Comments on: How to Install Windows 7 From USB Drive without Windows 7 ISO DVD

By: Jason Newell

Jason Newell — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:03:30 +0000

Thanks everyone. Managed to install Windows 7 64 bit edition first time using the USB method. The DVD upgrade disk didn’t work well with my DVD drive when I tried to boot from it and the installation kept crashing but using your outlined procedure I was able to create a 4Gb partition on my USB drive (80Gb), turn it into a Windows 7 64 bit install disk and get my machine to boot from that. One key point is when performing “bootsect /nt60 X: /mbr” from the 32 bit command prompt, use the 32 bit disk. When copying the files, if you want the 64 bit edition, change the disk over to the 64 bit version and copy that to the USB drive. I was tearing my hair out till I read this article and all the postings.

By: Netbook Downloads

Netbook Downloads — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:01:17 +0000

http://www.eeefiles.com/index.php?act=view&id=1112 has changed to http://www.netbookfiles.com/1022/winsetupfromusb-023/

So please use the updated link.

By: Russell Fear

Russell Fear — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:22:32 +0000

Im a Technology Support Specialist for a large software company.

We’ve used this exact technique before obviously with the change of:

mbrwiz /disk=X /active=X (X is Disk Number of your USB Drive)

should be:

mbrwiz /disk=X /active=1 (X is Disk Number of your USB Drive)

as pointed out earlier.

Most of the people complaining baotu it didnt work in this thread will find that thats because this is an XP ONLY process and that if you use Vista, it’s totally different!!

Good job bringing this knowledge to the masses.

Russ

By: Nid

Nid — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:16:21 +0000

Thanks for the post.
Worked a treat. I have been trying unetbootin but was getting the flashing cursor problem.

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By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:22:02 +0000

I did everything right. I went to the BIOS and changed the boot order and i used: USB FDD and USB ZIP but no one works, so i went to my friend’s house to try there, and there was the option: USB HDD and it worked. What can i do to work in my PC ?

By: JEFF

JEFF — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:15:54 +0000

I meant Cosmin in the above message. That wuz intended 4 u not kek!

By: JEFF

JEFF — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:06:11 +0000

Kek and evry1 elese having issues, not to insult the poster of this guide but a MUCH simpler way to install Windows 7 via USB is using the freeware program WinSetFromUSB. I have used it multiple times, for Windows Vista Installations and Windows XP installations via flash drive and I can assure u that its GREAT! Here’s a download link:
http://www.eeefiles.com/index.php?act=view&id=1112

Now here’s a STEP-TO-STEP guide on setting up ur installation USB.

What you’ll need: Windows 7 ISO, flash drive bigger than 2 GB, WinSEtupFromUSB, PowerISO or any other ISO program that can mount ISOs.

1. Download & install the program from the link provided, and plug ur USB flash drive into ur comp (make sure its big enough to fit the Windows 7 installation-at least 2 GB.) Find ur windows 7 ISO on ur hard drive and mount it as a virtual drive (Use power ISO or any other ISO program).

2. Open up the program WinSetUpFromUSB. Note that it was designed for Windows XP USB installations but works fine for Windows Vista AND windows 7 as well. Now, make sure that under “USB Disk Selection” the flash drive u intend to use is recognized and selected. MAKE SURE U BACKUP UR DATA, BECAUSE THE PROGRAM WILL FORMAT IT. Click on the button “RMPrepUSB”. A window should pop up.

3. In the RMPREPUSB window under FileSystem & Overrides”, select NTFS (this makes setup go MUCH faster). Also under “BOOT Options” “WinPE/Vista v2 Bootable (BOOTMGR)”. Now click PREPARE DRIVE (light blue button). A command promptish window should appear, wait for it to finish.

4. After it is done click EXIT in the RMPREPUSB window. In the program Windows look under “You may also add:” and check the second bullet “Vista/7 setup/PE/Recovery ISO”. Click the the “…” button next to the selection to browse for ur mounted ISO. Select the virtual drive its under and click OK.

5. Now ur ready to make the installation USB! Click GO in the program Window. A little into the process u might get an error saying: “Could not install grub4dosector…”. Just click OK and it’ll continue just fine, or if u don’t it’ll bypass the message and continue with the process anyway. Wait for the program to copy all the files on ur flash drive (should take 5-10 minutes). When it’s done, click EXIT. Now your flash drive is ready.

6. Safely remove, re-boot, then boot from USB and install Windows 7 as u usually would!

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By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:18:10 +0000

I lost a hole day and still didn’t manage to finish. All went well till I reached this step:
“7. Now copy all files from drive where you have mount Windows 7 iso.”

When I try copy/paste I receive this message: “Cannot copy chs_boot: The parameter is incorrect.”

I also tried to go to Command Prompt and copy from there, but I got this error: http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e96/Ceaules/error.jpg

I:\ is the USB Drive and G:\ is the ISO DVD

Can someone help?