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The fastest way to install windows 7 is from a bootable usb drive. You can cut the install time
down to around 15 minutes compared with 30-40 via DVD if you use a fast drive.

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People still asking me to explain what is the best way to do this as many of the guides online
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With this BootableUSB guide all you need to ensure is that your motherboard supports USB
booting, and this is a common feature now for most of the computers.
Today I am going to publish a step by step guide which works perfectly and doesnt require any

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Before going any further, make sure you have removed any important les on your drive to a
safe location, what we are about to do next is to erase the entire contents of the drive.
Insert your DVD of Windows 7 into the computer, but dont start the normal install process.
Open your My Computer and make a note of the drive numbers of both the USB drive and the
DVD drive with Windows 7 les on it.

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As you can see from the image above, the DVD drive is drive has letter D assigned and the USB
drive is E.
Open the command prompt with admin rights. Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit
Shift+Ctrl+Enter.
To keep things really easy, if you see text in upper case, it means this is what you type into the
command prompt (you dont need to type in upper case).

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Next type
DISKPART
this loads the diskpart application we need to proceed
Then type
LIST DISK
the image above shows our 32 GB USB drive is listed as DISK 2
so you have to type
SELECT DISK 2(your USB Drive may have a dierent number, dont follow exactly this text it
depends on your usb drive)

You will get a successful response Disk 2 is now the selected disk

Next we want to clean the USB drive

Type:
CLEAN
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you will get a successful response DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

Afterthe drive is cleaned follow the list in the image above (detailed below in list order) you
can also note the successful text responses from the OS as you enter each command.
SELECT DISK 2(or what number your USB drive has)
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
Formatting can take a little time depending on the size of the drive, our 32GB unit took about
10 minutes to format-you will see a percentage readout until it is nished.

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Next type:
ASSIGN
EXIT(DISK PART will exit)
TypeD: CD BOOT(substitute the D if necessary with the letter of your Windows 7 DVD drive)
then key
CD BOOT
then
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E:(substitute the E if necessary with the letter of your now ready USB
drive) we are telling the system to create a boot sector le on the USB drive.
Now you can exit the command prompt and copy all the les on the Windows 7 DVD to the
USB drive.
Once this step is nished youll be ready to boot from this drive, all you need to do is congure
your motherboard bios setup toboot rst from USBrather than hard drive or optical drive. If
you dont know how to do this, refer to your specic motherboard manual or search the
internet.
Now, Windows 7 installation should take between 40% and 60% of the time it does from the
DVD disc.
Last step: Drink a cup of tea, from now on you can do this again and again
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kalaidinesh July 29, 2016

can u plz contact me i unable to reboot my laptop and they asking network boot
my number is 9035823204
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Pravin deshmukh August 4, 2016

How to creat boot, usb pen drive ?
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Matt August 12, 2016

Complete the same steps as provided.
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Jerome Jarvis August 8, 2016

Thanks so much for your lucid and complete instruction set. I have a laptop which needs
re-installation of Windows 7. The DVD drive is either broken or not recognized by the OS.
Using your perfect outline of DOS commands, I easily congured my USB ash drive to
boot the machine. I do appreciate your help.
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Chinna August 14, 2016

Instead of DVD drive is it possible to use that command in local drives of the computer
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Chinna August 14, 2016

D: cd boot ====> Is it possible to use this command on any other local drives I have or else
it is mandatory to use on the DVD drive only
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Mark Cristiano August 16, 2016

Thanks for the great instructions. Unfortunately the last part decided not to work for the
below error. Can you please help?
D:\boot>bootsect.exe /nt60 g:
This tool can only be run on systems booted using a PC/AT BIOS. This system
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was booted using EFI or some other rmware type.

Thanks and Regards
Mark
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