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Posted January 11, 2009 – 3:58 pm in: Live DVD/USB, Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7
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This guide works 100% for Vista & Windows 7 unlike most of the guides out there. I have seen
many sites/blogs that have “Install Vista from USB guide” but either with incomplete steps or not
working guide. I have also seen some guides that don’t’ use proper commands in this guide. After
spending many hours I have come up with this 100% working guide.
I just did this method on one of my friends machine and installed the new Windows 7 BETA. The
main advantage is that by using USB drive you will be able to install Windows 7/Vista in just 15
minutes. You can also use this bootable USB drive on friend’s computer who doesn’t have a DVD
optical drive.
The method is very simple and you can use without any hassles. Needless to say that your
motherboard should support USB Boot feature to make use of the bootable USB drive.
Requirements:
file://D:\New Folder\Venkatesh\Install Windows 7 From USB Drive_Pen Drive.htm 20-11-2010

*USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB)
*Windows 7 or Vista installation files.
Follow the below steps to create bootable Windows 7/Vista USB drive using which you can install
Windows 7/Vista easily.
1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port and move all the contents from USB drive to a safe
location on your system.
2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Command
Prompt with admin rights.
*Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter.
Or
*Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run
as administrator.
3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the
command prompt:
First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.
Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB flash
drive. In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 1.
4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is “Disk
1”.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it.
So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one:
SELECT DISK 1
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN

EXIT
Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just
minimize it.
5. Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter of the
DVD drive. In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is “D” and USB drive letter is
“H” (open my computer to know about it).
6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following command now:
D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.
CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
7. Type another command given below to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible
code.
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

Where “H” is your USB drive letter. Once you enter the above command you will see the below
message.
8. Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive.
9. Your USB drive is ready to boot and install Windows 7/Vista. Only thing you need to change
the boot priority at the BIOS to USB from the HDD or CD ROM drive. I won’t explain it as it’s just
the matter the changing the boot priority or enabling the USB boot option in the BIOS.
Note: If you are not able to boot after following this guide means you haven’t set the BIOS
priority to USB. If you got any problem in following this guide feel free to ask questions by
leaving comment.
Update: If you find this guide difficult to follow, please use the easy-to-use guide to create a
bootable USB to install Windows 7 using official tool.
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599 Comments
1. Daryl
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:20 am | Permalink
Hey thanks! I’d love to try this soon I hope it’s working
2. Brandon
I don’t think XP shows usb drives in list disk, or maybe it’s just me. Is there any other
alternative to step 4?
3. tweakwindows
^ That’s why I have mentioned only Vista & Windows 7.
4. tweakwindows
Works 100% on Vista & Windows 7..Thanks.
5. Casmir

This is cool…Hope it will work the same way with an external HDD….
Keep up the good work bro…
6. ben
Posted January 12, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink
i am also trying to do this from xp, and it doesnt work, im not sure if step 4 needs to be done
in comand prompt (i formatted the stick in disk manager) but i got stuck on step 7 because
there is no such thing as bootsect.exe
7. neodorian
When I run bootsect.exe it says that this version isn’t compatible with my version of
windows even though it is running the vista version.
8. tweakwindows
Please use Vista or Windows 7 as bootsect.exe is not present in XP CD.This guide only
works on Windows Vista & 7
9. tweakwindows
This guide doesn’t work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7..I have mentioned in the
title of the post.
10. tweakwindows
@ben
Please follow the guide step-by-step and don’t skip any step.
11. Paul
THANK YOU! I was having problems getting the boot sector to work…
and you fixed it. Definitely better than any other guide… SCREEN SHOTS = TEHWIN!,
they help sooo much when you can’t see what you’ve done wrong, even picked up a few
new cmd tricks.
I’m a fan, thanks man.
12. ?lhan
Hey man your methods does not working in XP. Please reinform us.
13. Omar
I was doing fine up until step 5. I figured the whole point of booting from a USB drive was
to avoid having to burn a disc with the Windows 7 files on it, or install on a PC without a
DVD drive. Anyway, I don’t have any blank DVD’s, so I was trying to install it from my
USB drive, but I can’t get past step 5, since I don’t have my Windows 7 files on a disc.
They are on my hard drive, and my USB drive. Help!

14. John
Got it working in the second attempt.good guide.
15. Lincoln
OK nevermind I just had to optimise the drive for performance… Sorry about that!
16. EiNS
Thanks…very excellent guide…
any working method for xp usb drive installation? Tried many…but non of them working
17. vikrant
Does it also mean that we can install windows 7 on a usb drive?
18. BlogPiG
This worked an absolute treat. Nice write-up.

I did it on an XP box using Windows 7 mounted onto a virtual DVD drive.
I had to do the format using the windows tools as wasn’t available as part of diskpart in XP.
All the rest worked as described.
19. eden
i just formated my usb pen, and done show all files on the DVD and copied the contents
over.
i didnt use the diskpart tools.
installed w2in 7 fine
20. Laker_Fan32
Leechie!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR XP!!!! Wow, I
have been searching for past two days and you explained it in 4 steps, you are AWESOME!
Thank you VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!
21. Rkee
U can also achieve booting from a usb drive by using daemon tools. Don’t mean to dis on
the author graet walkthrough by the way. Its just an alternative, and no need for any
command prompt scripting.
22. madmax

i tried both the XP method and VISTA method. both i managed to do without any problems.
but when i try to boot from the pen drive i get this error
file : \Boot\BCD
status : 0xc000000e
info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration
some help please?
23. Darin
Hey, I followed all the steps, and everything worked perfectly until I booted from the Usb
device and tried to install windows 7. It said that “Setup does not support installation to
disks connected through a USB port. Is there a way around this?
24. tweakwindows
@Darin
Firstly, let me apologise for the experience you’re having.
The error means, your motherboard doesn’t support USB booting. I have also mentioned
this in my guide. And there is no way to boot USB unless your motherboard support.
@Vikrant
No this guide doesn’t for the users who like to install Windows 7 on USB.
@Omar
If you don’t have a DVD drive/USB(4GB) then use my guide “Installing Windows 7
without using USB/DVD drive”. There are two methods, direct and via VPC method. Please
follow my guides.
@All
I am glad that this guide helped you to install Windows 7.
Thanks.
25. Joey
i downloaded windows 7 from microsoft and dont have a cd/dvd for it so what do i do do i
extract it to the usb then restart using the flash drive or what?
26. tweakwindows
@Joey
If you don’t have a DVD/USB then use my below guide which shows “Installing Windows
7 without using USB/DVD drive”
http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-2/
http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-1/
27. gabontz

Hello i can’t see my usb stick with diskpart.

all i can see, is my 4 HDD’s on my computer.
What can i do in this case?
28. pete
When I try step 7, I get: “The system cannot execute the specified program”
29. suavi
Bootsect.exe problem!
I think that there is a problem occurs when you want to install “64 Bit Windows 7″ from
your 32 Bit Vista.
Here is the message after typing BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

“This version of F:boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re
running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit)
or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. “
30. Morty
What if I want to create a x64 boot in a x86 environment? I get this error message. “This
version of g:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re
running. Check your system information yada yada contact software publisher.” I am
running Vista 32-bit, trying to create this USB boot thingaby for Windows 7 64-bit.
Thanks mate.
31. Nick
When I tried to boot from usb it will not even get finished copying the files when it gives
me an error code. It sometimes will start installing updates. But what is with this damn error
code. I,m waiting on it to do it again……..Expanding files (0%)……….
Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are
available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x8007045D
I would be very grateful for anyone’s help.
32. Siddanth
Hey tweakwindows i think we need to make use of xcopy command havent tried it for xp
did u try it out /?
33. Jonathan
I have followed all instructions.

I tried the flash drive one of my main machines and it works. However, on my test rig, I
only get a Missing Operating System message. Boot priorities are set to USB Boot.

What could be wrong?
34. Laker_Fan32
My USB becomes Bootable, however when it is installing it gets stuck at 8% and then
nothing happens??? I’ve tried many times and it doesn’t seem to work, it always gets stuck
at 5% or 8%. Sometimes it errors out with the error code: 0x800703ee
35. PeterNLD
Can the USB-stick after having Windows7 installed, be used to get in the complete recovery
enviroment as well?
36. SEO Blog

Works like a charm, thanks
37. Into Windows(Admin)

First of all, sorry for the delay in reply.

@ PeterNLD
Of course, you can use as a replace to DVD.
@ Laker_Fan32
Sorry for the delay. I think you need to copy all the files once again. Just try it.
@ Siddarth
I didn’t try that method. But I have another method which works on XP as well. Will post
the guide soon.
@ Nick
Make sure you copy all the Windows 7 files to USB correctly.
@Suavi
Basically, I haven’t tested this method on 64-bit machine. So, I can’t find a solution for you.
Thank you.
Into Windows
38. tyson
Hi, I read d comments & got confirmed that this method works although i didn’t try it. I
want to install windows xp by USB method. Can you also give a method like this for windows
xp also?? I am currently running windows vista & don’t have an optical drive.
39. Nik Simpson

Only one minor issue if you are trying to create a W7 64-bit bootable drive on a 32 bit
install of Vista. In that case you’ll have to run the bootsect command from a 32-bit W7
DVD, because the version on the 64-bit DVD will not run on a 32-bit OS.

40. cdnwood
Thank you! Absolutely brilliant – your guides have been very helpful!! It all worked just as
you have so thoroughly described.
41. Fzang
Um, couldn’t you have skipped step 5 and onwards? You just need to do the diskpart and
then copy contents of the CD to your USB, at least, that’s what worked for me
Also, why are you formating to NTFS instead of FAT32?
Just wondering..
42. bob Sauve

If I had Vista pre-installed when I purchased my computer —

what different steps would I take to make a bootable USB drive??
Thanks,
Bob
43. Andy
Thanks mate for this, very detailed and very user friendly, i tried to install Win xp on my
EEEpc 1000H but for some reason it wouldnt boot unless i put the USB stick in….lol, its
mad when Win 7 is much easier to setup and install than XP.
Anychance of letting me know how to dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Easy Peasy ?
Thanks mate your a star
44. Nick1
Correct me if I’m wrong, but step 5 states that we need a DVD. I use this guide because I
don’t have one. Am I right?
45. cmerg
Great article. Worked like a charm.
46. Man
Posted February 2, 2009 at 9:56 pm | Permalink
Hi.
In the list disk step,I can’t see my USB drive. What’s wrong with it? (My Operating System
is XP.)
Does it only work in Vista?
Thank you for your teaching.

47. SENTY
HEY I HAVE PROBLEM IN THE LAST STEP .. MY DVD ROM IS NOT WORKING
CORRECTLY.I HAVE IMAGE(NRG) OF WINDOWS VISTA.I LOAD IT USING A
IMAGE READER SOFTWARE (POWER ISO),WHEN I TRYING TO EXCUTE THE
LAST STEP USING VIRTUAL DVD ROM THAN THE ORIGINAL DVD ROM,I GOT
A EXCEPTION
“COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME
DEVICE OBJECT:
ACCESS IS DENIED”
HOW CAN I SLOW IT ..?,PLS HELP ME .. SND ME MAIL ON MY MAIL
ACCOUNT…
48. tweakwindows
Sorry for the delay in replay.
@Man
This method works fine on Vista and Windows 7 only. I will be writing a guide for XP
users in a week. Stay tuned!
@Nick1
I wrote this guide to make the installation faster. In my personal experience Windows 7 took
just 15 minutes to get installed from USB compared to 35 minutes DVD method. Of course,
you can skip the step 5 if you can mount the image and copy the files.
@Andy
Sorry, I am not planning on that. But, it should be easier if you install Linux over Windows
7.
@Bob Sauve
Follow the same procedure. This method works on both Vista and Windows 7.
@Tyson
Wait for few days to get a detailed guide.
@Fzang
NTFS is faster than FAT.
Admin
http://www.intowindows.com
49. ELPY
Awesome,Think!!!
50. asd
Posted February 11, 2009 at 3:44 am | Permalink
well im gonna try this from my phone. hope everything works out ok
51. TY

About th LIST DISK command, I can not see my USB drive number (As you so the
instruction below). so how? i see only my Hard Drive. what can i do?? pls help me!!
52. omg
Hi thats an awesomely explained method! great work!
but i’m on Vista x86 and i was trying to make a usb with Vista x64 on it, but the cmd
prompt gave me this error! –
“This version of X:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re
running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need a x86 or x64
version of the program, and then contact the software publisher”
Is it that i need Vista x64 to create a USB x64!??
Pls help
53. Cobrass2
Thanks Worked like a charm.
54. JD
No luck from XP on my Asus 1000HE…
I used leechers method and continued from step 5.. wehen attemping to boot from USB I get
“disk read error”
55. Sjengie
Hi, i tried it using my 4Gb microSD but like Darin my HP mini-note 2133 (which offers
boot option through “USB generic STORAGE DEVICE”) boot manager comes with an
error “the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccesible”.
I worked through all the steps as described above without any errors.
But i notice that diskpart command DETAIL DISK shows that “Bootable = No”
Si is it bootable yes or no and what might have gone wrong?
thx, btw great job this site !!
56. Sjengie
Correction, it works again !

noticed that i did not copy my w7 dvd properly
great, you made linux disappear for us, thx again tweakwindows !
57. pete
Posted March 2, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink
Hi ive tried and tried but DISKPART wont see my usb key, can u help.
58. ajin

hey it is showing cannot find bootmngr press crl alt del to restart
59. Anthony
Posted March 5, 2009 at 2:10 am | Permalink
Great guide. You need to update your requirements section to point out that these
instructions only work when done on a Vista or Windows 7 platform, or specifically state
they will not work on XP
60. tweakwindows
Thanks for the reply. Will edit the post soon.
61. tweakwindows
@ajin
I hope you have followed my steps correctly. Try to repair your bootmgr file.
62. tweakwindows
Sorry, if you can’t find see your USB drive in the DISKPART command, I can’t help you.
However, if you have only one hard drive, then you can use the “1″ as your USB key. But
try this on your own risk.
63. Pinko
Formatting may take few seconds ^^

It has bee taking maby 30minutes for 10percent with my 250gb drive …
64. Pinko
56% now. thos are way loong seconds.
65. Swanny
Posted April 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Permalink
I have try all the step by step but on the stage command E:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60
F:
I got this message ‘Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied. Any idea what went wrong. Please help. Thanks.
66. jickie
awesome guide does exactly what it says on the tin, thanks so much i’m now installing
windows 7 on all my mates comps via usb.
67. Jeff
Posted May 5, 2009 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

excellent guide. thanks very much. you saved me aged of messing with BartPe again trying
to make a bookable installation drive.
thanks.
68. victor frazee

list disk DID NOT detect a 4GB or a 16GB memory stick
69. Quan
Let’s say I have a hdd box with 2 partitions (Y, Z), can I use your method to create boot
install for Vista on partition Y and for Windows 7 on partition Z?
70. JB
Posted May 10, 2009 at 9:30 am | Permalink
Great write up. Works perfectly!!
71. Brad
Thanks a lot! Worked no problem. It also fixed the partition tables on my USB key!
72. Cooper
Windows XP/2000 users !!!

Diskpart will not recognize removable storage, so don’t bover
This only works under WIndows Vista or 7.
73. ID
When are the mongs gonna read and understand this guide does not work on xp.
74. Joeypesci
For everyone having issues with diskpart in XP not seeing the USB stick, it’s because that’s
an XP issue. The way XP and Vista handles USB drives, Vista sees them in Diskpart but XP
tends not to. There is a reg hack to fix it but I haven’t bothered to search for it.
75. Joeypesci
Just spotted someone beat me to it
76. J
Works 100% in my Notebook. I wanted to install Vista Ultimate with a 8GB USB Pen and i
made it!
Thanks!

77. Christopher
Best write-up ever! Clear and concise. Oh, and it works!!!
Great job, and thank you!
78. Iam
Funny thing I noticed on Win7, when you EXIT the DiskPart and try to continue in
Command Prompt, while copying the bootsector to device, you may face an error – Access
Denied for no priviledge in copying the bootsector to device.
Solution – just Exit the Command Prompt and Run it again (still need to Run as
Administrator).
79. DanielRemains
I’m sure this is another arrengement with MS and USB driver manufactuer to make money
LOL joke
Nice guide I will have to steal my girlfriend’s USB drive (Which I bought her for christmas
LOL) to try this. Looks like it’s worth it thanks
80. pirater2113
so if you do this tut correctly on a vista computer then you can use the pen drive on a Xp
computer?
81. Jay
Hey Bro can one dual boot using this…. ie. Vista and Windows 7
82. mads
perfect. great guide. thanks
83. Omer
Dear,
I want to install windows 7 RC through USB/Pen drive.

But when i open the command prompt and write LIST DISK there (after DISKPART), it
only shows my hard drive there, that is DRIVE 0 only, though i try it after inserting USB.
Y is it so?
84. mike

FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
Yeah lol, it’s taking a loooong few seconds on my 8GB drive
85. mike
I have a question for you, admin.
What if I want to rollback changes made to my USB drive? Or can I leave it like that
(partitions, ntfs) for regular use after installing windows 7?
86. admin
@Jay
Yes, you can dual boot.
87. admin
@ pirater2113
You can use this to create bootable USB on Vista and 7 only. If you have created on a Vista
computer then you can use it on a XP computer to boot.
88. Yue
i tried it and it won’t work, i am using an old portable hard drive which is 5 gb, is it alright
with it?
89. znakistu
10x for this useful tutorial

it’s working on vista tomorrow i will try on win 7.
10x a lot
90. trav
Can I do this with an SD card and USB adapter?
91. anil
made a usb with above tutorial, will install windows 7

i wanted to install windows 7 64 bit but have 32 bit vista
now in order to install windows 7 64 bit, it seems, i will have to burn a dvd
92. Tweakwindows

@Trave
I haven’t personally tried using SD card. But you should be able to do that.
93. Tweakwindows
@All
We are going to close the comments for this post.
94. JP Jones
I used this method successfully on two computers. I was very surprised that when I was
unable to change the boot sequence to USB in the BIOS on an older laptop, windows 7
installed anyway. I was pretty sure that it wouldn’t work but I tried it and presto! It went
through the three reboots and installed perfectly. Has anyone else had this happen?
95. William
this method from microsoft takes out the last part using bootsect. and it still works.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx
96. Christian Saborio

Worked like a charm, great instructions, thanks!
97. aaraza
Hi,
Great guide. However, I am stuck after:
bootsect.exe /nt60 h: (h is my usb drive letter)
The message I get is: “Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device
objects: Access is denied.”
I followed the steps twice niowand get the same result. Am I missing something? Would
greatly appreciate any help…I have a netbook down and would like to put Windows 7 on it
using a USB stick.
Thanks!
98. aaraza
Please ignore my last message – I was not running command prompt as Administrator!
99. Saurabh Zagade

I m very very thankful to U for such HELP…..
100. Ben Charlton

Posted June 2, 2009 at 11:52 am | Permalink
You can follow my guide to creating a bootable usb disk under windows xp then follow this
guide from 5 onwards.
101. Giorell
Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Permalink
I want to ask something. Can I return my flash drive back to normal after this? Leave a tagg
on my guest book or email me rather.
102. murtaza
Hey..hv vista already installed on my pc..need 2 install win 7 as dual boot..i tried once dual
bootin with xp bt resulted into bootin f only xp..cud u pls help me out hw 2 dual boot win 7
wid vista…
103. ferris
Best guide I have ever used… Thank you, hats off sir.
104. Bogdan
I find it funny that you say this is a 100% working guide but you don’t mention that fact that
the Win 7/Vista USB boot drive needs to be created on computer running Windows 7 or
Vista. That should really be added to the Requirements section so you can call your guide
100% working. I seen a few comments from people saying it doesn’t work because they’re
trying to make the boot drive from within XP.
105. Bogdan
Other than that small piece of missing information, the guid e is great!
106. Jacob
(I’m hoping HTML will work )
trying the F:CD BOOT command (where F is my DVD drive location), it returns the
following functions
Firstly, from DISKPART (which you didn’t say to leave, not sure if you meant to or not)
Secondly, from C:\Windows\System32 (where your screenshot is taken from)
107. Jacob
Sorry, images weren’t displayed from html

I’ll just explain it

from C:\Windows\System32, after running the F:CD BOOT

it returns a simple “Parameter is incorrect.”
from DISKPART it gives me a list of about 25 sub commands

not sure about the right word for that
thankyou but, your guide seems very will explained (just having some technical issues
108. Mark
Awesome work! Clear and very simple! For everyone having problems, keep in mind the
guide is only for:
- Windows 7 installing / not running from an USB drive
- MB with USB boot support
Just follow the steps.
Thanks for this guide!
PS:
109. TSurF
Great guide… cheers bro!
110. Shaz
Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial… I followed it all through until I boot through usb and
setup program comes up. When I get to, select which drive you want the installation I cant
select my usb drive it comes up with the message below:
“WINDOWS CANNOT BE INSTALLED TO THIS DISK. SETUP DOES NOT

SUPPORT CONFIGERATION OF OR INSTALLATION TO DISKS CONNECTED
THROUGH A USB OR IEEE 1394 PORT.”
I tried 3 different computers and a few new laptops and come up with same message. I read
these forums and people successfully installing them, What am i doing wrong. Can you
please Help.
I’ve been at this for almost 2 weeks.
I can boot from usb but can’t install onto it. I am trying to install vista.
CAN YOU PLEASE HELP.
THANK YOU
111. admin
@Shaz
You can’t install Windows on USB using this guide. You can only use this guide to create a
bootable USB and then use it as installation media.
112. Shaz

Thanks a lot for fast reply. Is there a way that I can install vista onto my external hard drive?
if so how is it possible.
Thank you
113. CMal
Thanks, this worked really well.

Couldn’t get my old DVD drive to read quickly/effectively enough and this did the trick!
Well chuffed ;D
114. Julio Bravo

It works fine, except one problem: when I run the windows7 64bits RC1 \boot\bootsect.exe
in my Vista 32, it doesn`t work. I did it running from the \boot folder of the windows7
Beta1 32bits and it is OK.
115. Laymain
If you have a version problem with bootsec.exe, just use bootsec.exe from a Vista DVD. Put
back your Windows 7 after and continue following the guide
116. Gregor
Thanks ! Have a nice day.
117. xopher
very nice toot.
as an Ubuntu user I enjoyed being able to do this kind of stuff from Win7 7127 on my
desktop to make this 7210 for my netbook without using linux.
imagine that.
118. JakeDK
Great guide, thx
Had a problem with step six but thats because the written command is wrong, but I figured
it out when I saw the command in the scrren thx again – just what I was looking for.
119. Bernard
I used this method and created a USB drive for my Windows 7 installation. Works
flawlessly! Oh, and the installation of Windows now takes only 8 minutes.
120. Brantyr

Step 2: don’t you guys know if you hit winkey + R you get the oldschool run box which
automatically starts whatever you run from it with admin privledges?
121. Chris
Posted July 11, 2009 at 9:44 am | Permalink
Great guide, thanks.
To those, like me, that are (were) running Vista 32-bit and wanting 7 64-bit:
In step 7, use bootsect.exe from your Vista CD. Barring any other issues, it will work
perfectly. It did for me.
122. DaveG
Posted July 11, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Permalink
Hello, TweakWindows, and thanks, but… I know what you mentioned about Vista, which I
AM using, I used a Sandisk 8GB and waited half an hour for the formatting process (hardly
a few seconds, but I wasn’t surprised, and I’d like to know how you get that on a 4GB flash
drive), I followed each of your steps in order twice while running an Administrator
command session, with positive feedback after each command was completed, and then I
reordered my BIOS boot priority (which had the same effect as hitting F12, other than F12
not requiring another BIOS session to boot normally from your hard disk again). Looks like
I did everything right, and STILL I can’t boot from a flash drive. I see most others have not
had that problem, but I made sure that I did what you said, with the right stuff, and still I
crashed with this error: “BOOTMGR NOT PRESENT (or MISSING, something similar),
and that was after the “BOOTMGR.EXE /NT60…” command completed with success! I
know nothing of boot managers, much less repairing them, but I sure would appreciate a
clue (wherever it is)! I am close to hopelessly frustrated on this, even if this is the best
tutorial I’ve seen so far, and if I can’t resolve it here I will probably give up – please help!
123. DaveG
Oh…did I misunderstand that this is for making use of an image file? Is that not how Vista
is normally distributed, on a normal DVD? I am trying to install a modified version of Vista,
distributed by .iso, for two very good reasons: 1) I’m on a bloatware diet, and 2) I’m trying
to replace what I already paid for, after it got wiped (yeah, the whole freak’n disk), and if
you Microsoft pirate hunters have a problem with that, then you can go impale yourselves
on your own swords! To any who would clue me in on what else may be needed besides the
image file (after following the above steps), or explain any non-troll reasons why this
method would not work with what I am trying to do, I’d be most grateful.
124. Veselin Belchev

If you have Windows XP all ready installed just fallow 6. 7. 8. 9. Before this steps format
your USB FLASH drive in NTFS format. It’s all ready works to Windows 7 and Windows
Vista
125. PCLove
On #4 where the file system is being set, you can use QUICK to speed up the formatting
like this:

FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK
It’s so much faster!
126. ????????
Thanks!
This would really help me a lot installing on Vaio Type P.
127. kuld33p
I am getting a window at the installation process to select a driver. I can not go pass that..
any idea.. I tried to select windows/inf folder as well.. but no luck.. installation does not
proceed.
128. JonJon
Hello, I’ve already tried this guide a week ago and it works. I have windows 7 in my hp
mini 2140. But now I want to downgrade again back to Windows XP.
Can I use this guide again? but rather than to put the windows 7 installation in the usb it
would be the windows xp? Or should I search another guide for this? I haven’t tried it yet. I
just want to ask here first before I try.
Regards,
129. konrad
it works flawleslly tnx man
130. admin
Sorry, JonJon.. This guide is only for Windows 7 or Vista.
131. Me
Hi,
Is it possible to create a multi boot?

So one can select what version to install from the same stick:
Windows 7 x64 or x86
Windows Vista x64 or x86
132. ive
some bios don’t recognise NTFS formatted usb keys as boot device, so you might still want
to format as FAT32, even if it makes your key slower
133. Jean-Sébastien

Very great work! Thank you very much!
134. Peter
Hi Admin,
Quick question- Would this method work with my Vaio boot disk? instead of a standard
windows cd. Thanks in advance.
135. Mahesh
When I tried executing “LIST DISK” in command prompt,I couldnt find my USB drive
listed in.
So I couldnt proceed.
Please guide me
136. Shom
Excellent tutorial, thanks!
If the flash drive has been previously used for as a bootable installer for a Linux distro then
the MBR needs to be reset, which can be done by modifying the Step 7 command to:
bootsect /nt60 H: /force /mbr
This will remove the Master Boot Record so Windows boot loader will kick in, instead of
Linux (GRUB).
137. admin
@Peter
Bootable Windows DVD or Image is required to make this happen.
138. Franck
For the ones that do not want to burn a blank DVD, you can mount the .iso file you
downloaded (e.g. using VirtualCloneDrive) and do the copy from there.
Will give this tutorial a try shortly to get the SevenRC on my X200 (small & great but no
optical drive).
139. Bernard
Hi. I followed this guide to make a bootable Windows 7 usb drive a few weeks ago, and it
worked perfectly!
Now I have downloaded a new version of Win 7 (The RTM released just recently), and I
wonder if I have to follow this guide from step 1 to remake the bootable drive, or is it
enough for me to erase the content on the flashdrive and then copy from the image, the last
step?

140. Waqar
Nice tutorial… will do installing!!
141. 9shares admin

usb drive will be not available when use diskpart command in windows xp. you should use
vista or later versions of windows.
142. Patrick
all that is necessary is to format your USB and then copy all files from the the cd/dvd(iso or
whatever) to the device. Then just to be sure to boot from the device via the bios or boot
selection.
143. Michael
Has anyone found out a solution to the problem of it sating BOOTMGR not found. Press
ctrl alt dlt to restart when trying to boot it. I can’t get passed that.
144. Torpido
I have a U3 Software on my USB, its basically there for Exploring and locking the USB, if i
copy entire system File(U3) and then paste it back after a format for the purpose of above
guide will i be able to still use it the U3, and if yes must i format it back to FAT32?
145. Mark
After trying over and over i finally got it. It was bringing up my vaio recovery tools, so I
had to take my hdd out of the boot order and it worked like a charm.
146. Franck
Posted August 1, 2009 at 2:35 am | Permalink
I got the install to run on the X200 using the USB, but I had to deal with a “cannot create or
locate system partition” error. That is an error linked to the usage of USB media and not
DVD.
If the USB is first in the BIOS, then the Custom upgrade option simply fails to find the
HDD where to create the system partition (100MB)… I initially wanted a dual-boot of my
Lenovo-Vista, but I had to completely format the drive finally. Once blank, I could put it
first in the BIOS (since not bootable yet)… and the system booted on the USB.
From that tricky point, it went smoothly. This guide is great.
147. 9shares admin

nice article..thanks

148. Yan Li
Hey, thanks for this great article. I’ve used this several times already, since I felt my
original windows 7 64-bit was not to my liking on my new laptop. I found out why the
“bootmgr is missing” message was showing after correctly carrying out all the instructions.
I put the Windows 7 ISO on my usb instead of the folders/files inside the Windows 7
ISO/CD!
149. VladamirTOM
Posted August 7, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink
Great guide. Worked perfectly thanks a lot. Now I don’t have to worry about finding a disc
drive just for a folding rig.
150. Kusta
If you click right, you get properties of the drive – any drive – and then click “format”. I
think that will short this procedure of formating drive, for those who do not like to typing.
151. Hisham
I have a problem here !! someone could help me please ?? When I’m formatting the USB
Drive and after it finish I got this msg: “DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is
incorrect.
See the System Event Log for more information.” What’s that supose to mean ?? Could
anyone give me the solution please.
152. Minh Tran

Thanks for the guide. Perhaps you should update it with Shom’s comment(#137). I was
using a usb stick that formerly had the linux grub loader on it. I was getting the missing
bootmgr error message until I used the /force /mbr option like Shom suggested.
Also, formatting is very slow – I would add the QUICK option on the format command.
Although in Windows 7, I can just right click on my usb drive letter in my computer &
quick format it using NTFS – bypassing DISKPART altogether.
153. Barry
Worked fine, though format was a little slow.
Thanks for an easy to follow guide!
154. Nikunj
its really works.
155. Pali

Thanks for this guide! Exelent job. Thank you again! Pali from Hungary.
156. Marleybrit
does this work with XP?
157. Gaurav Akrani

This article is really only awesome guide which works.
Worked 100% without any flaws and mind irritating drills.
Please don’t try this on your Windows XP Pro Operating system and waste your time.
It is only for Windows Vista and/or Windows 7 Beta users.
I tried it as instructed on windows 7 beta and worked like charm.
Can somebody please tell me similar 100% working guide for triple booting Windows 7 +
Windows XP + Ubuntu Linux.
Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.
Rds, Gaurav Akrani
158. Tried 4 times?

Troubles… I can boot from the USB stick into the Windows setup 7 fine. However, every
time the computer restarts, it restarts the setup.
So… During the next restart I pulled the USB stick out and Windows “started”. The setup
picked up where it left off. The green bar wasn’t moving at all though.
So I ran it all again – I rebooted (with the USB stick plugged in), reformatted the destination
drive, re-ran the full setup, pulled the stick out for the first restart… You know that black
screen where you can choose safe mode or regular mode? There are 2 Windows 7 options
there and every time I repeat the above, it adds another Windows 7 option.
What am I missing??
Thanks for any help….
159. Tried 4 times?

Oh hey! Never trust a green bar… It worked after a loooong time.
160. Chris Leiter

Step 6 works more efficiently if you enter it as one line:
CD /D D:\Boot

161. NoR3N
thx a lot You save me many Hours from searching external dvd drivers… Perfect JOB!!!
162. RnR
Very good, I’m going to boot it in a few seconds from now…THANX
163. CK117
If you have problems with the BOOTSECT.exe part, just add /force to the end.
164. Robert
Thanks a bunch for this tute, it has saved me hours of frustration and bad words.
I created a USB install and will use it tonight on my guinea pig system.
165. JB
Thanks – the format took ages on my 16gb cruzer…
Also, my source was an ISO of the x64 RTM build. First try, I mounted this with MagicISO
and copied files with explorer – had a problem with a missing file “boot\bcd”, so I started
again, but used 7-zip to extract the iso, and am now through with the install, which flew by
in just 20 or so minutes.
I think that copying files from the magiciso mounted iso was not the ideal way to go… 7-zip
seems to have done the trick for me.
166. JONNYK
GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!!!!
Go to device manager and go to properties and select policies, and select the “better
Performance” the bottom one for you to use the BOOTSEC.EXE part.
You might have to reboot.
I also suggest you use KILL U3 utility for san disk.
167. Mindslight
Thanks !
Johannes from France
168. Josh

Excellent stuff. I tried following “other” sites’ instructions only to find they didn’t even
create the boot sector. This worked like a charm. Thanks!
169. Anonyme
Damnit, can’t do it on a x64 Win7 DVD from XP 32 :/
170. rockystuud
Hi ! Thanks. It works fine . Thanks a lot for your effort and clear instructions.
171. jiji
“FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)”
This is bad . Very bad.

It doesnt take few seconds.
It does take very many seconds.
Formatting quick is much faster and enough (I already did to this stick two times before) .
Please correct.
172. David Amison

Just tryed it worked perfectley thanx!!!!!!!
173. YASEEN
Posted September 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Permalink
AWESOME!!!
174. vagothcpp
Posted September 5, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink
Replace format fs=ntfs

with format fs=ntfs quick
to make it format faster.
175. Harris
thanks bro..
176. JHANU
thanks man thats ur great work keep on doing……..
177. Dan Berger


For those of having the 32/64 bit problem, just follow the beginning of the guide and after
you finish formating, copy & paste (drag and drop) the contents of the dvd (which you can
virtually mount on your hdd) onto the usb stick. it will be bootable and will work!
178. Zak
hai dude it really works great.

can u also tell me how to create an live pendrive (like live cd).
179. e
work like magic

Thanks alot
Keep posting !
180. klokluider
XP users follow this method:
Just for completion
1. First create your bartpe files using UBCD4WIN

2. after you have done that create your usb flashdrive using UBUSB
point to the files of your bartpe
be sure you check create cd image and let de default Z in place
check if you have selected the right drive
press go
after finished you have a bootable usb drive which is able to get in a xp environment.
3. Now copy the content of your win XP CD to a folder XPCD on the flash drive (x:\xpcd)
4. after copying boot the drive in the PC and select Compatibility Mode (Memory Mapped)
5. after finished you select the commandline and type
X:\XPCD\i386\Winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource
6. first enter the xpkey and name of the computer and region then click next
7. Now you’re asked if you want to upgrade to the XP NTFS filesysten, select “NO” for this
then hit Next.
8. It’ll now see “Copying installation files” and the familiar green progress bar. Shortly after
“Copying Installation Files” is complete, setup will close without notice or any type of
prompt, this is normal.
9. remove the flash drive and Reboot your computer and setup will continue from the hard
drive where you can choose to install XP or do a repair install if XP is already installed.
http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11375&st=570
181. Malone
Working. Perfect. Thanks for it, amazing work.

Kingston 8GB
Windows 7 RC
on Dell Optiplex GX270, BIOS A07
Only … little mistake at point 6:

Quote: “D:CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.”
The right command is: ‘D: CD Boot’

Need space between D: and CD BOOT
See screenshot.
182. Simran
I have installed windows seven using the method provided by you but I am not able to play
my pen drive in my car CD player. I mean when I try to play songs in my car, it do not work
now. Please give a solution.
183. Malone
@Simran
Format, and write songs again on it.
FAT32 will be OK.
184. acme
do you have to copy the entire contents of the win7 disk? my thumbdrive isn’t that big.
185. jj
D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H:
Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
D:\boot>
——————–
Any suggestions?
186. cj
i will tell you one thing,this is the first advice i have gotten from that internet that works
perfectly,i wanted to upgrade my pc to 7 so i formated my vista not knowing that my cd rom
was messed,so i was running out of options to install 7 until i saw this and i saw all the
instryctions carefully,here i am with my pc typing this and my pc is perfectly in shape,thank
you very much,you are a saviour
187. admin

@Acme
Yup. You need to copy all the contents you your thumbdrive.
188. Faisal
Posted October 3, 2009 at 8:08 pm | Permalink
good job…. my laptop dont have DVD drive. Thanks for the post
189. widL
Posted October 13, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink
I love this guide, it works flawlessly. Thanks for sharing!
190. vietha
It works like a charm
thx alot
191. Scott L
I would just like to let anyone and everyone in here know that I specifically followed this
guide yesterday for XP and it worked.
http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/install-windows-xp-on-mini-note-usb.html
Since the comments here are confusing : NOTE this guide is not to create a Win 7 USB
stick under XP but to actually make a Windows XP stick under Windows XP to install XP,
it worked for me and seemed to have the least amount of fiddling.
- Enjoy.
192. licitatii
very nice tutorial but please help me. Everithing works well but when it’s go to drive option
(where you format you disk) it ask about a device driver to load and install ?????? What
to do? setup cannot continue…
193. marvin carter

you most do these commands in windows “safe mode” to avoid the “Access denied”
message.
194. jose mari

YEAH TNX DUDE… ^_^ ANOTHER NEW IDEA ON INSTALLING WINDOWS 7 ^_^
NICE POST
195. jose mari


jj
D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H:
Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
D:\boot>
——————–
Any suggestions?
HEY jj JUST COPY ALL THE CONTENTS IN YOUR WINDOWS 7 TO YOUR USB IT
WORKED JUST FINE… ^^
196. Martin
Hello,
I have the folders for Windows 7, and I want to burn a DVD to install from (I need to
format my PC, so I can’t just install from within XP). However, I can’t just burn the files to
the DVD, cus then it won’t let me boot from it.
Any ideas on how to do just that? How do I make it bootable?
197. Jackson
So.. can I still used the usb drive after this? Can I reformat it to fat32?
198. Zaino
hey really great guys, but i couldnt show my usb drive in step “LIST DISK” only the local
drivers…
please help.
199. mugurelu
Can i use an external hard drive? A partition of it from which to install w7?
200. admin
@ mugurelu
Since you are going to create a bootable drive, you need to format the drive completely. So,
you can’t use just one partition. And about external drive, it should work fine (I have tested
on flash drives only).
201. admin
@ Jackson
You should be able to format it with FAT 32 or NTFS.

202. ceeque
simply does not work. One of the main reasons being is you have typed out the commands
in the text differently to what you have input into the command screen, you have ommitted
the spaces in your text yet placed spaces in the command prompt, and even after correcting
those errors all you get is:”bootsect.exe is not recognised as an internal or external
command, operable program or batch file”
Yet another waste of yours and my time……
203. Vandit
Thank you very much for sharing this trick.

My DVD of Win 7 was corrupt & I was not able to install.
Then after searching on net I got your trick & applied on my USB. It successfully worked &
Win7 was installed in less than 30mins with all drivers.
I would be really happy to help you if you need any help in future.
Once again Thanks.
204. Andy Mac

Great share, thanks.

Worked on my DVD-less home server, saved me alot of time. Only problem I had was my
systems BIOS settings, missing USB option in the boot order, but did let me enable boot
from USB, just needed to remove memory stick at the right times during restarts.
Thanks again.
205. JM
If you have XP do this instead of diskpart:
1) Right click on the USB drive and click format.

2) Run a quick format
3) Open up DOS box and type convert i: /fs:ntfs (Where “I” is your USB drive latter)
4) After that goto step 5 on this list
Works great in XP
206. Anasazi
I just tried to install win7 using this guide but when I tried to boot from the usb drive it said
bootmgr is missing. But I did every step here and the bootsect command was successful.
207. Raul
Thanks, a great walktrough!
208. Zack

Hello, If you are running Windows 7 already you can just go into Computer and then format
it like you regularly would format a usb drive as NFTS. It saves quite a bit of time and
basically cuts this process in half.
209. Xerxz
What if i dont have the cd and i just have the files on my pc what do i do then??? any help
would be much appreciated.
210. admin
If you have Windows 7 ISO, you need to extract it first to a folder and then to the USB.
211. CHINMAY
what if i hav 2 install windows xp??
212. John
Thanks dude, worked great!
213. Ralph R
I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and
selected my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is
there a way for me to restore the partition and data on the “slave” that I inadvertently
cleaned and partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot!
214. Ralph R
I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and
selected my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is
there a way for me to restore the partition and data on the “slave” that I inadvertently
cleaned and partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot!
215. Doron
Posted November 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Permalink
This worked awesomely on vista. Thank you very much.

But how does one reverse the procedure?
Do I simply reformat the USB shtick?
216. WiZoOo
Posted November 6, 2009 at 2:19 am | Permalink
awesome guide, works for me with win 7 oem bie final x86. thanks alot dude!
217. tristian o'brien


nice one, thanks.. the BOOTSECT command made my usb drive become a viable source to
install Windows 7 on an Asus EEE Pc.
218. Diptiman
It’s not that cool dear. I am trying to do the same(i mean using bootsect.exe) from Vista.
Still there is a problem saying “Your version of bootsect.exe is not compatible with the
current version of windows”. Please suggest.
Thanks
219. admin
@ Diptiman
If you trying to create a Windows 7 or Vista on Vista/7 you should not face any such
problems. And if you trying to create a bootable USB of Vista/XP/7 on XP, you will see
error.
220. Eugene Ishchenko

Thank you for this wonderfull solution. It’s easy and worked for me.
221. Alex
HELOO ,I HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN I PUT F:/BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 I: IT

SAYS THAT “COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIETED
VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:ACCES DENIED
WHAT TO DO PLS HELP
222. Michael
Hi there,
for all the people having problems at step 6 try this
6. Type in the cmd window CD/DVD DRIVE LETTER: and press enter i.e.
D:
Then Type CD BOOT and press enter
Then proceed with step 7
Hope this helps
223. Tomasz
I did EXACTLY as it says and my netbook doesn’t wanna boot from USB…I checked
BIOS settings couple of times and it is set to boot from removable device…which is correct
I guess…no idea what to do
224. Tomasz

OK I found it….when EEE PC starts you need to press ESC key in case to display BOOT
DEVICE SELECTION menu
225. Chase
For those having problems with “access is denied” during the bootsect command, be sure to
open cmd exactly as mentioned in the instructions. I assumed that being logged on as an
administrator or using /runas was sufficient, but I guess things are different in
Vista/Windows 7.
226. hicom5
problem:
“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume
device objects: Access is denied.”
————————————————-
answer:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
On the pop-up right click context menu, select

“Run as Administrator”
227. Jason
100% working… confirmed! Thanks for the tutorial… it was easy, and accurate.
228. Willaim
This process worked fine. THANKS!!!
229. Navster
Brilliant Guide… Worked a Treat….
230. NICERED
Any method to know your win7 and vista compatibility (x64, x86…) before installing
win7?
231. Euphie
Have you made the XP guide yet?
232. admin
@Nicered
You can use official Windows 7 upgrade advisor (it’s free) tool to check compatibility
issues. Here is the link:

http://www.intowindows.com/test-your-pc-software-compatibility-with-windows-7-using-
windows-7-upgrade-advisor-final/
233. Lurvinzy Andrew

Hi~ Thanks for the tutorial currently copying the files hope it works!
234. ahmed
I LOVE YOU!!!
my cd drive doent work so USB was the only option.
GREAT TUTORIAL!!!
235. Andrew J. COwell

Worked as advertised on my Dell Mini 9.
236. dsfjdifja
why do all this when you can just make virtual cd drive and boot from it? 2 minutes work
lol.
237. Please Help me !

Hi,
Please help !!! Here what I have done:
1.Download Windows 7 iso file,which I put it in isoBuster and extracted.
2.Coz I have listen it is better to make clean instalation,I bought new WD external HDD-
Passport Studio 500 Gb and put it all information from my PC to HDD (around 90Gb very
important data + windows 7 of course)!
3.I run “cmd” and get in DOS
- “diskpart”
- “list disk”
(coz there were nothing,not disk 1,2,3-i just select disk 1-don`t ask me why,coz i don`t
know for myself,coz i am stupid!!!)
- select disk 1
- clean…
After i wrote “clean”,I discconect usb cable,coz I afraid-what does “clean” means!!??
For god sake-i have all informations from last 6 years on my external hard disk…
Now,my WD doesn`t work,everything is ok in “drive manager”,when i conecct usb cable

there is the external usb hard drive showed up on the Safely Remove Hardware list right
down,but I can not enter into the disk-inside and I am so affraid and desperate and don`t
know what to do…
How you can see,I am bigginer,but please tell me what is the best solution for me to do now
and to don`t lose my data on WD (if i already didn`t lost
Please,please help-with days I don`t know what to do….
My e-mail is via_makedonia yahoo dot com please write me there.
What I have tried:

coneccting my WD with 3 dieferent cables-usb and firewire in dieferent ports.

installing drivers from wd site
When I check Device Manager it shows that the device is installed and working properly
but it will not show in “my computer” and I can’t access it.
before the problem,my HDD appeard as drive H:
I wouldn’t be half as frustrated if it hadn’t been working properly before this.Plus-ALL data
is on my HDD,and I don`t even know if it is still there
I do it this:
2 Step Solution for XP users:
Part 1:
Go to
Control panel -> Performance and Maintenance (cannot be in classic view to see this link) -
> Administrator Tools -> Services -> Universal Plug and Play
If Universal Plug and Play is set to manual switch to automatic.
Part 2
Double Click Safely Remove icon on the bottom right-> Select device->click Properties ->
click Volumes -> click Populate -> hit OK -> if nothing shows it may need to be formatted
Also i was in DISK MANAGEMENT,but except formating disk,I don`t see solution
And formating will erase all data on the disk,isn`t it?! (if i have it,of course).
again nothing
Thanks in advance !!!!!!
238. pawan
Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink
great work …………….

thanks a lot
239. pawan
great job ……….

thanx a lot.
240. carl
have tried your process a few times with vista and 7 and works great but whilst installing
windows i get an error code 0×80070241? any ideas why i get this code. pls help
241. Aaron
Posted December 2, 2009 at 12:43 am | Permalink
Finally found a method that works. This actually works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, awesome.
242. Throwlands
I just finished assembling a new computer that only has SATA connections and all I have
are PATA CDROM drives. Your guide saved me from spending money on a drive I’d only
need once.

Many thanks.
243. Blake
I did every step right and got the right results. Even the Bootsect.exe part. it told me it
successfully created it. i went to boot desktop from USB and STILL got the BOOTMGR is
missing. Now i did it with vista from XP and it worked great. i had the vista install cd. now
from vista to 7 its different. its an .iso file. is that why i cant make it work?
244. Kevin
When I get to step 6 and type CD BOOT, I receive an error message:
“They system can not find the specified path”
I have a crappy Sony upgrade CD and it is not bootable. Could that be why I get that
message? If the CD is not bootable, does that mean I can not create a bootable CD?
245. Todd
I can’t thank you enough.. my dvd-rom has been down, tryed fixing with the filter delete but
computer still doesn’t recognize it, but it spins up at start up, I can put dvd in and it acts like
it wants to but nothin..(yes all the bios stuff been checke, enabled and so on) —– so
needless to say this little fix has been a God sent.. Works like a champ.. the only think that
didn’t work was
“Format fs=ntfs” I formated it the old fashed way..
and in step 6. “D:CD Boot” I had to do “CD/Boot” amazing how that little / makes all the
difference…
I was a computer with xp and a good dvd drive to set up a third drive to boot from and re-
install vista on my laptop..
Thx again..
246. Chris
This is an excellent guide for anyone and I am very greatful you took the time to do this.
Quick note that may confuse people, in step 6 where it states “D:CD BOOT” should be “D:
CD BOOT” as shown in the screen shot.
Thank you for the brilliant guide!!!
247. vaitheeswaran
Hey Thanks Man , for your help.

and i don’t understand onething.
how do u find about disk 1 or disk 2 of usb . explain that dude.
thanks in advance

248. vaitheeswaran
hi again one more doubt.
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: ?
so my usb drive name is 1201(E)
i have to type 1201 E: or must type NT60 E: ?
249. Gabe
Works great, thanks.
250. Tom
some ppl may be having problem with this part
D:CD BOOT
needs space between D: and CD Boot, like this:
D: CD BOOT
251. Johnathan M Camien

I am not sure if this is posted but for everyone that has the CD as an ISO file you can use
MagicISO to mount the ISO file to a virtual drive so that the system sees it as a CD/DVD.
then just use that drive letter in place of the CD/DVD drive letter in the guide. Worked like
a charm for me.
252. Saleem
everything went fine. booted on the flash drive, but can’t partition using win 7. installation
stopped there. what to do? tried it on asus Eee mini.
253. YES IT WORKS 4 ME

THIS POST WORKS out of the box, but those with problems pleeez pay SPECIAL
attention to the G A P S in the commands. I followed the posters text AND
viewed/compared the same commands in the pictures when I got stuck as others have here,
and it all worked! D:CD BOOT should be D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your
DVD drive letter -> a gap between D: and CD BOOT, which another commenter here
‘Malone’ kindly pointed out and got me hunting for other gaps to finish the job, . Also a gap
at BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: not BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: Follow the posters
instructions and compare against the pictures and you are good to go! Welcome to DOS
commands and sneaky ball breaker gaps which are easy to miss, lol! This is a great post,
just needs a bit of a mop up, many thanks to the poster!
254. Pown

i get a disk read error occurred when i try to boot from the usb i followed the guid and it
should work, whats wrong?
255. matthew
worked great. thanks.
256. waseem
I had a problem in start.

As in window Xp in command prompt Diskpart command LIST DISK doesnot show usb as
disk.
It shows it as volume.
kindly guide me whats the problem.
Regards
257. killak
Hey, great guide!

Before I start I wanted to confirm something; when I’m done, if I want to use the pen drive
again, I just format it from My Computer right?
258. RS232
Thanks for this wonderful how to..GRRRRRRREATTTTT!!!
259. PARAS
INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH ALL THIS PROCESS WE CAN JUST USE

“WIN2FLASH” APPLICATION FROM WIN2FLASH.COM OR JUST CAN GOOGLE
WIN2FLASH AND EASILY GET IT.
I AM USING WIN2FLASH FOR SOME TIME AND BEST PART IT CAN INSTALL
WINDOWS XP AS WELL AS WIN 7 BOTH FROM USB PEN DRIVE.
TESTED BY ME ON ACER LAPTOP(7), HCL LEAPTOP(2), AROUND 19 DESKTOPS
260. Gregory
Thank you very much!!! It took a lot of configuring and restarts but I finally managed to
recover my OS with zero data loss. After I back up my stuff, I’ll be installing Win7 using
microsoft’s boot tool.
261. RPJ
Worked perfectly. Used it on a 4Gb SD card with a USB SD reader to install Win7 64-bit
on an Acer laptop. Many thanks.

262. CrabQuiche
If you are doing this guide from XP, use the HP USB Flash Disk Format tool instead of
steps 3 and 4. This is because XP’s DiskPart Tool does not support The NTFS Formatting
for USB flash disks. Thank you for a great guide. I am working on a tool which does it all
for you, called 7toUSB.
263. Piyush
If u get this message ‘Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied.
goto C:/Windows/System32/ (before doing anything (or before running DISKPART)
right click on cmd.exe
Run as administrator (just second option)
and repeat whatevr is given in this website…..DONE
264. teejay
‘A disc read error’…plz help me.i changed the BIOS priority to USB HDD.there were other
options USB FDD,USB CDROM,USB ZIP.
265. Jake
Thank you very much, this worked perfectly for me.
266. kamlesh
it is very very helpful for me.

thank’s.
267. david dizzle

I have a question for you, I have done this guide

over and over again different ways on different operating
systems and I cant get it to work, I am wanting to install
windows 7 iso on my desktop pc which is an xp machine. I changed the bios boot sequence
so it detects the usb first actually I made them all usb and it still gos straight through the
boot sequence and right into the xp bootup screen. I dont know what to do please help.
thank you, david
268. admin
@ David Dizzle
It seems your PC doesn’t support USB booting, or your Windows 7 ISO is not bootable.

269. david dizzle

If it doesnt support usb booting then why is it an option in the boot sequence?
270. andrew panda

this works like a charm, did a vista install from usb. thanks!!!
271. chacha
“Could not map drive partitions to the associate volume device object: Access is denied.
This happened right after bootsect.exe/nt60 E:
(The usb key is considered by the comp as drive E)
I tried the so-called easier guide link, it couldn’t even find an iso file in the windows 7 files.
(It’s on a cd)
And i know there is nothing wrong with the windows 7 cd, i just used it last night to install
it on my uncles comp, which is where i’ve been trying to go through this guide)
I need it on a usb key so i can install it on MY notebook. Help anyone?
272. chacha
Okay so, access isn’t denied anymore. but it still says the same thing besides that
273. Senior47
Thanks for this easy tutorial! Now, just a easy question!-)

On my USB-pen drive there is space enough for both the 32 and 64 bits version of windows
7. Would it be possible to have a menu from which one could choose which OS to install?
A new easy tutorial maybe!-)
274. JaFar
Thanks Chase (post 226) finally found that out and was going to post with solution but seen
yours. Took me 20 minutes to realize that you have to right click and run as admin in Vista
and 7
275. hnnn
thanks man for this guide!
276. rik
hey i got an iso file i downloaden from school
(we get free software there)

and i cannot do step 5 is that a problem?
and i got an iso file when i want to select is with the dvd usb tool program it said that it is
not valid
can anyone helpe me?
277. toderu
Hello,
great work,
for saving time you can use “format fs=ntfs quick”
that can save some time if you have a big usb stick.
278. CroatianBoy
Hello and BIG THANKS FROM CROATIA
100% WORKING,
EASY AND FAST WAY TO INSTALL WINDOWS WITHOUT DVD
279. Z1pp3r
This is AMAZING! THNX MAN! Nice Tutorial!
Keep doing making tuts like this!
280. Sam
Just thought others should know, command in step 7 must have a space after EXE
As published BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:
This works BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

(shown in the screen cap correctly)
–Sam
281. triple six

thankx… its work.
282. Brody
Well, accidentally formatted my external HDD with my movie library, .ISO library, and all
of my pictures on it, but, my fault.
283. KIRITH SIVA


HEY,
MUCH APPRECIATED! GREAT TUTORIAL! AND IT WORKS!! YOU SAVED ME

SOME DOLLARS. THANKS VERY MUCH!
KIRITH SIVA.
284. Paul
Man… After days of searching and trial and error, FINALLY this is a guide that WORKS!
I have just installed Windows 7 on my netbook and I am sooooo freakin’ happy.
I blog about computers, software and web development in German and I would like to ask
your permission to translate this guide into German and publish it on my blog. With full
credits to you and a link to the original guide of course.
285. Nathan
Great guide, but MS has now made it much easier for us:
http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
286. Vaidy Mohan

Awesome. I could restore my system from what you could call as disaster.
Thanks so much.
Vaidy
287. Ahir @nurag

thank for this update…….all of u………..
any new update so mail me this mail id……..
i will wait your reply………………….
288. Brandon
This worked flawlessly for upgrading my wife’s PC. She had a DVD ROM drive that
refused to be recognized and this was an awesome work-around and super fast.
Thanks!
289. somebody
go here for these things in a nutshell from micro$oft

290. lucy

you cant copyright anything in the command prompt screenshots that you did using MSFT
instructions for this process.
dolt.
291. Michiel
About step 6:
D: CD BOOT
The “CD BOOT” is not doing anything. Just D: is enough, anything after that is ignored.
For the rest: thanks for the guide, it’s really helpful for a lot of people I think.
292. renren
nice i will try this
293. XAce
Thank you,Streamlined instructions,it worked perfectly.
294. Robbie
hey it wont let me do the last command, BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F: , my flash drive is f
and it says could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is
denied???????.. what do i need to do
295. slownie
Excellent work, thank you. This is good help the beginner users.
Many thanks
bye slownie
296. zdarova
i had some problems at the begining, as i have raid 0 with amd southbridge.
so guys, for Windows 7 x64 you need the folder /boot from a 32 bit dvd instalation if you
want to prepare the usb drive on a 32bit PC (i used from the DVD of RC win 7 a had from
may 2009…)
it worked fine, i tried first with an Ultimate version x64

now i want to install the Profession Win 7, because i have the license from the university for
it
thanks!
297. kk kangan

great.. thank you. it worked like a charm.
298. khang
you should clarify step 5 for those who dont have the windows dvd. Mounting an image
isn’t something everyone knows about. Like myself, I am assuming most people who are
gonna use this guide only have the .iso file and not the dvd.
299. Patryk
;( well, mine went bad, really bad, my disk 1 was my second hdd (i realized that after) u
should add how to discover what disk is the usb, i’ve deleted all my most important files;( i
reached active, i didn’t made format, is there a way to take back my stuff?
300. John
Worked Perfectly. I can now have the great W7 on my laptop with a burned up DVD drive,
lol
301. Paul Smith

Worked perfectly. Thank you.
302. Sinner
This is stupid, I didn’t have to do all this crap, all I did was format my 4GB flash drive in fat
32 format, copy the contents if the Windows 7 DVD contents to the USB flash drive. And
then set the bios to boot from flash. all done with my mouse, no diskpart or cmd prompt.
303. maseo
@khang, if you only have the .iso file of windows 7 and not the dvd, (install power iso trial-
free online), nxt double click .iso image and it appears in power iso, in toolbar of power iso
click on ‘mount’ select ’1 drive(in drop out menu) follow a couple of prompts and its
mounted….nxt…go to ‘my computer’ and you will see a virtual drive(DVD Drive) their
with the windows 7 in it, right click on it and explore(or open in new window) all the files
are their and you can now copy them to your pen drive.
a much easier and quicker way is (assuming you have power iso installed) is simply right
click on .iso image and mount from their, my computer, explore or open…copy files//simple
really,
304. maseo
@ patryk
if you didnt get as far as format then you should be able to recover files, im assuming your
disc drive has dissapeared from ‘my computer’?? if so, go to start menu>>type partition in
search bar (dont hit enter) clcik on the ‘create and format partitions’ file>>a box will appear

and take a minute or 2 to load in all your partitions…..once loaded you should see your
missing partition/drive…if so right click on it..select ‘change drive letter and paths,>>select
‘add’ from the nxt pop up box>>type a letter in, make sure the letter is not assigned to any
other resources (egzample…type letter R ) once you put the letter in, just click ok, your
partition should be back as normal now in my computer.
305. steve
This works like a charm. If your having problems try the other easy installation that he has
posted on the link at the top of the page. That one has only 4 steps that u follow. In any case
both of these installation guides have my 5 star rating*****
306. SANRocks
very very tankssssssssssssssssssss……my rateing is 5*****
307. lenny
it worked you are a star i bought my note book for £50 coz it wouldnt load up,, best £50 ive
spent in a long time thanks to your help,,, cheers
308. Omega
1st off, nice tutorial! I used my iPod touch as a flash disk, and used ultraiso to make the
image<—so far so good, everything loads but I get a message stating that 'device drivers are
missing' [paraphrased] I read around and it looks like it may be cd/DVD not being
supported, but I'm installing from USB, no need for DVD drive help pleez
309. le
that sir,
simply put, is ‘the bollox’,
TUVM
310. antonio
Hi, does this step’s will reformat my flash drive?
311. admin
@Antonio
Yes, it will format your drive.
312. Geoff
Worked perfectly!!!

The funny thing was my Windows 7 Ultimate DVD was scratched, so I tried to use my
Windows 7 Home and that didn’t fit on my 4gig USB stick.
Than I tried an 8 Gig microSD card and that did fit…and booted perfectly on my Asus
R1600.
Thanks for really well written and detailed instructions.
313. Victor Aroma

This tutorial is awesome!

Thanks for the helpful tips.
Cheers,
Victor Aroma
314. Rohit
Perfect .. 10/10 !
Thanks for sharing this valuable info ..
315. duncan
my netbook is 32 bit and my win7 is 64bit.. im wondering if this can be installed..

and if it cant can yyou please tell me how i could upgrade my netbook to 64bit?
316. xkovi
The easiest way how to install Win7/Vista from usb is just to format your USB stick (from
windows, no cmd line needed!) and extract files from *.iso into root of your USB
stick….nothing else…tested million times
317. zorzer
thx! 100% working like you said
318. SG
Thanks a lot! The MS tool kept erroring out when trying to create a bottable USB installer
from the DVD. However your instructions worked like a charm…Thanks!
319. aj
Although there are a couple of tools out there to help simplify this process, I just ran across
a new one that works under XP as well. Bootsage is another nice utility to add to your
toolbelt. http://firesage.com/bootsage
320. The-Stoic

You are a legend. Got a SFF here and no DVD or CD-Dom. Used your instructions to get
Windows Home server up and running. Thanks for the info.
321. noneya bizness

yea, this is stupid…..just format and copy windows 7 files to usb…DONE
322. Harry
Thx dude !
323. Moosewad
once i hit “format fs=ntfs” it just says 0 percent and stays there.
Help!!
324. lakshay
I am not getting my pendrive disk number.
when i type list disk

only disk 0 is visible
i have tried on all USB ports
325. Vicky
Excellent guide.
I need to save this site on my pc.
Extremely useful and helpful
Thanxs.
326. DG3
Thanks for the guide ^^ verry usefull! You saved me from CD/DVD’s with windows and
others!
327. khizer
nice work!!!
can anyone tell me how to put xp in the usb and make it bootable..please
thanks
328. deo

In case you get error message “Access Denied” in the last step you may need to start
“Virtual Disk” service from Start->Run->services.msc
329. Richard Borg

Excellent tutorial worked like a charm!
Thanks!
330. ralph
Really helpful.
thnx
331. padam
You should really give the _original author_ credit, instead of pretending like you wrote this
guide yourself.
Just a couple of weeks after it’s posted here:
“link removed”
You turn around and post it here.
You can try to deny it, but it’s the _exact_ same steps in the _exact_ same order, on top of
using the _exact_ same commands, again, in the _exact_ same order.
Plagiarism is baaaaaad.
332. admin
@Padam
How can you say that just because order of commands are same? You know, one can’t
create a bootable disk by entering those commands in random order. So steps will be same
if you refer other sites too. I can’t blame other sites for that right? You need to execute the
step 1 first and then 2.. You can’t reverse it!
333. Kevin Woley

Looks like you guys did a great job copying the instructions from here:
“link removed”
Way to pass it off as your own.

Kevin
334. padam
“just because [...]“? It’s kinda cute how you ignored the other points. The order of the
commands is important, but they do _not_ have to be executed in that exact order.

Furthermore, I’m even more convinced you have no idea what any of the commands posted
do – as you’re misleading users into thinking that bootsect doesn’t work on XP installs or
vista installs with XP as the target. It’s a matter of changing the /n60 argument to /nt52 for it
to use the master boot code that’s compatible with NTLDR (rather than BOOTMGR, which
is what Vista/7 uses).
To quote you in case you decide to go deleting it:
“This guide doesn’t work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7.. [snip]“
335. admin
@Kevin
I don’t know what to say! For your kind information, Microsoft has given the how to make
bootable usb in its WinPE help guide. Do download and read it before making such
comments.
336. AbhishekDatta
AWESOME man! solved my prob.
I… AM… YOUR… FAN… NOW…
337. padam
The fact that you removed the link to his blog from both of our posts speaks volumes in
itself. There are other links all throughout the comments on this page, _none_ of which have
been removed.
kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345
Leave it up this time, let the users make their own decision as who stole it from who.
338. admin
@Padam
I have deleted the links just because I don’t allow readers to post links in comments. You
might get two or three links in the whole comment section (in this post). And mind that I
could have deleted your comments if i had done so. Hope you got it. Also note that I will be
deleting your future comments as I don’t like to argue on a useless topic.
339. Andy
@admin
y wasting time on useless things/people……..
plzz help me out through the problem soon…..
340. Rob

Works perfect.
Thank you very much for youre efforts!
341. Andrew
If you have the following error:
“COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME

DEVICE OBJECT:
ACCESS IS DENIED”
Then when you opened your command prompt you did not right-click and run as admin.
342. Peje
Working fine & smooth.thanks for the tutorial!
343. Sanjay
Thank you very much..it is working fine…..
344. mwawe
im trying to make a usb with Win7 64bit my OS is Win7 32bit and i have problem in step 7.
system sayid:
version of F:\boot\bootsect.exe is proper with version running on this PC….
anyone know what to do ??
345. mwawe
correct:!!!!!
version F:\boot\bootsect.exe is NOT proper with….
346. MTL
Great guide. For those of us who are not builders or very familiar with computers, including
a detailed step on how to change the boot priority in BIOS from HDD or CD to USB would
make this guide complete…
Thanks for your time and effort on what is here though – Much appreciated!
347. Diego Freniche

Thanks! After trying a lot of “tutorials”, this one WORKED. I’ve finished installing my
Asus 904 HD
Thanks again!

348. Sathya
Thanks a lot!!!!
It worked good for me… Only thing you could further mention is that “diskpart doesnot
recogonise removable storsge in xp” it works only in vista (or) win 7.
349. visions
CD BOOT Problems you need to *press ctrl c then type the commands below 100%
working for me now
CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
350. shakir
superb expalanation…. anyone will easily understand…keep it up..
351. Huy Nguyen

Excellent
Works great for me
Thanks
352. underworld666
Really great!!!
This tips works fine for me.
Thanks!
353. david
i cannot burn cds or photos onto a disc when i try it says put disc into cd drive d .Thanks if
you can help me
354. rudnueva
Does it work in cmd 5.1 bro…? particularly in Windows xp service pack 3…..I tried but it
doesn’t work……thank you
355. Oleg
Hi
Thanks a lot for info.
Can I have both, vista and win7 on usb stick at the same time? Just out of interest.

Thanks
356. RM
Posted April 2, 2010 at 7:05 am | Permalink
I did this from a Windows 7 computer and was able to install Windows 7 from USB with no
issues at all.
Well done!
357. Patatattat
I did this process on a SATA SSD 16gb harddrive I had, and it worked! Beautiful.
358. Rishad
Thanks Alot man, This is very usefull for me…….
Thanks buddy……
359. Rajesh
Man, just worked like a charm in the second try. First try I had error “COULD NOT FIND
MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:
ACCESS IS DENIED”
Solution:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
On the pop-up right click context menu, select

“Run as Administrator”
Repeated all the steps once again.. and Voila…
thanks a lot my Friend..
360. Tim
Thank you very much! Great detail!
361. Skyler
I did all the steps up until 5 now I was wondering I don’t have Win 7 on a disk just on my
hardrive can I just copy over to my USB at this point? and would I still have to change the
Bios settings?
362. Amos
Hi, excellent instructions…I’m almost there but when i run format fs=ntfs I get the
following error message right at the end of the format..

“100 percent completed”

“diskpart has encountered an error the parameter is incorrect”
have you seen this before and if so any suggestions?
i’m on Vista
363. Amos
actually you can’t continue with the instructions, if you try assign you get “There is no
volume specified. Please select a volume and try again”
364. Krim
When I put the usb in, it gets to the boot screen and says “BOOTMGR IS MISSING” and
I’ve repeated the BOOTSECT steps already.
365. Hannibal
Thanks for the tutorial, it work perfectly.
i also have a WINDOWS 7 AIO DVD 33 in 1 i had put together and put that on a USB too,
also works perfectly.
thanks again
366. Hannibal
TO AMOS
make sure you fill all details in CAPITAL LETTERS and just take your time to go through
it again.
367. Zaid rohid

i hv problem with this technic.. the command sound like this..
“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects :
Access is denied. ”
someone please help me….
368. VolN
To Zaid
try to run cmd.exe as administrator and it will be fixed
369. Harjinder Singh


u r the best men i think bcz u simply tell us the setp for install window frm usb.anybody
easily do it. thanx for ue help.
370. miro
You need to add > Type EXIT < To exit the diskpart after formatting. Like this:
5. Type EXIT to exit DISKPART
6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following command
now:
Otherwise very helpful indeed

Thanks
371. izdelava spletnih st

Great article!
Helped my friend’s laptop
372. leahcim
i gotta try vpc mode…………… tnx
LeAhCiM
373. Zaid rohid

THANK YOU… !!! YOU ARE THE GREAT!
374. hamedshaik
try dis guyz its vry easy
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-vista-or-xp-usb-flashpen-
drive-with-a-single-click-must-try/
375. Derick
insert the usb flash drive hit any key depending your pc you have to go to the system bios
376. Omni
Works with doing a quick format aswell, as it takes long time to do a regular.
Super guide!
377. Mohamed

This excellent work / / / I will by experience
378. ferpuj
Try wintoflash and forget all your usb problem, all you need installation cd win7/vista/xp
wintoflah and usb stick 4gb for 7/vista 2gb for xp… drivers and stripcan do it later.
379. mani
now microsoft provide their own tool to create a bootable usb drive to install windows
vista/7/2008/2008-R2
380. Waqas Muhammad Akash

32 bit and 64 bit. This method works on both vista and win7. either 32 bit or 64 bit.
now because 64 bit capacity is more than 32 installation CD or DVD.
I have 16 GB card. On this card i have
win 98
win me
win professional 2000
win server 2003
win NT networks
win xp ( all in 1 ) home, professional, media center edit
win vista (all in 1)
win 7 ( all in 1 ) 32 bit and 64 bit is only win 7. above rest os are only 32 bit…
I have installed too many times on different system different os what customer ask for it. via
using this memory card…..
simply booting and them select from the list what i need to install then after that setup for
that windows will run up…..and so go on….
waqas _ akash AT yahoo DOT com if some one need please send me personal email….
381. litesh
tnx i like it
382. litesh
sir after installing windows i got error on pendrive that window was unable to format nw ho
to format it into fat again.
383. Madhur Makwana

Thanx man.. great work..
384. Bill Gates

Thanks man. Worked a treat!

385. setu
May be I am in biggest trouble of my life with computer, I was following your steps without
knowing that my main backup data hdd (500gb) was attached and I follow all the steps till
the formatting ….where I realized I have formatted the wrong one..and if I don’t get my
data back I will be at zero….al my work and everything was in it n I don’t have a dvd back
up as well…..i know it’s stupid fuc’ed up situation ……any help will be life saver….please
pls…..get me out of this………..
386. admin
@Setu
You can try EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard free edition to get back your data. I hope you
will get back your data.
387. anon
After copying is complete, delete the file ‘ei.cfg’ to make all Windows varients available.
388. oxygen
or HP USB Format Tool
389. Matt
OMG, this works so well, thanks, i have tried so many other “guides” and they did work.
THANKS
390. Benjamin
To anyone else still having the error in DiskPart, you MUST right click the CMD shortcut
within your Accessories folder and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.
Otherwise, permission denied errors.
391. Suneev
I put forward my warm thanks for the help this post provided me.
This process is working fine with windows 7
Thanks Again
Suneev
suneev.lpu@gmail.com
392. Michael

I’ve used this guide before with success, but it’s not working this time. Every time I type in
“cd boot”, I get an error message stating “The system cannot find the path specified.” I’ve
already tried two computers and I get the same message. I also tried replicating the exact
steps I did the first time by using a virtual drive, but that isn’t working either. What’s
wrong?
393. azhk
Thanks a lot for the excellent guide!
394. Robin
After step 7 it shows an error stating “Could not map drive partitions to the associated
volume device objects: Access is denied”
Any idea how to solve this problem?
395. Peter
Thanks for the article, worked perfectly.
396. Dennis
Thanks! Works great!
397. somu
In the step 5 you had mentioned “insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive”
but what if i don’t have optical drive, i am unable to go further this step.
398. MAN WITH NO NAME

GREAT WORK THANK YOU !
399. Thankful29l
Very well written guide, woks like charm
Thank you
400. ander
This is a good article, but it has an error. It says:
> 6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th

> step. Type the following command now:
>
> D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive
> letter.

>
> CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
What you meant to say was:
6. At the prompt, switch to your DVD drive. For example, if your DVD drive is drive D,
type:
D:
…then press Enter.
7. Type CD BOOT and press Enter, to see the message below.
(I would make typing CD BOOT a separate step.) Cheers, Ander
401. Taleeno
I did this the first time and it worked fine- But i copied the wrong version of Win7 which
had expired. Do i need to run command prompt again for the newer version or can i just
copy the files over from the new DVD and go straight away?
402. mezvix
for windows xp users format usb with petousb tool you can get by googling around and
runbootsect as instructed , other wise boodsectis also available standalone on many websites
to make usbs bootable .it even supports making xp bootable usb
403. SATADRU
HEY GUYS JUST MOUNT THE WIN 7 ISO FILE IN DEMONS TOOL IN XP AND
INSTALL IT TO THE PARTITION U LIKE….THERE IS NO NEED TO USE ANY DVD
OR USB PENDRIVE…….ANY PROBLEM!! MAIL ME
satadruhalder@yahoo.co.in……..
404. joseph
Todo funcionó a la perfección.

Gracias !!
405. Santhosh
thank you………dis is very interesting..
406. Ahmad Bukhori

work wonderfull on my external hard drive…

thank you.
407. Brad

Just awesome. Very nicely done, easy to understand and exactly what I was after.
408. Raeef
Thanks, I used it on my Sony Vaio upgrade media on my NW180J
It worked perfectly.
409. Harsha Madushan

Thanx a lot !!! work perfectly……… Use full for me….
410. Anurag
EXCELLENT GUIDE THANK U VERY MUCH…it worked in first time
411. Victor Fernandes

Sir,
At present I am using Windows XP which I would like to replace by Windows 7. Please
help me to install Windows 7 on my computer.
Thanking you.
412. raksmey
thank you post is very useful for me. but does it work?
413. Hudson
I’m currently at the copying files to USB end stage. But for anyone who reads down here,
make sure to check that you’ve selected the right disk in stage 4, one way to do this is by
typing DETAIL DISK and hitting enter after the SELECT DISK 1 line, brings up a load of
details and a volume list at the bottom, with name, size etc, mine was Disk 4.
(Using a different guide I manage to format my D:, good thing I’ve got a server backup.
DON’T MAKE MY MISTAKE)
414. Venthan
Hey,
Thanks a lot, this helped me to resolve my issue after a 5 days struggle
415. nex
hi,anyone can help in bios settings,how it is done to select pendrive ..i cannot do it although
i have new m/b and all above trick ..but i can’t detect my bootable drive…may i lack this
idea…help me out …..thanks

416. solem
I was a bit sceptical about this actually working. It just seemed too good to be true, this
being Windows and all. But it actually works.
Like mentioned earlier it’s not possible to run bootsect from 32-bit windows on a 64-bit
version.
Also, I had to run cmd as admin or else bootsect would complain about something I can’t
remember atm.
417. real1tyFTW
OMG THANX !!!!!!!!! I HAD A MAJOR FKING ISSUE, ! AND BY JUST SAYING the
first 2 commands the SETUP started and i was good to go THX
ALLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
418. solarni sistemi

i found this article helpful because recently i had problems with usb and booting. THANKS
419. Jibba
Don’t know why everyone post hard guides with cmd promt. There is a program directly
from Microsoft to do that same thing in 3 clicks. It also works on pirate/cracked copy of
windows 7 .
Download and guide: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
420. twe
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was easy and helped things run much more smoothly.
What a relief!
421. Jan
This guide didnt work for me. When I try to boot the USB drive it just says “invalid
partition table” and halts.
422. Jan
I fixed it, it didnt have anything to do with this guide. If you get the error “invalid partition
table” try configuring your usb drive to load as hddd and not removable/fdd.
423. Fane
it works on 16 Gb USB Disk ???

there is a maximum size of USB Disk ? 10x for answer
424. Kumar
There is always an easy way, download the tool from windows website and vollla sit back
and relax it will do everything for you !!!
425. Igre
Great written guide!
426. LT
I just had to tell you this was so easy, even for a non-techie like me, and by far the easiest
setup instructions on the web. I am installng Win 7 on my (6-yr old) son’s netbook as we
speak 7 he is so impressed!
427. bat787
Perfect explaination.. Many many.. many many..man thanks
428. Johnny
To get this working in XP just use a Windows 7 virtual machine. Virtual Box is easy
enough.
It’s working for me.
PS. Not sure if it has been said, but not looking through all the comments lol
429. Kamesh
I have a doubt in 5th step whr u say to insert Win 7 DVD…but if my cd-rom is not working
how can i insert DVD in tht place..my rom is not even opening if i press the button..then
what should i do??
430. Kayes
This is really cool man, buy 1 thing in the step 7 when i type BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: it
was not working but next time when i tried it was working.
Any way thanks for the real tutorial. I hope i will see more useful tutorial soon.
431. Summitsingh Thakur

Thanks! 100% Working for me. Well, before I was able to install Ubuntu only.

432. Ghost
ThanX allot to whoever brain is behind all this…. Works 110% clean & safe install. No
problems faced. Follow the steps as written
433. Cristian C.
Thank you!!!
Your tutorial is excelent!
Simple, safe and easy to follow.
Thank you, thank you!
434. Adlantis
Really great guide, easy to understand and follow, thanx a bunch!
435. Maneksh.V.Thomas
THANK YOU Soooooo Much Man… you saved me…
436. SHAILENDRA
Your The Best Boss!!!!
437. Michelle
OMG.. This saved my whole day..

OMGH!!!!!!!!
Im back on my own pc – it worked
TYSM !!!!!!!!!!
FANTASTIC.
438. junex
how can i sure that..this is working…and it is good to used it.?
439. avaton
excellent work m8
440. Steve
what a legend!! I was completely lost and you have saved me – worked a treat.
Many thanks -

441. Mack
Everything worked fine down to copy the files from the DVD to the USB. I get a ‘Can’t
read from the source file or disk. bootsect.exe.mui’
Any ideas are appreciated.
442. adel
DiskPart> select disk 3

DiskPart> clean
DiskPart succeded in cleaning the disk.
DiskPart> creat partition primary
DiskPart> succeded in creating the specified partition
DiskPart> select partition 3
The specified partition is not valid.
Please select a valid partition
there is no partiotion selected.
thats the eror i get please help me.
443. AJ
What a guide, 101% working. People still leaving comments every day after one year. One
of the best guides ever if you ask me! THANK YOU, you deserve it!
444. Smithy
Jesus, how many times has the guy got to say it. ITS FOR WINDOWS VISTA AND 7 NOT
XP . Bunch of retards!
445. NLkiwi
Followed instructions and worked great, no issues. Created a Win7x64 usb install from a
Win7x64 machine. Install was for a HTPC with no optical drive.
446. odotan
The easiest method yet

OFFICIAL FROM MICROSOFT
http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
447. Tammi
I had an error, when I tried to format, that said Virtual Disk service error: the file system is
incompatible. I fixed it by using quick format instead. Use this command
format fs=NTFS quick

I hope this helps somebody. =)
448. rakesh
by the way I’m using MSI P55-GD65 motherboard and transcend 4GB USB drive.
is it my board or the usb drive….A Read Error…
please help
449. Rahul
This method will not work if you are running on Windows Xp.The best alternative will be
to use either use either the microsoft method or try to use softwares like WintoFlash to
automate it for you.
450. Abdullah
This method worked for me 100%, i am installing right now from a 8GB USB. Thanks a
lot !!!!!
451. Corey j
worked well with windows server 2008 ENT, on my xeon server
Also if you are making the usb disk from a 32 bit machine and your having problems,
saying incompatable stuff, than go to a machine which is 64 bit, and do it over
anyway good luck with everyone else, and these steps
452. LAP87
Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool , takes your ISO and makes a bootable USB Drive or DVD.
Works under Xp/Vista.
453. Johnsin
Wow this was so Educational… I tried to do it with both x64 and x32 and there it was on
my EHDD! Cool Guide! Thanks man
454. Hesus
Pardon me but this is pretty useless. If i had a windows dvd why da hell would i need to
boot from usb? The only reason i wanted to boot from usb was to not waste time on going
out of the house and buying a new dvd. Instead i wasted my time on this.
455. Frankie

When you said insert the Windows Vista/Windows 7 disk, did you mean insert a blank disc
or the disc that already has the software on it?(The $100 disc from store that comes in the
software box)
Thanks
456. DRBDANISH
It was a success.. Thanks mate…
457. admin
Frankie, put the disc that has Windows 7 on it. Good luck!
458. Roxy
I followed this guide but when booting up i have an error message ‘A disk read error’
What is the problem?
459. Litlis
I do all the steps but on step 7 then i write “bootsect.exe /nt60″ he write this:
This version of G:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windo
ws you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you n
eed a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the
software publisher.
then what should i do??
460. good stuff

Appreciate such a good info. Deserve moar views&comments.

Such success made me cum four times in a row, thanks mate. You need a one gosu sexy
treat like good asss penatration.
Wish u good sex GG.
461. Valdez
This worked well for me to create Win7 32 bit usb version,

but when I tried to make 64bit version on another flash drive using a 64bit DVD I got
boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible…..I am using 32bit Vista to make these drives. Can I
modify the code to make this work? Or do I need to find 64bit machine with DVD drive?
Thanks,
Valdez
462. admin
Try to do it on x64 version of Windows.

463. tavu
I can’t copy the autorun file from the Windows DVD to the USB stick. It says I need to
provide an administrator to copy to that folder. Everything else is copied, just the autorun
has this problem. What can I do?
Thank You.
464. puneet
Thanks dude great job, very easy & good explanation
465. Miss Pretty

I want to know the detail steps on how you can repair window operating system.
Thanks
466. Miss Pretty

Also i want some things on Virtual LAN, the problems and prospects of it.
Thanks for your help.
467. miss26
hi, have a problem in step 6..my dvd drive is E, and my usb is G……
E: CD BOOT
E:\boot>bootsect.exe /nt60 G:
Target volume will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
Access is denied.
pls help me in this problem..thanks
468. Uwais
hi
i am using this method to install snow lepoard on a previously windows machine will it
work??
btw my snow lepoard image is on my comps HD so i cant complete step 5 onwards?? what
do i do??
also is there anyway of reversing this procedure after i haveinstalled the OS so i can use the
HD as a mass storage device after??
thanks
469. john

hi am i able to use this method to install MAC OS snow lepoard. i have no disk just
the .DMG file so i cant complete step 5 onwards. will it still work??
also am i able to reverse the effects on my external HD so i can use it as a mass storage
device after??
thanks
470. admin
@ John
Sorry, I have no idea about Mac OS.
471. DANNY
Thanks man this is by far the best and accurate tutorial for making a win7/vista bootable
usb…
472. DANNY
@John, no you can’t as NTFS relates to windows file system only.
473. Dave D.
Hey, I tried it and works perfectly, thanks a lot…i’ve tried other guides with no success but
your guide is fantastic…keep up the good work…this world needs more helpful people like
you.
474. RAZON
MANY MANY THINKS SIR BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM TO COPY “SETUP.EXE”

FILE
WHY IT NOT COPY. PLEASE EXPLINE ME SIR
475. Fi156
Nice How To, but the command: format fs=ntfs needs HOURS not minutes…
476. naveen kumar

Works like magic….. Thanks
477. Madhav
@Fi156 better use format fs=ntfs quick This will take you a few seconds. that command
without quick will take long time because it performs a complete format. thanks
478. KOUSHIK

actually i have a another problem .i have a pen drive but its don’t show its original memory
and it is not to be formatted .this pen drive is 8 gb but showing 69mb.if you give me a
suggestion that how i am recover from this problem so iam glad ti you.
479. Richard
You rock man! Thanks for this guide. I’ve spent two whole days trying to repair my corrupt
Windows 7 installation on my Netbook, which has been a challenge as it has no optical
drive, so having a bootable Flash Drive was the perfect answer. Thanks again!
A few tips to others:

- The format of the USB drive takes a while, just be patient (I used the full format, not
quick, just to be sure!)
- If you’re getting an Access Denied error when trying to map partitions, it’s because you
didn’t run the command prompt as Administrator. Right click on the Command Prompt
program as select “Run as Administrator”
- When setup has completed, don’t forget to set your boot priority back to the Hard Drive in
the BIOS!
480. Anku
Thanx a lot mannn!! it really works!! u r awsum!!!!
481. Cheryl
I have done this – what method of copying files from cd to usb is best, I Right clicked
copyed then right clicked and pasted. When I tried to boot up I got BOOTMGR.exe missing
and it wouldnt boot up. Am I doing something wrong?
482. Amp
will this work for Windows 8?
483. zero
i’ve already try your method, but i have a problem here which is, after my computer restart
to finish the installation, it came back for the begiining to format my computer and not
proceed for the “completing installation”…how to overcome this problem?please help me…
484. Ed
Worked for me. Thanks to all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are using Windows XP to create your bootable USB, these steps worked for me. I just
omitted steps 1-5
Download and install http://i.thepcspy.com/USB_Boot.zip

Archive Password: “pasta”

Open and find your USB drive and format using NTFS
6. Now open another command window and type following command
J: (Drive letter of Windows 7 iso mounted with demon tool or ultraiso)
CD boot
bootsect /nt60 Y: (Y is drive latter of your USB drive )
Update BOOTMGR for USB Pen Drive
7. Now copy all files from drive where you have mount Windows 7 iso
8. Now reboot your computer and press F9 to get your BIOS screen and select USB drive as
your boot drive.
9. If every thing goes fine, Your Windows 7 Installation should start from your USB drive
485. GEORGE
Worked like a charm!
486. zero
i’ve already try your method, but i have a problem here which is, after my computer restart
to finish the installation, it came back for the begining to format my computer and not
proceed for the “completing installation”…how to overcome this problem?please help me…
487. Farshid Bohlooli

hello..
Thank you so much..
i’m iranian..
my laptop have not DVD Rom..
I want you to tell Persian: ???? ?????..
????? ??? ???? : Thanks really
488. gaithat
It was a perfect explanation.
Thanks for such a nice tutorial.
Only problem, I faced with BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:command.

Once you invoke Command Prompt like run as Administrator there was nothing like …
Windows Xp does not recognize removable drive under: LIST DISK segment.
Pl. keep it up.
489. bulger

Does not work on my vista laptop….. tried several times now keep getting
“‘BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file,” Thanks to the author as I have used this for Windows 7 previously
and it worked fine but any help with vista install would be appreciated!
490. I8bnsober
Worked great for me except the clean command run as (admin) gives me an access denied
on v*sta and w*n7 but I skip this step and even use the same window to perform the
partitioning and the bootsect, worked great on both.
Thanks.
491. Karlo Antukin

for those whos stuck at step 7 coz Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume
device objects:
Access is denied. run cmd as administrator that would do the trick
492. bziz
problem with could not map … access denied but here is the solution:
you have to go into run and go into cmd. then you have to minimise it and on your taskbar
right-click the icon for cmd and also right-click on command prompt then click on run as
administrator
493. Darky
Hey…Can i install windows 7 with usb * i dont have dvd reader atm * if i dont have a
windows before it..Like my old windows crashed & now am without windows at all & i
wanna install windows 7 & no dvd reader ,thx alot
494. TechNazgul
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Worked like a charm for me with Windows 7
Ultimate x86 installing to an Acer Revo 1600 (which I’m using to test out the new XBMC
beta release of Dharma).
495. young money

hey buddy thanx

its working and the way you have explained the steps its easy to understand.
thanx again
if more solutions are available on any problems regarding windows please tell me.
496. IceaTronic
Pro Tip:
When formatting the USB Stick, use the following:

format fs=ntfs quick
Takes about 30 seconds to format the drive. Incredibly handy if your USB stick is 8GB+
like all of mine are. I dont want to wait 20 minutes for it to format…
497. thedeamon
I think the guide will also work for XP USB boot.
We have to use Vista’s bootsect.exe which can reinstall XP’s bootsector.
To (re)install an NTLDR or BOOTMGR bootsector you will need Bootsect.exe.
Copy it from a Vista DVD if you want to include it on the USB root directory.
bootsect.exe /nt52 H:
I would suggest try to format the USB key as FAT & then install the boot manager followed
b dumping of the XP CD to start testing.
Start with FAT/FAT32/NTFS to see which one works.
If NTFS on key works, it will also mean a super fast Windows install over USB 2.0.
Catch: ensure to use correct bootsect.exe for x86 & x64 OS.
498. Azmi
Hey!
I don’t know how you saved my life. I shall thank you for thousand times for this and once
more thousand times for your efforts on this. It really worked. Thank man, appreciate it…
499. deeh
work just fine,.. thank you..
500. Andy
Thank you so much! It’s so simple and yet I could not manage to install Windows from
USB. Now it finally worked! Thanks!
501. Ricky
Worked well for me, the only thing is I had to pull the drive out during the first reboot or the
install would start all over again.
502. Gagandeep Singh

HI.
This is Gagan from http://www.softwaresgiant.com and do you know that you have really

helped me a lot?I had original windows 7 ultimate 32-bit DVD but it sisnot run on my PC as
I had no DVD player.So I made this bootable HD and am enjoying 7 because of you.
Thanks
503. Rets
I did steps 1 to 4. My usb was plugged and so was my 500GB external hdd. It was too late
when I realized that I did step 4 on my external hdd. Now, I cant open my external hdd – it
always says your drive needs to be formatted. Please help =<
504. mary
Thank you so much, it worked like a charm!
505. matthew
can i just say if u are using a bigger hard-drive eg a 250g external it takes about 1-2 hours to
format to ntfs
506. nando
THANK YOU!! this guide is awesome. worked without any problems.. and the speed of
install increased! now it installs about 5x faster.. it used to take 1 hour. now it took 20
minutes :O!!! thanks!
507. MightyAL
Good advice is hard to get, thx for complete instructions.

I dont trust downloaded tools, got some probs with english cos i´m from germany but this
was site was best i found
508. james asare baffour

1)why do we use optical cd whilst basing on pen drive to install windows?
2) Can installing windows wit the help of pen drive be apply on any computer capacity?
509. Suraj Yadav

Hi, Thanks very much.
510. mikaboshi
Thnx allot for this great guide
I had the official ms tool to make your usb installer disk, but somehow it always ended up
telling me it couldnt copy the files to my usb drive. Doing it manually worked like a charm!

Thnx allot! (again ^^):)
511. Shen
When I followed this method, I manage to get the OS to boot from the USB, but then that
creates another problem. Vista confuses itself by reading the USB as another hard drive.
The error “Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for
installation.” shows up in the Disk Partition page. My computer only has one hard drive so
it must be the USB causing the problem. Can anyone tell me how to get around this
problem?
512. ICHI
AWESOME GUIDE!! IT WORKS WHEN I INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE.

YOU’RE A BOMB!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS..
KEEP IT UP!
513. FrackMicrosoft
This will work on non-vista computers if you use an external hard drive and skip the format
command.
514. Boy XatZ

amazing… this guide really worked!!! plus you don’t need to use any programs.. /heh
515. DANNY
Diskpart has encountered an error;access is denied .see the system event log for more
information
no usable free extent could be found.it may be that their is insufficient free space to creat a
partition at the specified size and offset.specify differant size and offset values or dont
specify either to creat the maximum
sized partition.it may be that the disk is using the mbr disk,,,partitioning format and the disk
contains either 4 primary partitions,no more partitions may be created,,or 3 primary
partitions and one extended partition ,only one logical drives may be created,,if you can
help thanks
516. Ryan
Is it just me or does it take more than just a few seconds to format the selected drive????
517. Ryan
Maybe a few minutes….
518. weeds season 6


Great write up!! this really helped me out and btw this can work on non-vista computers if
you use an external hard drive
519. rohit
I got “Bootmgr is missing”. I m using dell
520. saif
hi i m using win xp above all steps done n my bios have option usb hdd but i its not booting
plz help
521. Nith
This works perfect. Thanks !!
522. Lorem ipsum generato

I was just looking for this guide! Tnx!
523. Bane
hey, the guide is dreat but like some ppl here I have the “missing bootmgr” problem, You
sad fix it… but… how ??? please help me , I am trying to set win 7 on HP notebook wich
has vista, and your steps I^ve done on other PC wich has win 7 on it,because dvd rom on
notebook doesnt work. my USB drive is external HDD 1Tb.. folowed all steps one by one,
then attached ext hdd on notebook and set booting from USB… still have msg missing
bootmgr….
heeeeeeelp! thx!
524. darkan9el
Awesome tut, just got windows 7 32bit on my nieces Acer Aspire One, straight on
everything installed. I’d say 10-20mins faster too than conventional DVD installs.
Pressed F2 on boot to get into setup, Acer Aspire will see the USB and show it by name, I
just moved it to the top of the Boot list using F6 saved changes and rebooted. Once W7 has
installed you have to go back into setup (F2) to change the boot sequence back to the HDD.
Just finished updating. If only life was this simple’s lol!
525. justme!
look’s like a nice method but! how do i ‘reverse’ the disk-on-key properties to it’s defaults,i
mean in this whole procedure you actually change the file system of the disk-on-key and
some other properties,how to reverse all that?
526. Sudheera

Great work….it worked for the first time…thanks a lot …..
527. Tom
Hey, Thanks! great guide. I even got it to work using Windows XP!
Tom
528. geoff
when you say copy ALL the files, does that mean hidden and system files contained within
the CD? do you recommend drag/drop copy or a CMD Copy?
529. dallas fox

what if the windows 7 copy isn’t on a dvd but has been downloaded iso?
530. kevin
Actually /active= should have 0 (most of the time) it’s the partition number OF the drive (0
as it’s formatted) otherwise you’ll get “invalid parameter…”.
531. are_peace22
nice thx for the guide
532. unification
hello . i did all steps and it end successfully .

but when restart my pc and set usb boot .
my system cannot boot from usb and display this message
” … read disk error …” .
while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest.
but not working for this way that you say.
please help me . and contact by me via email adress .
thank.
533. Lucas
Perfeito com Windows7 ENG. Muito obrigado
534. unification
please help me. i need to this.
535. unification

hello . i did all steps and it end successfully .

thank.
536. marcus
i cant do the “clean” bit. error occured, unable to access. help pweez
537. jainil
i cant see my pendrive in command prompt in list disk…

what i have to do ???
538. daniel plasencia

thanx for the tips but i am getting a message saying could not map drive partition to the
associated volume device objects: acces is denied on step 7 can you help?
539. ehsan
thanks alot dude!
540. Prithviraj
Thanks a lot . Worked like a charm, very detailed and precise. Great job keep it up
541. Dave Sanders

Great step by step instructions. Even though I’ve done this dozens of times, it’s great to
have a site I can trust to refer to when my (poor) memory fails me.
Thanks!
Dave Sanders
Microsoft MVP
542. Peyman
Great JOB . Thanks
543. admin
Thanks for your kind words Dave Sanders.:)

544. Justin A
Beautiful! Flawless! Stupid sata DVD died and with no replacement and no time to spare
this worked perfectly. Make sure drive is emptied as he states. Make sure! Otherwise,
awesome. Thank yooouu.
545. turnkey website

i have a question that before reading this tutorial or finding it i bought a 2gb pen drive and i
think this procedure does not work with 2 gb pen drive or does it?
546. Donna
WOW – Thanks a lot. It worked like a charm. I really appreciate your help. Keep up the
good work. It is people like you that make the world a better place.
Thank agian
547. Donna
Thanks again
548. Sharma Mohit

plz tell me how to edit bios settings?
549. Trevor
This works great, thanks alot.
550. Erik Hurtig

I just have to ask
Why not just copy all the files from the installation image to your drive, and have bootmgr
ran from there instead?
551. Jay Bee

This thread is getting long, but it is only fair to say thank you for this great guide. Thanks a
lot.
552. AJIT
MAN ITS AWESOME IT WORKS GREAT
553. Modeste

Tres bonne solution

elle marche à merveille
554. Ankit
i am using win7 32 bit. can i use bootsect to create a bootable USB to install win7 64 bit? i
have the ISO file for win7 64 bit, but have no clue how to get it to work.
PS- my DVD drive is kaput.
555. Anggi
Thank for tutorial installing windows 7
556. Mark
Thanks for the superb guide! I was able to get all the way to the final command with no
problems. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate edition (Custumized Nvidia edition) in 64 bit
mode. I get the following message when I try to enter the BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
command:
‘BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program

or batch file.
any help would be MOST appreciated…
557. Mark
Please disregard my previous post….I forgot the CD BOOT command before attempting it.
I have successfully updated the USB stick with the bootcode.
Again:
THANKS for this AWESOME guide…!
558. Doug
When I received this error:
file : \Boot\BCD
status : 0xc000000e
info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration
I used another thumb drive and the problem was solved.
559. unification
hello . why you dont answer to me .

i did all steps and it end successfully .


thank.
560. JB
Since I’m trying to make a LiveCD bootable through USB, it’s not a normal official
Windows 7 CD, and there is no BOOTSECT.EXE whatsoever, so I can’t make it
BOOTMGR Compatible. Any other solutions?
561. piyush
my dvd write is not working.how can i do this step D: CD BOOT.pls mail me ans.
562. Nishant
I tried with both vista and 7

no prob in installation,
but in vista, no user profile is being created to log in.
In 7, finalisation takes all its life n after shutting down after first use, in gives problem from
second use on ward.
it was irriteting..
wasted full night..!
563. Sandeep
@nishant-this process only creates the way by which u can boot the setup progress with the
pendrive…comparatively faster than cd or dvds….the problem you are facing is due to
wrong installation files
564. Kir
Thank you very much!
I’m Russian, but I didn’t find any working instruction for my problem on russian lanquage.
This quide helps me to install Win7 Starter on my netbook using USB HDD.
P.S. Sorry for my engligh
565. Leo
Can i use this for install windows xp to?
566. Sam
This worked fabulously. Thanks for the easy to follow instructions! I had been looking for
this solution for a long time.

567. Ionut
Thanks a lot.
Worked perfectly!
Very well described.
568. Jamie Kitson

You really should put a link to the MS USB/DVD tool more prominently on your site, why
bother with this complicated method?
569. Jony D Rico

Excelent it works great thank you, you save my life
570. Andres Au
You can also check the drive number designation in the device manager under “disk
management” if you have trouble selecting the appropriate disk as described in step four of
this guide.
571. pempoy
Worked great! Thanks a lot.
572. KB
THanks for the insight, I was going crazy trying to get this to work. A lot of sights miss the
part about this only working in Vista/7!
573. JACK91
Thanks a lot dude..it is awesome..installed in 11 minutes..WOW
574. Crypdan
When you say copy windows 7 contents, you mean the documents or a iso file?
575. haroldcore
what if i dont have a win7 disc? what if i just have an ISO but not on a cd. because i have an
ISO on my downloads.
576. AJ

Works perfect, thank you.
577. dvhirst
Well, it worked as advertised (Windows7), but only after going to Control Panel – User
Account Control Settings and specifying “Never notify”. Before taking this step, the
Bootsect command failed with “Access denied”.
Now, on to setting up BartPE on this bootable 4GB USB drive…
Thanks!
578. KGB1953
Nice Tut man. Easy to follow and love the pics
579. KGB1953
If you have an .iso file just mount it with magiciso. Google it.
580. c0de
Each tutorial to this Thema goes that way:

“First you use this Tool ,then use this tool and then do this dont mind why…”
What about people dont have Windows?

I have only a far idea what to do with the USB Stick when i dont have those super special
Windows Tools…
Always those Windowlooker with there freaky tools xD

Never have a idea what they do ^^
581. Jaimie
Nice one works a treat.
Additional info:
1.) during the diskpart in command prompt, users need to cancel or ignore any prompts by
windows to automatically format the drive.
2.) If you get the message from command prompt when coppying the boot info that the
device is currently locked, it’s probably either your antivirus trying to scan the empty drive,
or it’s windows that has automatically opened the drive contents in a window. Stopping the
antivirus or any open windows other than commandprompt associated with the USB or
external drive and trying again from where it said “device locked” works.
Thanks for a brilliant post. Saved me hours. I’m setting up a PC with old DVD drives and
three have failed! Saved me getting a new DVD drive!
582. Samuel

PLEASE HELP!
I am having troubles with step 6:
I have typed in C:\Windows|System32> D: CD BOOT

Then when I type in D:\> CD BOOT
it says that The System Cannot Find The Path Specified.
My disk is definitely in the drive and is definitely drive D: so what is wrong?
583. elise sayer

make it work
584. chielt
I have a 4GB usb pendrive. When I try to do ‘CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY’ it tells
me the drive isn’t big enough te create a partition without extra parameters. Please advise.
585. nikhil
Ultimate guide..Fully working on Lenovo..
586. Albert
hey, i keep getting “… invalid ms-dos command” when copying the disk content in step 8.
587. Albert
and my explorer crashed.

I created this in win 7.
588. shoab
sir pls tell me about how to create usb bootale for install windows xp-7 by usb device like
pen drive.
589. SATHISH
ya its really nice to do but in between i got some error .. but i think that the inspections
given above are really gud .., the same time after i did some steps my usb drives crashed ,
after that i cant able to use d usb .., so please avoid stop in between.. thanks
590. SATHISH
Hey Sorry For My Previous Post .., I Tried once again these steps i finally got thanks
Its Working Great …. Thanks
591. paras kumar

i have no cd drive so haw to make bootable pen drive
592. mukesh
thanks dear its greet. working and help me lot

thanks again
593. Vyom Neeraj

Great post..!! Followed all the instructions step by step and works like a charm..!!
The only tip is that this wont work for xp since in xp, the MS DOS disk manager does not
show usb disks. it will only show the HDD as disk 0. There is no disk 1. But when i tried
with vista, then it shows usb as disk 1 and all the steps worked easily.
Thanks again man..!!
594. Jeffrey
i tried but it does boot.
595. SherwinQ
It works great, thanks for sharing this man.
596. marshmallow
where u download window 7 file
597. FilledVoid
This worked perfectly for a system that I was fixing which had a broken DVD drive. The
method used was able to make my external drive bootable with Lenovos DVD image.
Thanks a ton.
598. Alex789045
THANKYOU finally one of these guides works YES!!!!
599. Vash
hey bro i’ve read all the instructions, i’ve never try it myself but on about the comments
above, it’s a kind of 99% of believing you!!!hope i could make it!!!thanks

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How To: Install Windows 7/Vista From USB

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*USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB)

*Windows 7 or Vista installation files.

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

(Format process may take few seconds)

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D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.

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Continuity for Windows® NetApp.com/in

USB Development Resource www.EEcatalog.com

• How To Create Bootable Windows 7, Vista, or XP USB Flash/Pen Drive Quickly

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^ That’s why I have mentioned only Vista & Windows 7.

Works 100% on Vista & Windows 7..Thanks.

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file://D:\New Folder\Venkatesh\Install Windows 7 From USB Drive_Pen Drive.htm 20-11-2010

Got it working in the second attempt.good guide.

Thanks…very excellent guide…

Does it also mean that we can install windows 7 on a usb drive?

This worked an absolute treat. Nice write-up.

installed w2in 7 fine

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some help please?

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Hello i can’t see my usb stick with diskpart.

Here is the message after typing BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

I would be very grateful for anyone’s help.

I have followed all instructions.

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What could be wrong?

36. SEO Blog

Works like a charm, thanks

37. Into Windows(Admin)

First of all, sorry for the delay in reply.

39. Nik Simpson

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Also, why are you formating to NTFS instead of FAT32?

42. bob Sauve

If I had Vista pre-installed when I purchased my computer —

Thanks mate your a star

Great article. Worked like a charm.

Does it only work in Vista?

Thank you for your teaching.

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