Windows 7: Setting up a USB bootable device for installs

Windows 7: Instalando desde un USB

Ruben Colomo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:40:48 GMT

Te ha pasado que quieres instalar Windows 7 RC en una laptop o PC pero te encuentras con que no tienen

re: Windows 7: Setting up a USB bootable device for installs

Leebee — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:13:15 GMT

@mad monkey. You can download DiskPart for XP from microsoft's website. Its a free "Genuine Advantage" tool I believe (IE you can download it so long as your copy of XP passes as legal)

@everyone else. I have tried this on a number of different USB Sticks on a Compaq PC, it doesnt seem to work on Compaqs as it reads USB Sticks as USB FDD's.

Also, you might have better luck with NTFS formatted USB stick (yea yea I know your not ment to do that, but its ok for this). Format the USB stick as NTFS, copy all the files from the root of the DVD to the USB stick, then goto a command prompt

[USB stick letter]:\

cd boot

BOOTSECT /nt60 [your USB Drive letter]:

(E.G. "BOOTSECT /nt60 G:")

Then boot from USB.

re: Windows 7: Setting up a USB bootable device for installs

RJay — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:06:34 GMT

Thanks for the tutorial - it worked perfectly as advertised.

On a similar note - can you actually install Windows 7 onto a bootable usb stick? I work with virtual machines a bit for testing and whatnot and it'd be pretty handy to have use a usb key with windows 7 on it that worked across different hardware.

Ideally i'd like to be able to take it with me between a couple of machines with fairly similar hardware - if i had the drivers slipstreamed in would that work?

re: Windows 7: Setting up a USB bootable device for installs

Hubert Lam — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:23:31 GMT

Would the speed of the USB drive matter?

I have a 4GB Kingston that is quite slow -- copying files to the USB would only max out at around 3MB/sec.

re: Windows 7: Setting up a USB bootable device for installs

mad monkey — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:26:32 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to know how to do this if you still have XP as your original system and not VISTA?

cheers

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