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Monday, 22 August 2011

HOW TO CREATE WINDOWS 7/VISTA BOOTABLE PENDRIVE

Pen drive installation process for windows 7/ Vista is much faster than DVD/CD. There are some simple steps to make bootable pen drive which can be used for installing windows 7 in future as well. For this you need a pen drive having minimum space of 4 Gb and a Installation DVD of Windows 7/Vista. Now just follow this steps:-

  1.  First off all you need to format the USB drive / Pendrive:-

  • Run the command prompt as an Administrator
  • Now to find the drive number of your USB Drive, you need to type this and press enter every time.
  • diskpart
  • list disk
  • Here you can see the disk listed.Note down the disk number of your pendrive for the next step. Assume that the number is 'A'.
  • Now type all these words to format the drive:
  • select disk A
  • clean
  • create partition primary
  • select partition A
  • active
  • format fs=NTFS
  • assign
  • exit
Now the disk partition program will exit and you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.

 2.  Now to make the bootable pendrive, follow this steps:-
  • Now insert the Windows 7/Vista Installation DVD and to your DVD drive.
  • Now assume that DVD drive is G and Pendrive as F
  • Now type G:CD BOOT  
  • Now type CD BOOT 
  • Now type this command bootsect /nt60 F: to update your USB drive with bootmgr code.
  • Finally copy all the contents from the Windows 7/Vista DVD to your Pendrive.
  • Here you have created the bootable pendrive. Now what you need is to make your BIOS to boot from USB.So follow this steps:-
  • Insert your pendrive to the PC and reboot the system.
  • Now Enter the Bios system accordingly by pressing the key delete.This is where you’re on your own since every computer is different. Most BIOS’s allow you to hit a key at boot and select a boot option.
  • Now select the USB/ Pendrive as the first boot driver.
  • Now save the settings in Bios and restart and you will be able to Install Windows 7/Vista using that pendrive.  
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