Installing Windows 7 using Pen Drive

[Balamohan]

Hello ,
I am getting the problem installing the Windows 7 from the DVD installation Disc. I think the Installation Disc in not working or may be some problem or error in the installation Disc. I have the Copy of the Windows 7 installation Disc on my system. I have heard that we can install the Operating system using the Pen drive. If this is true then, how can i install it in my computer? i have the 8GB pen drive , Is it sufficient for carrying out this task?
Please tell me the procedure to do the same.

[MrChris-]

As now we can get the Pen Drive of the sizes more than 4GB easily in the market. it is becoming very common to use Pen Drives for OS installation rather than making and Burning the CD or DVD for this purpose. You can install the Windows 7 from the Pen drive on your computer. this is becoming very common because some of the laptops and notebooks does not have the CD/DVD drive , so the USB is the only way to install the OS on these systems.

[Calvin K]

You have heard that we can install the Operating system using the pen drive. But to do this first of all your Pen drive should be Bootable to complete this task. I think by default the pen drives are not Bootable. you have to make them Bootable for using it to install the Operating system in your computer system. If you will directly copy the whole Image file of Windows 7 operating system from your computer to the pen drive, this will not work. You have to make this pen drive Bootable so that the computer automatically detects it at the start-up.

[Lillebror]

Here is the steps to install Windows 7 OS from the pen drive
first of all format your pen drive
1-Take the pen drive space of 4 GB.
2-Connect it to your computer.
3-Start command prompt
4-Give the number to pen drive by entering
diskpart
list disk
as disk number 1
5-Format the pen drive by entering
select disk number 1
clear
make primary partition
choose partition 1
start
format as NTFS
assign
close/exit
6-Copy the Image/Boot file in Pen Drive
7-Now you pen drive is Bootable
8-Exit from command prompt
9-Restart the PC, and enter in BIOS by pressing F10 at start-up
10-Select the boot device as Pen Drive
11-Install Windows 7 operating system

[sundareg]

Why you want to take all the stress of creating a Bootable Pen drive.

If you have the Win7 iso file, then just create a small partition of 10Gb in your Hard drive. Then create a directory called Win7 and then extract the Win7 iso into this 10Gb drive you created. Start the installation from this drive. This is the easiest and the fastest way for installing Win7.

Best way:
C drive: Your existing XP or Vista
D drive: Your expected Win 7 OS destination
E drive: Win7 source files