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Posted January 11, 2009 – 3:58 pm in: Liv e DVD/USB, Vista Tweak s, Windows 7, Windows 7 Tweak s
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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 inc omplete
steps or not working guide. I have also seen some guides that don’t’ use proper
c ommands in this guide. After spending many hours I have come up with this 100%
working guide.
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1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port and move all the c ontents from USB drive to a About
safe loc ation on your system. Contac t Me
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2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open
Command Prompt with admin rights. Privac y
*Type cmd in Start menu searc h box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter.
Or
*Go to Start menu > All programs > Ac cessories, right clic k on Command Prompt and
select Run as administrator.
3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following c ommands in
the command prompt:
First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.
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Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB
flash drive. In the below sc reenshot 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 c onfirm it.
So below are the c ommands you need to type and execute one by one:
SELECT DISK 1
CLEAN
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format proc ess may take few sec onds)
ASSIGN
EXIT
Don’t close the c ommand prompt as we need to execute one more c ommand at the next
step. Just minimize it.
5. Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optic al drive and c hec k 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 c omputer to know about it).
6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following c ommand
now:
D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
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Where “H” is your USB drive letter. Onc e you enter the above c ommand 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
c hange 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 c omment.
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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637 Comments
1. Daryl
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 1:20 am | Perm alink
Hey thanks! I’d love to try this soon I hope it’s working
2. Brandon
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 3:22 am | Perm alink
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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
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 7:59 am | Perm alink
4. tweakwindows
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 8:01 am | Perm alink
5. Casmir
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 11:31 am | Pe rm a link
6. ben
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 12:36 pm | Pe rm a link
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
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 1:23 pm | Perm alink
When I run bootsect.exe it says that this version isn’t compatible with my version of
window s even though it is running the vista version.
8. tweakwindows
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 1:32 pm | Perm alink
Please use Vista or Window s 7 as bootsect.exe is not present in XP CD.This guide only
works on Windows Vista & 7
9. tweakwindows
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 1:34 pm | Perm alink
This guide doesn’t w ork for XP..Only for Vista and W indow s 7..I have mentioned in the
title of the post.
10. tweakwindows
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 1:35 pm | Perm alink
@ben
Please follow the guide step-by-step and don’t skip any step.
11. Paul
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 11:27 pm | Pe rm a link
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 w hen you can’t see w hat you’ve done wrong, even picked up a few new
cmd tricks.
I’m a fan, thanks man.
12. ?lhan
Po sted Ja nuary 12, 2009 a t 11:41 pm | Pe rm a link
Hey man your methods does not working in XP. Please reinform us.
13. Omar
Po sted Ja nuary 13, 2009 a t 4:52 am | Perm alink
I was doing fine up until step 5. I figured the w hole point of booting from a USB drive
was to avoid having to burn a disc w ith the Window s 7 files on it, or install on a PC
without a DVD drive. Anyw ay, I don’t have any blank DVD’s, so I w as trying to install it
from my USB drive, but I can’t get past step 5, since I don’t have my W indow s 7 files on
a disc. They are on my hard drive, and my USB drive. Help!
14. John
Po sted Ja nuary 13, 2009 a t 5:00 am | Perm alink
15. Lincoln
Po sted Ja nuary 13, 2009 a t 12:56 pm | Pe rm a link
OK nevermind I just had to optimise the drive for performance… Sorry about that!
16. EiNS
Po sted Ja nuary 13, 2009 a t 1:26 pm | Perm alink
any working method for xp usb drive installation? Tried many…but non of them working
17. vikrant
Po sted Ja nuary 13, 2009 a t 6:12 pm | Perm alink
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18. BlogPiG
Po sted Ja nuary 13, 2009 a t 7:41 pm | Perm alink
19. eden
Po sted Ja nuary 13, 2009 a t 9:51 pm | Perm alink
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.
20. Laker_Fan32
Po sted Ja nuary 13, 2009 a t 10:57 pm | Pe rm a link
Leechie!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR XP!!!! W ow , I have been
searching for past two days and you explained it in 4 steps, you are AW ESOME! Thank
you VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!
21. Rkee
Po sted Ja nuary 14, 2009 a t 1:52 pm | Perm alink
U can also achieve booting from a usb drive by using daemon tools. Don’t mean to dis on
the author graet w alkthrough by the way. Its just an alternative, and no need for any
command prompt scripting.
22. madmax
Po sted Ja nuary 14, 2009 a t 4:05 pm | Perm alink
i tried both the XP method and VISTA method. both i managed to do without any
problems. but w hen 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
23. Darin
Po sted Ja nuary 14, 2009 a t 10:32 pm | Pe rm a link
Hey, I follow ed all the steps, and everything w orked perfectly until I booted from the Usb
device and tried to install w indows 7. It said that “Setup does not support installation to
disks connected through a USB port. Is there a way around this?
24. tweakwindows
Po sted Ja nuary 15, 2009 a t 5:12 am | Perm alink
@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 Window s 7 on USB.
@Omar
If you don’t have a DVD drive/USB(4GB) then use my guide “Installing W indow s 7
without using USB/DVD drive”. There are tw o 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
Po sted Ja nuary 15, 2009 a t 12:16 pm | Pe rm a link
i dow nloaded windows 7 from microsoft and dont have a cd/dvd for it so w hat do i do do
i extract it to the usb then restart using the flash drive or what?
26. tweakwindows
Po sted Ja nuary 15, 2009 a t 12:48 pm | Pe rm a link
@Joey
If you don’t have a DVD/USB then use my below guide w hich shows “Installing Windows
7 without using USB/DVD drive”
http://w ww .intowindow s.com/installing-w indows-7-w ithout-using-dvdusb-drive-method-
2/
http://w ww .intowindow s.com/installing-w indows-7-w ithout-using-dvdusb-drive-method-
1/
27. gabontz
Po sted Ja nuary 15, 2009 a t 3:09 pm | Perm alink
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28. pete
Po sted Ja nuary 15, 2009 a t 5:13 pm | Perm alink
When I try step 7, I get: “The system cannot execute the specified program”
29. suavi
Po sted Ja nuary 15, 2009 a t 7:42 pm | Perm alink
Bootsect.exe problem!
I think that there is a problem occurs w hen you want to install “64 Bit Windows 7″ from
your 32 Bit Vista.
30. Morty
Po sted Ja nuary 15, 2009 a t 11:07 pm | Pe rm a link
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 w ith the version of Windows you’re
running. Check your system information yada yada contact softw are publisher.” I am
running Vista 32-bit, trying to create this USB boot thingaby for W indow s 7 64-bit.
Thanks mate.
31. Nick
Po sted Ja nuary 19, 2009 a t 4:27 am | Perm alink
When I tried to boot from usb it will not even get finished copying the files w hen it gives
me an error code. It sometimes w ill start installing updates. But w hat is with this damn
error code. I,m w aiting 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
32. Siddanth
Po sted Ja nuary 19, 2009 a t 3:31 pm | Perm alink
Hey tw eakw indows i think w e need to make use of xcopy command havent tried it for xp
did u try it out /?
33. Jonathan
Po sted Ja nuary 20, 2009 a t 3:12 am | Perm alink
34. Laker_Fan32
Po sted Ja nuary 21, 2009 a t 6:23 pm | Perm alink
My USB becomes Bootable, how ever w hen it is installing it gets stuck at 8% and then
nothing happens??? I’ve tried many times and it doesn’t seem to w ork, it alw ays gets
stuck at 5% or 8%. Sometimes it errors out w ith the error code: 0x800703ee
35. PeterNLD
Po sted Ja nuary 22, 2009 a t 4:52 am | Perm alink
Can the USB-stick after having Windows7 installed, be used to get in the complete
recovery enviroment as well?
@ 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 w hich w orks on XP as well. W ill post
the guide soon.
@ Nick
Make sure you copy all the W indow s 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.
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Thank you.
Into Window s
38. tyson
Po sted Ja nuary 23, 2009 a t 2:29 pm | Perm alink
Hi, I read d comments & got confirmed that this method w orks although i didn’t try it. I
want to install w indow s xp by USB method. Can you also give a method like this for
window s xp also?? I am currently running windows vista & don’t have an optical drive.
Only one minor issue if you are trying to create a W 7 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
Po sted Ja nuary 26, 2009 a t 9:13 am | Perm alink
Thank you! Absolutely brilliant – your guides have been very helpful!! It all w orked just
as you have so thoroughly described.
41. Fzang
Po sted Ja nuary 26, 2009 a t 2:29 pm | Perm alink
Um, couldn’t you have skipped step 5 and onw ards? 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
Just w ondering..
43. Andy
Po sted Ja nuary 28, 2009 a t 11:32 pm | Pe rm a link
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 w ouldnt boot unless i put the USB stick in….lol, its
mad when W in 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
?
44. Nick1
Po sted Ja nuary 29, 2009 a t 2:41 am | Perm alink
Correct me if I’m w rong, but step 5 states that we need a DVD. I use this guide because
I don’t have one. Am I right?
45. cmerg
Po sted Ja nuary 30, 2009 a t 4:35 pm | Perm alink
46. Man
Po sted February 2, 2009 at 9:56 pm | Pe rm alink
Hi.
In the list disk step,I can’t see my USB drive. What’s w rong w ith it? (My Operating
System is XP.)
47. SENTY
Po sted February 4, 2009 at 12:29 p m | P erm alink
HEY I HAVE PROBLEM IN THE LAST STEP .. MY DVD ROM IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY.I
HAVE IMAGE(NRG) OF W INDOWS 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
Po sted February 5, 2009 at 2:15 pm | Pe rm alink
@Man
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This method w orks fine on Vista and Windows 7 only. I will be writing a guide for XP
users in a w eek. Stay tuned!
@Nick1
I wrote this guide to make the installation faster. In my personal experience Window s 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://w ww .intowindow s.com
49. ELPY
Po sted February 5, 2009 at 5:08 pm | Pe rm alink
Aw esome,Think!!!
50. asd
Po sted February 11, 2009 at 3:44 a m | P erm alink
well im gonna try this from my phone. hope everything w orks out ok
51. TY
Po sted February 12, 2009 at 4:58 a m | P erm alink
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
Po sted February 17, 2009 at 8:47 a m | P erm alink
but i’m on Vista x86 and i w as trying to make a usb w ith Vista x64 on it, but the cmd
prompt gave me this error! –
Pls help
53. Cobrass2
Po sted February 25, 2009 at 1:09 a m | P erm alink
54. JD
Po sted February 26, 2009 at 3:25 p m | P erm alink
I used leechers method and continued from step 5.. wehen attemping to boot from USB I
get “disk read error”
55. Sjengie
Po sted February 27, 2009 at 6:34 p m | P erm alink
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 w ith an error “the
boot selection failed because a required device is inaccesible”.
I worked through all the steps as described above w ithout 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
Po sted February 27, 2009 at 7:03 p m | P erm alink
57. pete
Po sted March 2, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Pe rm a link
Hi ive tried and tried but DISKPART w ont see my usb key, can u help.
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58. ajin
Po sted March 3, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Pe rm a link
hey it is show ing cannot find bootmngr press crl alt del to restart
59. Anthony
Po sted March 5, 2009 at 2:10 am | Pe rm a link
Great guide. You need to update your requirements section to point out that these
instructions only w ork when done on a Vista or Windows 7 platform, or specifically state
they w ill not w ork on XP
60. tweakwindows
Po sted March 5, 2009 at 7:38 am | Pe rm a link
61. tweakwindows
Po sted March 5, 2009 at 7:50 am | Pe rm a link
@ajin
I hope you have followed my steps correctly. Try to repair your bootmgr file.
62. tweakwindows
Po sted March 5, 2009 at 7:52 am | Pe rm a link
Sorry, if you can’t find see your USB drive in the DISKPART command, I can’t help you.
How ever, 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
Po sted March 18, 2009 at 12:26 am | Perm alink
64. Pinko
Po sted March 18, 2009 at 4:22 a m | P erm alink
65. Swanny
Po sted April 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Perm a link
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 w hat went wrong. Please help. Thanks.
66. jickie
Po sted April 30, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Perm alink
aw esome guide does exactly w hat it says on the tin, thanks so much i’m now installing
window s 7 on all my mates comps via usb.
67. Jeff
Po sted May 5, 2009 a t 3:46 pm | Perm alink
excellent guide. thanks very much. you saved me aged of messing with BartPe again
trying to make a bookable installation drive.
thanks.
69. Quan
Po sted May 5, 2009 a t 11:55 pm | Pe rm a link
Let’s say I have a hdd box w ith 2 partitions (Y, Z), can I use your method to create boot
install for Vista on partition Y and for Window s 7 on partition Z?
70. JB
Po sted May 10, 2009 at 9:30 am | Pe rm a link
71. Brad
Po sted May 10, 2009 at 11:15 a m | P erm alink
Thanks a lot! Worked no problem. It also fixed the partition tables on my USB key!
72. Cooper
Po sted May 10, 2009 at 10:08 p m | P erm alink
73. ID
Po sted May 13, 2009 at 12:59 a m | P erm alink
When are the mongs gonna read and understand this guide does not w ork on xp.
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74. Joeypesci
Po sted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Pe rm a link
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
Po sted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Pe rm a link
76. J
Po sted May 13, 2009 at 6:11 pm | Pe rm a link
Works 100% in my Notebook. I w anted to install Vista Ultimate w ith a 8GB USB Pen and i
made it!
Thanks!
77. Christopher
Po sted May 13, 2009 at 11:02 p m | P erm alink
78. Iam
Po sted May 14, 2009 at 10:37 a m | P erm alink
Funny thing I noticed on W in7, w hen 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
Po sted May 20, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Pe rm a link
I’m sure this is another arrengement with MS and USB driver manufactuer to make
money LOL joke
Nice guide I w ill have to steal my girlfriend’s USB drive (W hich I bought her for christmas
LOL) to try this. Looks like it’s w orth it thanks
80. pirater2113
Po sted May 21, 2009 at 5:55 am | Pe rm a link
so if you do this tut correctly on a vista computer then you can use the pen drive on a Xp
computer?
81. Jay
Po sted May 21, 2009 at 9:01 am | Pe rm a link
Hey Bro can one dual boot using this…. ie. Vista and Windows 7
82. mads
Po sted May 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Pe rm a link
83. Omer
Po sted May 22, 2009 at 2:22 am | Pe rm a link
Dear,
Y is it so?
84. mike
Po sted May 22, 2009 at 7:12 pm | Pe rm a link
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
85. mike
Po sted May 22, 2009 at 7:13 pm | Pe rm a link
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
Po sted May 22, 2009 at 11:26 p m | P erm alink
@Jay
Yes, you can dual boot.
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87. admin
Po sted May 22, 2009 at 11:28 p m | P erm alink
@ 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
Po sted May 23, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Pe rm a link
i tried it and it won’t w ork, i am using an old portable hard drive which is 5 gb, is it alright
with it?
89. znakistu
Po sted May 26, 2009 at 12:34 a m | P erm alink
10x a lot
90. trav
Po sted May 27, 2009 at 12:16 p m | P erm alink
91. anil
Po sted May 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Pe rm a link
92. Tweakwindows
Po sted May 28, 2009 at 1:11 am | Pe rm a link
@Trave
I haven’t personally tried using SD card. But you should be able to do that.
93. Tweakwindows
Po sted May 28, 2009 at 1:13 am | Pe rm a link
@All
We are going to close the comments for this post.
94. JP Jones
Po sted May 29, 2009 at 12:35 a m | P erm alink
I used this method successfully on two computers. I was very surprised that when I w as
unable to change the boot sequence to USB in the BIOS on an older laptop, w indows 7
installed anyway. I w as pretty sure that it wouldn’t w ork but I tried it and presto! It
went through the three reboots and installed perfectly. Has anyone else had this
happen?
95. William
Po sted May 30, 2009 at 7:19 am | Pe rm a link
this method from microsoft takes out the last part using bootsect. and it still works.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx
97. aaraza
Po sted May 31, 2009 at 12:40 p m | P erm alink
Hi,
Great guide. However, I am stuck after:
The message I get is: “Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device
objects: Access is denied.”
I follow ed the steps tw ice niowand get the same result. Am I missing something? Would
greatly appreciate any help…I have a netbook dow n and would like to put Windows 7 on
it using a USB stick.
Thanks!
98. aaraza
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Po sted June 2, 2009 at 11:52 a m | P erm alink
You can follow my guide to creating a bootable usb disk under windows xp then follow
this guide from 5 onw ards.
101. Giorell
Po sted June 4, 2009 at 12:15 p m | P erm alink
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
Po sted June 4, 2009 at 12:30 p m | P erm alink
Hey..hv vista already installed on my pc..need 2 install w in 7 as dual boot..i tried once
dual bootin w ith xp bt resulted into bootin f only xp..cud u pls help me out hw 2 dual
boot w in 7 wid vista…
103. ferris
Po sted June 5, 2009 at 10:57 a m | P erm alink
Best guide I have ever used… Thank you, hats off sir.
104. Bogdan
Po sted June 5, 2009 at 10:48 p m | P erm alink
I find it funny that you say this is a 100% w orking guide but you don’t mention that fact
that the Win 7/Vista USB boot drive needs to be created on computer running W indow s
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 w ork
because they’re trying to make the boot drive from within XP.
105. Bogdan
Po sted June 5, 2009 at 10:49 p m | P erm alink
Other than that small piece of missing information, the guid e is great!
106. Jacob
Po sted June 6, 2009 at 8:34 am | Pe rm a link
trying the F:CD BOOT command (where F is my DVD drive location), it returns the
follow ing functions
Firstly, from DISKPART (w hich you didn’t say to leave, not sure if you meant to or not)
107. Jacob
Po sted June 6, 2009 at 8:38 am | Pe rm a link
thankyou but, your guide seems very will explained (just having some technical issues
108. Mark
Po sted June 6, 2009 at 9:40 am | Pe rm a link
Aw esome 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
PS:
109. TSurF
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110. Shaz
Po sted June 7, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Pe rm a link
Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial… I follow ed it all through until I boot through usb and
setup program comes up. When I get to, select w hich drive you w ant the installation I
cant select my usb drive it comes up with the message below :
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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.
THANK YOU
111. admin
Po sted June 7, 2009 at 11:14 p m | P erm alink
@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
Po sted June 7, 2009 at 11:27 p m | P erm alink
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
Po sted June 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm | Pe rm a link
Well chuffed ;D
It w orks fine, except one problem: w hen I run the window s7 64bits RC1
\boot\bootsect.exe in my Vista 32, it doesn`t w ork. I did it running from the \boot folder
of the w indow s7 Beta1 32bits and it is OK.
115. Laymain
Po sted June 9, 2009 at 11:47 p m | P erm alink
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
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117. xopher
Po sted June 11, 2009 at 9:37 a m | P erm alink
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
Po sted June 11, 2009 at 4:06 p m | P erm alink
Had a problem with step six but thats because the w ritten command is w rong, but I
figured it out w hen I saw the command in the scrren thx again – just w hat I was
looking for.
119. Bernard
Po sted June 12, 2009 at 2:15 a m | P erm alink
I used this method and created a USB drive for my Windows 7 installation. W orks
flawlessly! Oh, and the installation of Window s now takes only 8 minutes.
120. Brantyr
Po sted June 22, 2009 at 3:28 p m | P erm alink
Step 2: don’t you guys know if you hit w inkey + R you get the oldschool run box which
automatically starts w hatever you run from it with admin privledges?
121. Chris
Po sted July 11, 2009 at 9:44 am | Perm alink
To those, like me, that are (w ere) 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 w ork
perfectly. It did for me.
122. DaveG
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Hello, TweakWindows, and thanks, but… I know what you mentioned about Vista, which
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I AM using, I used a Sandisk 8GB and waited half an hour for the formatting process
(hardly a few seconds, but I w asn’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 tw ice while running an
Administrator command session, with positive feedback after each command w as
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, w ith 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 w ith success! I know nothing of boot managers, much less
repairing them, but I sure w ould 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 w ill probably give up – please help!
123. DaveG
Po sted July 11, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Perm alink
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 w hole 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 w ork with what I am trying to do, I’d be most
grateful.
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 w orks to Window s 7 and Windows
Vista
125. PCLove
Po sted July 13, 2009 at 9:01 pm | Perm alink
On #4 w here the file system is being set, you can use QUICK to speed up the formatting
like this:
126. ????????
Po sted July 15, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Perm alink
Thanks!
127. kuld33p
Po sted July 19, 2009 at 12:02 am | Perm a link
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 w ell.. but no luck.. installation
does not proceed.
128. JonJon
Po sted July 19, 2009 at 3:12 am | Perm alink
Hello, I’ve already tried this guide a w eek ago and it works. I have windows 7 in my hp
mini 2140. But now I w ant to dow ngrade again back to W indow s XP.
Can I use this guide again? but rather than to put the w indow s 7 installation in the usb
it would be the window s 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
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130. admin
Po sted July 20, 2009 at 11:06 am | Perm a link
131. Me
Po sted July 20, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Perm alink
Hi,
132. ive
Po sted July 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Perm alink
some bios don’t recognise NTFS formatted usb keys as boot device, so you might still
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want to format as FAT32, even if it makes your key slow er
133. Jean-Sébastien
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134. Peter
Po sted July 22, 2009 at 8:37 am | Perm alink
Hi Admin,
Quick question- Would this method w ork with my Vaio boot disk? instead of a standard
window s cd. Thanks in advance.
135. Mahesh
Po sted July 22, 2009 at 7:45 pm | Perm alink
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
Po sted July 26, 2009 at 7:14 am | Perm alink
If the flash drive has been previously used for as a bootable installer for a Linux distro
then the MBR needs to be reset, w hich can be done by modifying the Step 7 command
to:
bootsect /nt60 H: /force /mbr
This w ill remove the Master Boot Record so Window s boot loader w ill kick in, instead of
Linux (GRUB).
137. admin
Po sted July 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm | Perm a link
@Peter
Bootable Window s DVD or Image is required to make this happen.
138. Franck
Po sted July 27, 2009 at 2:11 pm | Perm alink
For the ones that do not w ant to burn a blank DVD, you can mount the .iso file you
dow nloaded (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
Po sted July 27, 2009 at 11:58 pm | Perm a link
Hi. I followed this guide to make a bootable Windows 7 usb drive a few w eeks 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
Po sted July 28, 2009 at 4:03 pm | Perm alink
usb drive will be not available w hen use diskpart command in window s xp. you should
use vista or later versions of w indow s.
142. Patrick
Po sted July 30, 2009 at 3:02 am | Perm alink
all that is necessary is to format your USB and then copy all files from the the cd/dvd(iso
or w hatever) to the device. Then just to be sure to boot from the device via the bios or
boot selection.
143. Michael
Po sted July 30, 2009 at 10:57 am | Perm a link
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
Po sted July 31, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Perm alink
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 w ill i be able to still use it the U3, and if yes must i format it back to FAT32?
145. Mark
Po sted July 31, 2009 at 10:06 pm | Perm a link
After trying over and over i finally got it. It w as bringing up my vaio recovery tools, so I
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had to take my hdd out of the boot order and it worked like a charm.
146. Franck
Po sted Aug ust 1, 2009 a t 2:35 am | Perm a link
I got the install to run on the X200 using the USB, but I had to deal w ith 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 w anted 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.
nice article..thanks
148. Yan Li
Po sted Aug ust 5, 2009 a t 3:36 am | Perm a link
Hey, thanks for this great article. I’ve used this several times already, since I felt my
original w indow s 7 64-bit w as not to my liking on my new laptop. I found out w hy 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
Po sted Aug ust 7, 2009 a t 9:04 pm | Perm a link
Great guide. Worked perfectly thanks a lot. Now I don’t have to w orry about finding a
disc drive just for a folding rig.
150. Kusta
Po sted Aug ust 8, 2009 a t 3:38 am | Perm a link
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 w ho do not like to typing.
151. Hisham
Po sted Aug ust 8, 2009 a t 6:35 pm | Perm a link
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.” W hat’s that supose to mean ?? Could
anyone give me the solution please.
Thanks for the guide. Perhaps you should update it with Shom’s comment(#137). I w as
using a usb stick that formerly had the linux grub loader on it. I w as getting the missing
bootmgr error message until I used the /force /mbr option like Shom suggested.
Also, formatting is very slow – I w ould 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
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154. Nikunj
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155. Pali
Po sted Aug ust 10, 2009 at 2:31 am | Pe rm alink
Thanks for this guide! Exelent job. Thank you again! Pali from Hungary.
156. Marleybrit
Po sted Aug ust 10, 2009 at 11:05 p m | P erm alink
Please don’t try this on your Window s XP Pro Operating system and w aste your time.
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I tried it as instructed on w indows 7 beta and w orked like charm.
Can somebody please tell me similar 100% working guide for triple booting Windows 7 +
Windows XP + Ubuntu Linux.
Troubles… I can boot from the USB stick into the Windows setup 7 fine. How ever, 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 w here it left off. The green bar w asn’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 w here 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 Window s 7
option.
What am I missing??
CD /D D:\Boot
161. NoR3N
Po sted Aug ust 15, 2009 at 5:19 am | Pe rm alink
thx a lot You save me many Hours from searching external dvd drivers… Perfect JOB!!!
162. RnR
Po sted Aug ust 15, 2009 at 8:37 pm | Pe rm alink
Very good, I’m going to boot it in a few seconds from now …THANX
163. CK117
Po sted Aug ust 17, 2009 at 4:20 am | Pe rm alink
If you have problems w ith the BOOTSECT.exe part, just add /force to the end.
164. Robert
Po sted Aug ust 19, 2009 at 11:20 p m | P erm alink
Thanks a bunch for this tute, it has saved me hours of frustration and bad words.
I created a USB install and w ill use it tonight on my guinea pig system.
165. JB
Po sted Aug ust 20, 2009 at 3:06 am | Pe rm alink
Also, my source was an ISO of the x64 RTM build. First try, I mounted this w ith MagicISO
and copied files with explorer – had a problem w ith a missing file “boot\bcd”, so I started
again, but used 7-zip to extract the iso, and am now through with the install, w hich flew
by in just 20 or so minutes.
I think that copying files from the magiciso mounted iso w as not the ideal w ay to go… 7-
zip seems to have done the trick for me.
166. JONNYK
Po sted Aug ust 21, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Pe rm alink
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.
167. Mindslight
Po sted Aug ust 22, 2009 at 11:42 p m | P erm alink
Thanks !
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Johannes from France
168. Josh
Po sted Aug ust 25, 2009 at 4:57 am | Pe rm alink
Excellent stuff. I tried following “other” sites’ instructions only to find they didn’t even
create the boot sector. This w orked like a charm. Thanks!
169. Anonyme
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170. rockystuud
Po sted Aug ust 28, 2009 at 12:35 a m | P erm alink
Hi ! Thanks. It works fine . Thanks a lot for your effort and clear instructions.
171. jiji
Po sted Aug ust 30, 2009 at 1:59 am | Pe rm alink
“FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)”
173. YASEEN
Po sted Sep tem ber 4, 2009 at 8:13 p m | P erm alink
AW ESOME!!!
174. vagothcpp
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175. Harris
Po sted Sep tem ber 7, 2009 at 10:30 am | Perm alink
thanks bro..
176. JHANU
Po sted Sep tem ber 10, 2009 at 12:34 pm | Perm alink
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 (w hich
you can virtually mount on your hdd) onto the usb stick. it will be bootable and w ill work!
178. Zak
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179. e
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180. klokluider
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after finished you have a bootable usb drive w hich is able to get in a xp environment.
3. Now copy the content of your w in XP CD to a folder XPCD on the flash drive (x:\xpcd)
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4. after copying boot the drive in the PC and select Compatibility Mode (Memory Mapped)
5. after finished you select the commandline and type
6. first enter the xpkey and name of the computer and region then click next
7. Now you’re asked if you w ant 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 w ill close without notice or any type
of prompt, this is normal.
9. remove the flash drive and Reboot your computer and setup w ill continue from the
hard drive where you can choose to install XP or do a repair install if XP is already
installed.
181. Malone
Po sted Sep tem ber 27, 2009 at 2:48 pm | Perm alink
Kingston 8GB
Windows 7 RC
on Dell Optiplex GX270, BIOS A07
See screenshot.
182. Simran
Po sted Sep tem ber 28, 2009 at 9:38 pm | Perm alink
I have installed w indows seven using the method provided by you but I am not able to
play my pen drive in my car CD player. I mean w hen I try to play songs in my car, it do
not work now . Please give a solution.
183. Malone
Po sted Sep tem ber 29, 2009 at 11:08 pm | Perm alink
@Simran
Format, and write songs again on it.
FAT32 w ill be OK.
184. acme
Po sted Sep tem ber 30, 2009 at 4:12 am | Perm alink
do you have to copy the entire contents of the win7 disk? my thumbdrive isn’t that big.
185. jj
Po sted Sep tem ber 30, 2009 at 10:46 am | Perm alink
D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H:
Target volumes w ill be updated w ith BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
D:\boot>
——————–
Any suggestions?
186. cj
Po sted Sep tem ber 30, 2009 at 11:20 am | Perm alink
i w ill 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 know ing that my cd
rom was messed,so i w as 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
Po sted Sep tem ber 30, 2009 at 11:22 am | Perm alink
@Acme
Yup. You need to copy all the contents you your thumbdrive.
188. Faisal
Po sted O ctober 3, 2009 at 8:08 pm | Perm alink
good job…. my laptop dont have DVD drive. Thanks for the post
189. widL
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190. vietha
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It w orks like a charm
thx alot
191. Scott L
Po sted O ctober 14, 2009 a t 4:51 pm | Perm alink
I would just like to let anyone and everyone in here know that I specifically follow ed this
guide yesterday for XP and it w orked.
http://w ww .liliputing.com/2008/04/install-w indow s-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 Window s XP stick under Window s XP to install XP,
it worked for me and seemed to have the least amount of fiddling.
- Enjoy.
192. licitatii
Po sted O ctober 14, 2009 a t 5:05 pm | Perm alink
very nice tutorial but please help me. Everithing w orks well but w hen it’s go to drive
option(w here you format you disk) it ask about a device driver to load and install
?????? What to do? setup cannot continue…
you most do these commands in window s “safe mode” to avoid the “Access denied”
message.
YEAH TNX DUDE… ^_^ ANOTHER NEW IDEA ON INSTALLING W INDOWS 7 ^_^ NICE POST
jj
Posted September 30, 2009 at 10:46 am | Permalink
D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H:
Target volumes w ill be updated w ith BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
D:\boot>
——————–
Any suggestions?
HEY jj JUST COPY ALL THE CONTENTS IN YOUR WINDOWS 7 TO YOUR USB IT W ORKED
JUST FINE… ^^
196. Martin
Po sted O ctober 17, 2009 a t 12:31 am | Pe rm a link
Hello,
I have the folders for Windows 7, and I w ant to burn a DVD to install from (I need to
format my PC, so I can’t just install from w ithin XP). How ever, I can’t just burn the files to
the DVD, cus then it w on’t let me boot from it.
Any ideas on how to do just that? How do I make it bootable?
197. Jackson
Po sted O ctober 17, 2009 a t 4:25 am | Perm alink
So.. can I still used the usb drive after this? Can I reformat it to fat32?
198. Zaino
Po sted O ctober 19, 2009 a t 1:50 pm | Perm alink
hey really great guys, but i couldnt show my usb drive in step “LIST DISK” only the local
drivers…
please help.
199. mugurelu
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200. admin
Po sted O ctober 19, 2009 a t 4:25 pm | Perm alink
@ 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 w ork fine (I have
tested on flash drives only).
201. admin
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@ Jackson
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You should be able to format it with FAT 32 or NTFS.
202. ceeque
Po sted O ctober 20, 2009 a t 3:12 am | Perm alink
simply does not w ork. One of the main reasons being is you have typed out the
commands in the text differently to w hat 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 w aste of yours and my time……
203. Vandit
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205. JM
Po sted O ctober 23, 2009 a t 2:10 am | Perm alink
Works great in XP
206. Anasazi
Po sted O ctober 23, 2009 a t 4:36 am | Perm alink
I just tried to install w in7 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
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208. Zack
Po sted O ctober 25, 2009 a t 12:39 am | Pe rm a link
Hello, If you are running Window s 7 already you can just go into Computer and then
format it like you regularly w ould format a usb drive as NFTS. It saves quite a bit of time
and basically cuts this process in half.
209. Xerxz
Po sted O ctober 25, 2009 a t 5:11 am | Perm alink
What if i dont have the cd and i just have the files on my pc w hat do i do then??? any
help would be much appreciated.
210. admin
Po sted O ctober 25, 2009 a t 11:53 am | Pe rm a link
If you have Windows 7 ISO, you need to extract it first to a folder and then to the USB.
211. CHINMAY
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212. John
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213. Ralph R
Po sted O ctober 29, 2009 a t 3:16 am | Perm alink
I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and
selected my slave HD as though it w ere the flash drive. My question here would thyen
be; Is there a w ay 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
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I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and
selected my slave HD as though it w ere the flash drive. My question here would thyen
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be; Is there a w ay 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
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216. WiZoOo
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aw esome guide, works for me w ith w in 7 oem bie final x86. thanks alot dude!
nice one, thanks.. the BOOTSECT command made my usb drive become a viable source
to install Window s 7 on an Asus EEE Pc.
218. Diptiman
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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 w ith the
current version of window s”. Please suggest.
Thanks
219. admin
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@ Diptiman
If you trying to create a Window s 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.
Thank you for this wonderfull solution. It’s easy and worked for me.
221. Alex
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222. Michael
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Hi there,
for all the people having problems at step 6 try this
6. Type in the cmd w indow 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
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I did EXACTLY as it says and my netbook doesn’t w anna 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
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OK I found it….when EEE PC starts you need to press ESC key in case to display BOOT
DEVICE SELECTION menu
225. Chase
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For those having problems w ith “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 w as sufficient, but I guess things are different in
Vista/W indow s 7.
226. hicom5
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problem:
“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume
device objects: Access is denied.”
————————————————-
answ er:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
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227. Jason
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100% w orking… confirmed! Thanks for the tutorial… it was easy, and accurate.
228. Willaim
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229. Navster
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230. NICERED
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Any method to know your w in7 and vista compatibility (x64, x86…) before installing
win7?
231. Euphie
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232. admin
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@Nicered
You can use official Window s 7 upgrade advisor (it’s free) tool to check compatibility
issues. Here is the link:
http://w ww .intowindow s.com/test-your-pc-software-compatibility-with-w indow s-7-using-
window s-7-upgrade-advisor-final/
Hi~ Thanks for the tutorial currently copying the files hope it w orks!
234. ahmed
Po sted Novem be r 24, 2009 at 6:46 am | Pe rm a link
I LOVE YOU!!!
GREAT TUTORIAL!!!
236. dsfjdifja
Po sted Novem be r 29, 2009 at 7:35 pm | Pe rm a link
why do all this w hen you can just make virtual cd drive and boot from it? 2 minutes work
lol.
Hi,
Please help !!! Here what I have done:
1.Dow nload W indow s 7 iso file,w hich I put it in isoBuster and extracted.
2.Coz I have listen it is better to make clean instalation,I bought new W D 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 w rote “clean”,I discconect usb cable,coz I afraid-w hat does “clean” means!!??
For god sake-i have all informations from last 6 years on my external hard disk…
When I check Device Manager it show s that the device is installed and w orking 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
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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 show s 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
238. pawan
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239. pawan
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240. carl
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have tried your process a few times w ith vista and 7 and works great but whilst
installing w indow s i get an error code 0×80070241? any ideas why i get this code. pls
help
241. Aaron
Po sted De cem be r 2, 2009 a t 12:43 am | Pe rm a link
Finally found a method that works. This actually works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you,
aw esome.
242. Throwlands
Po sted De cem be r 2, 2009 a t 5:00 am | Perm alink
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
Po sted De cem be r 3, 2009 a t 11:12 am | Pe rm a link
I did every step right and got the right results. Even the Bootsect.exe part. it told me it
successfully created it. i w ent to boot desktop from USB and STILL got the BOOTMGR is
missing. Now i did it w ith vista from XP and it w orked 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
Po sted De cem be r 3, 2009 a t 12:36 pm | Pe rm a link
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
Po sted De cem be r 4, 2009 a t 1:35 am | Perm alink
I can’t thank you enough.. my dvd-rom has been dow n, 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 w ants 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 w ork 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
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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.
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Thank you for the brilliant guide!!!
247. vaitheeswaran
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thanks in advance
248. vaitheeswaran
Po sted De cem be r 4, 2009 a t 4:56 pm | Perm alink
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: ?
249. Gabe
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250. Tom
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D:CD BOOT
D: CD BOOT
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
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everything went fine. booted on the flash drive, but can’t partition using win 7.
installation stopped there. w hat to do? tried it on asus Eee mini.
THIS POST W ORKS out of the box, but those w ith 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 w orked! 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, w hich 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 w hich 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
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i get a disk read error occurred w hen i try to boot from the usb i follow ed the guid and it
should work, w hats w rong?
255. matthew
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256. waseem
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257. killak
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258. RS232
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259. PARAS
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INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH ALL THIS PROCESS W E CAN JUST USE “WIN2FLASH”
APPLICATION FROM WIN2FLASH.COM OR JUST CAN GOOGLE W IN2FLASH AND EASILY GET
IT.
I AM USING WIN2FLASH FOR SOME TIME AND BEST PART IT CAN INSTALL WINDOWS XP
AS WELL AS W IN 7 BOTH FROM USB PEN DRIVE.
260. Gregory
Po sted De cem be r 13, 2009 at 8:48 pm | Pe rm a link
Thank you very much!!! It took a lot of configuring and restarts but I finally managed to
recover my OS w ith zero data loss. After I back up my stuff, I’ll be installing W in7 using
microsoft’s boot tool.
261. RPJ
Po sted De cem be r 16, 2009 at 11:30 p m | P erm alink
Worked perfectly. Used it on a 4Gb SD card with a USB SD reader to install W in7 64-bit
on an Acer laptop. Many thanks.
262. CrabQuiche
Po sted De cem be r 17, 2009 at 4:34 am | Pe rm a link
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 w orking on a tool which does it all
for you, called 7toUSB.
263. Piyush
Po sted De cem be r 17, 2009 at 10:57 a m | P erm alink
If u get this message ‘Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device
objects:
Access is denied.
264. teejay
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‘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
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266. kamlesh
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268. admin
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@ David Dizzle
It seems your PC doesn’t support USB booting, or your Windows 7 ISO is not bootable.
If it doesnt support usb booting then why is it an option in the boot sequence?
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270. andrew panda
Po sted De cem be r 20, 2009 at 8:47 am | Pe rm a link
this works like a charm, did a vista install from usb. thanks!!!
271. chacha
Po sted De cem be r 20, 2009 at 11:23 p m | P erm alink
“Could not map drive partitions to the associate volume device object: Access is denied.
I tried the so-called easier guide link, it couldn’t even find an iso file in the w indow s 7
files. (It’s on a cd)
And i know there is nothing wrong w ith the w indow s 7 cd, i just used it last night to
install it on my uncles comp, which is w here 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
Po sted De cem be r 20, 2009 at 11:30 p m | P erm alink
Okay so, access isn’t denied anymore. but it still says the same thing besides that
273. Senior47
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274. JaFar
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Thanks Chase (post 226) finally found that out and w as going to post w ith 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
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276. rik
Po sted De cem be r 22, 2009 at 7:23 pm | Pe rm a link
and i got an iso file when i want to select is w ith the dvd usb tool program it said that it
is not valid
277. toderu
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Hello,
great w ork,
for saving time you can use “format fs=ntfs quick”
that can save some time if you have a big usb stick.
278. CroatianBoy
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100% WORKING,
279. Z1pp3r
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280. Sam
Po sted Ja nuary 1, 2010 at 2:15 am | Perm alink
Just thought others should know , command in step 7 must have a space after EXE
As published BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:
–Sam
282. Brody
Po sted Ja nuary 5, 2010 at 12:02 am | Perm alink
Well, accidentally formatted my external HDD w ith my movie library, .ISO library, and all
of my pictures on it, but, my fault.
HEY,
MUCH APPRECIATED! GREAT TUTORIAL! AND IT WORKS!! YOU SAVED ME SOME DOLLARS.
THANKS VERY MUCH!
KIRITH SIVA.
284. Paul
Po sted Ja nuary 7, 2010 at 4:11 am | Perm alink
Man… After days of searching and trial and error, FINALLY this is a guide that WORKS!
I have just installed W indow s 7 on my netbook and I am sooooo freakin’ happy.
I blog about computers, software and w eb 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
Po sted Ja nuary 7, 2010 at 6:21 am | Perm alink
Great guide, but MS has now made it much easier for us:
http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
Aw esome. I could restore my system from w hat you could call as disaster.
Thanks so much.
Vaidy
288. Brandon
Po sted Ja nuary 10, 2010 a t 6:04 am | Perm alink
This w orked flaw lessly for upgrading my w ife’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
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290. lucy
Po sted Ja nuary 10, 2010 a t 11:20 am | Pe rm a link
you cant copyright anything in the command prompt screenshots that you did using MSFT
instructions for this process.
dolt.
291. Michiel
Po sted Ja nuary 11, 2010 a t 4:48 pm | Perm alink
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
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nice i w ill try this
293. XAce
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294. Robbie
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hey it w ont 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???????.. w hat do i need to do
295. slownie
Po sted Ja nuary 20, 2010 a t 12:59 am | Pe rm a link
Excellent w ork, thank you. This is good help the beginner users.
Many thanks
bye slow nie
296. zdarova
Po sted Ja nuary 20, 2010 a t 3:22 am | Perm alink
i had some problems at the begining, as i have raid 0 w ith 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 w in 7 a had from
may 2009…)
thanks!
297. kk kangan
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298. khang
Po sted Ja nuary 22, 2010 a t 2:09 am | Perm alink
you should clarify step 5 for those w ho dont have the w indow s 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
Po sted Ja nuary 22, 2010 a t 8:42 am | Perm alink
;( w ell, mine w ent bad, really bad, my disk 1 was my second hdd (i realized that after) u
should add how to discover w hat disk is the usb, i’ve deleted all my most important files;
( i reached active, i didn’t made format, is there a w ay to take back my stuff?
300. John
Po sted Ja nuary 23, 2010 a t 2:58 am | Perm alink
Worked Perfectly. I can now have the great W7 on my laptop with a burned up DVD
drive, lol
302. Sinner
Po sted Ja nuary 27, 2010 a t 7:36 pm | Perm alink
This is stupid, I didn’t have to do all this crap, all I did w as format my 4GB flash drive in
fat 32 format, copy the contents if the Window s 7 DVD contents to the USB flash drive.
And then set the bios to boot from flash. all done w ith my mouse, no diskpart or cmd
prompt.
303. maseo
Po sted Ja nuary 29, 2010 a t 11:00 am | Pe rm a link
@khang, if you only have the .iso file of window s 7 and not the dvd, (install pow er iso
trial-free online), nxt double click .iso image and it appears in pow er iso, in toolbar of
pow er 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 w ill see a virtual drive(DVD Drive)
their w ith 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 w ay 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
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@ patryk
if you didnt get as far as format then you should be able to recover files, im assuming
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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
Po sted Ja nuary 30, 2010 a t 12:21 pm | Pe rm a link
This w orks 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
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307. lenny
Po sted Ja nuary 31, 2010 a t 10:26 pm | Pe rm a link
it worked you are a star i bought my note book for £50 coz it w ouldnt load up,, best £50
ive spent in a long time thanks to your help,,, cheers
308. Omega
Po sted February 3, 2010 at 4:47 am | Pe rm alink
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
Po sted February 5, 2010 at 2:17 am | Pe rm alink
that sir,
simply put, is ‘the bollox’,
TUVM
310. antonio
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311. admin
Po sted February 6, 2010 at 4:48 pm | Pe rm alink
@Antonio
Yes, it w ill format your drive.
312. Geoff
Po sted February 10, 2010 at 9:01 a m | P erm alink
Worked perfectly!!!
The funny thing was my Window s 7 Ultimate DVD w as 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.
Cheers,
Victor Aroma
314. Rohit
Po sted February 12, 2010 at 7:09 a m | P erm alink
Perfect .. 10/10 !
315. duncan
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316. xkovi
Po sted February 12, 2010 at 2:10 p m | P erm alink
The easiest way how to install Win7/Vista from usb is just to format your USB stick (from
window s, no cmd line needed!) and extract files from *.iso into root of your USB
stick….nothing else…tested million times
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317. zorzer
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318. SG
Po sted February 16, 2010 at 2:03 a m | P erm alink
Thanks a lot! The MS tool kept erroring out w hen trying to create a bottable USB installer
from the DVD. However your instructions worked like a charm…Thanks!
319. aj
Po sted February 16, 2010 at 7:10 a m | P erm alink
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 w ell. Bootsage is another nice utility to add to
your toolbelt. http://firesage.com/bootsage
320. The-Stoic
Po sted February 22, 2010 at 5:44 p m | P erm alink
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.
322. Harry
Po sted February 24, 2010 at 2:51 a m | P erm alink
Thx dude !
323. Moosewad
Po sted February 24, 2010 at 11:23 am | Perm alink
once i hit “format fs=ntfs” it just says 0 percent and stays there.
Help!!
324. lakshay
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325. Vicky
Po sted February 27, 2010 at 3:47 a m | P erm alink
Excellent guide.
I need to save this site on my pc.
Extremely useful and helpful
Thanxs.
326. DG3
Po sted March 6, 2010 at 12:19 a m | P erm alink
Thanks for the guide ^^ verry usefull! You saved me from CD/DVD’s with window s and
others!
327. khizer
Po sted March 6, 2010 at 11:00 p m | P erm alink
nice w ork!!!
can anyone tell me how to put xp in the usb and make it bootable..please
thanks
328. deo
Po sted March 11, 2010 at 2:05 a m | P erm alink
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
Thanks!
330. ralph
Po sted March 12, 2010 at 10:40 pm | Perm alink
Really helpful.
thnx
331. padam
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You should really give the _original author_ credit, instead of pretending like you w rote
this guide yourself.
“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
Po sted March 13, 2010 at 10:43 pm | Perm alink
@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 w ill 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!
Looks like you guys did a great job copying the instructions from here:
“link removed”
334. padam
Po sted March 14, 2010 at 5:19 a m | P erm alink
“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 w ith 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).
“This guide doesn’t w ork for XP..Only for Vista and W indow s 7.. [snip]“
335. admin
Po sted March 14, 2010 at 8:45 a m | P erm alink
@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 dow nload and read it before making such
comments.
336. AbhishekDatta
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337. padam
Po sted March 14, 2010 at 9:13 p m | P erm alink
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 ow n decision as who stole it from w ho.
338. admin
Po sted March 14, 2010 at 9:48 p m | P erm alink
@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 w hole 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
Po sted March 15, 2010 at 12:15 am | Perm alink
@admin
y w asting time on useless things/people……..
340. Rob
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Works perfect.
Thank you very much for youre efforts!
341. Andrew
Po sted March 15, 2010 at 7:17 a m | P erm alink
“COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:
ACCESS IS DENIED”
Then w hen you opened your command prompt you did not right-click and run as admin.
342. Peje
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343. Sanjay
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344. mwawe
Po sted March 17, 2010 at 8:56 p m | P erm alink
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….
345. mwawe
Po sted March 17, 2010 at 8:58 p m | P erm alink
correct:!!!!!
346. MTL
Po sted March 18, 2010 at 7:37 p m | P erm alink
Great guide. For those of us w ho are not builders or very familiar w ith computers,
including a detailed step on how to change the boot priority in BIOS from HDD or CD to
USB w ould make this guide complete…
Thanks for your time and effort on w hat is here though – Much appreciated!
Thanks! After trying a lot of “tutorials”, this one WORKED. I’ve finished installing my Asus
904 HD
Thanks again!
348. Sathya
Po sted March 20, 2010 at 12:30 am | Perm alink
Thanks a lot!!!!
It w orked good for me… Only thing you could further mention is that “diskpart doesnot
recogonise removable storsge in xp” it w orks only in vista (or) w in 7.
349. visions
Po sted March 20, 2010 at 1:41 a m | P erm alink
CD BOOT Problems you need to *press ctrl c then type the commands below 100%
working for me now
350. shakir
Po sted March 24, 2010 at 1:37 a m | P erm alink
Excellent
Thanks
352. underworld666
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Really great!!!
This tips works fine for me.
Thanks!
353. david
Po sted March 28, 2010 at 3:51 a m | P erm alink
i cannot burn cds or photos onto a disc w hen i try it says put disc into cd drive d .Thanks
if you can help me
354. rudnueva
Po sted March 30, 2010 at 10:53 am | Perm alink
Does it w ork in cmd 5.1 bro…? particularly in W indow s xp service pack 3…..I tried but it
doesn’t w ork……thank you
355. Oleg
Po sted April 1, 2010 at 7:55 p m | P erm alink
Hi
Thanks a lot for info.
Can I have both, vista and w in7 on usb stick at the same time? Just out of interest.
Thanks
356. RM
Po sted April 2, 2010 at 7:05 a m | P erm alink
I did this from a Window s 7 computer and w as able to install Windows 7 from USB w ith
no issues at all.
Well done!
357. Patatattat
Po sted April 2, 2010 at 8:55 a m | P erm alink
I did this process on a SATA SSD 16gb harddrive I had, and it w orked! Beautiful.
358. Rishad
Po sted April 6, 2010 at 5:28 p m | P erm alink
Thanks buddy……
359. Rajesh
Po sted April 6, 2010 at 5:29 p m | P erm alink
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
360. Tim
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361. Skyler
Po sted April 13, 2010 at 9:41 am | Perm alink
I did all the steps up until 5 now I was w ondering 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 w ould I still have to change
the Bios settings?
362. Amos
Po sted April 13, 2010 at 9:03 pm | Perm alink
Hi, excellent instructions…I’m almost there but w hen i run format fs=ntfs I get the
follow ing error message right at the end of the format..
i’m on Vista
363. Amos
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actually you can’t continue w ith the instructions, if you try assign you get “There is no
volume specified. Please select a volume and try again”
364. Krim
Po sted April 15, 2010 at 2:46 am | Perm alink
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
Po sted April 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm | Perm alink
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
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TO AMOS
make sure you fill all details in CAPITAL LETTERS and just take your time to go through it
again.
“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects :
Access is denied. ”
someone please help me….
368. VolN
Po sted April 18, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Perm a link
To Zaid
u r the best men i think bcz u simply tell us the setp for install w indow frm usb.anybody
easily do it. thanx for ue help.
370. miro
Po sted April 26, 2010 at 5:51 am | Perm alink
You need to add > Type EXIT < To exit the diskpart after formatting. Like this:
6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the follow ing command
now :
Great article!
372. leahcim
Po sted April 28, 2010 at 9:14 am | Perm alink
LeAhCiM
374. hamedshaik
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375. Derick
Po sted May 2, 2010 a t 6:52 am | Perm alink
insert the usb flash drive hit any key depending your pc you have to go to the system
bios
376. Omni
Po sted May 2, 2010 a t 7:00 am | Perm alink
Works w ith doing a quick format asw ell, as it takes long time to do a regular.
Super guide!
377. Mohamed
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378. ferpuj
Po sted May 6, 2010 a t 9:52 pm | Perm alink
Try w intoflash and forget all your usb problem, all you need installation cd w in7/vista/xp
wintoflah and usb stick 4gb for 7/vista 2gb for xp… drivers and stripcan do it later.
379. mani
Po sted May 12, 2010 at 2:39 pm | Pe rm a link
now microsoft provide their ow n tool to create a bootable usb drive to install w indow s
vista/7/2008/2008-R2
32 bit and 64 bit. This method w orks 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 netw orks
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 w in 7. above rest os are only 32 bit…
I have installed too many times on different system different os w hat 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 w indows will run up…..and so go on….
waqas _ akash AT yahoo DOT com if some one need please send me personal email….
381. litesh
Po sted May 13, 2010 at 10:22 p m | P erm alink
tnx i like it
382. litesh
Po sted May 13, 2010 at 11:10 p m | P erm alink
sir after installing w indows i got error on pendrive that w indow w as unable to format nw
ho to format it into fat again.
385. setu
Po sted May 24, 2010 at 3:12 pm | Pe rm a link
May be I am in biggest trouble of my life w ith computer, I was follow ing your steps
without know ing that my main backup data hdd (500gb) was attached and I follow all
the steps till the formatting ….w here I realized I have formatted the w rong one..and if I
don’t get my data back I will be at zero….al my work and everything w as in it n I don’t
have a dvd back up as well…..i know it’s stupid fuc’ed up situation ……any help w ill be life
saver….please pls…..get me out of this………..
386. admin
Po sted May 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm | Pe rm a link
@Setu
You can try EASEUS Data Recovery W izard free edition to get back your data. I hope you
will get back your data.
387. anon
Po sted May 28, 2010 at 1:41 pm | Pe rm a link
After copying is complete, delete the file ‘ei.cfg’ to make all Windows varients available.
388. oxygen
Po sted May 28, 2010 at 8:20 pm | Pe rm a link
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389. Matt
Po sted May 29, 2010 at 5:51 am | Pe rm a link
OMG, this w orks so w ell, thanks, i have tried so many other “guides” and they did work.
THANKS
390. Benjamin
Po sted June 1, 2010 at 7:44 am | Pe rm a link
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.
391. Suneev
Po sted June 1, 2010 at 11:35 a m | P erm alink
I put forw ard my w arm thanks for the help this post provided me.
Thanks Again
Suneev
suneev.lpu@gmail.com
392. Michael
Po sted June 1, 2010 at 1:27 pm | Pe rm a link
I’ve used this guide before with success, but it’s not w orking 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 tw o 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 w orking either.
What’s w rong?
393. azhk
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394. Robin
Po sted June 7, 2010 at 10:43 p m | P erm alink
After step 7 it show s 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
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396. Dennis
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397. somu
Po sted June 8, 2010 at 4:05 pm | Pe rm a link
In the step 5 you had mentioned “insert your W indow s7/Vista DVD into the optical drive”
but what if i don’t have optical drive, i am unable to go further this step.
399. Thankful29l
Po sted June 10, 2010 at 10:50 pm | Perm alink
Thank you
400. ander
Po sted June 16, 2010 at 7:23 a m | P erm alink
6. At the prompt, switch to your DVD drive. For example, if your DVD drive is drive D,
type:
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D:
401. Taleeno
Po sted June 16, 2010 at 5:34 p m | P erm alink
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 aw ay?
402. mezvix
Po sted June 20, 2010 at 9:07 p m | P erm alink
for windows xp users format usb with petousb tool you can get by googling around and
runbootsect as instructed , other w ise boodsectis also available standalone on many
websites to make usbs bootable .it even supports making xp bootable usb
403. SATADRU
Po sted June 21, 2010 at 11:12 am | Perm alink
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
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405. Santhosh
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407. Brad
Po sted June 26, 2010 at 9:21 a m | P erm alink
Just awesome. Very nicely done, easy to understand and exactly w hat I was after.
408. Raeef
Po sted June 26, 2010 at 12:52 pm | Perm alink
It w orked perfectly.
410. Anurag
Po sted June 26, 2010 at 7:06 p m | P erm alink
Sir,
At present I am using Windows XP w hich I w ould like to replace by Window s 7. Please
help me to install Windows 7 on my computer.
Thanking you.
412. raksmey
Po sted June 28, 2010 at 3:07 p m | P erm alink
thank you post is very useful for me. but does it work?
413. Hudson
Po sted June 29, 2010 at 6:52 p m | P erm alink
I’m currently at the copying files to USB end stage. But for anyone w ho reads dow n here,
make sure to check that you’ve selected the right disk in stage 4, one w ay 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, w ith name, size etc, mine w as 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
Po sted June 29, 2010 at 10:24 pm | Perm alink
Hey,
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415. nex
Po sted July 1, 2010 at 2:28 p m | P erm alink
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
Po sted July 2, 2010 at 2:48 a m | P erm alink
I was a bit sceptical about this actually w orking. It just seemed too good to be true, this
being W indow s and all. But it actually w orks.
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 w ould complain about something I can’t
remember atm.
417. real1tyFTW
Po sted July 4, 2010 at 2:21 p m | P erm alink
OMG THANX !!!!!!!!! I HAD A MAJOR FKING ISSUE, ! AND BY JUST SAYING the first 2
commands the SETUP started and i w as good to go THX
ALLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
i found this article helpful because recently i had problems w ith usb and booting. THANKS
419. Jibba
Po sted July 6, 2010 at 2:15 p m | P erm alink
Don’t know w hy 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
window s 7 .
420. twe
Po sted July 9, 2010 at 1:14 a m | P erm alink
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It w as easy and helped things run much more
smoothly. What a relief!
421. Jan
Po sted July 10, 2010 at 12:15 pm | Perm a link
This guide didnt w ork for me. When I try to boot the USB drive it just says “invalid
partition table” and halts.
422. Jan
Po sted July 10, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Perm a link
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
Po sted July 13, 2010 at 5:20 pm | Perm alink
424. Kumar
Po sted July 16, 2010 at 1:06 pm | Perm alink
There is always an easy w ay, dow nload the tool from window s w ebsite and vollla sit
back and relax it will do everything for you !!!
http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
425. Igre
Po sted July 24, 2010 at 8:34 pm | Perm alink
426. LT
Po sted July 25, 2010 at 4:00 am | Perm alink
I just had to tell you this w as so easy, even for a non-techie like me, and by far the
easiest setup instructions on the w eb. I am installng Win 7 on my (6-yr old) son’s
netbook as w e speak 7 he is so impressed!
427. bat787
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428. Johnny
Po sted July 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Perm a link
To get this working in XP just use a Windows 7 virtual machine. Virtual Box is easy
enough.
PS. Not sure if it has been said, but not looking through all the comments lol
429. Kamesh
Po sted July 31, 2010 at 2:13 pm | Perm alink
I have a doubt in 5th step w hr 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
Po sted July 31, 2010 at 5:32 pm | Perm alink
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 w hen i tried it was w orking.
Any way thanks for the real tutorial. I hope i w ill see more useful tutorial soon.
Thanks! 100% W orking for me. Well, before I was able to install Ubuntu only.
432. Ghost
Po sted Aug ust 4, 2010 a t 10:54 am | Pe rm alink
ThanX allot to w hoever brain is behind all this…. Works 110% clean & safe install. No
problems faced. Follow the steps as w ritten
433. Cristian C.
Po sted Aug ust 6, 2010 a t 5:26 pm | Perm a link
Thank you!!!
Your tutorial is excelent!
Simple, safe and easy to follow.
434. Adlantis
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435. Maneksh.V.Thomas
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436. SHAILENDRA
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437. Michelle
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438. junex
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439. avaton
Po sted Aug ust 10, 2010 at 12:37 a m | P erm alink
excellent w ork m8
440. Steve
Po sted Aug ust 12, 2010 at 4:19 am | Pe rm alink
what a legend!! I was completely lost and you have saved me – worked a treat.
Many thanks -
441. Mack
Po sted Aug ust 12, 2010 at 8:43 am | Pe rm alink
Everything worked fine dow n 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’
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442. adel
Po sted Aug ust 13, 2010 at 12:38 a m | P erm alink
443. AJ
Po sted Aug ust 13, 2010 at 8:04 am | Pe rm alink
What a guide, 101% w orking. 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
Po sted Aug ust 13, 2010 at 2:42 pm | Pe rm alink
Jesus, how many times has the guy got to say it. ITS FOR WINDOWS VISTA AND 7 NOT
XP . Bunch of retards!
445. NLkiwi
Po sted Aug ust 15, 2010 at 11:43 p m | P erm alink
Follow ed instructions and w orked great, no issues. Created a Win7x64 usb install from a
Win7x64 machine. Install w as for a HTPC w ith no optical drive.
446. odotan
Po sted Aug ust 16, 2010 at 11:52 a m | P erm alink
http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
447. Tammi
Po sted Aug ust 17, 2010 at 2:21 am | Pe rm alink
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
448. rakesh
Po sted Aug ust 17, 2010 at 12:35 p m | P erm alink
by the w ay 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
Po sted Aug ust 17, 2010 at 6:41 pm | Pe rm alink
This method w ill not work if you are running on Window s Xp.The best alternative w ill be
to use either use either the microsoft method or try to use softwares like WintoFlash to
automate it for you.
450. Abdullah
Po sted Aug ust 17, 2010 at 8:57 pm | Pe rm alink
This method w orked for me 100%, i am installing right now from a 8GB USB. Thanks a lot
!!!!!
451. Corey j
Po sted Aug ust 18, 2010 at 3:13 am | Pe rm alink
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
452. LAP87
Po sted Aug ust 18, 2010 at 11:15 a m | P erm alink
Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool , takes your ISO and makes a bootable USB Drive or DVD.
Works under Xp/Vista.
http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
453. Johnsin
Po sted Aug ust 18, 2010 at 7:58 pm | Pe rm alink
Wow this w as so Educational… I tried to do it w ith both x64 and x32 and there it was on
my EHDD! Cool Guide! Thanks man
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454. Hesus
Po sted Aug ust 18, 2010 at 11:40 p m | P erm alink
Pardon me but this is pretty useless. If i had a w indows dvd w hy da hell would i need to
boot from usb? The only reason i wanted to boot from usb was to not w aste time on
going out of the house and buying a new dvd. Instead i wasted my time on this.
455. Frankie
Po sted Aug ust 19, 2010 at 4:10 am | Pe rm alink
When you said insert the W indow s Vista/Windows 7 disk, did you mean insert a blank
disc or the disc that already has the softw are on it?(The $100 disc from store that comes
in the softw are box)
Thanks
456. DRBDANISH
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457. admin
Po sted Aug ust 19, 2010 at 9:20 am | Pe rm alink
Frankie, put the disc that has Windows 7 on it. Good luck!
458. Roxy
Po sted Aug ust 19, 2010 at 12:48 p m | P erm alink
I follow ed this guide but w hen booting up i have an error message ‘A disk read error’
459. Litlis
Po sted Aug ust 19, 2010 at 2:07 pm | Pe rm alink
I do all the steps but on step 7 then i w rite “bootsect.exe /nt60″ he w rite this:
This version of G:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible w ith the version of W indo
ws you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see w hether you n
eed a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the
software publisher.
then w hat should i do??
461. Valdez
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462. admin
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463. tavu
Po sted Aug ust 20, 2010 at 12:26 a m | P erm alink
I can’t copy the autorun file from the Window s 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
Po sted Aug ust 22, 2010 at 2:01 pm | Pe rm alink
I want to know the detail steps on how you can repair w indow operating system.
Thanks
Also i want some things on Virtual LAN, the problems and prospects of it.
467. miss26
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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 w ill be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied.
468. Uwais
Po sted Aug ust 24, 2010 at 7:21 am | Pe rm alink
hi
i am using this method to install snow lepoard on a previously w indow s machine will it
work??
btw my snow lepoard image is on my comps HD so i cant complete step 5 onw ards??
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
Po sted Aug ust 24, 2010 at 7:25 am | Pe rm alink
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. w ill 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
Po sted Aug ust 24, 2010 at 8:48 am | Pe rm alink
@ John
Sorry, I have no idea about Mac OS.
471. DANNY
Po sted Aug ust 24, 2010 at 9:42 pm | Pe rm alink
Thanks man this is by far the best and accurate tutorial for making a w in7/vista bootable
usb…
472. DANNY
Po sted Aug ust 24, 2010 at 9:47 pm | Pe rm alink
473. Dave D.
Po sted Aug ust 25, 2010 at 7:23 am | Pe rm alink
Hey, I tried it and works perfectly, thanks a lot…i’ve tried other guides w ith no success
but your guide is fantastic…keep up the good w ork…this w orld needs more helpful
people like you.
474. RAZON
Po sted Aug ust 25, 2010 at 12:38 p m | P erm alink
MANY MANY THINKS SIR BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM TO COPY “SETUP.EXE” FILE
WHY IT NOT COPY. PLEASE EXPLINE ME SIR
475. Fi156
Po sted Aug ust 25, 2010 at 3:21 pm | Pe rm alink
Nice How To, but the command: format fs=ntfs needs HOURS not minutes…
477. Madhav
Po sted Aug ust 27, 2010 at 1:01 pm | Pe rm alink
@Fi156 better use format fs=ntfs quick This w ill take you a few seconds. that command
without quick w ill take long time because it performs a complete format. thanks
478. KOUSHIK
Po sted Aug ust 28, 2010 at 12:08 a m | P erm alink
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
Po sted Aug ust 28, 2010 at 11:16 a m | P erm alink
You rock man! Thanks for this guide. I’ve spent tw o whole days trying to repair my
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corrupt Windows 7 installation on my Netbook, w hich has been a challenge as it has no
optical drive, so having a bootable Flash Drive was the perfect answ er. Thanks again!
480. Anku
Po sted Aug ust 28, 2010 at 9:51 pm | Pe rm alink
481. Cheryl
Po sted Aug ust 29, 2010 at 10:39 p m | P erm alink
I have done this – w hat 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 w ouldnt boot up. Am I doing something wrong?
482. Amp
Po sted Aug ust 30, 2010 at 10:27 a m | P erm alink
483. zero
Po sted Aug ust 30, 2010 at 9:22 pm | Pe rm alink
i’ve already try your method, but i have a problem here w hich 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
Po sted Aug ust 31, 2010 at 3:46 am | Pe rm alink
If you are using Window s XP to create your bootable USB, these steps w orked for me. I
just omitted steps 1-5
Open and find your USB drive and format using NTFS
CD boot
7. Now copy all files from drive where you have mount Window s 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
Po sted Aug ust 31, 2010 at 6:01 am | Pe rm alink
486. zero
Po sted Aug ust 31, 2010 at 6:50 am | Pe rm alink
i’ve already try your method, but i have a problem here w hich 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…
hello..
Thank you so much..
i’m iranian..
my laptop have not DVD Rom..
I want you to tell Persian: ???? ?????..
????? ??? ???? : Thanks really
488. gaithat
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It w as a perfect explanation.
Windows Xp does not recognize removable drive under: LIST DISK segment.
489. bulger
Po sted Sep tem ber 2, 2010 at 6:12 p m | P erm alink
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
Po sted Sep tem ber 4, 2010 at 2:35 a m | P erm alink
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 w indow to
perform the partitioning and the bootsect, worked great on both.
Thanks.
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 w ould do the trick
492. bziz
Po sted Sep tem ber 5, 2010 at 9:13 p m | P erm alink
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
Po sted Sep tem ber 5, 2010 at 11:19 pm | Perm alink
Hey…Can i install windows 7 with usb * i dont have dvd reader atm * if i dont have a
window s before it..Like my old window s crashed & now am w ithout window s at all & i
wanna install w indow s 7 & no dvd reader ,thx alot
494. TechNazgul
Po sted Sep tem ber 6, 2010 at 12:49 am | Perm alink
Just w anted to say thanks for posting this. Worked like a charm for me w ith Windows 7
Ultimate x86 installing to an Acer Revo 1600 (w hich I’m using to test out the new XBMC
beta release of Dharma).
496. IceaTronic
Po sted Sep tem ber 6, 2010 at 10:42 pm | Perm alink
Pro Tip:
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
Po sted Sep tem ber 8, 2010 at 1:14 p m | P erm alink
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
follow ed b dumping of the XP CD to start testing.
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Start w ith FAT/FAT32/NTFS to see w hich one w orks.
If NTFS on key w orks, 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
Po sted Sep tem ber 9, 2010 at 4:55 a m | P erm alink
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 w orked. Thank man,
appreciate it…
499. deeh
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500. Andy
Po sted Sep tem ber 9, 2010 at 5:02 p m | P erm alink
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
Po sted Sep tem ber 10, 2010 at 10:05 pm | Perm alink
Worked well for me, the only thing is I had to pull the drive out during the first reboot or
the install w ould start all over again.
HI.
This is Gagan from http://ww w.softw aresgiant.com and do you know that you have
really helped me a lot?I had original w indow s 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
Po sted Sep tem ber 12, 2010 at 6:47 am | Perm alink
I did steps 1 to 4. My usb was plugged and so w as my 500GB external hdd. It w as too
late when I realized that I did step 4 on my external hdd. Now , I cant open my external
hdd – it alw ays says your drive needs to be formatted. Please help =<
504. mary
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505. matthew
Po sted Sep tem ber 13, 2010 at 1:40 am | Perm alink
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
Po sted Sep tem ber 13, 2010 at 2:28 am | Perm alink
THANK YOU!! this guide is awesome. w orked 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
Po sted Sep tem ber 13, 2010 at 3:53 pm | Perm alink
2) Can installing w indow s w it the help of pen drive be apply on any computer capacity?
510. mikaboshi
Po sted Sep tem ber 15, 2010 at 1:41 am | Perm alink
I had the official ms tool to make your usb installer disk, but somehow it alw ays ended
up telling me it couldnt copy the files to my usb drive. Doing it manually w orked like a
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charm!
511. Shen
Po sted Sep tem ber 15, 2010 at 5:52 am | Perm alink
When I follow ed 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 “W indow s is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for
installation.” show s 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
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513. FrackMicrosoft
Po sted Sep tem ber 16, 2010 at 12:03 am | Perm alink
This w ill work on non-vista computers if you use an external hard drive and skip the
format command.
amazing… this guide really w orked!!! plus you don’t need to use any programs.. /heh
515. DANNY
Po sted Sep tem ber 16, 2010 at 8:02 pm | Perm alink
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
Po sted Sep tem ber 17, 2010 at 12:02 pm | Perm alink
Is it just me or does it take more than just a few seconds to format the selected
drive????
517. Ryan
Po sted Sep tem ber 17, 2010 at 12:03 pm | Perm alink
Great w rite up!! this really helped me out and btw this can w ork on non-vista computers
if you use an external hard drive
519. rohit
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520. saif
Po sted Sep tem ber 18, 2010 at 3:22 am | Perm alink
hi i m using w in xp above all steps done n my bios have option usb hdd but i its not
booting plz help
521. Nith
Po sted Sep tem ber 19, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Perm alink
523. Bane
Po sted Sep tem ber 19, 2010 at 7:04 pm | Perm alink
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 w in 7 on HP notebook w ich
has vista, and your steps I^ve done on other PC wich has win 7 on it,because dvd rom
on notebook doesnt w ork. my USB drive is external HDD 1Tb.. folow ed 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
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Aw esome tut, just got w indows 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 w ill 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!
Po sted Sep tem ber 21, 2010 at 3:42 am | Perm alink
look’s like a nice method but! how do i ‘reverse’ the disk-on-key properties to it’s
defaults,i mean in this w hole procedure you actually change the file system of the disk-
on-key and some other properties,how to reverse all that?
526. Sudheera
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527. Tom
Po sted Sep tem ber 23, 2010 at 2:49 am | Perm alink
Hey, Thanks! great guide. I even got it to w ork using Windows XP!
Tom
528. geoff
Po sted Sep tem ber 24, 2010 at 4:59 pm | Perm alink
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?
what if the w indow s 7 copy isn’t on a dvd but has been dow nloaded iso?
530. kevin
Po sted Sep tem ber 25, 2010 at 5:59 am | Perm alink
Actually /active= should have 0 (most of the time) it’s the partition number OF the drive
(0 as it’s formatted) otherw ise you’ll get “invalid parameter…”.
531. are_peace22
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532. unification
Po sted Sep tem ber 26, 2010 at 1:37 pm | Perm alink
533. Lucas
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534. unification
Po sted Sep tem ber 27, 2010 at 7:57 pm | Perm alink
535. unification
Po sted Sep tem ber 28, 2010 at 4:54 am | Perm alink
536. marcus
Po sted Sep tem ber 28, 2010 at 6:28 am | Perm alink
i cant do the “clean” bit. error occured, unable to access. help pw eez
537. jainil
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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
Po sted Sep tem ber 29, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Perm alink
540. Prithviraj
Po sted Sep tem ber 29, 2010 at 4:34 pm | Perm alink
Thanks a lot . Worked like a charm, very detailed and precise. Great job keep it up
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
Po sted Sep tem ber 29, 2010 at 7:59 pm | Perm alink
543. admin
Po sted Sep tem ber 29, 2010 at 8:00 pm | Perm alink
544. Justin A
Po sted O ctober 1, 2010 at 10:59 am | Perm alink
Beautiful! Flaw less! Stupid sata DVD died and w ith no replacement and no time to spare
this worked perfectly. Make sure drive is emptied as he states. Make sure! Otherw ise,
aw esome. Thank yooouu.
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 w ork with 2 gb pen drive or does it?
546. Donna
Po sted O ctober 2, 2010 at 10:02 am | Perm alink
WOW – Thanks a lot. It worked like a charm. I really appreciate your help. Keep up the
good w ork. It is people like you that make the w orld a better place.
Thank agian
547. Donna
Po sted O ctober 2, 2010 at 10:06 am | Perm alink
Thanks again
549. Trevor
Po sted O ctober 4, 2010 at 12:56 am | Perm alink
Why not just copy all the files from the installation image to your drive, and have
bootmgr ran from there instead?
This thread is getting long, but it is only fair to say thank you for this great guide. Thanks
a lot.
552. AJIT
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553. Modeste
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554. Ankit
Po sted O ctober 5, 2010 at 1:27 am | Perm alink
i am using win7 32 bit. can i use bootsect to create a bootable USB to install w in7 64 bit?
i have the ISO file for w in7 64 bit, but have no clue how to get it to w ork.
555. Anggi
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556. Mark
Po sted O ctober 6, 2010 at 10:30 am | Perm alink
Thanks for the superb guide! I w as able to get all the w ay to the final command with no
problems. I am running Window s 7 Ultimate edition (Custumized Nvidia edition) in 64 bit
mode. I get the follow ing message when I try to enter the BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
command:
557. Mark
Po sted O ctober 6, 2010 at 10:38 am | Perm alink
Please disregard my previous post….I forgot the CD BOOT command before attempting it.
I have successfully updated the USB stick w ith the bootcode.
Again:
558. Doug
Po sted O ctober 7, 2010 at 3:24 am | Perm alink
file : \Boot\BCD
status : 0xc000000e
info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration
559. unification
Po sted O ctober 7, 2010 at 5:09 am | Perm alink
560. JB
Po sted O ctober 9, 2010 at 1:47 am | Perm alink
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 w hatsoever, so I can’t make it BOOTMGR
Compatible. Any other solutions?
561. piyush
Po sted O ctober 9, 2010 at 10:12 pm | Perm alink
my dvd write is not working.how can i do this step D: CD BOOT.pls mail me ans.
562. Nishant
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563. Sandeep
Po sted O ctober 11, 2010 a t 5:30 pm | Perm alink
@nishant-this process only creates the w ay by w hich u can boot the setup progress w ith
the pendrive…comparatively faster than cd or dvds….the problem you are facing is due to
wrong installation files
564. Kir
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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.
565. Leo
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566. Sam
Po sted O ctober 12, 2010 a t 6:05 pm | Perm alink
This w orked fabulously. Thanks for the easy to follow instructions! I had been looking for
this solution for a long time.
567. Ionut
Po sted O ctober 13, 2010 a t 1:34 am | Perm alink
Thanks a lot.
Worked perfectly!
You really should put a link to the MS USB/DVD tool more prominently on your site, w hy
bother with this complicated method?
http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
570. Andres Au
Po sted O ctober 16, 2010 a t 6:20 am | Perm alink
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
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572. KB
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THanks for the insight, I was going crazy trying to get this to work. A lot of sights miss
the part about this only w orking in Vista/7!
573. JACK91
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574. Crypdan
Po sted O ctober 17, 2010 a t 3:30 am | Perm alink
When you say copy window s 7 contents, you mean the documents or a iso file?
575. haroldcore
Po sted O ctober 17, 2010 a t 9:48 am | Perm alink
what if i dont have a w in7 disc? w hat if i just have an ISO but not on a cd. because i
have an ISO on my dow nloads.
576. AJ
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577. dvhirst
Po sted O ctober 19, 2010 a t 4:47 am | Perm alink
Well, it w orked as advertised (Window s7), 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”.
Thanks!
578. KGB1953
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579. KGB1953
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If you have an .iso file just mount it w ith magiciso. Google it.
580. c0de
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581. Jaimie
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Additional info:
1.) during the diskpart in command prompt, users need to cancel or ignore any prompts
by w indow s to automatically format the drive.
2.) If you get the message from command prompt w hen 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 w indow s that has automatically opened the drive contents in a window.
Stopping the antivirus or any open window s other than commandprompt associated w ith
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 w ith old DVD drives and
three have failed! Saved me getting a new DVD drive!
582. Samuel
Po sted O ctober 23, 2010 a t 6:31 am | Perm alink
PLEASE HELP!
make it w ork
584. chielt
Po sted O ctober 25, 2010 a t 4:52 am | Perm alink
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
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586. Albert
Po sted O ctober 25, 2010 a t 11:10 am | Pe rm a link
hey, i keep getting “… invalid ms-dos command” when copying the disk content in step 8.
587. Albert
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588. shoab
Po sted O ctober 26, 2010 a t 3:06 am | Perm alink
sir pls tell me about how to create usb bootale for install w indows xp-7 by usb device
like pen drive.
589. SATHISH
Po sted O ctober 29, 2010 a t 7:11 pm | Perm alink
ya its really nice to do but in betw een 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
Po sted O ctober 30, 2010 a t 12:46 am | Pe rm a link
Hey Sorry For My Previous Post .., I Tried once again these steps i finally got thanks
592. mukesh
Po sted O ctober 31, 2010 a t 2:37 pm | Perm alink
Great post..!! Followed all the instructions step by step and w orks like a charm..!!
The only tip is that this wont w ork 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 w hen i tried
with vista, then it show s usb as disk 1 and all the steps worked easily.
594. Jeffrey
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595. SherwinQ
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596. marshmallow
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597. FilledVoid
Po sted Novem be r 5, 2010 a t 4:57 pm | Perm alink
This w orked perfectly for a system that I w as fixing w hich had a broken DVD drive. The
method used was able to make my external drive bootable w ith Lenovos DVD image.
Thanks a ton.
598. Alex789045
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599. Vash
Po sted Novem be r 6, 2010 a t 4:29 pm | Perm alink
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
600. bINK
Po sted Novem be r 6, 2010 a t 11:59 pm | Pe rm a link
thank you sir for your assistance on how to install window s from a usb , i have a oem cd
with all of the versions of w indows on it and it w orks flaw lessly w ith the usb method . i
have sucsescfully install starter, basic, home premium x86, x64 , and so on but my faviort
useing this method is what i have on my asus mini netbook with 500 gb hard drive and 4
gb memory with window s 7 ultamate x64
601. sandy
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F:\BOOT>bootsect.exe /nt60 H:
Target volumes w ill be updated w ith BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied.
602. sandy
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603. lunatic
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604. griff
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The only difficulties i had were resolved w hen i ran command prompt as an administrator.
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605. James
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607. Alan
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Much appreciated. I have an old Pc w ith org CD drive. It just w ouldn’t read the Win 7 CD.
My HD was dead and I had to install a new one. Luckily I had my laptop with WIN 7
installed. Took a w hile but w e are up and running again.
608. 1234
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after instalation if i w ant to use my flash drive as a normal storing device, w hat do i have
to do?
just format? or it w ill stay a bootable device 4 evar?
One of your command prompt lines is formed incorrectly but w ill still work:
i.e.
D: CD BOOT
CD BOOT
should be just
D:
CD BOOT
or:
cd /d D:\BOOT
611. LIM
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sorry i need ur help becaused after i done everything and restarting my computer to
select to boot option from usb drive, but screen pop up a message of boot manager is
missing….how to solve this problem. look forward for ur answ er, thank you for helping
me
612. dark8soul
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Right, it looks good, but I’ve yet to try it, for a few reasons:
1. How do you reverse the process for the USB, in case I w ant to use it as normal again
after I’ve booted up my PC with it? Can it be done? How? Maybe it w orks anyw ay? I
don’t w ant to ruin a good 16GB USB for it otherwise.
2. I’ve got my Win7 on an .ISO on my HDD, and I COULD install it using e.g DaemonTools
or some such directly, but there are things that are better w ith a booted installation,
thus I w ant to go with that option. But, my question is this, can I do as with the CD/DVD
drive w ith a virtual drive, w here I mount the Win7 .ISO and do Step 6 w ith the mounted
drive?
614. lacie
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thank you!
615. Scott
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The error reported an inability to complete the step due to a compatibility issue w ith the
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version of w indow s I’m running….. suffice to say I’m PRETTY MUCH flabbergasted at this
point, any help hopefully? pending thats enough information
616. Ståle
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617. Agana
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618. SREEJITH
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THankx….
619. Vici
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620. Purushotham
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I did everything, but w hen I tried to boot, It says “A disk read error occurred, Press
control+alt+del to restart.. Plz help me.
621. Jason
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623. Zaq
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So i was on a mission for a free netbook. the job w as to fix a laptop w ithout a cd drive
that worked. SO i turned to this. needless to say. Thanks for the net book. Your a money
saver bud thank you!
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625. kyle
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um in stuck at spet 7 help plz it says it does not recognize “bootsect.exe as an interal or
external command”
help plz
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628. deamon
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629. freddyzdead
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If you really w ant to claim “100% Working” then w hy is step 6 still wrong?
It says:
====================================================
D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.
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CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
====================================================
Also, I think FAT32 would w ork ok; speed difference w ould be insignificant.
And I think the BOOTSECT.EXE part is redundant because DISKPART prolly already did
that. That’s w hy some ppl have got it to w ork when they left out that step.
Anyw ay, the main thing is it w orks. You just need to shout in caps that it DOESN’T WORK
IN XP. Maybe the morons w ould see it then.
630. Qiang
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631. Michael
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I don’t have any Drivers when I try to install Windows 7 on my Netbook with no OS,
what do I do?
632. mallikarjun
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hey… after copyin the files to usb, i tried to install it on other comp by changing the boot
order… i’m getting a error BOOT MNGR MISSING… please help me with this…
633. Ryan
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i follow ed this instruction and I unfortunately 2 of my drives are now missing. i only have
my drive C visible
i am running w indows 7(32bit) w ith 1 SATA HD(had 3 partitions now only C is visible) and
1 IDE HD
634. magallanes
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Thanks.
btw , you can do (if you know that you pendrive is not defective):
instead of
FORMAT FS=NTFS
635. Andreas
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Hi, I’ve tried to install w in 7 from usb using wintoflash but faild due to ther error that I
need cd/dvd drivers. The solution was removing the usb and reinserting it then I
cancelled the setup and went to repair options. I then chose command prompt. After
reinserting the usb you will have 3 discs. Mine were X: which was the boot disc
(supposedly the usb but it wasn’t) c: (the usb after inserting it again) and d: (the cd-
rom). On the command prompt I had to navigate to X:\w indow s. (type: “cd X:\window s”
without quotes) then type: “bootsect /nt60 C: “(this loads the bootmgr on the usb. the
usb in my case w as C: so you have to find yours) after that just restart and the setup
will continue w ithout errors. best of luck
636. gride420
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great how too now i w ant a very easy how too on putting x86 and x64 bit of w indow s
and of vista on one disk. Then should be able to do this guide and have both on 1 thumb
drive. In the process of putting each os from xp up on 1 thumb drive each. Much faster
installs and no more burning disc. Thanks
637. ors
Po sted Novem be r 28, 2010 at 10:52 a m | P erm alink
All of you who get “Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device
objects: Access is denied.”
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