Comments on: How to Boot/Install Vista from a USB Flash drive

By: repair usb flash drive

repair usb flash drive — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:44:52 +0000

Thanks for posting this article. I’m decidedly frustrated with struggling to search out pertinent and intelligent commentary on this issue. Everybody today goes to the very far extremes to either drive home their viewpoint that either: everyone else in the planet is wrong, or two that everyone but them does not really understand the situation. Many thanks for your concise, pertinent insight.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:20:44 +0000

@blacknoise: Yeah it works for all version of Vista and Windows 7

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:14:36 +0000

Cheers dude, good tutorial, and helped me out loads!!

By: Sami

Sami — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:52:45 +0000

Unfortunately these instructions only work when running on Vista and newer operating systems. I just ran across an app that automates the process of creating a bootable Win7 flash drive, but does it under XP as well.

http://firesage.com/bootsage

By: blacknoise

blacknoise — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:03:29 +0000

@ Merlin
you are correct

By: Merlin

Merlin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:23:35 +0000

Just to confirm, there is no way to setup a 64bit bootable hard drive using Windows 7 32 bit, correct?

When my hard drive is plugged in as an external drive, the Windows ISO/USB tool doesn’t detect it as a USB drive.

From the notes above, it looks like a 32 bit version of bootsect won’t work for a 64 bit hard drive.

By: Werner

Werner — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:49:16 +0000

@blacknoise: Thank you for the great tutorial which was very helpful until I ran into the 32bit and trying to create a 64bit bootable USB.
Is there a workaround? I lost all day trying to install Windows 7, downloaded 4 times, burned 6 DVD’s and all of them give me the same CD/DVD missing driver issue… I don’t know who is to blame but one thing I know is that I am extremely disappointed…
I hope someone out there can give me some useful information and help.
Thank you!!

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Liljedahl » Windows 7 tillverkas av Microsoft — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:15:21 +0000

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By: blacknoise

blacknoise — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:38:51 +0000

@cj:

Fat32 supports upto 32GB when formatting using windows. So create a partition of 10GB in your portable hard drive and make that bootable.

P.S: There are updated and much more easy ways to do this. Check these posts for more info….

http://dotnetwizard.net/tutorials/installing-windows-7-from-a-usb-drive-newbie-guide/

http://dotnetwizard.net/soft-apps/wintoflash-make-bootable-usb-drive-the-easy-way/

By: cj

cj — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:19:13 +0000

hi i am using a 100gb portable hard drive
when i try to format fs=fat32 it says fat32 does not support this volume