Create a bootable USB flash drive for the purpose of installing a Vista or Windows 7 OS
Saturday, 18 December 2010 18:28
This will walk through the steps to create a bootable USB flash drive for the purpose of installing a Vista or Windows 7 OS. These instructions assume that you have a computer with Windows Vista installed on it.
Required:
Step 1: Format the Drive Plug in your USB Flash Drive Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select \"Run as administrator\" Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window: Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number \"1\" with the number of your disk below. Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives: Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\\ by the computer: You can now close the command prompt window, we’re done here. Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB I use these instructions to put on Mini laptops with no disk drives load Windows 7 right on
diskpart
list disk
The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step. I’ll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1.
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=NTFS
assign
exit
When that is done you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.
d:
cd d:\\boot
bootsect /nt60 g:
USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)
A computer running Vista / Windows 7
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