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Posted January 11, 2009 3:58 pm in: Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides
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This guide works 100% for Vista & Windows 7 unlike most of the guides out there. I have seen many sites/blogs that have Install Vista from USB guide but either with incomplete steps or not working guide. I have also seen some guides that dont use proper commands in this guide. After spending many hours I have come up with this 100% working guide.
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I just did this method on one of my friends machine and installed the new Windows 7 BETA. The main advantage is that by using USB drive you will be able to install Windows 7/Vista in just 15 minutes. You can also use this bootable USB drive on friends computer who doesnt have a DVD optical drive. The method is very simple and you can use without any hassles. Needless to say that your motherboard should support USB Boot feature to make use of the bootable USB drive. Requirements: *USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB) *Windows 7 or Vista installation files. Follow the below steps to create bootable Windows 7/Vista USB drive using which you can install Windows 7/Vista easily. 1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port and move all the contents from USB drive to a safe location on your system. 2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Command Prompt with admin rights. *Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter. Or *Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. 3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the command prompt: First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.
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Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB flash drive. In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 1. 4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is Disk 1.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it. So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one: SELECT DISK 1 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) ASSIGN EXIT Dont close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.
5. Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter of the DVD drive. In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is D and USB drive letter is H (open my computer to know about it). 6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type command now: D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. 7. Type another command given below to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code. BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: the following
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Where H is your USB drive letter. Once you enter the above command you will see the below message. 8. Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive. 9. Your USB drive is ready to boot and install Windows 7/Vista. Only thing you need to change the boot priority at the BIOS to USB from the HDD or CD ROM drive. I wont explain it as its just the matter the changing the boot priority or enabling the USB boot option in the BIOS. Note: If you are not able to boot after following this guide means you havent set the BIOS priority to USB. If you got any problem in following this guide feel free to ask questions by leaving comment. Update: If you find this guide difficult to follow, please use the easy-to-use guide to create a bootable USB to install Windows 7 using official tool.
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Daryl
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:20 am | Permalink
Hey thanks! Id love to try this soon
I hope its working
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Brandon
I dont think XP shows usb drives in list disk, or maybe its just me. Is there any other alternative to step 4?
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tweakwindows
^ Thats why I have mentioned only Vista & Windows 7.
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tweakwindows
Works 100% on Vista & Windows 7..Thanks.
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Casmir
This is coolHope it will work the same way with an external HDD. Keep up the good work bro
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ben
Posted January 12, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink
i am also trying to do this from xp, and it doesnt work, im not sure if step 4 needs to be done in comand prompt (i formatted the stick in disk manager) but i got stuck on step 7 because there is no such thing as bootsect.exe
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neodorian
When I run bootsect.exe it says that this version isnt compatible with my version of windows even though it is running the vista version.
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tweakwindows
Please use Vista or Windows 7 as bootsect.exe is not present in XP CD.This guide only works on Windows Vista & 7
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tweakwindows
This guide doesnt work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7..I have mentioned in the title of the post.
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tweakwindows
@ben Please follow the guide step-by-step and dont skip any step.
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Paul
THANK YOU! I was having problems getting the boot sector to work and you fixed it. Definitely better than any other guide SCREEN SHOTS = TEHWIN!, they help sooo much when you cant see what youve done wrong, even picked up a few new cmd tricks. Im a fan, thanks man.
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?lhan
Hey man your methods does not working in XP. Please reinform us.
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Omar
I was doing fine up until step 5. I figured the whole point of booting from a USB drive was to avoid having to burn a disc with the Windows 7 files on it, or install on a PC without a DVD drive. Anyway, I dont have any blank DVDs, so I was trying to install it from my USB drive, but I cant get past step 5, since I dont have my Windows 7 files on a disc. They are on my hard drive, and my USB drive. Help!
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John
Got it working in the second attempt.good guide.
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Lincoln
OK nevermind I just had to optimise the drive for performance Sorry about that!
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EiNS
Thanksvery excellent guide any working method for xp usb drive installation? Tried manybut non of them working
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vikrant
Does it also mean that we can install windows 7 on a usb drive?
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BlogPiG
This worked an absolute treat. Nice write-up. I did it on an XP box using Windows 7 mounted onto a virtual DVD drive. I had to do the format using the windows tools as wasnt available as part of diskpart in XP. All the rest worked as described.
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eden
i just formated my usb pen, and done show all files on the DVD and copied the contents over. i didnt use the diskpart tools. installed w2in 7 fine
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Laker_Fan32
Leechie!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR XP!!!! Wow, I have been searching for past two days and you explained it in 4 steps, you are AWESOME! Thank you VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!
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Rkee
U can also achieve booting from a usb drive by using daemon tools. Dont mean to dis on the author graet walkthrough by the way. Its just an alternative, and no need for any command prompt scripting.
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madmax
i tried both the XP method and VISTA method. both i managed to do without any problems. but when i try to boot from the pen drive i get this error file : \Boot\BCD status : 0xc000000e info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration some help please?
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Darin
Hey, I followed all the steps, and everything worked perfectly until I booted from the Usb device and tried to install windows 7. It said that Setup does not support installation to disks connected through a USB port. Is there a way around this?
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tweakwindows
@Darin Firstly, let me apologise for the experience youre having.
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The error means, your motherboard doesnt support USB booting. I have also mentioned this in my guide. And there is no way to boot USB unless your motherboard support. @Vikrant No this guide doesnt for the users who like to install Windows 7 on USB. @Omar If you dont have a DVD drive/USB(4GB) then use my guide Installing Windows 7 without using USB/DVD drive. There are two methods, direct and via VPC method. Please follow my guides. @All I am glad that this guide helped you to install Windows 7. Thanks.
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Joey
i downloaded windows 7 from microsoft and dont have a cd/dvd for it so what do i do do i extract it to the usb then restart using the flash drive or what?
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tweakwindows
@Joey If you dont have a DVD/USB then use my below guide which shows Installing Windows 7 without using USB/DVD drive http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-2/ http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-1/
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gabontz
Hello i cant see my usb stick with diskpart. all i can see, is my 4 HDDs on my computer. What can i do in this case?
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pete
When I try step 7, I get: The system cannot execute the specified program
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suavi
Bootsect.exe problem! I think that there is a problem occurs when you want to install 64 Bit Windows 7 from your 32 Bit Vista. Here is the message after typing BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: This version of F:boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit) or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.
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Morty
What if I want to create a x64 boot in a x86 environment? I get this error message. This version of g:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. Check your system information yada yada contact software publisher. I am running Vista 32-bit, trying to create this USB boot thingaby for Windows 7 64-bit. Thanks mate.
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Nick
When I tried to boot from usb it will not even get finished copying the files when it gives me an error code. It sometimes will start installing updates. But what is with this damn error code. I,m waiting on it to do it again..Expanding files (0%). Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x8007045D I would be very grateful for anyones help.
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Siddanth
Hey tweakwindows i think we need to make use of xcopy command havent tried it for xp did u try it out /?
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Jonathan
I have followed all instructions. I tried the flash drive one of my main machines and it works. However, on my test rig, I only get a Missing Operating System message. Boot priorities are set to USB Boot. What could be wrong?
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Laker_Fan32
My USB becomes Bootable, however when it is installing it gets stuck at 8% and then nothing happens??? Ive tried many times and it doesnt seem to work, it always gets stuck at 5% or 8%. Sometimes it errors out with the error code: 0x800703ee
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PeterNLD
Can the USB-stick after having Windows7 installed, be used to get in the complete recovery enviroment as well?
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SEO Blog
Works like a charm, thanks
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Into Windows(Admin)
First of all, sorry for the delay in reply. @ PeterNLD Of course, you can use as a replace to DVD. @ Laker_Fan32 Sorry for the delay. I think you need to copy all the files once again. Just try it. @ Siddarth I didnt try that method. But I have another method which works on XP as well. Will post the guide soon. @ Nick Make sure you copy all the Windows 7 files to USB correctly. @Suavi Basically, I havent tested this method on 64-bit machine. So, I cant find a solution for you. Thank you. Into Windows
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tyson
Hi, I read d comments & got confirmed that this method works although i didnt try it. I want to install windows xp by USB method. Can you also give a method like this for windows xp also?? I am currently running windows vista & dont have an optical drive.
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Nik Simpson
Only one minor issue if you are trying to create a W7 64-bit bootable drive on a 32 bit install of Vista. In that case youll have to run the bootsect command from a 32-bit W7 DVD, because the version on the 64-bit DVD will not run on a 32-bit OS.
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cdnwood
Thank you! Absolutely brilliant your guides have been very helpful!! It all worked just as you have so thoroughly described.
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Fzang
Um, couldnt you have skipped step 5 and onwards? You just need to do the diskpart and then copy contents of the CD to your USB, at least, thats what worked for me Also, why are you formating to NTFS instead of FAT32? Just wondering..
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bob Sauve
If I had Vista pre-installed when I purchased my computer
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what different steps would I take to make a bootable USB drive?? Thanks, Bob
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Andy
Thanks mate for this, very detailed and very user friendly, i tried to install Win xp on my EEEpc 1000H but for some reason it wouldnt boot unless i put the USB stick in.lol, its mad when Win 7 is much easier to setup and install than XP. Anychance of letting me know how to dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Easy Peasy ? Thanks mate your a star
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Nick1
Correct me if Im wrong, but step 5 states that we need a DVD. I use this guide because I dont have one. Am I right?
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cmerg
Great article. Worked like a charm.
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Man
Posted February 2, 2009 at 9:56 pm | Permalink
Hi. In the list disk step,I cant see my USB drive. Whats wrong with it? (My Operating System is XP.) Does it only work in Vista? Thank you for your teaching.
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SENTY
HEY I HAVE PROBLEM IN THE LAST STEP .. MY DVD ROM IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY.I HAVE IMAGE(NRG) OF WINDOWS VISTA.I LOAD IT USING A IMAGE READER SOFTWARE (POWER ISO),WHEN I TRYING TO EXCUTE THE LAST STEP USING VIRTUAL DVD ROM THAN THE ORIGINAL DVD ROM,I GOT A EXCEPTION COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED HOW CAN I SLOW IT ..?,PLS HELP ME .. SND ME MAIL ON MY MAIL ACCOUNT
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tweakwindows
Sorry for the delay in replay. @Man This method works fine on Vista and Windows 7 only. I will be writing a guide for XP users in a week. Stay tuned! @Nick1 I wrote this guide to make the installation faster. In my personal experience Windows 7 took just 15 minutes to get installed from USB compared to 35 minutes DVD method. Of course, you can skip the step 5 if you can mount the image and copy the files. @Andy Sorry, I am not planning on that. But, it should be easier if you install Linux over Windows 7. @Bob Sauve Follow the same procedure. This method works on both Vista and Windows 7. @Tyson Wait for few days to get a detailed guide. @Fzang NTFS is faster than FAT. Admin http://www.intowindows.com
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ELPY
Awesome,Think!!!
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asd
Posted February 11, 2009 at 3:44 am | Permalink
well im gonna try this from my phone. hope everything works out ok
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TY
About th LIST DISK command, I can not see my USB drive number (As you so the instruction below). so how? i see only my Hard Drive. what can i do?? pls help me!!
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omg
Hi thats an awesomely explained method! great work! but im on Vista x86 and i was trying to make a usb with Vista x64 on it, but the cmd prompt gave me this error! This version of X:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a x86 or x64 version of the program, and then contact the software publisher Is it that i need Vista x64 to create a USB x64!?? Pls help
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Cobrass2
Thanks Worked like a charm.
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JD
No luck from XP on my Asus 1000HE I used leechers method and continued from step 5.. wehen attemping to boot from USB I get disk read error
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Sjengie
Hi, i tried it using my 4Gb microSD but like Darin my HP mini-note 2133 (which offers boot option through USB generic STORAGE DEVICE) boot manager comes with an error the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccesible. I worked through all the steps as described above without any errors. But i notice that diskpart command DETAIL DISK shows that Bootable = No Si is it bootable yes or no and what might have gone wrong? thx, btw great job this site !!
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Sjengie
Correction, it works again ! noticed that i did not copy my w7 dvd properly great, you made linux disappear for us, thx again tweakwindows !
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pete
Posted March 2, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink
Hi ive tried and tried but DISKPART wont see my usb key, can u help.
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ajin
hey it is showing cannot find bootmngr press crl alt del to restart
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Anthony
Posted March 5, 2009 at 2:10 am | Permalink
Great guide. You need to update your requirements section to point out that these instructions only work when done on a Vista or Windows 7 platform, or specifically state they will not work on XP
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tweakwindows
Thanks for the reply. Will edit the post soon.
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tweakwindows
@ajin I hope you have followed my steps correctly. Try to repair your bootmgr file.
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tweakwindows
Sorry, if you cant find see your USB drive in the DISKPART command, I cant help you. However, if you have only one hard drive, then you can use the 1 as your USB key. But try this on your own risk.
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Pinko
Formatting may take few seconds ^^ It has bee taking maby 30minutes for 10percent with my 250gb drive
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Pinko
56% now. thos are way loong seconds.
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Swanny
Posted April 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Permalink
I have try all the step by step but on the stage command E:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F: I got this message Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. Any idea what went wrong. Please help. Thanks.
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jickie
awesome guide does exactly what it says on the tin, thanks so much im now installing windows 7 on all my mates comps via usb.
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Jeff
Posted May 5, 2009 at 3:46 pm | Permalink
excellent guide. thanks very much. you saved me aged of messing with BartPe again trying to make a bookable installation drive. thanks.
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victor frazee
list disk DID NOT detect a 4GB or a 16GB memory stick
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Quan
Lets say I have a hdd box with 2 partitions (Y, Z), can I use your method to create boot install for Vista on partition Y and for Windows 7 on partition Z?
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JB
Posted May 10, 2009 at 9:30 am | Permalink
Great write up. Works perfectly!!
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Brad
Thanks a lot! Worked no problem. It also fixed the partition tables on my USB key!
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Cooper
Windows XP/2000 users !!! Diskpart will not recognize removable storage, so dont bover This only works under WIndows Vista or 7.
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ID
When are the mongs gonna read and understand this guide does not work on xp.
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Joeypesci
For everyone having issues with diskpart in XP not seeing the USB stick, its because thats an XP issue. The way XP and Vista handles USB drives, Vista sees them in Diskpart but XP tends not to. There is a reg hack to fix it but I havent bothered to search for it.
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Joeypesci
Just spotted someone beat me to it
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J
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Works 100% in my Notebook. I wanted to install Vista Ultimate with a 8GB USB Pen and i made it! Thanks!
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Christopher
Best write-up ever! Clear and concise. Oh, and it works!!! Great job, and thank you!
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Iam
Funny thing I noticed on Win7, when you EXIT the DiskPart and try to continue in Command Prompt, while copying the bootsector to device, you may face an error Access Denied for no priviledge in copying the bootsector to device. Solution just Exit the Command Prompt and Run it again (still need to Run as Administrator).
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DanielRemains
Im sure this is another arrengement with MS and USB driver manufactuer to make money LOL joke Nice guide I will have to steal my girlfriends USB drive (Which I bought her for christmas LOL) to try this. Looks like its worth it thanks
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pirater2113
so if you do this tut correctly on a vista computer then you can use the pen drive on a Xp computer?
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Jay
Hey Bro can one dual boot using this. ie. Vista and Windows 7
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mads
perfect. great guide. thanks
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Omer
Dear, I want to install windows 7 RC through USB/Pen drive. But when i open the command prompt and write LIST DISK there (after DISKPART), it only shows my hard drive there, that is DRIVE 0 only, though i try it after inserting USB. Y is it so?
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mike
FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) Yeah lol, its taking a loooong few seconds on my 8GB drive
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mike
I have a question for you, admin. What if I want to rollback changes made to my USB drive? Or can I leave it like that (partitions, ntfs) for regular use after installing windows 7?
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admin
@Jay Yes, you can dual boot.
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admin
@ pirater2113 You can use this to create bootable USB on Vista and 7 only. If you have created on a Vista computer then you can use it on a XP computer to boot.
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Yue
i tried it and it wont work, i am using an old portable hard drive which is 5 gb, is it alright with it?
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znakistu
10x for this useful tutorial its working on vista tomorrow i will try on win 7. 10x a lot
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trav
Can I do this with an SD card and USB adapter?
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anil
made a usb with above tutorial, will install windows 7 i wanted to install windows 7 64 bit but have 32 bit vista now in order to install windows 7 64 bit, it seems, i will have to burn a dvd
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Tweakwindows
@Trave I havent personally tried using SD card. But you should be able to do that.
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Tweakwindows
@All We are going to close the comments for this post.
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JP Jones
I used this method successfully on two computers. I was very surprised that when I was unable to change the boot sequence to USB in the BIOS on an older laptop, windows 7 installed anyway. I was pretty sure that it wouldnt work but I tried it and presto! It went through the three reboots and installed perfectly. Has anyone else had this happen?
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William
this method from microsoft takes out the last part using bootsect. and it still works. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx
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Christian Saborio
Worked like a charm, great instructions, thanks!
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aaraza
Hi, Great guide. However, I am stuck after: bootsect.exe /nt60 h: (h is my usb drive letter) The message I get is: Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. I followed the steps twice niowand get the same result. Am I missing something? Would greatly appreciate any helpI have a netbook down and would like to put Windows 7 on it using a USB stick. Thanks!
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aaraza
Please ignore my last message I was not running command prompt as Administrator!
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Saurabh Zagade
I m very very thankful to U for such HELP..
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Ben Charlton
Posted June 2, 2009 at 11:52 am | Permalink
You can follow my guide to creating a bootable usb disk under windows xp then follow this guide from 5 onwards.
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Giorell
Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Permalink
I want to ask something. Can I return my flash drive back to normal after this? Leave a tagg on my guest book or email me rather.
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murtaza
Hey..hv vista already installed on my pc..need 2 install win 7 as dual boot..i tried once dual bootin with xp bt resulted into bootin f only xp..cud u pls help me out hw 2 dual boot win 7 wid vista
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ferris
Best guide I have ever used Thank you, hats off sir.
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Bogdan
I find it funny that you say this is a 100% working guide but you dont mention that fact that the Win 7/Vista USB boot drive needs to be created on computer running Windows 7 or Vista. That should really be added to the Requirements section so you can call your guide 100% working. I seen a few comments from people saying it doesnt work because theyre trying to make the boot drive from within XP.
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Bogdan
Other than that small piece of missing information, the guid e is great!
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Jacob
(Im hoping HTML will work
trying the F:CD BOOT command (where F is my DVD drive location), it returns the following functions Firstly, from DISKPART (which you didnt say to leave, not sure if you meant to or not) Secondly, from C:\Windows\System32 (where your screenshot is taken from)
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Jacob
Sorry, images werent displayed from html Ill just explain it from C:\Windows\System32, after running the F:CD BOOT it returns a simple Parameter is incorrect. from DISKPART it gives me a list of about 25 sub commands not sure about the right word for that thankyou but, your guide seems very will explained (just having some technical issues
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Mark
Awesome work! Clear and very simple! For everyone having problems, keep in mind the guide is only for: - Windows 7 installing / not running from an USB drive - MB with USB boot support Just follow the steps. Thanks for this guide! PS:
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TSurF
Great guide cheers bro!
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Shaz
Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial I followed it all through until I boot through usb and setup program comes up. When I get to, select which drive you want the installation I cant select my usb drive it comes up with the message below: WINDOWS CANNOT BE INSTALLED TO THIS DISK. SETUP DOES NOT SUPPORT CONFIGERATION OF OR INSTALLATION TO DISKS CONNECTED THROUGH A USB OR IEEE 1394 PORT. I tried 3 different computers and a few new laptops and come up with same message. I read these forums and people successfully installing them, What am i doing wrong. Can you please Help. Ive been at this for almost 2 weeks. I can boot from usb but cant install onto it. I am trying to install vista. CAN YOU PLEASE HELP. THANK YOU
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admin
@Shaz You cant install Windows on USB using this guide. You can only use this guide to create a bootable USB and then use it as installation media.
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Shaz
Thanks a lot for fast reply. Is there a way that I can install vista onto my external hard drive? if so how is it possible. Thank you
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CMal
Thanks, this worked really well. Couldnt get my old DVD drive to read quickly/effectively enough and this did the trick! Well chuffed ;D
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Julio Bravo
It works fine, except one problem: when I run the windows7 64bits RC1 \boot\bootsect.exe in my Vista 32, it doesn`t work. I did it running from the \boot folder of the windows7 Beta1 32bits and it is OK.
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Laymain
If you have a version problem with bootsec.exe, just use bootsec.exe from a Vista DVD. Put back your Windows 7 after and continue following the guide
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Gregor
Thanks !
Have a nice day.
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xopher
very nice toot. as an Ubuntu user I enjoyed being able to do this kind of stuff from Win7 7127 on my desktop to make this 7210 for my netbook without using linux. imagine that.
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JakeDK
Great guide, thx Had a problem with step six but thats because the written command is wrong, but I figured it out when I saw the command in the scrren thx again just what I was looking for.
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Bernard
I used this method and created a USB drive for my Windows 7 installation. Works flawlessly! Oh, and the installation of Windows now takes only 8 minutes.
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Brantyr
Step 2: dont you guys know if you hit winkey + R you get the oldschool run box which automatically starts whatever you run from it with admin privledges?
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Chris
Posted July 11, 2009 at 9:44 am | Permalink
Great guide, thanks. To those, like me, that are (were) running Vista 32-bit and wanting 7 64-bit: In step 7, use bootsect.exe from your Vista CD. Barring any other issues, it will work perfectly. It did for me.
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DaveG
Posted July 11, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Permalink
Hello, TweakWindows, and thanks, but I know what you mentioned about Vista, which I AM using, I used a Sandisk 8GB and waited half an hour for the formatting process (hardly a few seconds, but I wasnt surprised, and Id like to know how you get that on a 4GB flash drive), I followed each of your steps in order twice while running an Administrator command session, with positive feedback after each command was completed, and then I reordered my BIOS boot priority (which had the same effect as hitting F12, other than F12 not requiring another BIOS session to boot normally from your hard disk again). Looks like I did everything right, and STILL I cant boot from a flash drive. I see most others have not had that problem, but I made sure that I did what you said, with the right stuff, and still I crashed with this error: BOOTMGR NOT PRESENT (or MISSING, something similar), and that was after the BOOTMGR.EXE /NT60 command completed with success! I know nothing of boot managers, much less repairing them, but I sure would appreciate a clue (wherever it is)! I am close to hopelessly frustrated on this, even if this is the best tutorial Ive seen so far, and if I cant resolve it here I will probably give up please help!
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DaveG
Ohdid I misunderstand that this is for making use of an image file? Is that not how Vista is normally distributed, on a normal DVD? I am trying to install a modified version of Vista, distributed by .iso, for two very good reasons: 1) Im on a bloatware diet, and 2) Im trying to replace what I already paid for, after it got wiped (yeah, the whole freakn disk), and if you Microsoft pirate hunters have a problem with that, then you can go impale yourselves on your own swords! To any who would clue me in on what else may be needed besides the image file (after following the above steps), or explain any non-troll reasons why this method would not work with what I am trying to do, Id be most grateful.
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Veselin Belchev
If you have Windows XP all ready installed just fallow 6. 7. 8. 9. Before this steps format your USB FLASH drive in NTFS format. Its all ready works to Windows 7 and Windows Vista
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PCLove
On #4 where the file system is being set, you can use QUICK to speed up the formatting like this: FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK Its so much faster!
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????????
Thanks! This would really help me a lot installing on Vaio Type P.
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kuld33p
I am getting a window at the installation process to select a driver. I can not go pass that.. any idea.. I tried to select windows/inf folder as well.. but no luck.. installation does not proceed.
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JonJon
Hello, Ive already tried this guide a week ago and it works. I have windows 7 in my hp mini 2140. But now I want to downgrade again back to Windows XP. Can I use this guide again? but rather than to put the windows 7 installation in the usb it would be the windows xp? Or should I search another guide for this? I havent tried it yet. I just want to ask here first before I try.
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Regards,
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konrad
it works flawleslly tnx man
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admin
Sorry, JonJon.. This guide is only for Windows 7 or Vista.
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Me
Hi, Is it possible to create a multi boot? So one can select what version to install from the same stick: Windows 7 x64 or x86 Windows Vista x64 or x86
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ive
some bios dont recognise NTFS formatted usb keys as boot device, so you might still want to format as FAT32, even if it makes your key slower
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Jean-Sbastien
Very great work! Thank you very much!
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Peter
Hi Admin, Quick question- Would this method work with my Vaio boot disk? instead of a standard windows cd. Thanks in advance.
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Mahesh
When I tried executing LIST DISK in command prompt,I couldnt find my USB drive listed in. So I couldnt proceed. Please guide me
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Shom
Excellent tutorial, thanks! If the flash drive has been previously used for as a bootable installer for a Linux distro then the MBR needs to be reset, which can be done by modifying the Step 7 command to: bootsect /nt60 H: /force /mbr This will remove the Master Boot Record so Windows boot loader will kick in, instead of Linux (GRUB).
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admin
@Peter Bootable Windows DVD or Image is required to make this happen.
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Franck
For the ones that do not want to burn a blank DVD, you can mount the .iso file you downloaded (e.g. using VirtualCloneDrive) and do the copy from there. Will give this tutorial a try shortly to get the SevenRC on my X200 (small & great but no optical drive).
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Bernard
Hi. I followed this guide to make a bootable Windows 7 usb drive a few weeks ago, and it worked perfectly! Now I have downloaded a new version of Win 7 (The RTM released just recently), and I wonder if I have to follow this guide from step 1 to remake the bootable drive, or is it enough for me to erase the content on the flashdrive and then copy from the image, the last step?
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Waqar
Nice tutorial will do installing!!
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9shares admin
usb drive will be not available when use diskpart command in windows xp. you should use vista or later versions of windows.
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Patrick
all that is necessary is to format your USB and then copy all files from the the cd/dvd(iso or whatever) to the device. Then just to be sure to boot from the device via the bios or boot selection.
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Michael
Has anyone found out a solution to the problem of it sating BOOTMGR not found. Press ctrl alt dlt to restart when trying to boot it. I cant get passed that.
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Torpido
I have a U3 Software on my USB, its basically there for Exploring and locking the USB, if i copy entire system File(U3) and then paste it back after a format for the purpose of above guide will i be able to still use it the U3, and if yes must i format it back to FAT32?
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Mark
After trying over and over i finally got it. It was bringing up my vaio recovery tools, so I had to take my hdd out of the boot order and it worked like a charm.
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Franck
Posted August 1, 2009 at 2:35 am | Permalink
I got the install to run on the X200 using the USB, but I had to deal with a cannot create or locate system partition error. That is an error linked to the usage of USB media and not DVD. If the USB is first in the BIOS, then the Custom upgrade option simply fails to find the HDD where to create the system partition (100MB) I initially wanted a dual-boot of my LenovoVista, but I had to completely format the drive finally. Once blank, I could put it first in the BIOS (since not bootable yet) and the system booted on the USB. From that tricky point, it went smoothly. This guide is great.
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9shares admin
nice article..thanks
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Yan Li
Hey, thanks for this great article. Ive used this several times already, since I felt my original windows 7 64-bit was not to my liking on my new laptop. I found out why the bootmgr is missing message was showing after correctly carrying out all the instructions. I put the Windows 7 ISO on my usb instead of the folders/files inside the Windows 7 ISO/CD!
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VladamirTOM
Posted August 7, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink
Great guide. Worked perfectly thanks a lot. Now I dont have to worry about finding a disc drive just for a folding rig.
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Kusta
If you click right, you get properties of the drive any drive and then click format. I think that will short this procedure of formating drive, for those who do not like to typing.
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Hisham
I have a problem here !! someone could help me please ?? When Im formatting the USB Drive and after it finish I got this msg: DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect. See the System Event Log for more information. Whats that supose to mean ?? Could anyone give me the solution please.
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Minh Tran
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Thanks for the guide. Perhaps you should update it with Shoms comment(#137). I was using a usb stick that formerly had the linux grub loader on it. I was getting the missing bootmgr error message until I used the /force /mbr option like Shom suggested. Also, formatting is very slow I would add the QUICK option on the format command. Although in Windows 7, I can just right click on my usb drive letter in my computer & quick format it using NTFS bypassing DISKPART altogether.
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Barry
Worked fine, though format was a little slow. Thanks for an easy to follow guide!
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Nikunj
its really works.
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Pali
Thanks for this guide! Exelent job. Thank you again! Pali from Hungary.
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Marleybrit
does this work with XP?
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Gaurav Akrani
This article is really only awesome guide which works. Worked 100% without any flaws and mind irritating drills. Please dont try this on your Windows XP Pro Operating system and waste your time. It is only for Windows Vista and/or Windows 7 Beta users. I tried it as instructed on windows 7 beta and worked like charm. Can somebody please tell me similar 100% working guide for triple booting Windows 7 + Windows XP + Ubuntu Linux. Any help in this regard is highly appreciated. Rds, Gaurav Akrani
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Tried 4 times?
Troubles I can boot from the USB stick into the Windows setup 7 fine. However, every time the computer restarts, it restarts the setup. So During the next restart I pulled the USB stick out and Windows started. The setup picked up where it left off. The green bar wasnt moving at all though. So I ran it all again I rebooted (with the USB stick plugged in), reformatted the destination drive, re-ran the full setup, pulled the stick out for the first restart You know that black screen where you can choose safe mode or regular mode? There are 2 Windows 7 options there and every time I repeat the above, it adds another Windows 7 option. What am I missing?? Thanks for any help.
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Tried 4 times?
Oh hey! Never trust a green bar It worked after a loooong time.
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Chris Leiter
Step 6 works more efficiently if you enter it as one line: CD /D D:\Boot
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NoR3N
thx a lot You save me many Hours from searching external dvd drivers Perfect JOB!!!
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RnR
Very good, Im going to boot it in a few seconds from nowTHANX
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CK117
If you have problems with the BOOTSECT.exe part, just add /force to the end.
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Robert
Thanks a bunch for this tute, it has saved me hours of frustration and bad words. I created a USB install and will use it tonight on my guinea pig system.
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JB
Thanks the format took ages on my 16gb cruzer Also, my source was an ISO of the x64 RTM build. First try, I mounted this with MagicISO and copied files with explorer had a problem with a missing file boot\bcd, so I started again, but used 7-zip to extract the iso, and am now through with the install, which flew by in just 20 or so minutes. I think that copying files from the magiciso mounted iso was not the ideal way to go 7-zip seems to have done the trick for me.
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JONNYK
GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!!!! Go to device manager and go to properties and select policies, and select the better Performance the bottom one for you to use the BOOTSEC.EXE part. You might have to reboot. I also suggest you use KILL U3 utility for san disk.
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Mindslight
Thanks ! Johannes from France
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Josh
Excellent stuff. I tried following other sites instructions only to find they didnt even create the boot sector. This worked like a charm. Thanks!
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Anonyme
Damnit, cant do it on a x64 Win7 DVD from XP 32 :/
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rockystuud
Hi ! Thanks. It works fine . Thanks a lot for your effort and clear instructions.
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jiji
FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) This is bad . Very bad. It doesnt take few seconds. It does take very many seconds. Formatting quick is much faster and enough (I already did to this stick two times before) . Please correct.
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David Amison
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Just tryed it worked perfectley thanx!!!!!!!
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YASEEN
Posted September 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Permalink
AWESOME!!!
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vagothcpp
Posted September 5, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink
Replace format fs=ntfs with format fs=ntfs quick to make it format faster.
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Harris
thanks bro..
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JHANU
thanks man thats ur great work keep on doing..
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Dan Berger
For those of having the 32/64 bit problem, just follow the beginning of the guide and after you finish formating, copy & paste (drag and drop) the contents of the dvd (which you can virtually mount on your hdd) onto the usb stick. it will be bootable and will work!
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Zak
hai dude it really works great. can u also tell me how to create an live pendrive (like live cd).
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e
work like magic Thanks alot Keep posting !
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klokluider
XP users follow this method: Just for completion 1. First create your bartpe files using UBCD4WIN 2. after you have done that create your usb flashdrive using UBUSB point to the files of your bartpe be sure you check create cd image and let de default Z in place check if you have selected the right drive press go after finished you have a bootable usb drive which is able to get in a xp environment. 3. Now copy the content of your win XP CD to a folder XPCD on the flash drive (x:\xpcd) 4. after copying boot the drive in the PC and select Compatibility Mode (Memory Mapped) 5. after finished you select the commandline and type X:\XPCD\i386\Winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource 6. first enter the xpkey and name of the computer and region then click next 7. Now youre asked if you want to upgrade to the XP NTFS filesysten, select NO for this then hit Next. 8. Itll now see Copying installation files and the familiar green progress bar. Shortly after Copying Installation Files is complete, setup will close without notice or any type of prompt, this is normal. 9. remove the flash drive and Reboot your computer and setup will continue from the hard drive where you can choose to install XP or do a repair install if XP is already installed. http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11375&st=570
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Malone
Working. Perfect. Thanks for it, amazing work. Kingston 8GB Windows 7 RC
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on Dell Optiplex GX270, BIOS A07 Only little mistake at point 6: Quote: D:CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. The right command is: D: CD Boot Need space between D: and CD BOOT See screenshot.
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Simran
I have installed windows seven using the method provided by you but I am not able to play my pen drive in my car CD player. I mean when I try to play songs in my car, it do not work now. Please give a solution.
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Malone
@Simran Format, and write songs again on it. FAT32 will be OK.
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acme
do you have to copy the entire contents of the win7 disk? my thumbdrive isnt that big.
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jj
D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: D:\boot> Any suggestions?
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cj
i will tell you one thing,this is the first advice i have gotten from that internet that works perfectly,i wanted to upgrade my pc to 7 so i formated my vista not knowing that my cd rom was messed,so i was running out of options to install 7 until i saw this and i saw all the instryctions carefully,here i am with my pc typing this and my pc is perfectly in shape,thank you very much,you are a saviour
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admin
@Acme Yup. You need to copy all the contents you your thumbdrive.
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Faisal
Posted October 3, 2009 at 8:08 pm | Permalink
good job. my laptop dont have DVD drive. Thanks for the post
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widL
Posted October 13, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink
I love this guide, it works flawlessly. Thanks for sharing!
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vietha
It works like a charm thx alot
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Scott L
I would just like to let anyone and everyone in here know that I specifically followed this guide yesterday for XP and it worked. http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/install-windows-xp-on-mini-note-usb.html Since the comments here are confusing : NOTE this guide is not to create a Win 7 USB stick under XP but to actually make a Windows XP stick under Windows XP to install XP, it worked for me and seemed to have the least amount of fiddling.
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- Enjoy.
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licitatii
very nice tutorial but please help me. Everithing works well but when its go to drive option(where you format you disk) it ask about a device driver to load and install ?????? What to do? setup cannot continue
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marvin carter
you most do these commands in windows safe mode to avoid the Access denied message.
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Martin
Hello, I have the folders for Windows 7, and I want to burn a DVD to install from (I need to format my PC, so I cant just install from within XP). However, I cant just burn the files to the DVD, cus then it wont let me boot from it. Any ideas on how to do just that? How do I make it bootable?
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Jackson
So.. can I still used the usb drive after this? Can I reformat it to fat32?
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Zaino
hey really great guys, but i couldnt show my usb drive in step LIST DISK only the local drivers please help.
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mugurelu
Can i use an external hard drive? A partition of it from which to install w7?
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admin
@ mugurelu Since you are going to create a bootable drive, you need to format the drive completely. So, you cant use just one partition. And about external drive, it should work fine (I have tested on flash drives only).
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admin
@ Jackson You should be able to format it with FAT 32 or NTFS.
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ceeque
simply does not work. One of the main reasons being is you have typed out the commands in the text differently to what you have input into the command screen, you have ommitted the spaces in your text yet placed spaces in the command prompt, and even after correcting those errors all you get is:bootsect.exe is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file Yet another waste of yours and my time
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Vandit
Thank you very much for sharing this trick. My DVD of Win 7 was corrupt & I was not able to install. Then after searching on net I got your trick & applied on my USB. It successfully worked & Win7 was installed in less than 30mins with all drivers. I would be really happy to help you if you need any help in future. Once again Thanks.
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Andy Mac
Great share, thanks. Worked on my DVD-less home server, saved me alot of time. Only problem I had was my systems BIOS settings, missing USB option in the boot order, but did let me enable boot from USB, just needed to remove memory stick at the right times during restarts. Thanks again.
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JM
If you have XP do this instead of diskpart: 1) 2) 3) 4) Right click on the USB drive and click format. Run a quick format Open up DOS box and type convert i: /fs:ntfs (Where I is your USB drive latter) After that goto step 5 on this list
Works great in XP
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Anasazi
I just tried to install win7 using this guide but when I tried to boot from the usb drive it said bootmgr is missing. But I did every step here and the bootsect command was successful.
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Raul
Thanks, a great walktrough!
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Zack
Hello, If you are running Windows 7 already you can just go into Computer and then format it like you regularly would format a usb drive as NFTS. It saves quite a bit of time and basically cuts this process in half.
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Xerxz
What if i dont have the cd and i just have the files on my pc what do i do then??? any help would be much appreciated.
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admin
If you have Windows 7 ISO, you need to extract it first to a folder and then to the USB.
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CHINMAY
what if i hav 2 install windows xp??
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John
Thanks dude, worked great!
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Ralph R
I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and selected my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is there a way for me to restore the partition and data on the slave that I inadvertently cleaned and partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot!
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Ralph R
I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and selected my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is there a way for me to restore the partition and data on the slave that I inadvertently cleaned and partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot!
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Doron
Posted November 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Permalink
This worked awesomely on vista. Thank you very much. But how does one reverse the procedure? Do I simply reformat the USB shtick?
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WiZoOo
Posted November 6, 2009 at 2:19 am | Permalink
awesome guide, works for me with win 7 oem bie final x86. thanks alot dude!
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tristian o'brien
nice one, thanks.. the BOOTSECT command made my usb drive become a viable source to install Windows 7 on an Asus EEE Pc.
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Diptiman
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Its not that cool dear. I am trying to do the same(i mean using bootsect.exe) from Vista. Still there is a problem saying Your version of bootsect.exe is not compatible with the current version of windows. Please suggest. Thanks
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admin
@ Diptiman If you trying to create a Windows 7 or Vista on Vista/7 you should not face any such problems. And if you trying to create a bootable USB of Vista/XP/7 on XP, you will see error.
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Eugene Ishchenko
Thank you for this wonderfull solution. Its easy and worked for me.
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Alex
HELOO ,I HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN I PUT F:/BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 I: IT SAYS THAT COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIETED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:ACCES DENIED WHAT TO DO PLS HELP
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Michael
Hi there, for all the people having problems at step 6 try this 6. Type in the cmd window CD/DVD DRIVE LETTER: and press enter i.e. D: Then Type CD BOOT and press enter Then proceed with step 7 Hope this helps
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Tomasz
I did EXACTLY as it says and my netbook doesnt wanna boot from USBI checked BIOS settings couple of times and it is set to boot from removable devicewhich is correct I guessno idea what to do
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Tomasz
OK I found it.when EEE PC starts you need to press ESC key in case to display BOOT DEVICE SELECTION menu
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Chase
For those having problems with access is denied during the bootsect command, be sure to open cmd exactly as mentioned in the instructions. I assumed that being logged on as an administrator or using /runas was sufficient, but I guess things are different in Vista/Windows 7.
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hicom5
problem: Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. answer: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe On the pop-up right click context menu, select Run as Administrator
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Jason
100% working confirmed! Thanks for the tutorial it was easy, and accurate.
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Navster
Brilliant Guide Worked a Treat.
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NICERED
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Any method to know your win7 and vista compatibility (x64, x86) before installing win7?
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Euphie
Have you made the XP guide yet?
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admin
@Nicered You can use official Windows 7 upgrade advisor (its free) tool to check compatibility issues. Here is the link: http://www.intowindows.com/test-your-pc-software-compatibility-with-windows-7-usingwindows-7-upgrade-advisor-final/
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Lurvinzy Andrew
Hi~ Thanks for the tutorial currently copying the files hope it works!
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ahmed
I LOVE YOU!!! my cd drive doent work so USB was the only option. GREAT TUTORIAL!!!
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Andrew J. COwell
Worked as advertised on my Dell Mini 9.
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dsfjdifja
why do all this when you can just make virtual cd drive and boot from it? 2 minutes work lol.
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Please Help me !
Hi, Please help !!! Here what I have done: 1.Download Windows 7 iso file,which I put it in isoBuster and extracted. 2.Coz I have listen it is better to make clean instalation,I bought new WD external HDD-Passport Studio 500 Gb and put it all information from my PC to HDD (around 90Gb very important data + windows 7 of course)! 3.I run cmd and get in DOS - diskpart - list disk (coz there were nothing,not disk 1,2,3-i just select disk 1-don`t ask me why,coz i don`t know for myself,coz i am stupid!!!) - select disk 1 - clean After i wrote clean,I discconect usb cable,coz I afraid-what does clean means!!?? For god sake-i have all informations from last 6 years on my external hard disk Now,my WD doesn`t work,everything is ok in drive manager,when i conecct usb cable there is the external usb hard drive showed up on the Safely Remove Hardware list right down,but I can not enter into the disk-inside and I am so affraid and desperate and don`t know what to do How you can see,I am bigginer,but please tell me what is the best solution for me to do now and to don`t lose my data on WD (if i already didn`t lost Please,please help-with days I don`t know what to do. My e-mail is via_makedonia yahoo dot com please write me there. What I have tried: coneccting my WD with 3 dieferent cables-usb and firewire in dieferent ports. installing drivers from wd site When I check Device Manager it shows that the device is installed and working properly but it will not show in my computer and I cant access it. before the problem,my HDD appeard as drive H: I wouldnt be half as frustrated if it hadnt been working properly before this.Plus-ALL data is on my HDD,and I don`t even know if it is still there I do it this: 2 Step Solution for XP users: Part 1: Go to Control panel -> Performance and Maintenance (cannot be in classic view to see this link) -> Administrator Tools -> Services -> Universal Plug and Play If Universal Plug and Play is set to manual switch to automatic. Part 2
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Double Click Safely Remove icon on the bottom right-> Select device->click Properties -> click Volumes -> click Populate -> hit OK -> if nothing shows it may need to be formatted Also i was in DISK MANAGEMENT,but except formating disk,I don`t see solution And formating will erase all data on the disk,isn`t it?! (if i have it,of course). again nothing Thanks in advance !!!!!!
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pawan
Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink
great work . thanks a lot
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pawan
great job . thanx a lot.
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carl
have tried your process a few times with vista and 7 and works great but whilst installing windows i get an error code 080070241? any ideas why i get this code. pls help
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Aaron
Posted December 2, 2009 at 12:43 am | Permalink
Finally found a method that works. This actually works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, awesome.
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Throwlands
I just finished assembling a new computer that only has SATA connections and all I have are PATA CDROM drives. Your guide saved me from spending money on a drive Id only need once. Many thanks.
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Blake
I did every step right and got the right results. Even the Bootsect.exe part. it told me it successfully created it. i went to boot desktop from USB and STILL got the BOOTMGR is missing. Now i did it with vista from XP and it worked great. i had the vista install cd. now from vista to 7 its different. its an .iso file. is that why i cant make it work?
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Kevin
When I get to step 6 and type CD BOOT, I receive an error message: They system can not find the specified path I have a crappy Sony upgrade CD and it is not bootable. Could that be why I get that message? If the CD is not bootable, does that mean I can not create a bootable CD?
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Todd
I cant thank you enough.. my dvd-rom has been down, tryed fixing with the filter delete but computer still doesnt recognize it, but it spins up at start up, I can put dvd in and it acts like it wants to but nothin..(yes all the bios stuff been checke, enabled and so on) so needless to say this little fix has been a God sent.. Works like a champ.. the only think that didnt work was Format fs=ntfs I formated it the old fashed way.. and in step 6. D:CD Boot I had to do CD/Boot amazing how that little / makes all the difference I was a computer with xp and a good dvd drive to set up a third drive to boot from and re-install vista on my laptop.. Thx again..
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Chris
This is an excellent guide for anyone and I am very greatful you took the time to do this. Quick note that may confuse people, in step 6 where it states D:CD BOOT should be D: CD BOOT as shown in the screen shot.
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Thank you for the brilliant guide!!!
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vaitheeswaran
Hey Thanks Man , for your help. and i dont understand onething. how do u find about disk 1 or disk 2 of usb . explain that dude. thanks in advance
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vaitheeswaran
hi again one more doubt. BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: ? so my usb drive name is 1201(E) i have to type 1201 E: or must type NT60 E: ?
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Gabe
Works great, thanks.
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Johnathan M Camien
I am not sure if this is posted but for everyone that has the CD as an ISO file you can use MagicISO to mount the ISO file to a virtual drive so that the system sees it as a CD/DVD. then just use that drive letter in place of the CD/DVD drive letter in the guide. Worked like a charm for me.
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Saleem
everything went fine. booted on the flash drive, but cant partition using win 7. installation stopped there. what to do? tried it on asus Eee mini.
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Pown
i get a disk read error occurred when i try to boot from the usb i followed the guid and it should work, whats wrong?
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matthew
worked great. thanks.
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waseem
I had a problem in start. As in window Xp in command prompt Diskpart command LIST DISK doesnot show usb as disk. It shows it as volume. kindly guide me whats the problem. Regards
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killak
Hey, great guide! Before I start I wanted to confirm something; when Im done, if I want to use the pen drive again, I just format it from My Computer right?
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RS232
Thanks for this wonderful how to..GRRRRRRREATTTTT!!!
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PARAS
INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH ALL THIS PROCESS WE CAN JUST USE WIN2FLASH APPLICATION FROM WIN2FLASH.COM OR JUST CAN GOOGLE WIN2FLASH AND EASILY GET IT. I AM USING WIN2FLASH FOR SOME TIME AND BEST PART IT CAN INSTALL WINDOWS XP AS WELL AS WIN 7 BOTH FROM USB PEN DRIVE.
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TESTED BY ME ON ACER LAPTOP(7), HCL LEAPTOP(2), AROUND 19 DESKTOPS
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Gregory
Thank you very much!!! It took a lot of configuring and restarts but I finally managed to recover my OS with zero data loss. After I back up my stuff, Ill be installing Win7 using microsofts boot tool.
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RPJ
Worked perfectly. Used it on a 4Gb SD card with a USB SD reader to install Win7 64-bit on an Acer laptop. Many thanks.
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CrabQuiche
If you are doing this guide from XP, use the HP USB Flash Disk Format tool instead of steps 3 and 4. This is because XPs DiskPart Tool does not support The NTFS Formatting for USB flash disks. Thank you for a great guide. I am working on a tool which does it all for you, called 7toUSB.
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Piyush
If u get this message Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. goto C:/Windows/System32/ (before doing anything (or before running DISKPART) right click on cmd.exe Run as administrator (just second option) and repeat whatevr is given in this website..DONE
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teejay
A disc read errorplz help me.i changed the BIOS priority to USB HDD.there were other options USB FDD,USB CDROM,USB ZIP.
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Jake
Thank you very much, this worked perfectly for me.
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kamlesh
it is very very helpful for me. thanks.
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david dizzle
I have a question for you, I have done this guide over and over again different ways on different operating systems and I cant get it to work, I am wanting to install windows 7 iso on my desktop pc which is an xp machine. I changed the bios boot sequence so it detects the usb first actually I made them all usb and it still gos straight through the boot sequence and right into the xp bootup screen. I dont know what to do please help. thank you, david
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admin
@ David Dizzle It seems your PC doesnt support USB booting, or your Windows 7 ISO is not bootable.
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david dizzle
If it doesnt support usb booting then why is it an option in the boot sequence?
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andrew panda
this works like a charm, did a vista install from usb. thanks!!!
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chacha
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Could not map drive partitions to the associate volume device object: Access is denied. This happened right after bootsect.exe/nt60 E: (The usb key is considered by the comp as drive E) I tried the so-called easier guide link, it couldnt even find an iso file in the windows 7 files. (Its on a cd) And i know there is nothing wrong with the windows 7 cd, i just used it last night to install it on my uncles comp, which is where ive been trying to go through this guide) I need it on a usb key so i can install it on MY notebook. Help anyone?
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chacha
Okay so, access isnt denied anymore. but it still says the same thing besides that
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Senior47
Thanks for this easy tutorial! Now, just a easy question!-) On my USB-pen drive there is space enough for both the 32 and 64 bits version of windows 7. Would it be possible to have a menu from which one could choose which OS to install? A new easy tutorial maybe!-)
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JaFar
Thanks Chase (post 226) finally found that out and was going to post with solution but seen yours. Took me 20 minutes to realize that you have to right click and run as admin in Vista and 7
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hnnn
thanks man for this guide!
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rik
hey i got an iso file i downloaden from school (we get free software there) and i cannot do step 5 is that a problem? and i got an iso file when i want to select is with the dvd usb tool program it said that it is not valid can anyone helpe me?
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toderu
Hello, great work, for saving time you can use format fs=ntfs quick that can save some time if you have a big usb stick.
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CroatianBoy
Hello and BIG THANKS FROM CROATIA 100% WORKING, EASY AND FAST WAY TO INSTALL WINDOWS WITHOUT DVD
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Z1pp3r
This is AMAZING! THNX MAN! Nice Tutorial! Keep doing making tuts like this!
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Sam
Just thought others should know, command in step 7 must have a space after EXE As published BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:
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This works BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (shown in the screen cap correctly) Sam
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triple six
thankx its work.
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Brody
Well, accidentally formatted my external HDD with my movie library, .ISO library, and all of my pictures on it, but, my fault.
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KIRITH SIVA
HEY, MUCH APPRECIATED! GREAT TUTORIAL! AND IT WORKS!! YOU SAVED ME SOME DOLLARS. THANKS VERY MUCH! KIRITH SIVA.
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Paul
Man After days of searching and trial and error, FINALLY this is a guide that WORKS! I have just installed Windows 7 on my netbook and I am sooooo freakin happy. I blog about computers, software and web development in German and I would like to ask your permission to translate this guide into German and publish it on my blog. With full credits to you and a link to the original guide of course.
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Nathan
Great guide, but MS has now made it much easier for us: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
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Vaidy Mohan
Awesome. I could restore my system from what you could call as disaster. Thanks so much. Vaidy
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Ahir @nurag
thank for this update.all of u.. any new update so mail me this mail id.. i will wait your reply.
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Brandon
This worked flawlessly for upgrading my wifes PC. She had a DVD ROM drive that refused to be recognized and this was an awesome work-around and super fast. Thanks!
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somebody
go here for these things in a nutshell from micro$oft http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
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lucy
you cant copyright anything in the command prompt screenshots that you did using MSFT instructions for this process. dolt.
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Michiel
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About step 6: D: CD BOOT The CD BOOT is not doing anything. Just D: is enough, anything after that is ignored. For the rest: thanks for the guide, its really helpful for a lot of people I think.
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renren
nice i will try this
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XAce
Thank you,Streamlined instructions,it worked perfectly.
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Robbie
hey it wont let me do the last command, BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F: , my flash drive is f and it says could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied???????.. what do i need to do
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slownie
Excellent work, thank you. This is good help the beginner users. Many thanks bye slownie
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zdarova
i had some problems at the begining, as i have raid 0 with amd southbridge. so guys, for Windows 7 x64 you need the folder /boot from a 32 bit dvd instalation if you want to prepare the usb drive on a 32bit PC (i used from the DVD of RC win 7 a had from may 2009) it worked fine, i tried first with an Ultimate version x64 now i want to install the Profession Win 7, because i have the license from the university for it thanks!
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kk kangan
great.. thank you. it worked like a charm.
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khang
you should clarify step 5 for those who dont have the windows dvd. Mounting an image isnt something everyone knows about. Like myself, I am assuming most people who are gonna use this guide only have the .iso file and not the dvd.
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Patryk
;( well, mine went bad, really bad, my disk 1 was my second hdd (i realized that after) u should add how to discover what disk is the usb, ive deleted all my most important files;( i reached active, i didnt made format, is there a way to take back my stuff?
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John
Worked Perfectly. I can now have the great W7 on my laptop with a burned up DVD drive, lol
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Paul Smith
Worked perfectly. Thank you.
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Sinner
This is stupid, I didnt have to do all this crap, all I did was format my 4GB flash drive in fat 32 format, copy the contents if the Windows 7 DVD contents to the USB flash drive. And then set the bios to boot from flash. all done with my mouse, no diskpart or cmd prompt.
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maseo
@khang, if you only have the .iso file of windows 7 and not the dvd, (install power iso trial-free online), nxt double click .iso image and it appears in power iso, in toolbar of power iso click on mount select 1 drive(in drop out menu) follow a couple of prompts and its mounted.nxtgo to my computer and you will see a virtual drive(DVD Drive) their with the windows 7 in it, right click on it and explore(or open in new window) all the files are their and you can now copy them to your pen drive. a much easier and quicker way is (assuming you have power iso installed) is simply right click on .iso image and mount from their, my computer, explore or opencopy files//simple really,
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maseo
@ patryk if you didnt get as far as format then you should be able to recover files, im assuming your disc drive has dissapeared from my computer?? if so, go to start menu>>type partition in search bar (dont hit enter) clcik on the create and format partitions file>>a box will appear and take a minute or 2 to load in all your partitions..once loaded you should see your missing partition/driveif so right click on it..select change drive letter and paths,>>select add from the nxt pop up box>>type a letter in, make sure the letter is not assigned to any other resources (egzampletype letter R ) once you put the letter in, just click ok, your partition should be back as normal now in my computer.
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steve
This works like a charm. If your having problems try the other easy installation that he has posted on the link at the top of the page. That one has only 4 steps that u follow. In any case both of these installation guides have my 5 star rating*****
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SANRocks
very very tankssssssssssssssssssssmy rateing is 5*****
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lenny
it worked you are a star i bought my note book for 50 coz it wouldnt load up,, best 50 ive spent in a long time thanks to your help,,, cheers
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Omega
1st off, nice tutorial! I used my iPod touch as a flash disk, and used ultraiso to make the image<so far so good, everything loads but I get a message stating that 'device drivers are missing' [paraphrased] I read around and it looks like it may be cd/DVD not being supported, but I'm installing from USB, no need for DVD drive help pleez
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le
that sir, simply put, is the bollox, TUVM
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antonio
Hi, does this steps will reformat my flash drive?
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admin
@Antonio Yes, it will format your drive.
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Geoff
Worked perfectly!!! The funny thing was my Windows 7 Ultimate DVD was scratched, so I tried to use my Windows 7 Home and that didnt fit on my 4gig USB stick. Than I tried an 8 Gig microSD card and that did fitand booted perfectly on my Asus R1600. Thanks for really well written and detailed instructions.
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Victor Aroma
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This tutorial is awesome! Thanks for the helpful tips. Cheers, Victor Aroma
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Rohit
Perfect .. 10/10 ! Thanks for sharing this valuable info ..
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duncan
my netbook is 32 bit and my win7 is 64bit.. im wondering if this can be installed.. and if it cant can yyou please tell me how i could upgrade my netbook to 64bit?
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xkovi
The easiest way how to install Win7/Vista from usb is just to format your USB stick (from windows, no cmd line needed!) and extract files from *.iso into root of your USB stick.nothing elsetested million times
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zorzer
thx! 100% working like you said
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SG
Thanks a lot! The MS tool kept erroring out when trying to create a bottable USB installer from the DVD. However your instructions worked like a charmThanks!
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aj
Although there are a couple of tools out there to help simplify this process, I just ran across a new one that works under XP as well. Bootsage is another nice utility to add to your toolbelt. http://firesage.com/bootsage
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The-Stoic
You are a legend. Got a SFF here and no DVD or CD-Dom. Used your instructions to get Windows Home server up and running. Thanks for the info.
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noneya bizness
yea, this is stupid..just format and copy windows 7 files to usbDONE
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Harry
Thx dude !
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Moosewad
once i hit format fs=ntfs it just says 0 percent and stays there. Help!!
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lakshay
I am not getting my pendrive disk number. when i type list disk only disk 0 is visible i have tried on all USB ports
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Vicky
Excellent guide. I need to save this site on my pc. Extremely useful and helpful
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Thanxs.
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DG3
Thanks for the guide ^^ verry usefull! You saved me from CD/DVDs with windows and others!
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khizer
nice work!!! can anyone tell me how to put xp in the usb and make it bootable..please thanks
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deo
In case you get error message Access Denied in the last step you may need to start Virtual Disk service from Start->Run->services.msc
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Richard Borg
Excellent tutorial worked like a charm! Thanks!
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ralph
Really helpful. thnx
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padam
You should really give the _original author_ credit, instead of pretending like you wrote this guide yourself. Just a couple of weeks after its posted here: link removed You turn around and post it here. You can try to deny it, but its the _exact_ same steps in the _exact_ same order, on top of using the _exact_ same commands, again, in the _exact_ same order. Plagiarism is baaaaaad.
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admin
@Padam How can you say that just because order of commands are same? You know, one cant create a bootable disk by entering those commands in random order. So steps will be same if you refer other sites too. I cant blame other sites for that right? You need to execute the step 1 first and then 2.. You cant reverse it!
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Kevin Woley
Looks like you guys did a great job copying the instructions from here: link removed Way to pass it off as your own. Kevin
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padam
just because [...]? Its kinda cute how you ignored the other points. The order of the commands is important, but they do _not_ have to be executed in that exact order. Furthermore, Im even more convinced you have no idea what any of the commands posted do as youre misleading users into thinking that bootsect doesnt work on XP installs or vista installs with XP as the target. Its a matter of changing the /n60 argument to /nt52 for it to use the master boot code thats compatible with NTLDR (rather than BOOTMGR, which is what Vista/7 uses). To quote you in case you decide to go deleting it: This guide doesnt work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7.. [snip]
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admin
@Kevin I dont know what to say! For your kind information, Microsoft has given the how to make bootable usb in its WinPE help guide. Do download and read it before making such comments.
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AbhishekDatta
AWESOME man! solved my prob. I AM YOUR FAN NOW
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padam
The fact that you removed the link to his blog from both of our posts speaks volumes in itself. There are other links all throughout the comments on this page, _none_ of which have been removed. kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345 Leave it up this time, let the users make their own decision as who stole it from who.
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admin
@Padam I have deleted the links just because I dont allow readers to post links in comments. You might get two or three links in the whole comment section (in this post). And mind that I could have deleted your comments if i had done so. Hope you got it. Also note that I will be deleting your future comments as I dont like to argue on a useless topic.
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Andy
@admin y wasting time on useless things/people.. plzz help me out through the problem soon..
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Rob
Works perfect. Thank you very much for youre efforts!
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Andrew
If you have the following error: COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED Then when you opened your command prompt you did not right-click and run as admin.
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Peje
Working fine & smooth.thanks for the tutorial!
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Sanjay
Thank you very much..it is working fine..
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mwawe
im trying to make a usb with Win7 64bit my OS is Win7 32bit and i have problem in step 7. system sayid: version of F:\boot\bootsect.exe is proper with version running on this PC. anyone know what to do ??
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mwawe
correct:!!!!!
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version F:\boot\bootsect.exe is NOT proper with.
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MTL
Great guide. For those of us who are not builders or very familiar with computers, including a detailed step on how to change the boot priority in BIOS from HDD or CD to USB would make this guide complete Thanks for your time and effort on what is here though Much appreciated!
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Diego Freniche
Thanks! After trying a lot of tutorials, this one WORKED. Ive finished installing my Asus 904 HD Thanks again!
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Sathya
Thanks a lot!!!! It worked good for me Only thing you could further mention is that diskpart doesnot recogonise removable storsge in xp it works only in vista (or) win 7.
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visions
CD BOOT Problems you need to *press ctrl c then type the commands below 100% working for me now D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
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shakir
superb expalanation. anyone will easily understandkeep it up..
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Huy Nguyen
Excellent Works great for me Thanks
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underworld666
Really great!!! This tips works fine for me. Thanks!
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david
i cannot burn cds or photos onto a disc when i try it says put disc into cd drive d .Thanks if you can help me
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Oleg
Hi Thanks a lot for info. Can I have both, vista and win7 on usb stick at the same time? Just out of interest. Thanks
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RM
Posted April 2, 2010 at 7:05 am | Permalink
I did this from a Windows 7 computer and was able to install Windows 7 from USB with no issues at all. Well done!
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Patatattat
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I did this process on a SATA SSD 16gb harddrive I had, and it worked!
Beautiful.
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Rishad
Thanks Alot man, This is very usefull for me. Thanks buddy
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Rajesh
Man, just worked like a charm in the second try. First try I had error COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT: ACCESS IS DENIED Solution: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe On the pop-up right click context menu, select Run as Administrator Repeated all the steps once again.. and Voila thanks a lot my Friend..
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Tim
Thank you very much! Great detail!
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Skyler
I did all the steps up until 5 now I was wondering I dont have Win 7 on a disk just on my hardrive can I just copy over to my USB at this point? and would I still have to change the Bios settings?
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Amos
Hi, excellent instructionsIm almost there but when i run format fs=ntfs I get the following error message right at the end of the format.. 100 percent completed diskpart has encountered an error the parameter is incorrect have you seen this before and if so any suggestions? im on Vista
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Amos
actually you cant continue with the instructions, if you try assign you get There is no volume specified. Please select a volume and try again
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Krim
When I put the usb in, it gets to the boot screen and says BOOTMGR IS MISSING and Ive repeated the BOOTSECT steps already.
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Hannibal
Thanks for the tutorial, it work perfectly. i also have a WINDOWS 7 AIO DVD 33 in 1 i had put together and put that on a USB too, also works perfectly. thanks again
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Hannibal
TO AMOS make sure you fill all details in CAPITAL LETTERS and just take your time to go through it again.
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Zaid rohid
i hv problem with this technic.. the command sound like this.. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects : Access is denied. someone please help me.
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VolN
To Zaid try to run cmd.exe as administrator and it will be fixed
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Harjinder Singh
u r the best men i think bcz u simply tell us the setp for install window frm usb.anybody easily do it. thanx for ue help.
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miro
You need to add > Type EXIT < To exit the diskpart after formatting. Like this: 5. Type EXIT to exit DISKPART 6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following command now: D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. Otherwise very helpful indeed Thanks
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izdelava spletnih st
Great article! Helped my friends laptop
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leahcim
i gotta try vpc mode tnx LeAhCiM
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Zaid rohid
THANK YOU !!!
YOU ARE THE GREAT!
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hamedshaik
try dis guyz its vry easy http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-vista-or-xp-usb-flashpendrive-with-a-single-click-must-try/
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Derick
insert the usb flash drive hit any key depending your pc you have to go to the system bios
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Omni
Works with doing a quick format aswell, as it takes long time to do a regular. Super guide!
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Mohamed
This excellent work / / / I will by experience
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ferpuj
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Try wintoflash and forget all your usb problem, all you need installation cd win7/vista/xp wintoflah and usb stick 4gb for 7/vista 2gb for xp drivers and stripcan do it later.
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mani
now microsoft provide their own tool to create a bootable usb drive to install windows vista/7 /2008/2008-R2
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Waqas Muhammad Akash

32 bit and 64 bit. This method works on both vista and win7. either 32 bit or 64 bit. now because 64 bit capacity is more than 32 installation CD or DVD. I have 16 GB card. On this card i have win 98 win me win professional 2000 win server 2003 win NT networks win xp ( all in 1 ) home, professional, media center edit win vista (all in 1) win 7 ( all in 1 ) 32 bit and 64 bit is only win 7. above rest os are only 32 bit I have installed too many times on different system different os what customer ask for it. via using this memory card.. simply booting and them select from the list what i need to install then after that setup for that windows will run up..and so go on. waqas _ akash AT yahoo DOT com if some one need please send me personal email.
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litesh
tnx i like it
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litesh
sir after installing windows i got error on pendrive that window was unable to format nw ho to format it into fat again.
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Madhur Makwana
Thanx man.. great work..
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Bill Gates
Thanks man. Worked a treat!
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setu
May be I am in biggest trouble of my life with computer, I was following your steps without knowing that my main backup data hdd (500gb) was attached and I follow all the steps till the formatting .where I realized I have formatted the wrong one..and if I dont get my data back I will be at zero.al my work and everything was in it n I dont have a dvd back up as well..i know its stupid fuced up situation any help will be life saver.please pls..get me out of this..
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admin
@Setu You can try EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard free edition to get back your data. I hope you will get back your data.
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anon
After copying is complete, delete the file ei.cfg to make all Windows varients available.
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oxygen
or HP USB Format Tool
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Matt
OMG, this works so well, thanks, i have tried so many other guides and they did work. THANKS
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Benjamin
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To anyone else still having the error in DiskPart, you MUST right click the CMD shortcut within your Accessories folder and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR. Otherwise, permission denied errors.
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Suneev
I put forward my warm thanks for the help this post provided me. This process is working fine with windows 7 Thanks Again Suneev suneev.lpu@gmail.com
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Michael
Ive used this guide before with success, but its not working this time. Every time I type in cd boot, I get an error message stating The system cannot find the path specified. Ive already tried two computers and I get the same message. I also tried replicating the exact steps I did the first time by using a virtual drive, but that isnt working either. Whats wrong?
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azhk
Thanks a lot for the excellent guide!
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Robin
After step 7 it shows an error stating Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied Any idea how to solve this problem?
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Peter
Thanks for the article, worked perfectly.
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Dennis
Thanks! Works great!
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somu
In the step 5 you had mentioned insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive but what if i dont have optical drive, i am unable to go further this step.
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MAN WITH NO NAME

GREAT WORK THANK YOU !
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Thankful29l
Very well written guide, woks like charm Thank you
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ander
This is a good article, but it has an error. It says: > > > > > > > 6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step. Type the following command now: D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
What you meant to say was: 6. At the prompt, switch to your DVD drive. For example, if your DVD drive is drive D, type: D:
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then press Enter. 7. Type CD BOOT and press Enter, to see the message below. (I would make typing CD BOOT a separate step.) Cheers, Ander
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Taleeno
I did this the first time and it worked fine- But i copied the wrong version of Win7 which had expired. Do i need to run command prompt again for the newer version or can i just copy the files over from the new DVD and go straight away?
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mezvix
for windows xp users format usb with petousb tool you can get by googling around and runbootsect as instructed , other wise boodsectis also available standalone on many websites to make usbs bootable .it even supports making xp bootable usb
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SATADRU
HEY GUYS JUST MOUNT THE WIN 7 ISO FILE IN DEMONS TOOL IN XP AND INSTALL IT TO THE PARTITION U LIKE.THERE IS NO NEED TO USE ANY DVD OR USB PENDRIVE.ANY PROBLEM!! MAIL ME satadruhalder@yahoo.co.in..
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joseph
Todo funcion a la perfeccin. Gracias !!
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Santhosh
thank youdis is very interesting..
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Ahmad Bukhori
work wonderfull on my external hard drive thank you.
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Brad
Just awesome. Very nicely done, easy to understand and exactly what I was after.
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Raeef
Thanks, I used it on my Sony Vaio upgrade media on my NW180J It worked perfectly.
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Harsha Madushan
Thanx a lot !!! work perfectly Use full for me.
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Anurag
EXCELLENT GUIDE THANK U VERY MUCHit worked in first time
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Victor Fernandes
Sir, At present I am using Windows XP which I would like to replace by Windows 7. Please help me to install Windows 7 on my computer. Thanking you.
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raksmey
thank you post is very useful for me. but does it work?
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Hudson
Im currently at the copying files to USB end stage. But for anyone who reads down here, make sure to check that youve selected the right disk in stage 4, one way to do this is by typing DETAIL DISK and hitting enter after the SELECT DISK 1 line, brings up a load of
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details and a volume list at the bottom, with name, size etc, mine was Disk 4. (Using a different guide I manage to format my D:, good thing Ive got a server backup. DONT MAKE MY MISTAKE)
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Venthan
Hey, Thanks a lot, this helped me to resolve my issue after a 5 days struggle
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nex
hi,anyone can help in bios settings,how it is done to select pendrive ..i cannot do it although i have new m/b and all above trick ..but i cant detect my bootable drivemay i lack this ideahelp me out ..thanks
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solem
I was a bit sceptical about this actually working. It just seemed too good to be true, this being Windows and all. But it actually works. Like mentioned earlier its not possible to run bootsect from 32-bit windows on a 64-bit version. Also, I had to run cmd as admin or else bootsect would complain about something I cant remember atm.
411.
real1tyFTW
OMG THANX !!!!!!!!! I HAD A MAJOR FKING ISSUE, ! AND BY JUST SAYING the first 2 commands the SETUP started and i was good to go THX ALLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
412.
solarni sistemi
i found this article helpful because recently i had problems with usb and booting. THANKS
413.
Jibba
Dont know why everyone post hard guides with cmd promt. There is a program directly from Microsoft to do that same thing in 3 clicks. It also works on pirate/cracked copy of windows 7 . Download and guide: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
414.
twe
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was easy and helped things run much more smoothly. What a relief!
415.
Jan
This guide didnt work for me. When I try to boot the USB drive it just says invalid partition table and halts.
416.
Jan
I fixed it, it didnt have anything to do with this guide. If you get the error invalid partition table try configuring your usb drive to load as hddd and not removable/fdd.
417.
Fane
it works on 16 Gb USB Disk ??? there is a maximum size of USB Disk ? 10x for answer
418.
Kumar
There is always an easy way, download the tool from windows website and vollla sit back and relax it will do everything for you !!! http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
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Igre
Great written guide!
420.
LT
I just had to tell you this was so easy, even for a non-techie like me, and by far the easiest setup instructions on the web. I am installng Win 7 on my (6-yr old) sons netbook as we speak 7 he is so impressed!
421.
bat787
Perfect explaination.. Many many.. many many..man thanks
422.
Johnny
To get this working in XP just use a Windows 7 virtual machine. Virtual Box is easy enough. Its working for me. PS. Not sure if it has been said, but not looking through all the comments lol
423.
Kamesh
I have a doubt in 5th step whr u say to insert Win 7 DVDbut if my cd-rom is not working how can i insert DVD in tht place..my rom is not even opening if i press the button..then what should i do??
424.
Kayes
This is really cool man, buy 1 thing in the step 7 when i type BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: it was not working but next time when i tried it was working. Any way thanks for the real tutorial. I hope i will see more useful tutorial soon.
425.
Summitsingh Thakur
Thanks! 100% Working for me. Well, before I was able to install Ubuntu only.
426.
Ghost
ThanX allot to whoever brain is behind all this. Works 110% clean & safe install. No problems faced. Follow the steps as written
427.
Cristian C.
Thank you!!! Your tutorial is excelent! Simple, safe and easy to follow. Thank you, thank you!
428.
Adlantis
Really great guide, easy to understand and follow, thanx a bunch!
429.
Maneksh.V.Thomas
THANK YOU Soooooo Much Man you saved me
430.
SHAILENDRA
Your The Best Boss!!!!
431.
Michelle
OMG.. This saved my whole day.. OMGH!!!!!!!! Im back on my own pc it worked TYSM !!!!!!!!!! FANTASTIC.
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432.
junex
how can i sure that..this is workingand it is good to used it.?
433.
avaton
excellent work m8
434.
Steve
what a legend!! I was completely lost and you have saved me worked a treat. Many thanks -
435.
Mack
Everything worked fine down to copy the files from the DVD to the USB. I get a Cant read from the source file or disk. bootsect.exe.mui Any ideas are appreciated.
436.
adel
DiskPart> select disk 3 DiskPart> clean DiskPart succeded in cleaning the disk. DiskPart> creat partition primary DiskPart> succeded in creating the specified partition DiskPart> select partition 3 The specified partition is not valid. Please select a valid partition there is no partiotion selected. thats the eror i get please help me.
437.
AJ
What a guide, 101% working. People still leaving comments every day after one year. One of the best guides ever if you ask me! THANK YOU, you deserve it!
438.
Smithy
Jesus, how many times has the guy got to say it. ITS FOR WINDOWS VISTA AND 7 NOT XP . Bunch of retards!
439.
NLkiwi
Followed instructions and worked great, no issues. Created a Win7x64 usb install from a Win7x64 machine. Install was for a HTPC with no optical drive.
440.
odotan
The easiest method yet OFFICIAL FROM MICROSOFT http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
441.
Tammi
I had an error, when I tried to format, that said Virtual Disk service error: the file system is incompatible. I fixed it by using quick format instead. Use this command format fs=NTFS quick I hope this helps somebody. =)
442.
rakesh
by the way Im using MSI P55-GD65 motherboard and transcend 4GB USB drive. is it my board or the usb drive.A Read Error please help
443.
Rahul
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This method will not work if you are running on Windows Xp.The best alternative will be to use either use either the microsoft method or try to use softwares like WintoFlash to automate it for you.
444.
Abdullah
This method worked for me 100%, i am installing right now from a 8GB USB. Thanks a lot !!!!!
445.
Corey j
worked well with windows server 2008 ENT, on my xeon server Also if you are making the usb disk from a 32 bit machine and your having problems, saying incompatable stuff, than go to a machine which is 64 bit, and do it over anyway good luck with everyone else, and these steps
446.
LAP87
Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool , takes your ISO and makes a bootable USB Drive or DVD. Works under Xp/Vista. http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
447.
Johnsin
Wow this was so Educational I tried to do it with both x64 and x32 and there it was on my EHDD! Cool Guide! Thanks man
448.
Frankie
When you said insert the Windows Vista/Windows 7 disk, did you mean insert a blank disc or the disc that already has the software on it?(The $100 disc from store that comes in the software box) Thanks
449.
DRBDANISH
It was a success.. Thanks mate
450.
admin
Frankie, put the disc that has Windows 7 on it. Good luck!
451.
Roxy
I followed this guide but when booting up i have an error message A disk read error What is the problem?
452.
Litlis
I do all the steps but on step 7 then i write bootsect.exe /nt60 he write this: This version of G:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windo ws youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you n eed a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. then what should i do??
453.
good stuff
Appreciate such a good info. Deserve moar views&comments. Such success made me cum four times in a row, thanks mate. You need a one gosu sexy treat like good asss penatration. Wish u good sex GG.
454.
Valdez
This worked well for me to create Win7 32 bit usb version, but when I tried to make 64bit version on another flash drive using a 64bit DVD I got boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible..I am using 32bit Vista to make these drives. Can I modify the code to make this work? Or do I need to find 64bit machine with DVD drive?
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Thanks, Valdez
455.
admin
Try to do it on x64 version of Windows.
456.
tavu
I cant copy the autorun file from the Windows DVD to the USB stick. It says I need to provide an administrator to copy to that folder. Everything else is copied, just the autorun has this problem. What can I do? Thank You.
457.
puneet
Thanks dude great job, very easy & good explanation
458.
Miss Pretty
I want to know the detail steps on how you can repair window operating system. Thanks
459.
Miss Pretty
Also i want some things on Virtual LAN, the problems and prospects of it. Thanks for your help.
460.
miss26
hi, have a problem in step 6..my dvd drive is E, and my usb is G E: CD BOOT E:\boot>bootsect.exe /nt60 G: Target volume will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. pls help me in this problem..thanks
461.
Uwais
hi i am using this method to install snow lepoard on a previously windows machine will it work?? btw my snow lepoard image is on my comps HD so i cant complete step 5 onwards?? what do i do?? also is there anyway of reversing this procedure after i haveinstalled the OS so i can use the HD as a mass storage device after?? thanks
462.
john
hi am i able to use this method to install MAC OS snow lepoard. i have no disk just the .DMG file so i cant complete step 5 onwards. will it still work?? also am i able to reverse the effects on my external HD so i can use it as a mass storage device after?? thanks
463.
admin
@ John Sorry, I have no idea about Mac OS.
464.
DANNY
Thanks man this is by far the best and accurate tutorial for making a win7/vista bootable
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usb
465.
DANNY
@John, no you cant as NTFS relates to windows file system only.
466.
Dave D.
Hey, I tried it and works perfectly, thanks a lotive tried other guides with no success but your guide is fantastickeep up the good workthis world needs more helpful people like you.
467.
RAZON
MANY MANY THINKS SIR BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM TO COPY SETUP.EXE FILE WHY IT NOT COPY. PLEASE EXPLINE ME SIR
468.
Fi156
Nice How To, but the command: format fs=ntfs needs HOURS not minutes
469.
naveen kumar
Works like magic.. Thanks
470.
Madhav
@Fi156 better use format fs=ntfs quick This will take you a few seconds. that command without quick will take long time because it performs a complete format. thanks
471.
KOUSHIK
actually i have a another problem .i have a pen drive but its dont show its original memory and it is not to be formatted .this pen drive is 8 gb but showing 69mb.if you give me a suggestion that how i am recover from this problem so iam glad ti you.
472.
Richard
You rock man! Thanks for this guide. Ive spent two whole days trying to repair my corrupt Windows 7 installation on my Netbook, which has been a challenge as it has no optical drive, so having a bootable Flash Drive was the perfect answer. Thanks again! A few tips to others: - The format of the USB drive takes a while, just be patient (I used the full format, not quick, just to be sure!) - If youre getting an Access Denied error when trying to map partitions, its because you didnt run the command prompt as Administrator. Right click on the Command Prompt program as select Run as Administrator - When setup has completed, dont forget to set your boot priority back to the Hard Drive in the BIOS!
473.
Anku
Thanx a lot mannn!! it really works!! u r awsum!!!!
474.
Cheryl
I have done this what method of copying files from cd to usb is best, I Right clicked copyed then right clicked and pasted. When I tried to boot up I got BOOTMGR.exe missing and it wouldnt boot up. Am I doing something wrong?
475.
Amp
will this work for Windows 8?
476.
zero
ive already try your method, but i have a problem here which is, after my computer restart to finish the installation, it came back for the begiining to format my computer and not proceed for the completing installationhow to overcome this problem?please help me
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Ed
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Worked for me. Thanks to all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are using Windows XP to create your bootable USB, these steps worked for me. I just omitted steps 1-5 Download and install http://i.thepcspy.com/USB_Boot.zip Archive Password: pasta Open and find your USB drive and format using NTFS 6. Now open another command window and type following command J: (Drive letter of Windows 7 iso mounted with demon tool or ultraiso) CD boot bootsect /nt60 Y: (Y is drive latter of your USB drive ) Update BOOTMGR for USB Pen Drive 7. Now copy all files from drive where you have mount Windows 7 iso 8. Now reboot your computer and press F9 to get your BIOS screen and select USB drive as your boot drive. 9. If every thing goes fine, Your Windows 7 Installation should start from your USB drive
478.
GEORGE
Worked like a charm!
479.
zero
ive already try your method, but i have a problem here which is, after my computer restart to finish the installation, it came back for the begining to format my computer and not proceed for the completing installationhow to overcome this problem?please help me
480.
gaithat
It was a perfect explanation. Thanks for such a nice tutorial. Only problem, I faced with BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:command. Once you invoke Command Prompt like run as Administrator there was nothing like Windows Xp does not recognize removable drive under: LIST DISK segment. Pl. keep it up.
481.
bulger
Does not work on my vista laptop.. tried several times now keep getting BOOTSECT.EXE is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file, Thanks to the author as I have used this for Windows 7 previously and it worked fine but any help with vista install would be appreciated!
482.
I8bnsober
Worked great for me except the clean command run as (admin) gives me an access denied on v*sta and w*n7 but I skip this step and even use the same window to perform the partitioning and the bootsect, worked great on both. Thanks.
483.
Karlo Antukin
for those whos stuck at step 7 coz Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. run cmd as administrator that would do the trick
484.
bziz
problem with could not map access denied but here is the solution: you have to go into run and go into cmd. then you have to minimise it and on your taskbar right-click the icon for cmd and also right-click on command prompt then click on run as
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485.
Darky
HeyCan i install windows 7 with usb * i dont have dvd reader atm * if i dont have a windows before it..Like my old windows crashed & now am without windows at all & i wanna install windows 7 & no dvd reader ,thx alot
486.
TechNazgul
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Worked like a charm for me with Windows 7 Ultimate x86 installing to an Acer Revo 1600 (which Im using to test out the new XBMC beta release of Dharma).
487.
young money
hey buddy thanx its working and the way you have explained the steps its easy to understand. thanx again if more solutions are available on any problems regarding windows please tell me.
488.
IceaTronic
Pro Tip: When formatting the USB Stick, use the following: format fs=ntfs quick Takes about 30 seconds to format the drive. Incredibly handy if your USB stick is 8GB+ like all of mine are. I dont want to wait 20 minutes for it to format
489.
thedeamon
I think the guide will also work for XP USB boot. We have to use Vistas bootsect.exe which can reinstall XPs bootsector. To (re)install an NTLDR or BOOTMGR bootsector you will need Bootsect.exe. Copy it from a Vista DVD if you want to include it on the USB root directory. bootsect.exe /nt52 H: I would suggest try to format the USB key as FAT & then install the boot manager followed b dumping of the XP CD to start testing. Start with FAT/FAT32/NTFS to see which one works. If NTFS on key works, it will also mean a super fast Windows install over USB 2.0. Catch: ensure to use correct bootsect.exe for x86 & x64 OS.
490.
Azmi
Hey! I dont know how you saved my life. I shall thank you for thousand times for this and once more thousand times for your efforts on this. It really worked. Thank man, appreciate it
491.
deeh
work just fine,.. thank you..
492.
Andy
Thank you so much! Its so simple and yet I could not manage to install Windows from USB. Now it finally worked! Thanks!
493.
Ricky
Worked well for me, the only thing is I had to pull the drive out during the first reboot or the install would start all over again.
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494.
Gagandeep Singh
HI. This is Gagan from http://www.softwaresgiant.com and do you know that you have really helped me a lot?I had original windows 7 ultimate 32-bit DVD but it sisnot run on my PC as I had no DVD player.So I made this bootable HD and am enjoying 7 because of you. Thanks
495.
Rets
I did steps 1 to 4. My usb was plugged and so was my 500GB external hdd. It was too late when I realized that I did step 4 on my external hdd. Now, I cant open my external hdd it always says your drive needs to be formatted. Please help =<
496.
mary
Thank you so much, it worked like a charm!
497.
matthew
can i just say if u are using a bigger hard-drive eg a 250g external it takes about 1-2 hours to format to ntfs
498.
nando
THANK YOU!! this guide is awesome. worked without any problems.. and the speed of install increased! now it installs about 5x faster.. it used to take 1 hour. now it took 20 minutes :O!!! thanks!
499.
MightyAL
Good advice is hard to get, thx for complete instructions. I dont trust downloaded tools, got some probs with english cos im from germany but this was site was best i found
500.
james asare baffour

1)why do we use optical cd whilst basing on pen drive to install windows? 2) Can installing windows wit the help of pen drive be apply on any computer capacity?
501.
Suraj Yadav
Hi, Thanks very much.
502.
mikaboshi
Thnx allot for this great guide I had the official ms tool to make your usb installer disk, but somehow it always ended up telling me it couldnt copy the files to my usb drive. Doing it manually worked like a charm! Thnx allot! (again ^^):)
503.
Shen
When I followed this method, I manage to get the OS to boot from the USB, but then that creates another problem. Vista confuses itself by reading the USB as another hard drive. The error Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation. shows up in the Disk Partition page. My computer only has one hard drive so it must be the USB causing the problem. Can anyone tell me how to get around this problem?
504.
ICHI
AWESOME GUIDE!! IT WORKS WHEN I INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE. YOURE A BOMB!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS.. KEEP IT UP!
505.
FrackMicrosoft
This will work on non-vista computers if you use an external hard drive and skip the format command.
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Boy XatZ
amazing this guide really worked!!! plus you dont need to use any programs.. /heh
507.
Ryan
Is it just me or does it take more than just a few seconds to format the selected drive????
508.
Ryan
Maybe a few minutes.
509.
weeds season 6
Great write up!! this really helped me out and btw this can work on non-vista computers if you use an external hard drive
510.
rohit
I got Bootmgr is missing. I m using dell
511.
saif
hi i m using win xp above all steps done n my bios have option usb hdd but i its not booting plz help
512.
Nith
This works perfect. Thanks !!
513.
Lorem ipsum generato

I was just looking for this guide! Tnx!
514.
Bane
hey, the guide is dreat but like some ppl here I have the missing bootmgr problem, You sad fix it but how ??? please help me , I am trying to set win 7 on HP notebook wich has vista, and your steps I^ve done on other PC wich has win 7 on it,because dvd rom on notebook doesnt work. my USB drive is external HDD 1Tb.. folowed all steps one by one, then attached ext hdd on notebook and set booting from USB still have msg missing bootmgr. heeeeeeelp! thx!
515.
darkan9el
Awesome tut, just got windows 7 32bit on my nieces Acer Aspire One, straight on everything installed. Id say 10-20mins faster too than conventional DVD installs. Pressed F2 on boot to get into setup, Acer Aspire will see the USB and show it by name, I just moved it to the top of the Boot list using F6 saved changes and rebooted. Once W7 has installed you have to go back into setup (F2) to change the boot sequence back to the HDD. Just finished updating. If only life was this simples lol!
516.
justme!
looks like a nice method but! how do i reverse the disk-on-key properties to its defaults,i mean in this whole procedure you actually change the file system of the disk-on-key and some other properties,how to reverse all that?
517.
Sudheera
Great work.it worked for the first timethanks a lot ..
518.
Tom
Hey, Thanks! great guide. I even got it to work using Windows XP! Tom
519.
geoff
when you say copy ALL the files, does that mean hidden and system files contained within the CD? do you recommend drag/drop copy or a CMD Copy?
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dallas fox
what if the windows 7 copy isnt on a dvd but has been downloaded iso?
521.
kevin
Actually /active= should have 0 (most of the time) its the partition number OF the drive (0 as its formatted) otherwise youll get invalid parameter.
522.
are_peace22
nice thx for the guide
523.
unification
hello . i did all steps and it end successfully . but when restart my pc and set usb boot . my system cannot boot from usb and display this message read disk error . while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest. but not working for this way that you say. please help me . and contact by me via email adress . thank.
524.
Lucas
Perfeito com Windows7 ENG. Muito obrigado
525.
unification
please help me. i need to this.
526.
unification
hello . i did all steps and it end successfully . but when restart my pc and set usb boot . my system cannot boot from usb and display this message read disk error . while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest. but not working for this way that you say. please help me . and contact by me via email adress . thank.
527.
marcus
i cant do the clean bit. error occured, unable to access. help pweez
528.
jainil
i cant see my pendrive in command prompt in list disk what i have to do ???
529.
daniel plasencia
thanx for the tips but i am getting a message saying could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: acces is denied on step 7 can you help?
530.
ehsan
thanks alot dude!
531.
Prithviraj
Thanks a lot . Worked like a charm, very detailed and precise. Great job keep it up
532.
Dave Sanders
Great step by step instructions. Even though Ive done this dozens of times, its great to have a site I can trust to refer to when my (poor) memory fails me. Thanks! Dave Sanders
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Microsoft MVP
533.
Peyman
Great JOB . Thanks
534.
admin
Thanks for your kind words Dave Sanders.:)
535.
Justin A
Beautiful! Flawless! Stupid sata DVD died and with no replacement and no time to spare this worked perfectly. Make sure drive is emptied as he states. Make sure! Otherwise, awesome. Thank yooouu.
536.
turnkey website
i have a question that before reading this tutorial or finding it i bought a 2gb pen drive and i think this procedure does not work with 2 gb pen drive or does it?
537.
Donna
WOW Thanks a lot. It worked like a charm. I really appreciate your help. Keep up the good work. It is people like you that make the world a better place. Thank agian
538.
Donna
Thanks again
539.
Sharma Mohit
plz tell me how to edit bios settings?
540.
Trevor
This works great, thanks alot.
541.
Erik Hurtig
I just have to ask Why not just copy all the files from the installation image to your drive, and have bootmgr ran from there instead?
542.
Jay Bee
This thread is getting long, but it is only fair to say thank you for this great guide. Thanks a lot.
543.
AJIT
MAN ITS AWESOME IT WORKS GREAT
544.
Modeste
Tres bonne solution elle marche merveille
545.
Ankit
i am using win7 32 bit. can i use bootsect to create a bootable USB to install win7 64 bit? i have the ISO file for win7 64 bit, but have no clue how to get it to work. PS- my DVD drive is kaput.
546.
Anggi
Thank for tutorial installing windows 7
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547.
Doug
When I received this error: file : \Boot\BCD status : 0xc000000e info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration I used another thumb drive and the problem was solved.
548.
unification
hello . why you dont answer to me . i did all steps and it end successfully . but when restart my pc and set usb boot . my system cannot boot from usb and display this message read disk error . while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest. but not working for this way that you say. please help me . and contact by me via email adress . thank.
549.
JB
Since Im trying to make a LiveCD bootable through USB, its not a normal official Windows 7 CD, and there is no BOOTSECT.EXE whatsoever, so I cant make it BOOTMGR Compatible. Any other solutions?
550.
piyush
my dvd write is not working.how can i do this step D: CD BOOT.pls mail me ans.
551.
Nishant
I tried with both vista and 7 no prob in installation, but in vista, no user profile is being created to log in. In 7, finalisation takes all its life n after shutting down after first use, in gives problem from second use on ward. it was irriteting.. wasted full night..!
552.
Sandeep
@nishant-this process only creates the way by which u can boot the setup progress with the pendrivecomparatively faster than cd or dvds.the problem you are facing is due to wrong installation files
553.
Kir
Thank you very much! Im Russian, but I didnt find any working instruction for my problem on russian lanquage. This quide helps me to install Win7 Starter on my netbook using USB HDD. P.S. Sorry for my engligh
554.
Leo
Can i use this for install windows xp to?
555.
Sam
This worked fabulously. Thanks for the easy to follow instructions! I had been looking for this solution for a long time.
556.
Ionut
Thanks a lot. Worked perfectly! Very well described.
557.
Jamie Kitson
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You really should put a link to the MS USB/DVD tool more prominently on your site, why bother with this complicated method? http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
558.
Jony D Rico
Excelent it works great thank you, you save my life
559.
Andres Au
You can also check the drive number designation in the device manager under disk management if you have trouble selecting the appropriate disk as described in step four of this guide.
560.
pempoy
Worked great! Thanks a lot.
561.
KB
THanks for the insight, I was going crazy trying to get this to work. A lot of sights miss the part about this only working in Vista/7!
562.
JACK91
Thanks a lot dude..it is awesome..installed in 11 minutes..WOW
563.
Crypdan
When you say copy windows 7 contents, you mean the documents or a iso file?
564.
haroldcore
what if i dont have a win7 disc? what if i just have an ISO but not on a cd. because i have an ISO on my downloads.
565.
AJ
Works perfect, thank you.
566.
dvhirst
Well, it worked as advertised (Windows7), but only after going to Control Panel User Account Control Settings and specifying Never notify. Before taking this step, the Bootsect command failed with Access denied. Now, on to setting up BartPE on this bootable 4GB USB drive Thanks!
567.
KGB1953
Nice Tut man. Easy to follow and love the pics
568.
KGB1953
If you have an .iso file just mount it with magiciso. Google it.
569.
c0de
Each tutorial to this Thema goes that way: First you use this Tool ,then use this tool and then do this dont mind why What about people dont have Windows? I have only a far idea what to do with the USB Stick when i dont have those super special Windows Tools Always those Windowlooker with there freaky tools xD Never have a idea what they do ^^
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Jaimie
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Nice one works a treat. Additional info: 1.) during the diskpart in command prompt, users need to cancel or ignore any prompts by windows to automatically format the drive. 2.) If you get the message from command prompt when coppying the boot info that the device is currently locked, its probably either your antivirus trying to scan the empty drive, or its windows that has automatically opened the drive contents in a window. Stopping the antivirus or any open windows other than commandprompt associated with the USB or external drive and trying again from where it said device locked works. Thanks for a brilliant post. Saved me hours. Im setting up a PC with old DVD drives and three have failed! Saved me getting a new DVD drive!
571.
Samuel
PLEASE HELP! I am having troubles with step 6: I have typed in C:\Windows|System32> D: CD BOOT Then when I type in D:\> CD BOOT it says that The System Cannot Find The Path Specified. My disk is definitely in the drive and is definitely drive D: so what is wrong?
572.
elise sayer
make it work
573.
chielt
I have a 4GB usb pendrive. When I try to do CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY it tells me the drive isnt big enough te create a partition without extra parameters. Please advise.
574.
nikhil
Ultimate guide..Fully working on Lenovo..
575.
Albert
hey, i keep getting invalid ms-dos command when copying the disk content in step 8.
576.
Albert
and my explorer crashed. I created this in win 7.
577.
shoab
sir pls tell me about how to create usb bootale for install windows xp-7 by usb device like pen drive.
578.
SATHISH
ya its really nice to do but in between i got some error .. but i think that the inspections given above are really gud .., the same time after i did some steps my usb drives crashed , after that i cant able to use d usb .., so please avoid stop in between.. thanks
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SATHISH
Hey Sorry For My Previous Post .., I Tried once again these steps i finally got thanks Its Working Great . Thanks
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paras kumar
i have no cd drive so haw to make bootable pen drive
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mukesh
thanks dear its greet. working and help me lot
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thanks again
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Vyom Neeraj
Great post..!! Followed all the instructions step by step and works like a charm..!! The only tip is that this wont work for xp since in xp, the MS DOS disk manager does not show usb disks. it will only show the HDD as disk 0. There is no disk 1. But when i tried with vista, then it shows usb as disk 1 and all the steps worked easily. Thanks again man..!!
583.
Jeffrey
i tried but it does boot.
584.
SherwinQ
It works great, thanks for sharing this man.
585.
marshmallow
where u download window 7 file
586.
FilledVoid
This worked perfectly for a system that I was fixing which had a broken DVD drive. The method used was able to make my external drive bootable with Lenovos DVD image. Thanks a ton.
587.
Alex789045
THANKYOU finally one of these guides works YES!!!!
588.
Vash
hey bro ive read all the instructions, ive never try it myself but on about the comments above, its a kind of 99% of believing you!!!hope i could make it!!!thanks
589.
bINK
thank you sir for your assistance on how to install windows from a usb , i have a oem cd with all of the versions of windows on it and it works flawlessly with the usb method . i have sucsescfully install starter, basic, home premium x86, x64 , and so on but my faviort useing this method is what i have on my asus mini netbook with 500 gb hard drive and 4 gb memory with windows 7 ultamate x64
590.
sandy
F:\BOOT>bootsect.exe /nt60 H: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. dis is d error i am facing plz help me out
591.
sandy
i solved that prob. thanks for the artical.
592.
lunatic
Brick both of the usb drives I had thanks. Worked like a charm good job buddy.
593.
griff
Have used this a bunch of times, really good guide thanks.
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The only difficulties i had were resolved when i ran command prompt as an administrator.
594.
James
Awesome write up, worked like a charm! Thank you!
595.
Deepak kumar
after giving this command BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: it gives error could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied
596.
Alan
Much appreciated. I have an old Pc with org CD drive. It just wouldnt read the Win 7 CD. My HD was dead and I had to install a new one. Luckily I had my laptop with WIN 7 installed. Took a while but we are up and running again.
597.
1234
after instalation if i want to use my flash drive as a normal storing device, what do i have to do? just format? or it will stay a bootable device 4 evar?
598.
removals companies
this tutorial was what i was needing for my cd driveless laptop
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David Brennan
One of your command prompt lines is formed incorrectly but will still work: i.e. D: CD BOOT CD BOOT should be just D: CD BOOT or: cd /d D:\BOOT but the guide works perfectly anyhow. Thanks very much.
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dark8soul
for those who have trouble with all these instructions try downloading wintoflash. very simple to use
601.
A random dude
Right, it looks good, but Ive yet to try it, for a few reasons: 1. How do you reverse the process for the USB, in case I want to use it as normal again after Ive booted up my PC with it? Can it be done? How? Maybe it works anyway? I dont want to ruin a good 16GB USB for it otherwise. 2. Ive got my Win7 on an .ISO on my HDD, and I COULD install it using e.g DaemonTools or some such directly, but there are things that are better with a booted installation, thus I want to go with that option. But, my question is this, can I do as with the CD/DVD drive with a virtual drive, where I mount the Win7 .ISO and do Step 6 with the mounted drive? Many thanks in advance!
602.
lacie
thank you!
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Scott
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I got a problem on the final step: BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: The error reported an inability to complete the step due to a compatibility issue with the version of windows Im running.. suffice to say Im PRETTY MUCH flabbergasted at this point, any help hopefully? pending thats enough information
604.
Stle
A very good and easy to follow guide. Thank you.
605.
Agana
this is great. it works great. thanks!
606.
SREEJITH
I did this and installed Windows 7 Ultimate successfully. THankx.
607.
Vici
Great tehnical post! Tnx for sharing!
608.
Purushotham
I did everything, but when I tried to boot, It says A disk read error occurred, Press control+alt+del to restart.. Plz help me.
609.
Jason
Thank you Thank you Thank you easy to follow and worked like a charm! Thank you Thank you Thank you
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King Matt 85
Awesome. Well done pal!
611.
Zaq
So i was on a mission for a free netbook. the job was to fix a laptop without a cd drive that worked. SO i turned to this. needless to say. Thanks for the net book. Your a money saver bud thank you!
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NEERAJ
yOU ARE GREAT tHANK,S
613.
kyle
um in stuck at spet 7 help plz it says it does not recognize bootsect.exe as an interal or external command help plz
614.
kyle
im stuck not in stuck sorry typo
615.
an
I get Invalid MS-DOS function and I cannot copy boot folder Thanks for help!
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deamon
works great, thanks man. cheers
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freddyzdead
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If you really want to claim 100% Working then why is step 6 still wrong? It says: ==================================================== D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where D is your DVD drive letter. CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. ==================================================== when it should say: ==================================================== D: and hit enter. Where D is your DVD drive letter. CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. ==================================================== This is easy to fix and it is confusing a lot of people. Also, I think FAT32 would work ok; speed difference would be insignificant. And I think the BOOTSECT.EXE part is redundant because DISKPART prolly already did that. Thats why some ppl have got it to work when they left out that step. Anyway, the main thing is it works. You just need to shout in caps that it DOESNT WORK IN XP. Maybe the morons would see it then.
618.
Qiang
I tried this solution. List Disk works on Vista, not XP.
619.
Michael
I dont have any Drivers when I try to install Windows 7 on my Netbook with no OS, what do I do?
620.
mallikarjun
hey after copyin the files to usb, i tried to install it on other comp by changing the boot order im getting a error BOOT MNGR MISSING please help me with this
621.
Ryan
i followed this instruction and I unfortunately 2 of my drives are now missing. i only have my drive C visible i am running windows 7(32bit) with 1 SATA HD(had 3 partitions now only C is visible) and 1 IDE HD can someone please help me with this??
622.
magallanes
Thanks. btw, you can do (if you know that you pendrive is not defective): FORMAT QUICK FS=NTFS instead of FORMAT FS=NTFS
623.
Andreas
Hi, Ive tried to install win 7 from usb using wintoflash but faild due to ther error that I need cd/dvd drivers. The solution was removing the usb and reinserting it then I cancelled the setup and went to repair options. I then chose command prompt. After reinserting the usb you will have 3 discs. Mine were X: which was the boot disc (supposedly the usb but it wasnt) c: (the usb after inserting it again) and d: (the cd-rom). On the command prompt I had to navigate to X:\windows. (type: cd X:\windows without quotes) then type: bootsect /nt60 C: (this loads the bootmgr on the usb. the usb in my case was C: so you have to find yours) after that just restart and the setup will continue without errors. best of luck
624.
gride420
great how too now i want a very easy how too on putting x86 and x64 bit of windows and of
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vista on one disk. Then should be able to do this guide and have both on 1 thumb drive. In the process of putting each os from xp up on 1 thumb drive each. Much faster installs and no more burning disc. Thanks
625.
ors
All of you who get Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. Try running cmd as administrator!
626.
l0stb3ta
Out of curiosity, do folder permissions have to be set so that hidden files and folders must be enabled? I tried this with my USB stick, and I get a missing operating system error. I copied everything I could see from my Win7 DVD, but if there are hidden files on the DVD that could explain the missing operating system error that both Jonathan and I are getting.
627.
Daniel
I have a Net Book that came with Windows 7 Starter. I would like to install the Ultimate Edition on it but it has no CD Drive. I got my hands on the Windows file but they are in ISO format ready to be copied to a disk and boot off of said disk. Is there a way I can copy these files onto a Flash drive instead and boot off of the Flash drive?
628.
Gamer
Thanks!
629.
nik
what happens to pendrive is it able to function normally after this
630.
anand
Thanks man it really worked
631.
shane
i did this to a tablet pc that had no dvd-rom, and did NOT support USB boot option.i simply yanked the drive from the tablet pc, connected it to a different pc via usb bridge, followed the procedures above, put the hard drive BACK into the tablet pc, fired it up, and windows began installation. Worked great, and didnt even create a second partition to do it lol
632.
Eye Webmaster
Thank for this article Ive made a working bootable USB of my own. I need this to make my computer renewed and prepare it for my SEO work task.
633.
Naval
I havent the window 7 dvd disk. can I use above tips for Windows Xp or where can I get win 7 files. pls help.
634.
LWN
Were in 2010, and for those of you that have had no success (ISO-file not recognized for example) using the Microsoft ISO-tool mentioned on occasions in this thread, the real solution that ALWAYS works is here: http://firesage.com/bootsage.php
635.
MD
AWESOME dude!! This worked 1st time, better than buttered popcorn
636.
Thomas
For those who had the error Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. REMEMBER TO OPEN CMD WITH ADMINISTRATOR PERMISSIONS!!!
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637.
zORG
admin permissions doesnt fix this problem thomas
638.
bukag
how do they do it??
639.
Easy123
I have used this method several times and it works GREAT. Instruction are very easy to follow. For those having trouble with not being able to copy the contents of the DVD to the thumb drive b/c you dont have a DVD drive. I would suggest to either perform these steps on a PC that has a drive or if you have a iso or a rar image of a DVD you can use magiciso (free) to create a virtual CD ROM drive and then mount the image to a virtual Drive. Works GREAT.. I used this for Vista and Windows 7 32 and 64 bit. If you cant figure it out READ the instructions Carefully or take your USB thumb drive and DVD to a local computer shop and have them do it for you. Make sure you give them this sites URL b/c it works just fine. Quick and Easy. Thanks
640.
Juan
Thank you! I keep this page on my favorites and use it often. This worked without issues. Those having problems are either using the wrong drive letter, have a syntax error, or dont have the USB as the first boot device on the BIOS. Another thing to consider is that not all boards allow booting from a USB drive especially older one. Dont drive yourself crazy if the option is there, your computer is somewhat old, and it doesnt work. Chances are booting from USB is not supported. Good luck.
641.
George
I was installing Windows XP on old laptop, but installation process aborted in the midway giving me some error, while I was using similar guide to install XP. So, I have removed HDD (2.5 with IDE interface) and formatted it on using another laptop which is running on Windows 7 (I used IDE to USB adapter to connect it). Thus, now when HDD is clean and I try to boot up from USB (setting it in BIOS to boot up from USB), it gives me only blinking cursor and it does not go anywhere. If I remove USB and tries to boot up from HDD it gives: BOOTMGR is missing Press ctrl+alt+del to reboot As I remember on Win 98 there was copy SYS command to start command prompt. Any alternative on XP? I simply need to get command prompt started and than Ill take it from there to install XP. Please help if any one can!
642.
ice
if you get this message after typing BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: This version of F:boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. meaning you are running 32 bit windows and trying to execute a 64 bit bootsect.exe all you have to do to fix this is to copy your 64 bit windows 7 on to the usb and then insert a 32 bit dvd and execute the 32 bit bootsect.exe on to your usb
643.
Senthilkumar
Awesome. Worked exactly.
644.
Khalid
it required software like wintoflash
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645.
Khalid
please me give more details through email for this process
646.
Khalid
please me give more details it required any software like wintoflash
647.
George
To ice Any idea about my issue?
648.
Li Xin
It is working! Good instructions,and easy to follow. Thanks
649.
sM4llziE
Wait.. Theres an official tool? You could have put that at the beginning xD
650.
Ice
To George reasech how to get BOOTMGR back on the HD. The orginal problem, before you formated the HD, sounds like a bad Ram, run a memory test in bios if you have it, or get a new ram chip if you can to make sure.
651.
LefterisTR
win7 usb
652.
paulette
Hi. I have been trying to do this and I get stuck on this part where it says to do: Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands: D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where D is your DVD drive letter. CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: Is there something Im doing wrong? Also can this be done on a computer running windows 7 for a vista? My desktop is windows 7 and my laptop which im trying to fix was vista. I erased everything on the laptop hard drive on my windows 7 computer so did that mess it up? I would appreciate any help. Thanks
653.
paulette
To George: Did you figure it out? My laptop does the same thing with the blinking cursor and I have tried everything I can think of. Thanks
654.
Phil
I used this guide 3 times now, still havent gotten the commands tattooed on my backbone.. but.. works 100% every time. I installed win7 on my own laptop, my pc, one work pc, and now using it on my girlfriends laptop. thanks a lot for the simple guide, everyone saying it doesnt work, either arent following the steps, or should check to see that they arent trying to install windows on their washing machine or something. if u follow the steps, it will work. I actually get a error message on the final step, but I have still been able to complete the installation every time. thanks man, people like you are what makes the www great. Sincerely Phil
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Nihar
Thanks a lot i was having problem in cd/dvd drive.u solved itthanks again.:)
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sintayehu
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I am very glad right now. I was highly frustrated because I thought my computer is not gonna be compatible for windows 7. I tried many things even went to repair guys. Only this page worked for me. I thank you guys! really Im happy!
657.
Michael
Nice Guide, took me 5 minutes to complete this tutorial. You Rock!
658.
Ajmal
I am using a 8GB usb, but in LIST BOOT command Disk 0 mean only hard disk is mentioned no other disk there. SO what to do?
659.
George
To Ice Thanks, Ill give a try. I do not think its RAM issue though. To Paulette Once I try it, Ill update you here.
660.
lambang
how do I get the uninstall windows 8? please in reply
661.
lambang
how do I get the windows 8 install? please in reply
662.
hisham
itz awesome thankz alot . i thought it may not work but it worked after that thankz thankz can i know ur name plzzz itz awesomw
663.
maryam
excellent.. Thanks a lot
664.
sumit
hi i have not yet checked it whether this works or not but hope for best.
665.
Stanislavsky
Thank you sooo much for the guide, really simple to follow up !!! Kudos for you and your website !!
666.
BOSS
I FOLLOW ALL THE PRECEDURE THEN ITS GAVE ME BOOTMGR IS MISSING
667.
Srinivasan
Perfectly worked for me Just followed your instructions. Great and Thanks I was actually trying to install over the network where two systems were connected to the same home group, But it was little scary. This one was easy. Appreciate if you could give a tutorial for the installation over the same network. Thank Srini
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raj
*Waits for a 200GB HDD to format F_F *
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Abhilash Thomas
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its realy working for me.. you are realy genious.. thanks man
670.
sms
it works like a charm ive installed windows 7 in my precision workstation 490 Thanks alot
671.
Jaques
Been going through guides and suggestions all over the place this evening, but I found this; http://www.computerbild.de/download/WinToFlash-4776317.html?dl=1 That just works, you just need your Win CD and a 4GB+ USB drive and you are all set
672.
mar mar
ok what do i do if i dont have the disk but i do have all the stuff i need saved on another flash drive?
673.
Max
I have only one question, can i make the bootable flash drive on any win, i mean, im using xp and i want to make win7 x64 bootable flash drive, is that possible?
674.
victor
Works great! Keep up the good work. Thank you.
675.
peety
very nice guide. thanks. only issue im having is its taking FOREVER to format a 8gb usb drive
676.
peety
i am thinking i mightve been better off specifying quick in the format
677.
Xao
this tutorial works only with the computer u have made the changes? or if i plug out the usb and put it in other computer it will work!?
678.
MSW SUX
I DIDNT GET A VISTA DISK WITH MY PC, IT CAME PRE-INSTALLED!!
679.
Win7easyinstall
Hi all! Here are some tips. 1. Can only be created from a computer running Windows 7 or Vista 2. You can only create a drive that is the same type as the os your using. i.e. 64bit drives cannot be made on 32bit installed! 3. Do not install to flash/pen/usb drive, install to hard drive! 4. Make sure you have backed up all your data since this is clean install. 5. Format and install speeds vary depending on your flash drive and its capacity. i.e. A 4GB drive will be quicker at formatting than a 8GB model. Hope this helped! @marmar Download a program that can create .iso files or if you have the .iso on another drive simply mount with Virtual Clone Drive or Daemon Tools (Virtual Clone Drive is easier, once you have got the .iso with all the files in mount and use the virtual disk drive letter in the cmd and it should be easy! Thanks, Win7easyinstall
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Win7easyinstall
I am going to reinstall my Win 7 now! WAs having problems with when on startup it would say File: James and the OPEN WITH box i would have it close 3 of them every time! :/ Hopefully this works cause my pc take months to load up win 7 ultimate (1GB Ram) also I get blue screen of death! (I got too many programs on startup ) win7easyinstall
681.
Chandan SIngh
Thanx, its 100% working. thank u for giving this code
682.
Bill Brown
Please help me its not working!??!?!!? I got an error during my first install so I checked to make sure my hardrive was okay. I opened it up and noticed a wire was disconnected so I soldered it back in place(Im rather smart hardware type stuff) and then I further proceeded to make sure the physical hard drive disk didnt have any scratches on it (it was pretty clean). So yea, It is beyond me why it is not working, have any ideas?
683.
WildSchatz
Man, thank you for making my Win7 USB installation as easy as possible. You steps worked like a charm. Had to go this route after the DVD installation would error out. Thanks again!!
684.
Eddie K.
Use your brain, put the UPDATE call in the first line not in the last one! This is all a waste of time since MS Tool does it all instantly.
685.
LlF
have anyone used this tool: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
686.
spag
Hey, the instructions were great! during the installation process, setup returned to the initial installation screen instead of restarting after expanding the files. I rebooted the computer and after that it finished setup without issue.
687.
Bradley Rimbleus
I followed this guide and succesfully installed windows on a computer. However using the same USB on another computer, I get the following error (yes, all bios settings are correct, such as boot from usb, usb legacy) I have the right version (32bit). A disk read error occurred; Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. any solution to this?
688.
Andrew Benson
Thou art a god among men, and I shalt worship thou as such. No seriously this is the most useful thing I have seen the past two years. You have saved what little life I actually have.
689.
Ted Allen
Awesome! Well written, easy to understand, and worked well. Thank you!
690.
james mccoy
awesome tutorial
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Alan
Thanks a huge huge amount!!
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Acer Aspire One froze while running XP recovery. Dead computer Used your instructions and loaded Windows 7. Worked Great!
692.
lee
awseome
693.
Mark D
Make sure you run the command prompt as Administrator if you are doing this within Windows 7.
694.
Anthony Maes
Hi, thanks for the tutorial, this was thew only one that worked over network. LAN. BooT.
695.
arthur
this is great! I accidentally erased all the content of my external drive during the process but its my fault.that doesnt matter anyway I can install Windows 7 Ultimate to a computer from usb flash drive now.thank you!
696.
Tobias
Wonderful, i fixed my netbook. Super
697.
chrisNova777
the steps are nowhere near difficult to follow, but this just flat out doesnt seem to work for me, I always always always get the BCD Boot Error : file : BootBCD status : 0xc000000e info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration when trying to boot.. Can anyone point out what could be causing this? which thumbdrives are people using here that have experienced success?? ive tried with a patriot Xporter XT 8gb and a Lexar 8gb Secure and no go so far with either of them
698.
chrisNova777
ok so i just tested the usb from the patriot xporter XT and it works on the machine ive created it on, but not on the machine im trying to use it to install on, do you have to make the disk on the machine that you are using it on?
699.
TheOriginalPol
THANK YOU! I really do appreciate you writing instructions on how to properly do this. I saw a bunch of those guides where folks said to just copy all the files over to a FAT32 drive and I knew that couldnt be right sure enough it wouldnt work for me. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
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vamsee
its working fine.. but problem is that booting started automatically from pen drive and files expanded then when it restarted in the middle again booting started from beginning by reading files from usb its an unending cycle wat to do??? im panicked. tell a solution asap
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darkathena
hey guys to make the format faster enter.. FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK OVERRIDE DarkAthena
702.
Tastyklean
I like the fact that people will follow all steps but fail to read the title. Its A Tutorial For Vista And 7 Based Systems. Xp Does Not Have The Tools To Do This. Anyway. Life Saver Thanks Buddy !
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Bradley
awesome. worked on the first try. you rule.
704.
Jeremy
Hello, Some motherboards, (like mine,) DO support booting from USB, but the bis lists USB devices as Hard Disks instead of Removable. So in order to get it to boot from USB you must change the hard disk boot order. So when you are installing windows 7 it comes to a point where it needs to reboot to finish the installation. But when it reboots it begins the install sequence all over again. This is because it booted from the USB again. FIX: -just watch and wait for the reboot, then hold del or whatever key gets you to your bios on your system. then switch the hard disk boot order back to device #1 being the partition where you chose to install windows. voila! your install will continue as normal. BTW my motherboard is ASUS P5N-D Also, this guide is totally awesome works perfectly, thank you. Jeremy
705.
Jeremy
my previous post was directed to vamsee of post #713 to answer the question there.
706.
Saravanan
When i am trying to boot from Pendrive i am getting below error message. A disk read error accoured. ctrl+alt+Del to restart. I am using Asrock P4i45GV Mothoer board with Bios versio 3.0. Anyone can help me?????????????????
707.
Grafi?no Oblikovanje
Thanks a lot! This help me so much, expecialy because my dvd was broken
708.
FREDDY U.
IT WORKED 100% JUST FOLLOW EVERY STEP AND THATS IT.
709.
Danny
I wonder if anyone has accidentally formatted the wrong drive aka Disk 0. Would be a laugh.
710.
ankkit
i got error coping bootmgr code it said program to big to fit i m using 4gb kingston pendrive plz help
711.
dallas
hey so if i put my copy of windows 7 on flashdrive it should boot right. i do not have windows 7 disk the file is just in my computer. so do i just put it on flashdrive then follow next steps
712.
ARC
not working the 1st time i try it. im on 2nd attempt now. the thing is, i keep my windows installer file and everything on my hard disk(H) and not dvd/cd. So, does it mean that I have to alter the 6th step correspond to the letter of my hard disk?
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japex
No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct
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drivers, and then click ok i can reach the Install part but then it comes up with the error message above. i cannot load drivers since when i browse. i cannot seem to see the USB. ive put an AHCI and Chipset driver there but cant browse because i cant see it. help pls. help please. putang ina kasi tong gumawa ng tutorial eh. gago.
714.
Damon D.
Works Great , Thank you very much
715.
Andreas
Just for the record; You dont have to do the steps after step 4. All you need to do after step 4 is to copy the contents of the Win7 DVD to the flash drive and then its good to go.
716.
romance
hi, in step 4, uve mentioned to format the pen drive. i did it but the process is very slow because the format command is applicable for thorough formatting. can i format the pen drive in that step in quick mode? thnkx
717.
Juna
I followed these instructions to the letter. Diskpart showed my USB drive to be disk 3. I formatted disk 3. Whoops, my 250 Gb data drive just lost everything on it! <:-{ Why tell people to use such a truly shit utility as diskpart when you can format a disk from Windows Explorer?
718.
David C.
Worked like a charm! Thanks!!!
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sd
This version of F:boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows youre running. Check your computers system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit) or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.
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Ankit singh
hi, my cd drive is not working and when i put any usb drive and boot my system it shows some error like disk not found. please help me. i want to use windows 7 on my laptop.
721.
Chucho
Can I do this to install it on a new pc? dont have any OS on it.
722.
D.R.Kurrey
There is problem ! Operating System not found
723.
D.R.Kurrey
problem arise at the time of booting from usb
724.
Shivams
Thanks for ur post. But when im installing win7 through usb wen it is restarting for the first time it is again automatically going boot again. Thus my installation stopped in the middle. Please help me in installing my OS.. Thanks, regards, Shivams
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Anshul Kataria
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hey bro i dont have cd of windows 7 but i have an iso image of it in my drive. How to use this process without cd? please tell
726.
admin
Anshul Kataria, please use Virtual Clone Drive (free) software to mount the ISO file.
727.
TED E
I locked at step 5 i thing the problem was my anti virus program turn it of and voila!
728.
Tyler Perry
I tried to install Win xp on my EEEpc 1000H but for some reason it wouldnt boot unless i put the USB stick in.lol, its mad when Win 7 is much easier to setup and install than XP.
729.
PIyush
Thanks
730.
Moniz
Thanks man, its worked
731.
GLa5s
What if I am doing this on a netbook where there is no dvd drive but I have the files on my desktop already? I am lost on what to type in when the instructions say to insert dvd
732.
kathir
thanks a lot..its working !!!!! To open cmd prompt,please do the following All programs>accesories>cmd>right click and click run as administrator then follow the instructions given in the guide once again thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
733.
Ankit
thanks m8, many many thanks.. with my optical drive malfunction, I had no other option to reinstall the OS, you really hav been of great help.. thanks again..
734.
Helmi
Its workthank you..:D
735.
walent
Works on Windows 7, even without bootsect.. thanks!!
736.
kregg
Uhh guys You do realise there is a Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool that does all this ridiculous hard work for you, right? And its from Microsoft too. Save yourself 5 hours and use that instead.
737.
juozas
Thanx work good.
738.
Sanjay
Really it was helpful to me. @Brandon Only Works on VISTA AND WINDOWS 7.
739.
Jonathan
Excellent post. Very helpful.
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740.
Eumesmo
You can also try BOOTICE to set partition active and write Windows 7 boot sector
741.
denbang
Double thumbs up!
742.
GOOD WORK
thanks alot
743.
Shashi
Goog for this information and we can load two operating system in USB so that we can insatll at time windows 7 or windows server 2008
744.
Thebest**
The best tutorial, i have used this many times without any problems and it rocks any time with no problems thanks for posting this
745.
Chris
Hey followed the instructions and everything seems to work to a point. When windows starts it gives me the splash screen that says Install Windows or whatever, when I click it the box disappears for a second, and then reappears. Cant actually get to the install, weird.
746.
bohari
its rewlly good abd i try it later
747.
Manjunath
Helped me very much to install windows 7 using usb. Just ensure that you run Command Prompt as Run As Adminstrator (Right Click Option on cmd). I wasted much time using normal mode.
748.
bmac3
Guys please help me. CMD crashed when I was doing the FORMAT FS=NTFS at 23%. Now my USB-Stick isnt working because it is displayed as NTFS. I cant access it at all. How can I get it right again?
749.
vikrant
Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial
750.
Cristian
i did everything but i wanted to install but what will i have to do in the bios setup?
751.
Shaikh NOman Nasir

Hey i am trying to follow your steps But when i write BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F:(MY USB DRIVE LETTER IS F) THEN I GOT THIS MSG TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE. COULD NOT MAP DRIVE TO THE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT WHAT TO DO ?
752.
shahin
Thanks.
753.
Jan
Hi. i have followed you guide and i got to boot the usb successfully, but when windows 7 starts. it doesnt get to the installation process, its just stock on the windows 7 background and the mouse pointer, what do you think is the problem? is my motherboard not compatible
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? i have asus p5sd2-vm. or is it with my installer that has the problem? thanks in advance!
754.
piet
dude, you so rock!!! i hav espent hours creating stupid osis using low quality tools to get to this point.. and yet it was so simple this way!! thumbs up dude
755.
Tony
SuperUSB win7 boot disk is working fineThanks a lot !!!!!
756.
Putra Haikal
Hi there, this guide is working fine. thank you for shared with us
757.
gez
@ Jan Just leave it, it will eventually bring up the language option and continue..it just takes about 5-10 mins and appears as nothing is happening..just be patient!
758.
hAMMAD
Some times /nt60 do not work for whatever reason then we can use /nt52.
759.
Eason
Its 100% working BUT since its other laptops bios are new now. Its not removable devices for me but Hard Drive
760.
just me
wish you would have stated that if you do not have a win 7 dvd/cd, and the info is already on your flash drive, proceed to step #x. I just wiped out my usb drive which had all of my win 7 data on it. thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
761.
Al
Hi Im facing the same error as sandy in post #601. Access denied error running Bootsect.exe Please help! Thanks, Al
762.
Joe
Thank you so much for your help. Its very cool.
763.
Bachir
Any one faced this message when trying to copy file into USB stick? Cant read from the source file or disk. bootsect.exe.mui". When I presses skip I got same message for other file names!!!!! Post #441 had teh same problem regards
764.
Thomas
If you have access denied error, run cmd in run as adminstrator mode.
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765.
Andreas
Works just as described. Thanks very much, saved my bacon after realizing Mom-in-Laws PC didnt have DVD drive. To Al: had same error. Make sure you are running CMD as Admin. If it doesnt prompt you for permission on launch, you didnt launch it right. Use the right-click run as administrator option.
766.
balaji
Hi, i would like you to guide me that how can i deploy xp/vista/windows7 wherein the os to be loaded from the centralized server to the client desktops. Is there any software or freewares available. Can anyone help me how to proceed with
767.
PerT
Hi Al I had the same look at #577 and change to never notify BUT I had to reboot after I changed to never notify before it worked. After reboot you can go step 6 by open the cmd again.
768.
Dark
F**king awesome!!! Thanks brawah Works great!
769.
Shane
Worked a treat !! Thanks ! (remember guys right click on the cmd to run as administrator or the boosect.exe wont work)
770.
NOOR
HI !!! Im Palestinian , So please excuse my English!! I want to ask about the commands SELECT DISK 1 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) ASSIGN EXIT Are these commands affect the machine Im working in ? I have a windows CD BUT My lptp DVD machine is out of work , and i need to install windows 7 on my lptp IF I used this guides to install the CD contents to USB on my friend lptp ,,, does this affect hers ? Thanks a lot
771.
phil
if step 7 fails, run command prmopt as administrator.
772.
anjan rai
Hey man, thanks a lot. i was searching this type of method from last few days and now i got sucess. it really worked. THANKS alot bro.
773.
lunjanie2
After using BOOTSECT letter on the USB drive chnaged from F: to G:, if that is of help for someone there. Check the drive letter before doing step 7
774.
Katherine
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I cant figured out whats going on >__> Ive changed the bios and I get an error. bootmgr cannot be found
775.
Manindra Agrawal
hi Thnx a lot its work properly. if i want to make Bootable USB for XP is i will follow above steps or some other steps Thnx for it
776.
Israel
Worked perfect Tryed with 7, 32 and 64 bits Ty
777.
Bhupend
it works
778.
moksha
Thanks a million tonne. Youre a savior. This really works. My DVD drive isnt working and I had no choice.
779.
LeAnna
Thanks for the great DIY article! One question: what to do for people without the Windows7/Vista DVD? Software came pre-installed with licenses stick to the bottom of the netbook.
780.
DR
How do i get my USB flash drive to function as a mass storage device again?
781.
Florin
I tried to install the way this tutorial said but at the formating the memory stick as NTFS it taked me samething more than 1 hour and got an error of formating also. So I had formated as NTFS in Windows 7 and copyed the files from the win7 image mounted with daemon tools (drag & drop I had unchecked Hide protected operating system files from Folder and search options)and worked just fine with installing windows 7 on another computer.
782.
nainglinn
It can do bootable usb with Transcend . I have tried to do bootable drive with Verico usb but I cannt .
783.
DIODIM
wonderfull guide manyou rock!!
784.
Jason
Thanks! This really help me out in a jam. Not having a dvd-rom with my netbook can be a pain at times.
785.
Joao
Worked great! Dell Optiplex 160 no DVD ram, only USB. Thanks!
786.
JIM
thanks alot
787.
Michael
LIST DISK only shows my 2 local harddisk, and not the USB flash drive.
788.
Jaideep Arora
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Pappi Boss Aap Chaa Gaye !!!!! Master Brain Bhai!1 kya baat hai, It helps me a lot on my mini laptop to install windows on my own. Thanksss!!! Bravo Yaar
789.
Elli Bagelman
Thanks! worked like a charm
790.
Jaideep Arora
So Dammnn Good, Marvolous Work, Grt, U Must be some Windows Co-worker na. Win 7 get installed only in 15 min compare to DVD Rom drive which takes 20-30 min. Time, Money & Pressure, CD Cost etc. everything I saved I purchased a new Flash Drive of 8GB and it works for me so good. Bye, Have more fun and also give me the XP Booting related post. Thanks Admin
791.
anonymous
sir when i type list disk , my USB volume is not listed, please help !!!
792.
killer_boy
ive been follow ur steps and instruction to the last steps.. but after the bootsect.exe part ive got this target volumes will be update with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access denied. can u help me with this thing please..
793.
asanka
Thnx man, it workd
794.
josh
can i use win to flash and get the file on to my usb and follow the steps? if so what file type should it be after i format so the cpu can read it?
795.
RAJU THOKAR
How to copy the windows 7 on Flash drive, directly copy and paste as we usually do in Flash drive or through command?
796.
Christian
Thank you so much this was the easiest install Ive ever done.
797.
Arjun3111
thank u very much..a sigh of relief..phewww..!!! god bless u. keep rocking.
798.
Erik
can i do that all that work in my desktop for formating my laptop, or all this work have to be in that computer wich will be formated?
799.
franz99
I followed sucessfully all the steps of this guide under Windows 7 Pro but when booting on my USB pendrive I get the same error as mentionned earlier by madmax : file : \Boot\BCD status : 0xc000000e
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info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration I could not find in this discussion above any answer to madmaxs question so could please help us Do you think this error message related to the preparation of the USB pendrive or to the capabilities of my mainboard ? I get the same error message when using the official MS Tool http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-usb-to-install-windows7-from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/
800.
Asger
100% is nothing MANY THANKS!!!!!!!!
801.
flex
Fantastic guide thanks!
802.
Alex
Hi, thanks for the support it worked perfectly!!! i have a little problem altough, i used my phone memory card as boot usb and now i cant use it in the phone again, somehow the phone cant recognise it how can i fix it?
803.
Gaurav
Yes it is 100% working. Thanks dude!!
804.
Ajmat husain
i am very happy bcz it is very simple formula.
805.
Sunmaster14
to avoid ACCESS DENIED errors, run cmd from system 32 folder Run As Administrator
806.
HakuginLabs
For those having issues with not having a dvd to copy the files from. Use a virtual drive, there are a few good free programs that will mount iso images into a virtual dvd drive. For people having issues with the bootsect.exe step, you will need to make sure you are using a 64bit OS to create a 64bit usb installer. I ran into this myself using 32bit vista on one of my laptops. I had to use my 64bit vista laptop to create a 64bit windows 7 usb isntaller for my netbook. And remember to run Command Prompt as admin, if you run into issues with cmd prompt dropping admin privileges after exiting diskpart, you may be having an issue with the UAC. Just open a new cmd prompt as admin (easiest fix). Great guide btw. Allowed me to format and reinstall 7 (using the DVD provided by the manufacturer) on a netbook without using an external dvd drive which I did not have the money to buy.
807.
HakuginLabs
@Alex Sorry, forgot to add this to my previous comment. There are a few options for restoring the memory card to being usable in your phone. Option 1: Delete the partition and create a new fat32 partition (Ive noticed a lot of phones dont recognize ntfs easily, some do). This is the easiest option Option 2: This is for advanced pc users.. You can download and burn off a Live version of linux that will boot from disc and provide a full linux environment and use a disk partitioning program like gparted or Disk Utility I recommend option 1, worked for a co-worker that had run into the same issue.
808.
alexander
hi,
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thanks for the answer! sorry for being stupid, but how do i delete the partition?
:)
809.
Mark Anthony
hope this works.. I need to reinstall my windows 7
810.
Sunil Rana
I have got a problem with my laptop that it is comfortably running the video DVDs but it is not detecting the bootable DVD. How can i install the windows. Shall i copy the contents of DIsc image file in to USB and then make USB bootable and boot through it.. Please suggest ..
811.
nobbler
Great stuff. Worked like a charm. I tried another method that didnt boot at all, but this one worked on the 1st try. I dir get an ACCESS DENIED when it tried to lock the disk for the bootsect.exe /NT60 h: command, but it worked anyway. If you do it this way youll end up where you wanna be. Thanks!
812.
Ajmal Khan
Hi I have got the problem in step 4. In step 4 my flash drive do not show in command promt. please solve the problem and reply me. Thanks
813.
joe
Can I use an sd card instead? I tried and it cant create a partition when I type in create partition primary.
814.
bharathp
i tried the steps suggested to format laptop using usb . in second step i typed LIST DISK
815.
bharathp
i tried the steps suggested to format laptop using usb after insert the usb(pen drive 4gp) in usb port. in second step i typed LIST DISK . it list out disk0 only. it did not list any other disks such as disk1 for usb that i was inserted. so i cant proceed further .please tell me that how can i proceed further.
816.
Ryan
Everything went smoothly and I could boot from the USB but after that there is a message thy says: Bootmgr missing press ctl alt del to restart how to fix?
817.
aRjay T.
Hi! I have been using this Howto coz its really working. One observation though, after I converted the usb as a bootable win7 installer, I couldnt use it as file storage anymore. This happend to a brand new usb as well as my good old usb that has write protect switch. Everytime I try to store files on an already bootable usb, its as if the the system releases the usb (like as if I ejected it) then after a few seconds, the system detects it again that its there and will offer for a scan for error. If I choose to scan, it wont push through and re-offers it again and again. Btw, I cant format nor do anything to the usbs partition.
818.
puthea
when i install. it can not create system partition. why?
819.
Clint Sulis
This is a perfect guide that does exactly what it says. Anyone who has problems with this guide is a noob.
820.
Del
Help
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6/13/2011 10:59 AM
boots from usb, loads ok, then restarts but just starts the load windows 7 process again. if i take out usb it says no operating system. sorry, as you can probably guess, i am a bit dim at this stuff
821.
WILL
hi i got to step 7 and tryed it but got could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied. can someone please help
822.
GREAT JOB
Tnx a lot! mounted .ISO with daemoon works perfect But is possible to make multi boot usb key? windows X64 + 86 + Linux I now linux dont like ntfs Can be this created on fat32 oh forget it should be linux tool Tnx for this!!!
823.
GREAT JOB
ok its already in your site
824.
SmVueno
Thanks! iwe been using this guide soo much now its almost abusive.
825.
Bek
I get stuck on step 4; how do i know which disk is for my usb? I selected disk 1 anyway and typed in CLEAN. its tells me VIRTUAL DISK SERVICE ERROR: there is no media on the device. i didnt think anything of it because the usb didnt have anything on it to begin with. so I typed in Creat Partition Primary then tells me No usable free extent could be found. it may be that there is insufficent free space to creat a partition at the specified size and offset. I dont know what that means. my usb is 4GB, is that too small? am I doing it wrong?
826.
Zham
I compelete all the steps but when I use it in my laptop, I get this message BOOTMGR is missing. I dont know what is the problem.
827.
sumit
I m stuck here.. please help.. Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Windows\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 6.0.6001 Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: SUMIT1-PC DISKPART> LIST DISK Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt - - - Disk 0 Online 186 GB 0 B Disk 1 Online 3875 MB 0 B DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1 Disk 1 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> CLEAN DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk. DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY There is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size
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and offset. Specify different size and offset values or dont specify either to create the maximum sized partition. DISKPART>
828.
Vibhakar Lal
Awsome , This work like Charm, All we me People must follow are steps, Religiously, I am able to install in 12min .
829.
Hey Bek
Hey Bek. Normally the DISK # would be the last on the list. Before you start, unplug any other external device from your system. And note if you have more than one internal hard drive. So if you have 2 internal drives and the one usb drive (the one you want to load the boot on), then the list would be: Disk 0 (1st internal) Disk 1 (2nd intermal) Disk 2 (external) Also the Size column, in your case should be a little under 4 gig. Will show something like 3242 MB. Hope that helps
830.
11225e
Hi. Ive read all the posts hoping to solve my issue but no luck. I hope someone has the answer I am trying to make my 1TB eGo USB 2.0 Desktop Hard Drive bootable. I am running Win 7. The bios hardware supports booting from a USB drive, and I am able to select the USB drive from the boot menu. But when I choose the USB drive, I get: A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart I am able to read/write from the USB drive normally via Win 7 with no problems. The USB drive is formatted NTFS and could this matter my computer is 64 bit and the USB drive is formatted with whatever you get when you select NTFS would that be 64 bit in my case? Lastly, when I try the Windows 7 USB Tool, I cant even get past selecting an ISO file it says mine are invalid. Is there any help for me??
831.
shaheryar
please help me i am having an error (could not map drive the partition to the associated volume device object:access is denied) please help me thank you
832.
chetan
Hello, I am trying to install win7 ,I am reaching till getting install option after boot but I am getting error like required cd/dvd drive device driver is missing.if you have a driver floppy disk,cd,dvd or usb flash drive,please insert it nowplz help me urgent
833.
karthik0000
Installing operating system through usb flash drive is really a difficult task how ever installing vista and windows 7 are now made easy using the usb flash drive. The above listed post explains a step wise approach to installation using sub flash drive. impressive post , keep updating more important stuff.
834.
TianYi
Great Guide Man Working Very well. Thanks for your Post
835.
Juan
Thanks much, had a problem with access denied but read thread and I was not running CMD as administrator. Went back and ran CMD as admin and worked great!, needed win 7 for a
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NETBOOK format and reload. thank you for this guide!.
836.
Myat Min
I get following error message after BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G: command
837.
Nigel
If I make the key on an ASUS windows 7 will it work to repair a totally f-ed up medion vista who always gets a blue screen while booting in evey single mode?
838.
Major
I have made an usb also with this methos, i have always the same problem. at the first it does not ask me to press any key to boot which it begins automatically. So it never finishes the installation since when the system reboots after the first phase, the installation starts again loading the files. any suggest please? From a DVD there is no problem since it asks me to press any key to boot
839.
saddavi
Thanks a lot. u really really helped me. keep it up.
840.
Cheers
Had problem at bootsect but this [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine /dd535816.aspx] simple one worked at windows vista 32bit to install a windows 7 64bit.
841.
Cheers
forgot to add: use the ntfs instead of fat32, its better for larger (>4GB) drives
842.
michal
hi all got a problem. try to instal windows 7 from pendrive and after i make a choice with language time etc, on next screen showing me message i havent got some drivers and i need put a cd with windows. what i cant do becouse i havent got a dvd rom.
843.
karthik
when i turn on my system its comming as BOOT ERROR, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.. my os has geen corrupted nd i dont have the DVD drive also.. can u tel me hw to install Windows7 using Pen Drive.
844.
style
well thanks alot brother for this usiful lesson but i have a small problem , my windows which i want to download is not original , and its crack is built in it , when the setup reboots i had to change the boot priority from flash USB to HDD in order to complete instalation BUT when i do so the windows will not be cracked !!! what shall I Do ;
845.
Amadeu
Im trying this on a portable without any hard disk nor cd/dvd reader. It has just 2 USB entries. It works fine with Linux (no surprise!) Thanks for your work ! Amadeu
846.
Kairoko
Is there a way to get the USB to work for other purposes again afterward? Please reply to me asap, and preferably by email, if you can see it. Regards, Kairoko
847.
toto
Installing Windows 7 SP1 HOME PREMIUM on Emachines E528 in 6 minutes. Super!
848.
Jake
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Kairoko, Hi all you have to do is plug it into any machine and right click on the drive and format to either FAT32 or NTFS and then VOILA!
849.
Admiralis
awesome as i`m a tech noob i`m returning over and over to this site its awesome helped me several hundreds of times (a false exaggeration) keep making posts like this tnx a million (ROFL i like to roll on floor allot)
850.
MetalMadness
i cant get past step 3 lol, im on win 7 x64 and ive typed in diskpart and its shows the first part of the msg but not the diskpart> bit :S it wont let me type either. i have left it alone for a while just incase it was having a moment of fail and being slow, ive even tried it from the start again (making sure i follow perfectly step by step and i still get the same thing. im not a complete noob on computers but this is new to me
851.
lovejeet singh
hi.. when a am execute bootsect.exe /nt60 f: (f is my usb drive letter) command the message I get is: Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied. please give me the solution ive been follow ur steps and instruction 4 times
852.
jadajada
does this process work on older systems which do offer booting from USB devices for instance a dell dimension 2400 please post when you get a moment.
853.
jadajada
WOW big ups to you sir, i can confirm it does work on older systems. Provided the system has the option to boot from a USB device,it will work. everything went great! thanks you very much. p.s this was my first attempt at booting from a USB device and you made it very clear and straight forward. i cant thank you enough. keep up the great work. K + + +
854.
DaGoof23
Not sue if this has been mentioned before, if so, please delete my post. First of many thanks for this great guide! Created a Bootable pen drive with it and pluged it in only to get the message: BootMGR file is missig Solution in my case: Removable device Boot in Bios was enabled, but the Bios maped the Pen as a harddrive, so even if i manually chose: Boot from removable device BIOS didnt find any and jumped to boot from Harddisk where it found no BootMGR. When inspecting bootsequence in BIOS i could expand the entry Harddrive the expanded entry showed the built in harddrive as first device and the pen as second. Well i switched the pen to first device and it worked. Sry for this long explanation, i hope it can help.
855.
rey
ON STEP #8: MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS FIRST THING TO DO BEFORE I COPY WIN7 INSTALLER INTO THE USB..BTW I GET THE INSTALLER IN TORRENT WITH THE .UIF EXTENSION.
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856.
jrr
hey thanks so much this was so hopeful keep it up man. hey and once you figure a way to install xp please post the link thanks.
857.
Achal
My friends computer is not working. The system starts, says windows is starting and then again goes to first stage of statrup and this cycle goes on. I have pen drive which has Windows 7 Ultimate installation files in it. How to do it now.
858.
SUVIGYA
HELLO I DON,T THIS ON XP NO DISK 1 APPEAR IN CMD COMMAND LIST DISK I HAVE NO DVD WRITER SO HOW I COPY THE FILE FROM DVD TO PENDRIVE PLS SEND ME FOLLOWING STEP THROUGH EMAIL FOR XP
859.
chaky
nice how-to, thanks just add explanation that if your flash drive already has some letter, that last ASSIGN command is not needed (actually it will give error)
860.
Mickey
GREAT GUIDE!
861.
john
my optical drive is damaged and in step 5 it is written that insert windows disk..can u help me?
862.
Sabya
I have the contents in my PC to copy but dont have the CD with me how to proceed help. I am at the stage of DISKPART>EXIT now it shows C:\windows\system32> how to proceed. Regards
863.
minhalarabi
hi gys i found that problem Hlp is here XD .late but Got it 4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is Disk 1.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it. So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one: SELECT DISK 1 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK (Format process may take few min) EXIT u will be back to c: then again typeyour drive name D: (DVD Drive name) AND SAME AS GIVEN THERE D: CD BOOT D:BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
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Relly u did it Finaly Thx..tweakwindows.add like be your frend i am your fanxd:P
864.
minhalarabi
thx for this tweakwindows boz of this i got how to use pendrive in ps2 thx alot hope u have more prowrfull idea.
865.
Mazahyr
Hi im able to do all the steps right but i cant make it sure whether it is bootable or not. When i attempted all the mentioned step the windows icon appeared on the USB drive. Now when i open it by double clicking instead of opening the autorun setup window, it explores the USB. Wat indication will help me know whether it has become bootable or not. Plz urgent help required.
866.
riz
what if my windows 7 dvd is not a bootable 1??will it work ??like will it copy all the files on the usb and work as a bootable 1?
867.
aaron
guys, you gotta remember to move the files on the root of the USB drive. IF THEY are in a CD_ROM folder, Bootmngr will not be found by the BIOS good luck and thanks for the awesomeness
868.
Smo
Thanks so much for the effort here, really comprehensive guide, saved me alot of hair pulling. A very important webpage! Keep it up!
869.
Jashan
Thanks man working 100 percent
870.
admin
@Mazahyr Try it on VMWare or VirtualBox.
871.
admin
@Jogh If you dont have a working optical drive and have an ISO file of Windows 7, simply mount it using Virtual Clone Drive.
872.
ali_J
hey i am also getting the error a disk read error occured Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart after trying to boot from the usb i see there are several people who has this issue but is not resolved. admin if there is no solution, can u please provid an expaination
873.
Chaz
To all those receiving disk read error I had this problem and strangely evaded it by simply having a second USB stick in the computer at boot up. It was a Ubuntu USB boot that I had made but strangely somehow it managed to prompt the Windows 7 Install USB to boot. Makes no sense at all but it worked! Good luck
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874.
feyaz
hey, I screwed another hard disk with these codes, its obvious that I made a mistake. I had more than 600gb data in it. Now when I double click on it in my computer it says its not been formatted. Is there a way I can recover my files?
875.
Aaron
@feyaz no if it said its not formatted then all the data on it is already gone. On another note, this worked great thanks.
876.
3rdEye
I dont know why my last entry wasnt posted. Did I do something wrong?
877.
tarun Purohit
i am create a bootable for 2 gb pen drive for xp. but pen drive is 1time runing and then second time create bootable 2 gb than my pen drive is finish.
878.
someone
If you want a easy way (no need using command prompt, also avoid the problem of not seeing your usb drive when using the list disk command) for creating a bootable usb drive for installing windows 7, download and use the tool from here. You can find the instructions here http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-usb-to-install-windows7-from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/
879.
Willi
Hi, I followed the guideline upto step 7. I used a 4GB usb stick but the Windows 7 DVD contents are 4,78 GB large. How is it supposed to fit into the stick. Thanks
880.
hamoosh
very good in addition for ppl who downloaded windows on their pc , in step 6 u first extract iso file of windows if it is then u type that command but not choosing D: the driver letter u jst write first letter of drive u saved extracted files then CD full path of location of ur files.
881.
AlKHOlIc
freaking awsome worked great thanks bunch and i tried like 5 differnt program that where just headache you saved the day THANK YOU
882.
Anil
thank u so much, i tried many other trick but i fail all the time. this guide and screen shots make it easy and i succeed. once again thanks a lot. it makes me ur fan.
883.
Shivam
I dont have a windows 7 dvd but i have windows setup in my computer can i make bootable usb from this. If yes plz tell me how
884.
Tejinder Singh
sir i dont have dvd drive. I have copied the installation files of windows 7 on my hard disk .I am not able to get how to use D; CD BOOT command
885.
Siby
can we use that USB drive for further use ?
886.
Rooli
Thank you for your post, it helped a lot, every step was correct, and it is faster,
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than using DVD.
887.
Al
This is so so cool. Ive done it and its working 100%. Thank you very much for this guide.
888.
potter3
thanks a lot but , can i do this without DVD / Flash ?
889.
sam
hey guys wy wasing time on windows try linux mint one dvd will install all of ur needs. vlc open office image editor all drivers and u can boot live using a pen drive no need to install it!!! and best part no viruses and a very stable system with superfast booting time give it a try
890.
SuperTareFrate
Works 100%, tested and running windows 7 installed from USB Stick! Nice work!
891.
SUDHEESH
Tnx bro. Tnx for sharing such valuable info. May GOD BLESS U.
892.
Darko
how to make usb noramal. I cant format my usb pls help
893.
Gi joe
Diskpart is different on XP to Vista and Windows 7. So the above guide probably wont work in XP because some features of Diskpart that work in Vista and Windows 7 dont work in XP. We found this out at work over a year ago when attempting to do the same thing.
894.
Julian
Extremely useful guide youre a STAR!!!
895.
sanjay
thanks a lot dude
896.
samraat
Can we format our pen drive or sd card after installation?? Can that be used as a normal pendrive after installation??
897.
Karaciite
hey, can the USB be used again as it was before copying windows 7 setup in it? or its turned into permenently a Windows 7 setup drive ?
898.
admin
@Karaciite You will able to use it again for other purpose.
899.
SupaTom
For some of you who cannot get the USB to recognize or the USB to boot, chances are your USB flash drive itself doesnt like to be a boot device. My 4GB Cruzer Micro refuses to be a boot device, while my 4GB OCZ ATV has no problem. Keep this in mind.
900.
Shang
WowThanksThats great
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901.
Shang
Oh My God, I cant do anything when the error display the message in the empty box: Install WIndows No dirves were found. Click Load Driver to provide a mass storage dirver for installation Notice: I did step by step as 9 steps above,all ok. But when I install windows 7 (set BIOS priority to USB ok), the error displayed. I hope you help me.
902.
Karaciite
ok thnx
903.
ABHINAV
dude. it just stuck in 100 percent!!!!! what should i do??????????
904.
Mike Vango
Works Perfect with Windows 7. Followed the guide and worked like a dream..! Thanks for a super duper guide.!!
905.
codifus
Did this with Windows 2008 R2 .iso Worked flawlessly. Thanks TweakWindows!!
906.
John W
Excellent article. Got it working first time. Saved me ball ache! Thanks mate.
907.
Ricardo
Great post!!! By any chance do you have a similar one for Windows XP? Thanks
908.
Max
Just wanted to say thank you, Ive been using this guide for a while and it always works and always helps! Thank you
909.
John C
For those getting the error of There is insufficient free space to create a partition I was getting the same error. I had to CLEAN again and then it worked. You might also have to clean all. Hope that helps.
910.
CK
Thanks for this guide, it saved me having to replace an external DVD rom, for all those that got the problem of read error all you need to do is substitute fs=ntfs to fs=fat32, that fixed my problem.
911.
Bob
Update to Post 911. For what its worth this post worked for me: http://reboot.pro/9196/
912.
soodabeh
Hi, Thanks for your help and article. I test it and it work.
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913.
Jeff
Thanks for he helpful tip. I just got a new CPU/MOBO and turns out it doesnt have any IDE interfaces, and I have no SATA DVD drive! I used to image XP machines from a USB drive using GHOST and an HP/Thin Client utility I figured there had to be a way to do this in Windows.
914.
sibin
Thank you very much , I was looking for this from a log time , i tried and is success. Thnks once again ..
915.
Vig
This guide is much better than any other Ive come across, esp for how to format the usb drive. Thanks!
916.
Andy
it worked perfectly! thank you so much!!
917.
Moe Ali
Hello, I just wanted to thank you for this step-by-step guide. It was amazing and it worked PERFECTLY fine. Thank you again.
918.
ATUL
I completed the task upto 4th step completely.. as i m not having the optical drive, is there any other way because i am having the setup files of windows7 in my harddisk.
919.
Addelini
Hey there, I dont know if this question has been answered before but, can i use this on my external harddrive ? And can i use this without having the installation files? since i dont have a Installation DVD is the installation files somewhere on the current harddrive?
920.
Prerit
Can i know how to restore my usb drives lost space? Actually when I was trying the upper steps..my usb is showing 125Mb memory while it was of 16GB.Please help somebody.
921.
Adrian
Awesome post. thank you very much. worked fine for installing SBS 2011.
922.
Jrei
Question: If my optical drive is not working (thats why I need this tutorial to reinstall/reformat my PC using Bootable USB) and I have my ISO image (also the extracted file) of Windows Vista on my hard disk, how about step 6? am I still using the CD BOOT command on this matter? Help, thanks!
923.
Hero
mine says couldnot map drive partitions to the associated volume device object: access is denied PLEASE HELP!!
924.
phil
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sir when i type the command BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: IT SAYS thatcould not map drive H:to an associated volume device what should i do man?
925.
Ari
hey,please tell me how to do the same work in windows xp
926.
Kar Fai
Hey for people having problems you should explore other ways to do it lol http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx try this site or just google windows 7 usb evangelist the first link is the site anyway i used to try this method but odd enough i couldnt get past after certain step and as pointed out by those that fail even when the method works during installation problem occur so here you go i wasnt going to type my comment in at first till i realize its 2011 and more than ever people are still doing this so here is an alternative cheers
927.
Mike
Genius! Worked like a charm. Thanks for posting.
928.
Jhayz
WinToFlash applications works perfect. Im using Windows XP on my laptop and i want a usb bootable thumb drive containing windows 7 to install on my another desktop pc.. Ive used wintoflash and it works great on my Kingston 4gb usb thumb drive.
929.
leo
thanx. 100% working great tutorial illustrated.
930.
leo
@phil type the command after restarting your pc same problem occured here. i just restarted my pc and it worked
931.
joshua
Greetings! can you give me a link where i can download win7 ulti 32bit? thanks
932.
joshua juanata
help me with step number 5 can i use Power Iso then i will mount the win7 files. because i have no dvd drive =.=
933.
skalig
Thank you very much for this tutorial. Works great! @phil: H: has to be the drive letter of you USB Stick!
934.
ateh
why windows 7 starter cannot set picture at desktop?
935.
admin
@ joshua Check this post: http://www.intowindows.com/download-windows-7-enterprise-90-daytrial-now/
936.
pravin
Hi Thanx allot handsome. Its 100 percent working.I was under presser with a Laptop you helped me. Wish u all the best. Tc
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937.
valy
Hello. I have a 8gb kingston pen drive. I have did all the steps. At the end i have copied the files from the dvd win 7 ultimate to the stick. On boot it says : pen drive without operating system. Please help.\
938.
valy
I did a mistake. Now i now what it was. My stick is bootable. Thanks for this tutorial.
939.
vice245
thank u so much work perfectly. it really help
940.
Maverick
how to revert the flash drive back to normal file transfer usage?
941.
George
Thanks my friend the command line way works really nice!
942.
Bharat
i want to intall windows 7 using bootable pendrive but they show me error drives not found so what can i do? plz mail me suggestions
943.
Ronel
Hi, i have one concern because you see i have already a soft copy of the windows 7 installation files. There is no DVD file on it. So, my concern is that what am i gonna do in step 6 and step 7? what should i skip? or is there something else i should do? Please Help. email me PLEASE..
944.
kamran
hi tnx i did evry rules but i have a problem in boot select in bios i have 4 USB choos usb cd rom usb zip usb hdd usb fdd\ which one i shoul choos ? when i choos USB HDD an error acored that press crt+del+alt to restart and cant boot why ?
945.
Mads M. Eriksen
Thx for the advises THe thing is, that is has been impossible for me to do it from my laptop. But when using my friends stationary there is not any problem. when using the command function, it can only find my harddrive (C:)
946.
Darek
Working perfect Big Thanks!!!
947.
Themba
I got this Error in step4: bootsect.exe/NT60 E: Target volumes will updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. could not map drive partitions to associated volume device objects: access denied.
948.
hamza
hi, i am the whole process, it works fine but in the end it states could not map drive partition to the associated volume device object: access is denied can somebody please help me with this!
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949.
Nicholas Corona
@EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD THE BOOT MGR MISSING ERROR SOMEONE ELSE HAS ALREADY MENTIONED THIS, BUT IT WAS RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE AND UNNOTICEABLE. IF YOU ARE HAVING THIS ERROR CHANCES ARE THAT ON YOUR USB FLASHDRIVE OR HARDDRIVE THE NECESSARY FILES ARE SAVED IN A FOLDER PROBABLY CALLED CD-ROM. YOU MUST EXTRACT THE FILES FROM THAT FOLDER AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE AT THE ROOT OF YOUR FLASHDRIVE/HARDDRIVE INSTEAD OF BEING TRAPPED IN SOME ADDITIONAL FOLDER. HOPE THIS HELPS!!
950.
Lee
I was able to do all the steps on a 4 gb flash drive, but i ran out of space so I purchased an 8 gb. When I get to step 4 creating the partition I get the following error: there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and off set. Specify different size and offset values or dont specify either to create the maximum size partition. I have tried several times with same error. As I noted above the first time on the smaller flash drive it worked fine. Any idea?
951.
sia
why it said no device driver were found??i have followed all the steps to transfer the file from dvd to usb device. Plz help..thx
952.
JHONNY"X"
hey man i was just wondering if i can copy the file of both windows vista and windows 7 on the same pen drive. Thanks for the steps..
953.
R.B.
God Bless Thanks sooooooooo much!
954.
nishiki
This has got to be the best how-to for usb boot Ive come across. Thank you very much for it.
955.
Anjan Bhowmik
Yep! It does work! Thanks m8!
956.
Kevin Harms
Great docs, easy to understand. What I found is I had to do the bootsect /NT60 h: after the file copy, then it seemed to work.
957.
Charlie
This works everytime Been using this every now and then and it works allways! Really great tutorial. Works just as well with Windows Server 2008 R2. Thanks for a great tutorial.
958.
Tony
Didnt work. When I typed in LIST DISK it first showed only my hard drive Then I put my flash Drive in another port (K) and when I typed in LIST DISK it gave me a list of dos commands. Do you know why? Thanks
959.
Tony
OK I get it Doesnt work with xp
960.
Ross
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6/13/2011 10:59 AM
Has any one done a write up for doing this for XP? And if so what is the web address? OR what are the steps for doing this for a XP installation?
961.
Amiel
Works great for windows 7! At first I was afraid of whatll happen to my USB drive. After typing CLEAN, it displayed an error report and my USB device light kept blinking. I exited disk part and restarted the procedure. This time it worked perfect. I was able to reformat my HP laptop flawlessly. Thanks!
962.
Bilal
BOOTMGR is missing I m getting this message although everything else was successful as mentioned in the guide and then I copied the Win 7 all files into the USB flash .. but its not working and displaying the message i mentioned at the start .. plz guide
963.
paul
Thank you so so much! I was an idiot and tried to use my previous DVD Drive to install on a new system, just for my luck I had a I/O error I followed this guide and it was perfect Windows installed in minutes! The only hiccup that I encountered was a failure in CMD to do a format, so I just used the Right Click > Format > NTFS and then did the CD Boot commands and it worked wonders Thank you, Sir. PS Your face should be printed on money!
964.
Mostafa
you said Format process may take few seconds ! but it take few hours for me ! why ? thanks
965.
Simon the Pieman

This is awesome, My DVD drive on my laptop allowed me to format my hardrive before trying (and failing) to install Windows 7. I have struggled for hours to get my drive to read the DVD correctly and install an operating system to no avail. This guide has basically turned my laptop from a paperweight with no OS to a fully functioning Windows 7 machine once again. Cant thank you and the work you have done on publishing this enough, very much appreciated !
966.
Jatin Kumar
This is the best Make Win7 bootable pendrive post. Thanks dude
967.
abhijit
great information. thank u so much for sharing
968.
rajat
can it will work on netbook
969.
krisna
ur guide is almost done. but at the end part i did format the c drive and click NEXT button.so its display a error massage that is setup was unable to create a new system partition Or locate an existing system partition.see the setup log files for more information. so plz rly to me.thanks to u
970.
boat parts
hi,Thanks to you for sharing this.Actually my DVD drive was not working and i was not getting any way to install my new copy of windows so i copy all my data in my USB drive attached with other desktop machine and by using this process i installed windows on my laptop.It is really an amazing way for installation.
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971.
Mike
Worked like a charm! I was having network connection difficulties on my HP mini 210. It would connect wireless for about 15 minutes then drop and not come back. HP determined that it might be a windows issue and wanted me to reinstall Windows 7 Starter with their USB drive. Rather than wait over 5 days for the drive, I followed these steps (very clear btw) and it booted right into the reinstall and it kicked off just fine. Now I can put a fresh install of 7 Ultimate on and see if that fixes it. Thanks!
972.
norbeey
All the steps went fine and I have set the removables to the 1st place at the boot priority order but still nothing happens. Why?
973.
eru88
I did everything but when i try to install the operating system it says Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x8007045D I try deleting and saving the files from the dvd again to the usb but the same thing happen. I am mounting the iso and saving those files, does it not work like that?
974.
Emirates Skeptron
Please see below, whats wrong? =( X:\BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 M: Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode. M: (\\?\Volume{41bc0891-3a3e-11e0-92ec-1c6f6590ed84}) Updated NTFS filesystem bootcode. The update may be unreliable since the volume could not be locked during the update: Access is denied. Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes. X:\BOOT>
975.
Aakash
Hey, I tried doing this on my external HDD and it didnt work. So I used a USB Flash Drive and it worked great. But now when I try to use my External HDD, it wont work at all. Any help? Thanks.
976.
Fanctron
Man, works like a charm. Tks very much. Cheers
977.
espen
fantastic!
978.
sam
nice update it really help keep it up,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
979.
sandip karmakar
how to windows7 install from usb drive detail
980.
vinay
ihave a doubt in the 8th step,where u say to copy the windows files to usb.there whats copying,does it mean to copy image file?.
981.
Shaun
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6/13/2011 10:59 AM
Thankyou, after running into the problem of the windows 7 installation hanging when it expands files when i used the dvd was doing my head in, then using this method and booting the setup via usb, made it work like a charm
982.
Arjen
Hmz, you can skip the step with Diskpart mostly because it takes too long (16gb stick) You can just reformat it quickly into NTFS format. then do the step that comes after Diskpart. Works like a charm aswell.
983.
Jude
I had follow all your instruction and I got it all smooth. But when I tried to use my USB to boot my Acer 4530, I got the message BOOT MGR MISSING. Whats wrong?
984.
Rajmohan
great !!!
985.
yusri
my problem is, BOOTSECT.EXE is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file. what i need to do?
986.
Patrick
Why not show hidden folders and files in folder options and open the windows 7 disc and copy all the files to a flash drive. works for me 100% of the time
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