Tuts4Tech » usb http://tuts4tech.net Tech Tutorials Tue, 04 May 2010 20:35:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Installing Windows 7 from USB http://tuts4tech.net/2010/04/03/installing-windows-7-from-usb/ http://tuts4tech.net/2010/04/03/installing-windows-7-from-usb/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:45:23 +0000 Duffy http://tuts4tech.net/?p=610 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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First off all you will need to download the following zip and extract it UsbRecoverySata.zip

  1. Run hpusbfw.exe, Select your device, pick FAT32 for the file system and the enter any volume label press start and it will begin to format your drive

    format

  2. Open a CMD window start -> Search -> CMD, Drag bootsect.exe over onto the cmd window and it should print the path to bootsect.exe append it with the switch /nt52 and the letter of your flash drive e.g
    bootsect.exe /nt52 H:
  3. Copy all the files from the folder "Copy the files inside me too your flash drive" to your flash drive

    4. Using Tiny Hexer

  1. First of all open it by double clicking on TinyHexer.exe
  2. Go to file > disk > open drive and select your flash drive
  3. Once its opened go to edit > find/replace check the "find text" and "ignore case" boxes type NTLDR into the text box then press find. Press the replace button check "is text" box and enter CMLDR into the text box then press replace all

    findreplace

  4. Now go to file > save as and save it too your flash drive under the file name USBLDR

  • If you reboot your computer tab f12 and select boot from usb storage it should load up the windows xp recovery console
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