Installing Windows 7 from USB

Sat, Apr 3, 2010

Windows

Installing Windows 7 from USB

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
  1. Connect your USB flash drive
  2. Open Computer, right click on your flash drive and select format. Proceed to format the drive using the settings below

    formatbox

  3. Copy all the files from your Windows 7 CD or ISO onto the flash drive
  4. 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 drive

    boot\bootsect /nt60 f:
  5. Your now finished, If you boot from the flash drive it will boot into the Windows 7 installation as normal
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One Response to “Installing Windows 7 from USB”

  1. av
    av Says:

    very cool thanks

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