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How to create a Windows 7 USB Drive

11/17/2010 By 16 Comments
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In this I will show you how to create a a drive to install 7 via .  It’s a much simpler and faster was to install windows and is especially useful in the event that you do not have a CD/DVD drive available for installation.

Steps:

1.) Download and Install the Windows 7 USB download tool which you can find here.

2.) If you don’t currently have an file available of you can learn how to create one using ISO Recorder or Infra Recorder and be sure to save it to the desktop.

3.) Open up the Windows 7 USB download tool, click brows and then select where your ISO file is and then click next.

Now If you run into where you get an “invalid ISO file error be sure o see below these steps to try and solve the issue

4.) You will need to select where you want to install Windows 7 you can burn it to DVD but since this is a USB we will want to choose USB device.

5.) You will see the list of USB devices show up and you will want to choose the one you want to install.  What I have found is that the 8GB USB sticks work best for this even though some people have been getting it installed on 4 GB sticks which I have yet to get working.  8 GB sticks are not too expensive and would be a great investment for this type of tool. See below where you can buy one at a good price.

6.) After you choose your drive be sure to have all of your data backed up off the as it will tell you with two warnings that it will need to erase and format the drive before use. (In some cases you may not see this prompt but still backup any data on before continuing)

7.) Once the drive finishes the format will begin installing Windows 7 on the USB drive and will make it bootable and you are all set to go.

All in all a very simple way to get Windows 7 installed onto a USB drive to install on PCs. There is a manual process through DOS which I may show in the future how to do.

Be sure to leave your comments below and share this tool with others.

If you Receive “Invalid ISO File Error”

Open your iso file in poweriso(full version)

Go to File–>File properties
Check UDF
Press ok
Save your file

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  • Rkevin06

    where’s is the download link to the tool you’ve taught us to use?

    • Anonymous

      The link has been updated. Click on step one and it will open a new window to where the download is

      • Rkevin06

        thank you for the quick answer :) and for the tutorial and the tool =)

        • Anonymous

          Not sure I just know its works for Windows 7

      • Rkevin06

        but another question, does this tool works with Windows XP?

  • help needed

    hey man i love it and i need ur help if its not to much ta ask can u email me carstereospeaks@yahoo.com with a solution answer or helpful advice so with this tool windows 7 disk is not needed at all and do you know what to do as far as the comp being able to read my usb when about to boot

  • help needed

    hey man i love it and i need ur help if its not to much ta ask can u email me carstereospeaks@yahoo.com with a solution answer or helpful advice so with this tool windows 7 disk is not needed at all and do you know what to do as far as the comp being able to read my usb when about to boot

  • http://www.youtube.com/matthewmspace matthewmspaceyoutube

    Thank you so much for this guide! All of the other ways (mainly ones through DOS) suck. This way rocks! Clicked +1, BTW.

    • Anonymous

      the dos is more for the hardcore techie at heart. glad this helped you out.

  • http://twitter.com/Aja_7 Alicia J. Alexander

    Interesting information.

  • http://www.facebook.com/anne.thomas1 Anne Thomas

    Interesting, thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/askingCPA Nicolas Liu

    Thanks. I’m still using XP. It’s durable.

  • Kennyandpenny

    This is a nice article.

  • Anthony Kantara

    Thank you for this

  • Kchamp2691

    I’m booking marking this, it may come in handy at my job.  We have a lot of netbooks with no cd/dvd drive.

  • http://twitter.com/AmangND Amang ND

    thank you for the tools link ! great way to install Windows 7 on Netbook :)