How to create Windows 7 bootable pendrive

[michaels]

I saw one man installing Windows 7 from a pen drive. It is really interesting to have bootable pen drive to install windows.Well, i am aware of this but i don't know how to that for windows 7.

Do any one of you have any ideas or suggestion regarding the same ?

[SalVatore]

Pen drive installation process for windows 7 is much faster than DVD/CD. There are some simple steps to make bootable pen drive which can be used for installing windows 7 in future as well. For this you need a pen drive having minimum space of 4 Gb and a Installation DVD of Windows 7.Now just follow this steps:-

1. First off all you need to format the USB drive / Pendrive:-

• Run the command prompt as an Administrator
• Now to find the drive number of your USB Drive, you need to type this and press enter every time.
  
  • diskpart
    
  • list disk
• Here you can see the disk listed.Note down the disk number of your pendrive for the next step. Assume that the number is 'A'.
  
• Now type all these words to format the drive:
  
  
  • select disk A
  • clean
  • create partition primary
  • select partition A
  • active
  • format fs=NTFS
  • assign
  • exit
  
  
• Now the disk partition program will exit and you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.

2. Now to make the bootable pendrive, follow this steps:-

• Now insert the Windows 7 Installation DVD and to your DVD drive.
  
  
• Now assume that DVD drive is G and Pendrive as F
  
  
• Now type G:CD BOOT
  
  
• Now type this command bootsect /nt60 F: to update your USB drive with bootmgr code.
  
  
• Finally copy all the contents from the Windows 7 DVD to your Pendrive.

Here you have created the bootable pendrive. Now what you need is to make your BIOS to boot from USB.So foolow this steps:-

• Insert your pendrive to the PC and reboot the system.
  
  
• Now Enter the Bios system accordingly by pressing the key delete.This is where you’re on your own since every computer is different. Most BIOS’s allow you to hit a key at boot and select a boot option.
  
  
• Now select the USB/ Pendrive as the first boot driver.
  
  
• Now save the settings in Bios and restart and you will be able to Install Windows 7 using that pendrive.

[Modifier]

Remember if your volume give the error that no partition is found, make sure the USB disk is detected by windows and is not write protected. If every thing is correct , repeat the process

[Fullorton]

Thanks for this great tutorial. This is very helpful for many user. !!

Thanks for sharing this

[sayanmaji]

pen drive is in FAT32. will there be any problem if it is formatted in NTFS format?

[Tillie]

Nope, there will be no problem. And i think the NTFS is much better than FAT32.

[phat187]

Hey guys,

Ive gone through all the steps provided, but when I search the Windows 7 DVD Disk for the boot file it comes up with nothing found. How would I go by creating a boot file for the DVD or the USB?.

I cant boot my PC from the DVD Disk.
Previously running Vista and already installed Windows 7, but i want to format the entire partition and install a fresh copy of W7

Thanks