You've had your netbook for sometime now, Windows has gotten slow and clunky, Your feeling the need to reformat but don't have a CD-ROM what to do? Simple, create a USB Flash Drive that can boot into the windows installer.
You will need the following
- USB Flash Drive
- Windows 7 CD or ISO
- A Computer with a CD-ROM copy the installation files of the CD
- Connect your USB flash drive
- Open Computer, right click on your flash drive and select format. Proceed to format the drive using the settings below
- Copy all the files from your Windows 7 CD or ISO onto the flash drive
- Lastly, we need to install a bootsector on the flash drive to do so go to Start -> Search -> CMD. The command prompt window shall pop up, Change to the directory of your flash drive by typing its assigned letter e.g F:
Run the following command, where f: is the letter of your flash driveboot\bootsect /nt60 f:
- Your now finished, If you boot from the flash drive it will boot into the Windows 7 installation as normal
May 4th, 2010 at 7:22 am
very cool thanks
July 17th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Hi, will this method work for Win XP Pro by sub Win 7 with XP?
July 17th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Hi snail112,
Could you please reword your question, I do not understand what you mean by "sub"
July 18th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Duffy, is it possible to load Win XP on a usb drive (flash drive, memory stick) the same way as you did with Win 7?