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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

How To Boot And Install Windows 7 From USB Flash Drive

How To Boot And Install Windows 7 From USB Flash Drive



Format USB flash drive to NTFS format



1-(For Win XP only. Vista users can directly format the USB drive to NTFS format) In your Windows,

     go to Control panel -> system -> hardware -> Device manager.

2- Under the disk drives section, right click on the USB storage drive and selectProperties.

3-Go to the Policies tab, select optimize for performance. Click OK.

4- Open your Windows Explorer, you should see the USB storage drive in the inventory. Right click and
     select Format. Select NTFS from the drop down bar. Click Start

5- For Windows XP




    a) Download MBRWizard. Extract the zipped files to your desktop.

   b) Open a command prompt (Start –> Program –> Accessories –> Command Prompt).

      cd Desktop/MBRWiz2.0/
      MBRWiz /list
  c) Record the USB flash drive disk number.

  d) Make the USB drive active.
      mbrwiz /disk=X /active=1

6- For Windows Vista / Windows 7
     a) On the Start menu, navigate to the command prompt entry. Right-click and selectRun as 
        administrator.
    b) Type
        diskpart
        list disk


   c) Record the disk number of your USB flash drive.

  d) Select the USB disk.
       select disk X  
  e)  List the current partition. Record the partition number.
      list partition

 f)  Select the current partition and make it active.
     select partition Y (Y is the partition number of the USB flash drive)
     active

Creating bootable USB flash drive

 


a) In your command prompt, cd to the windows 7 / Vista folder.

 b) cd Desktop/win-7 (Change the destination to the folder that you have extracted)
 c) cd boot
 d) bootsect /nt60 X: (X is the drive latter of your USB drive ) 




Now, copy all the files from the Windows 7 folder to the USB flash drive.
Reboot the computer. Remember to change the first boot device to your USB drive in the BIOS.
You should be able to install Windows 7 from your USB flash drive now.




courtesy:
http://atulsachan.blogspot.in/

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