Installing Windows 7 from a USB Drive: Newbie Guide

7 August, 2009
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There have been a lot of installing Vista/Win7 via USB articles in the recent past, all using different types of methods. Now with Windows 7 round the corner and with the RC version being a success people have started to tryout Windows 7 and I’ve received a lot of mail, some stating it works and for some it doesn’t. Mainly there are responses about these methods being not easy to follow unless you have a fair knowledge about these stuff.

So in this tutorial I have used the easiest way to create a bootable USB that you can use to install Windows 7 (or Vista) and this will probably be the final post as well.

Creating the bootable USB drive:

Requirements

  • An ISO Image of Windows 7 (any version)
  • UltraISO (not free, but a trial version would do)
  • A USB drive consisting more than 2.5GB (4GB drive is more than enough)

1. Download the ISO image of Windows 7

2. Download and install UltraISO

3. Plug the USB drive to the PC. backup any data as they will be deleted.

4. Start UltraISO go to File->Open and select the downloaded ISO image

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5. In the Local tab (lower left) select your USB drive. Make sure its the drive you want to make bootable. In this example its “USB Flash (M:)”

6. Now click the Bootable tab from the menu and select Write Disk Image

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7. In the Write disk image dialog box click Write. (You can also tick Verify, this will check the data for errors.)

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Wait until the write operation finishes. Now you can use the USB flash drive to install Windows 7.

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Ohh yeah, i was waiting for this. Thank you blacknoise newbie guide FTW.

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Commented by f3rns
on August 9, 2009

does this work for xp?

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Commented by Meena Bassem
on August 9, 2009

Yeah! this is the easiest guide ive seen so far :)
Thanks for that very easy to follow to tutorials,
It will be usefull to me, as soon as i get a hand to that windows 7 :)
Thanks again bro! Keep up the good job..

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Commented by netbox
on August 9, 2009

@Meena Bassem:
Nope
 
@netbox:
@f3rns:
your welcome :D :D

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Commented by blacknoise
on August 9, 2009

does this work with 64-bit windows 7?

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Commented by charlie
on September 4, 2009

@charlie:

Yes it does

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Commented by blacknoise
on September 4, 2009

So i have done so meny attempts with cmd and bootsect nothing goes, i am trying this method seems to be solid lets see what happens

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Commented by SliquadW7
on November 2, 2009

sadly I get to the write part and it says I need to run it as an admin. I AM the admin. Jesus H…. all I want is to get windows 7 on my pc…….

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Commented by sarra
on January 25, 2010

Right click Ultra ISO and select run as admin. Although that kind of error is not possible in the first place.

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Commented by blacknoise
on January 26, 2010

Thank you! its freaking lazy program, but hope this works. Thank you!

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Commented by joobar
on February 1, 2010

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