ce agn thankz !! {y} 1641.

CHANZA
Posted October 25, 2012 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

thats great man 1642.

Praveen
Posted October 27, 2012 at 8:37 am | Permalink

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Great man Thanks man its working but last command not working for me any way its installing Thanks a lot 1643.

Sun
Posted October 27, 2012 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

Is this work for windows8? Anyone know that? However, Thx. 1644.

oregtolvaj
Posted October 27, 2012 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

Gj we made a 99,9 MB pendrive from 4 gb..gj.. i cant start copy the contents to the USB flash drive 1645.

oregtolvaj
Posted October 27, 2012 at 7:24 pm | Permalink

2nd try, and its works, format pendrive again, and its goes to 4 gb.. idk why. WORKS THX 1646.

admin

Posted October 28, 2012 at 11:52 am | Permalink

@ Sun This guide works 100% for Windows 8 as well. 1647.

bg
Posted October 31, 2012 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

Im writing this comment as an add-on or alternative to the main article here. The author of the article or anyone else can feel free to use anything in this comment. I dont need credit for this comment, you may take it as free information. The authors method for formatting the flash drive seems a bit complicated for the average user, mostly because of the heavy command prompt usage. To format your drive just right click your flash drive in My Computer (or just Computer on Windows Vista or later) and go to Format instead of using DISKPART. The result will be the same. In fact, this entire article and be rewritten to use a single call to the command line, that command being: D:\BOOT\BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: This is something that Im sure many users would prefer to see, because graphical interfaces are much easier to use. Also, here is a very short summary for people using an ISO file instead of a DVD (some people might receive an ISO from their university, or purchase and download the ISO from Microsoft): 1) Get a flash drive and, if it isnt already, format it to NTFS. NTFS is required for this to work, and youll probably need at least a 4 GB flash drive. 2) Open the contents of the Windows 7 or 8 ISO file and copy all files to your flash drive. PowerISO or Daemon Tools are two programs that can open an ISO. 3) Run the following command in Command Prompt, replacing both H letters with your flash drives letter: H:\BOOT\BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: If you run into problems with the above steps, remember its just a summary and it assumes youve already read the main article. Im posting it to both potentially help users with ISO files, and to help people see the basic steps required. Even if you use a DVD instead of an ISO file, the above summary might be helpful, since only my 2nd step talks about copying files from an ISO. 1648.

Michael
Posted October 31, 2012 at 10:24 pm | Permalink

Tanks men. It works 100% 1649.

dice
Posted November 1, 2012 at 1:32 am | Permalink

EXCELENT ! THANK YOU, my asus x101ch is alive now thanks to you 1650.

Godfred Cruickshank

Posted November 1, 2012 at 7:18 am | Permalink

You are such a Genius. keep up the good work! kindly hit me on facebook same name we can work something.

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Shasiru
Posted November 4, 2012 at 6:02 pm | Permalink

Yep, this is also working with windows 8. but if you could explain all the dos commands well be so glad.. thanks a lot for the share.. 1652.

Karthik
Posted November 6, 2012 at 7:38 am | Permalink

You have find out the perfect way to resolve, such a kind of issues. Thanks for your status. We are expecting lot from you. You are really great 1653.

neB26
Posted November 7, 2012 at 5:22 am | Permalink

when I enter list disk it only shows disk 0 (hard drive) what do you think, its a problem with USB stick or PC. 1654.

admin

Posted November 7, 2012 at 5:56 pm | Permalink

@neB26 Try to reconnect the USB and also make sure that your USB is appearing in Disk Management. 1655.

Mooe
Posted November 7, 2012 at 8:11 pm | Permalink

Do you have to repeat the process if you switch the operative systems files? For example; I made the USB bootable using a x86 version of Windows 8, but I want to switch to x64. Can I just switch the files without formatting or redoing everything? Thanks 1656.

Ertugrul

Posted November 7, 2012 at 9:54 pm | Permalink

I have iso win7. I mount it with daemon tools, it appears as dvd rom on My Computer. So at last step am i going to just ctrl+a ctrl+c and ctrl+v to usb? Nothing more right for step 8? 1657.

SABARI
Posted November 8, 2012 at 12:38 am | Permalink

thnx.finaly its work..:) 1658.

nikola
Posted November 8, 2012 at 1:23 am | Permalink

Run CMD as administrator if you get this: COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED 1659.

Joza Gulikoza
Posted November 8, 2012 at 3:44 pm | Permalink

SO I wanna install win7 x86_64 using a computer running win 7 x86. Impossibru? 1660.

Jim M
Posted November 8, 2012 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

Could I use a downloaded version of Windows / if I dont have DVD? What commands would I have to use? Thank you. 1661.

gtm
Posted November 8, 2012 at 7:15 pm | Permalink

BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 I: is not workin. error: bootsect.exe not recognised. help 1662.

jabao_ron
Posted November 10, 2012 at 8:13 am | Permalink

On Windows XP, DISKPART doesnt sees the USB device as a disk. So you cannot create the primary device. Take that into account when you try to do the procedure explained above. 1663.

admin
Posted November 10, 2012 at 9:10 am | Permalink

@Ertugrul Yes, simply copy and paste. Thats it! 1664.

Josh

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Posted November 11, 2012 at 5:09 am | Permalink

Worked perfectly! Thanks. 1665.

Som

Posted November 12, 2012 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

I did this even faster by changing the line; - FORMAT FS=NTFS, to - FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK Formatting takes quite a long time, so Id recommend trying 1666.

trish
Posted November 13, 2012 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

i have windows x32 and i want to install x64 and at step 8 i have problem and it says i should use x32 what should i do? 1667.

admin
Posted November 13, 2012 at 9:37 pm | Permalink

You need to have a copy of x86 version of Windows only. 1668.

Rengga
Posted November 14, 2012 at 2:01 pm | Permalink

I just have to say this, thank you. 1669.

viswanath sai
Posted November 16, 2012 at 4:28 pm | Permalink

It was very nice, but i have small doubts here i hope ull clarify my doubts. 1) Why do we need to use disk part, list disk and all that commands, i think it just converts the flash drive to NTFS file system, Why cant we do it directly format it to NTFS either it may be quick or normal. 2) Why do we use only NTFS file format here , Why cant we use FAT or exFAT. 3)I have tried this thing with XP but dis doesnt work, any help how can do it ???? 1670.

Ryo
Posted November 20, 2012 at 9:43 pm | Permalink

On the format, you can do a quick format by adding quick to the format command. i.e. FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK No need to wait an hour to format a 8GB stick. 1671.

Yang Li
Posted November 20, 2012 at 10:52 pm | Permalink

This is a awesome post. I was trying to reinstall Windows 7 on my laptop Lenovo X61 which has no CD drive. This post really saved my life. Thank you very much. 1672.

Cor Bryant
Posted November 21, 2012 at 11:09 am | Permalink

What the hell? All these years and Ive had to go through some janky procedures to do this some of which didnt work. Good job man! This >IS< the easiest way to achive a bootable installation. Good write up. And for those of you trying this with XP. It will not work, not this way. Another thing I did was used the 'QUICK' option after the format command. It takes quite awhile to format a 16GB flash drive and I don't think there is any real reason to do a full format when you just cleaned the drive. 1673.

Hamed
Posted November 21, 2012 at 12:26 pm | Permalink

Dear Sir Thank you so much for your perfect explain. 1674.

Anthony
Posted November 21, 2012 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

Thanks so much!! The bootsect.exe portion wasnt working but then I realized that I didnt run it as an administrator! 1675.

mirza
Posted November 23, 2012 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

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i was at step 4 when my pc got shut down (due power failure), but now my usb drive is stuck. i cant format it because when i try i get msg windows can not perform this task. below usb drive icon NTFS is written. please help 1676.

Frank
Posted November 24, 2012 at 3:59 am | Permalink

Thanks very much, worked so well I was sitting there thinking Cmon wheres the problems?. Just two very minor points; add the QUICK parameter to the FORMAT command to speed it up; The BOOTSECT.EXE must match your existing OS, i.e. 32 or 64bit. Also the laptop I used the bootable USB drive on has a dead DVD drive so I used a second USB drive with the OS files stored on it. 1677.

josh
Posted November 24, 2012 at 7:50 pm | Permalink

great guide thanks for this you can also use the short terms LIS DIS SEL DIS X (X being the USB drive letter, seen in list disk command) CLEAN CRE PAR PRI SEL PAR 1 FORMAT FS=FAT32 QUICK or FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK ACTIVE EXIT 1678.

ADIYA
Posted November 25, 2012 at 5:28 pm | Permalink

I TRYED 4TH STEP BUT IT DOESNT SHOW ANY DISK 1 ALTHOUGH I PLUGGED-IN MY USB PEN DRIVE 1679.

jhj
Posted November 25, 2012 at 8:42 pm | Permalink

It worked 100% for me on a Dell alienware M11x laptop which did not come with a built-in DVD drive. Thanks! 1680.

Thimmappa
Thank U Sir

Posted November 27, 2012 at 1:15 pm | Permalink

1681.

roy
Posted November 27, 2012 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

Update on Update Jan 11, 2012: If you find this guide difficult to follow, YOU ARE RETARDED AND SHOULD NOT GET ANYWHERE NEAR A COMPUTER 1682.

Chaz
Posted November 28, 2012 at 7:39 am | Permalink

When I type CLEAN into Command Prompt, (after selecting DISK 0 in my case, I get the message: Virtual Disk Service error: Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume. Ive gone back and retried with two different USB drives, but it still wont work and I get the same message. Could someone help me? 1683.

sn
Posted November 28, 2012 at 12:53 pm | Permalink

i made usb bootable and when i install xp in laptop,after copying files ablue screen appeares n it tells dat run chkdsk /f facility and instalation cant proceed coj there may be sum virus in my pc or problem with hard drive 1684.

miradanhannah
Posted November 28, 2012 at 7:12 pm | Permalink

hi. the text on my netbook suddenly missing. so how im gonna format it? can somebody help me to solve this problem? thank you.. 1685.

Piseth Srorn

Posted November 29, 2012 at 3:49 pm | Permalink

You help my life! thx u very much! 1686.

mufi
Posted December 2, 2012 at 1:30 am | Permalink

Hi! I need some help here. I successfully booted my windows 7 from my usb drive. I chose the

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language and the next step is this message: Windows could not display the images available for installation Could anyone help me? Hellooo! 1687.

admin

Posted December 2, 2012 at 9:10 am | Permalink

@ Mufi Its because of the corrupted installation (WIM) files. I suggest you check your Windows 7 ISO or DVD using a virtual machine first. 1688.

Pablo Mendoza
Posted December 2, 2012 at 8:10 pm | Permalink

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! 1689.

Tea
Posted December 5, 2012 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

Tnx, u saved me a lot of time 1690.

arpit
Posted December 5, 2012 at 1:57 pm | Permalink

thats good, its really working. 1691.

Milan

Posted December 5, 2012 at 4:15 pm | Permalink

I maked usb boot disk with Win 7 step by stepno problem. Laptop HP Compaq 6735s tell me >BOOTMGR IS MISSING<, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart! What to do? Thank you! Post a Comment Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked * Name * Email * Website Comment

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