{"id":993,"date":"2009-08-14T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/2009\/08\/14\/how-to-install-windows-7-from-a-bootable-usb-drive\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T07:16:00","slug":"how-to-install-windows-7-from-a-bootable-usb-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/how-to-install-windows-7-from-a-bootable-usb-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install Windows 7 From a bootable USB Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/03\/image_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/03\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"872\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I just wanna have this &quot;How to&quot; in my blog, even for myself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you need:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USB Flash Drive (4GB+) <\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 DVD <\/li>\n<li>A computer running Vista \/ Windows 7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Step 1 &#8211; Formatting the Drive     <br \/><\/strong>Using the command prompt, we&#8217;ll use the <em>diskpart<\/em> utility. [BTW: This will erase all data on your USB drive]<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Plug in your USB Flash Drive <\/li>\n<li>Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start &gt; All Programs &gt; Accessories &gt; Command Prompt and select \u201cRun as administrator\u201d (Or type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter). <\/li>\n<li>Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:     <br \/><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">diskpart       <br \/>list disk<\/span>      <br \/>The number of your USB drive will listed. You\u2019ll need this for the next step.&#160; In my following example, I assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1. <\/li>\n<li>Format the drive by typing the following. (Replace the number \u201c1\u201d with the specific number of your disk):     <br \/><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">select disk 1       <br \/>clean        <br \/>create partition primary        <br \/>select partition 1        <br \/>active        <br \/>format fs=NTFS&#160; (The Format process will take a few minutes)        <br \/>assign        <br \/>exit        <br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman\"><font face=\"Arial\">Now you should have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: times new roman\"><font face=\"Arial\">     <\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable&#160; <br \/><\/strong>Next we\u2019ll use the <em>bootsect<\/em> utility that comes on the Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable. Type the followinf in the same command window that you were using in Step 1:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Insert your Windows 7 DVD into your drive. <\/li>\n<li>Change directory to the DVD\u2019s boot directory where <em>bootsect<\/em> is situated:          <br \/><span style=\"font-family: courier new\">d:           <br \/>cd d:\\boot<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>Use <em>bootsect<\/em> to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista\/7 image. 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