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Posted January 11, 2009 – 3:58 pm in: Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides

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This guide works 100% for Vista & Windows 7 unlike most of the guides out there. I
have seen many sites/blogs that have “Install Vista from USB guide” but either with
incomplete steps or not working guide. I have also seen some guides that don’t’ use
proper commands in this guide. After spending many hours I have come up with this
100% working guide.

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I just did this method on one of my friends machine and installed the new Windows 7
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1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port and move all the contents from USB drive
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2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Uninstall Windows 7 Service Pack 1
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*Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter.
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*Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories right click on Command Prompt and

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3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in Contact Me
the command prompt: Friends
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First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.

Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your
USB flash drive. In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 1.
4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no
is “Disk 1”.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above
step to confirm it.
So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one:
SELECT DISK 1
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT
Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next
step. Just minimize it.

5. Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive
letter of the DVD drive. In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is “D” and
USB drive letter is “H” (open my computer to know about it).
6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following
command now:
D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.
CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
7 T th d i b l t d t th USB d i ith BOOTMGR

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compatible code.
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

Where “H” is your USB drive letter. Once you enter the above command you will see
the below message.
8. Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive.
9. Your USB drive is ready to boot and install Windows 7/Vista. Only thing you need to
change the boot priority at the BIOS to USB from the HDD or CD ROM drive. I won’t
explain it as it’s just the matter the changing the boot priority or enabling the USB boot
option in the BIOS.
Note: If you are not able to boot after following this guide means you haven’t set the
BIOS priority to USB. If you got any problem in following this guide feel free to ask
questions by leaving comment.
Update: If you find this guide difficult to follow, please use the easy-to-use
guide to create a bootable USB to install Windows 7 using official tool.
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857 Comments

1. Daryl
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:20 am | Permalink

Hey thanks! I’d love to try this soon I hope it’s working

2. Brandon
Posted January 12, 2009 at 3:22 am | Permalink

I don’t think XP shows usb drives in list disk, or maybe it’s just me. Is there any other
alternative to step 4?

3. tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 7:59 am | Permalink

^ That’s why I have mentioned only Vista & Windows 7.

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4. tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 8:01 am | Permalink

Works 100% on Vista & Windows 7..Thanks.

5. Casmir
Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:31 am | Permalink

This is cool…Hope it will work the same way with an external HDD….
Keep up the good work bro…

6. ben
Posted January 12, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

i am also trying to do this from xp, and it doesnt work, im not sure if step 4 needs to be done
in comand prompt (i formatted the stick in disk manager) but i got stuck on step 7 because
there is no such thing as bootsect.exe

7. neodorian
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:23 pm | Permalink

When I run bootsect.exe it says that this version isn’t compatible with my version of windows
even though it is running the vista version.

8. tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

Please use Vista or Windows 7 as bootsect.exe is not present in XP CD.This guide only works
on Windows Vista & 7

9. tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

This guide doesn’t work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7..I have mentioned in the title
of the post.

10. tweakwindows
Posted January 12, 2009 at 1:35 pm | Permalink

@ben
Please follow the guide step-by-step and don’t skip any step.

11. Paul
Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:27 pm | Permalink

THANK YOU! I was having problems getting the boot sector to work…
and you fixed it. Definitely better than any other guide… SCREEN SHOTS = TEHWIN!, they
help sooo much when you can’t see what you’ve done wrong, even picked up a few new cmd
tricks.
I’m a fan, thanks man.

12. ?lhan
Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

Hey man your methods does not working in XP. Please reinform us.

13. Omar
Posted January 13, 2009 at 4:52 am | Permalink

I was doing fine up until step 5. I figured the whole point of booting from a USB drive was to
avoid having to burn a disc with the Windows 7 files on it, or install on a PC without a DVD
drive. Anyway, I don’t have any blank DVD’s, so I was trying to install it from my USB drive,
but I can’t get past step 5, since I don’t have my Windows 7 files on a disc. They are on my
hard drive, and my USB drive. Help!

14. John
Posted January 13, 2009 at 5:00 am | Permalink

Got it working in the second attempt.good guide.

15. Lincoln
Posted January 13, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Permalink

OK nevermind I just had to optimise the drive for performance… Sorry about that!

16. EiNS
Posted January 13, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

Thanks…very excellent guide…

any working method for xp usb drive installation? Tried many…but non of them working

17. vikrant
Posted January 13, 2009 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

Does it also mean that we can install windows 7 on a usb drive?

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18. BlogPiG
Posted January 13, 2009 at 7:41 pm | Permalink

This worked an absolute treat. Nice write-up.


I did it on an XP box using Windows 7 mounted onto a virtual DVD drive.
I had to do the format using the windows tools as wasn’t available as part of diskpart in XP.
All the rest worked as described.

19. eden
Posted January 13, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

i just formated my usb pen, and done show all files on the DVD and copied the contents over.
i didnt use the diskpart tools.

installed w2in 7 fine

20. Laker_Fan32
Posted January 13, 2009 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

Leechie!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR XP!!!! Wow, I have been
searching for past two days and you explained it in 4 steps, you are AWESOME! Thank you
VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!

21. Rkee
Posted January 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm | Permalink

U can also achieve booting from a usb drive by using daemon tools. Don’t mean to dis on the
author graet walkthrough by the way. Its just an alternative, and no need for any command
prompt scripting.

22. madmax
Posted January 14, 2009 at 4:05 pm | Permalink

i tried both the XP method and VISTA method. both i managed to do without any problems.
but when i try to boot from the pen drive i get this error

file : \Boot\BCD
status : 0xc000000e
info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration

some help please?

23. Darin
Posted January 14, 2009 at 10:32 pm | Permalink

Hey, I followed all the steps, and everything worked perfectly until I booted from the Usb
device and tried to install windows 7. It said that “Setup does not support installation to disks
connected through a USB port. Is there a way around this?

24. tweakwindows
Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:12 am | Permalink

@Darin
Firstly, let me apologise for the experience you’re having.
The error means, your motherboard doesn’t support USB booting. I have also mentioned this
in my guide. And there is no way to boot USB unless your motherboard support.

@Vikrant
No this guide doesn’t for the users who like to install Windows 7 on USB.

@Omar
If you don’t have a DVD drive/USB(4GB) then use my guide “Installing Windows 7 without
using USB/DVD drive”. There are two methods, direct and via VPC method. Please follow my
guides.

@All
I am glad that this guide helped you to install Windows 7.

Thanks.

25. Joey
Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

i downloaded windows 7 from microsoft and dont have a cd/dvd for it so what do i do do i
extract it to the usb then restart using the flash drive or what?

26. tweakwindows
Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

@Joey
If you don’t have a DVD/USB then use my below guide which shows “Installing Windows 7
without using USB/DVD drive”
http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-2/
http://www.intowindows.com/installing-windows-7-without-using-dvdusb-drive-method-1/

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27. gabontz
Posted January 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

Hello i can’t see my usb stick with diskpart.


all i can see, is my 4 HDD’s on my computer.
What can i do in this case?

28. pete
Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:13 pm | Permalink

When I try step 7, I get: “The system cannot execute the specified program”

29. suavi
Posted January 15, 2009 at 7:42 pm | Permalink

Bootsect.exe problem!

I think that there is a problem occurs when you want to install “64 Bit Windows 7″ from your
32 Bit Vista.

Here is the message after typing BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:


“This version of F:boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re
running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit)
or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. “

30. Morty
Posted January 15, 2009 at 11:07 pm | Permalink

What if I want to create a x64 boot in a x86 environment? I get this error message. “This
version of g:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re
running. Check your system information yada yada contact software publisher.” I am
running Vista 32-bit, trying to create this USB boot thingaby for Windows 7 64-bit.

Thanks mate.

31. Nick
Posted January 19, 2009 at 4:27 am | Permalink

When I tried to boot from usb it will not even get finished copying the files when it gives me
an error code. It sometimes will start installing updates. But what is with this damn error
code. I,m waiting on it to do it again……..Expanding files (0%)……….

Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are
available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x8007045D

I would be very grateful for anyone’s help.

32. Siddanth
Posted January 19, 2009 at 3:31 pm | Permalink

Hey tweakwindows i think we need to make use of xcopy command havent tried it for xp did
u try it out /?

33. Jonathan
Posted January 20, 2009 at 3:12 am | Permalink

I have followed all instructions.


I tried the flash drive one of my main machines and it works. However, on my test rig, I
only get a Missing Operating System message. Boot priorities are set to USB Boot.

What could be wrong?

34. Laker_Fan32
Posted January 21, 2009 at 6:23 pm | Permalink

My USB becomes Bootable, however when it is installing it gets stuck at 8% and then nothing
happens??? I’ve tried many times and it doesn’t seem to work, it always gets stuck at 5% or
8%. Sometimes it errors out with the error code: 0x800703ee

35. PeterNLD
Posted January 22, 2009 at 4:52 am | Permalink

Can the USB-stick after having Windows7 installed, be used to get in the complete recovery
enviroment as well?

36. SEO Blog


Posted January 22, 2009 at 2:45 pm | Permalink

Works like a charm, thanks

37. Into Windows(Admin)


Posted January 23, 2009 at 11:49 am | Permalink

First of all, sorry for the delay in reply.


@ PeterNLD

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Of course, you can use as a replace to DVD.

@ Laker_Fan32
Sorry for the delay. I think you need to copy all the files once again. Just try it.

@ Siddarth
I didn’t try that method. But I have another method which works on XP as well. Will post the
guide soon.

@ Nick
Make sure you copy all the Windows 7 files to USB correctly.

@Suavi
Basically, I haven’t tested this method on 64-bit machine. So, I can’t find a solution for you.

Thank you.
Into Windows

38. tyson
Posted January 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

Hi, I read d comments & got confirmed that this method works although i didn’t try it. I want
to install windows xp by USB method. Can you also give a method like this for windows xp
also?? I am currently running windows vista & don’t have an optical drive.

39. Nik Simpson


Posted January 23, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

Only one minor issue if you are trying to create a W7 64-bit bootable drive on a 32 bit install
of Vista. In that case you’ll have to run the bootsect command from a 32-bit W7 DVD,
because the version on the 64-bit DVD will not run on a 32-bit OS.

40. cdnwood
Posted January 26, 2009 at 9:13 am | Permalink

Thank you! Absolutely brilliant – your guides have been very helpful!! It all worked just as
you have so thoroughly described.

41. Fzang
Posted January 26, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

Um, couldn’t you have skipped step 5 and onwards? You just need to do the diskpart and
then copy contents of the CD to your USB, at least, that’s what worked for me

Also, why are you formating to NTFS instead of FAT32?

Just wondering..

42. bob Sauve


Posted January 27, 2009 at 11:55 am | Permalink

If I had Vista pre-installed when I purchased my computer —


what different steps would I take to make a bootable USB drive??
Thanks,
Bob

43. Andy
Posted January 28, 2009 at 11:32 pm | Permalink

Thanks mate for this, very detailed and very user friendly, i tried to install Win xp on my
EEEpc 1000H but for some reason it wouldnt boot unless i put the USB stick in….lol, its mad
when Win 7 is much easier to setup and install than XP.

Anychance of letting me know how to dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Easy Peasy ?

Thanks mate your a star

44. Nick1
Posted January 29, 2009 at 2:41 am | Permalink

Correct me if I’m wrong, but step 5 states that we need a DVD. I use this guide because I
don’t have one. Am I right?

45. cmerg
Posted January 30, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Permalink

Great article. Worked like a charm.

46. Man
Posted February 2, 2009 at 9:56 pm | Permalink

Hi.

I th li t di k t I ’t USB d i Wh t’ ith it? (M O ti S t i

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XP.)

Does it only work in Vista?

Thank you for your teaching.

47. SENTY
Posted February 4, 2009 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

HEY I HAVE PROBLEM IN THE LAST STEP .. MY DVD ROM IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY.I
HAVE IMAGE(NRG) OF WINDOWS VISTA.I LOAD IT USING A IMAGE READER SOFTWARE
(POWER ISO),WHEN I TRYING TO EXCUTE THE LAST STEP USING VIRTUAL DVD ROM THAN
THE ORIGINAL DVD ROM,I GOT A EXCEPTION
“COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:
ACCESS IS DENIED”
HOW CAN I SLOW IT ..?,PLS HELP ME .. SND ME MAIL ON MY MAIL ACCOUNT…

48. tweakwindows
Posted February 5, 2009 at 2:15 pm | Permalink

Sorry for the delay in replay.

@Man
This method works fine on Vista and Windows 7 only. I will be writing a guide for XP users in
a week. Stay tuned!

@Nick1
I wrote this guide to make the installation faster. In my personal experience Windows 7 took
just 15 minutes to get installed from USB compared to 35 minutes DVD method. Of course,
you can skip the step 5 if you can mount the image and copy the files.

@Andy
Sorry, I am not planning on that. But, it should be easier if you install Linux over Windows 7.

@Bob Sauve
Follow the same procedure. This method works on both Vista and Windows 7.

@Tyson
Wait for few days to get a detailed guide.

@Fzang
NTFS is faster than FAT.

Admin
http://www.intowindows.com

49. ELPY
Posted February 5, 2009 at 5:08 pm | Permalink

Awesome,Think!!!

50. asd
Posted February 11, 2009 at 3:44 am | Permalink

well im gonna try this from my phone. hope everything works out ok

51. TY
Posted February 12, 2009 at 4:58 am | Permalink

About th LIST DISK command, I can not see my USB drive number (As you so the instruction
below). so how? i see only my Hard Drive. what can i do?? pls help me!!

52. omg
Posted February 17, 2009 at 8:47 am | Permalink

Hi thats an awesomely explained method! great work!

but i’m on Vista x86 and i was trying to make a usb with Vista x64 on it, but the cmd prompt
gave me this error! –

“This version of X:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re
running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need a x86 or x64
version of the program, and then contact the software publisher”

Is it that i need Vista x64 to create a USB x64!??

Pls help

53. Cobrass2
Posted February 25, 2009 at 1:09 am | Permalink

Thanks Worked like a charm.

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54. JD
Posted February 26, 2009 at 3:25 pm | Permalink

No luck from XP on my Asus 1000HE…

I used leechers method and continued from step 5.. wehen attemping to boot from USB I get
“disk read error”

55. Sjengie
Posted February 27, 2009 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

Hi, i tried it using my 4Gb microSD but like Darin my HP mini-note 2133 (which offers boot
option through “USB generic STORAGE DEVICE”) boot manager comes with an error “the
boot selection failed because a required device is inaccesible”.
I worked through all the steps as described above without any errors.
But i notice that diskpart command DETAIL DISK shows that “Bootable = No”
Si is it bootable yes or no and what might have gone wrong?
thx, btw great job this site !!

56. Sjengie
Posted February 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm | Permalink

Correction, it works again !


noticed that i did not copy my w7 dvd properly
great, you made linux disappear for us, thx again tweakwindows !

57. pete
Posted March 2, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

Hi ive tried and tried but DISKPART wont see my usb key, can u help.

58. ajin
Posted March 3, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

hey it is showing cannot find bootmngr press crl alt del to restart

59. Anthony
Posted March 5, 2009 at 2:10 am | Permalink

Great guide. You need to update your requirements section to point out that these
instructions only work when done on a Vista or Windows 7 platform, or specifically state they
will not work on XP

60. tweakwindows
Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:38 am | Permalink

Thanks for the reply. Will edit the post soon.

61. tweakwindows
Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:50 am | Permalink

@ajin
I hope you have followed my steps correctly. Try to repair your bootmgr file.

62. tweakwindows
Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:52 am | Permalink

Sorry, if you can’t find see your USB drive in the DISKPART command, I can’t help you.
However, if you have only one hard drive, then you can use the “1″ as your USB key. But try
this on your own risk.

63. Pinko
Posted March 18, 2009 at 12:26 am | Permalink

Formatting may take few seconds ^^


It has bee taking maby 30minutes for 10percent with my 250gb drive …

64. Pinko
Posted March 18, 2009 at 4:22 am | Permalink

56% now. thos are way loong seconds.

65. Swanny
Posted April 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

I have try all the step by step but on the stage command E:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F:
I got this message ‘Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied. Any idea what went wrong. Please help. Thanks.

66. jickie
Posted April 30, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink

awesome guide does exactly what it says on the tin, thanks so much i’m now installing
windows 7 on all my mates comps via usb.

67. Jeff

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Posted May 5, 2009 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

excellent guide. thanks very much. you saved me aged of messing with BartPe again trying
to make a bookable installation drive.

thanks.

68. victor frazee


Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:50 pm | Permalink

list disk DID NOT detect a 4GB or a 16GB memory stick

69. Quan
Posted May 5, 2009 at 11:55 pm | Permalink

Let’s say I have a hdd box with 2 partitions (Y, Z), can I use your method to create boot
install for Vista on partition Y and for Windows 7 on partition Z?

70. JB
Posted May 10, 2009 at 9:30 am | Permalink

Great write up. Works perfectly!!

71. Brad
Posted May 10, 2009 at 11:15 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot! Worked no problem. It also fixed the partition tables on my USB key!

72. Cooper
Posted May 10, 2009 at 10:08 pm | Permalink

Windows XP/2000 users !!!


Diskpart will not recognize removable storage, so don’t bover
This only works under WIndows Vista or 7.

73. ID
Posted May 13, 2009 at 12:59 am | Permalink

When are the mongs gonna read and understand this guide does not work on xp.

74. Joeypesci
Posted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Permalink

For everyone having issues with diskpart in XP not seeing the USB stick, it’s because that’s
an XP issue. The way XP and Vista handles USB drives, Vista sees them in Diskpart but XP
tends not to. There is a reg hack to fix it but I haven’t bothered to search for it.

75. Joeypesci
Posted May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am | Permalink

Just spotted someone beat me to it

76. J
Posted May 13, 2009 at 6:11 pm | Permalink

Works 100% in my Notebook. I wanted to install Vista Ultimate with a 8GB USB Pen and i
made it!
Thanks!

77. Christopher
Posted May 13, 2009 at 11:02 pm | Permalink

Best write-up ever! Clear and concise. Oh, and it works!!!

Great job, and thank you!

78. Iam
Posted May 14, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink

Funny thing I noticed on Win7, when you EXIT the DiskPart and try to continue in Command
Prompt, while copying the bootsector to device, you may face an error – Access Denied for
no priviledge in copying the bootsector to device.
Solution – just Exit the Command Prompt and Run it again (still need to Run as
Administrator).

79. DanielRemains
Posted May 20, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

I’m sure this is another arrengement with MS and USB driver manufactuer to make money
LOL joke

Nice guide I will have to steal my girlfriend’s USB drive (Which I bought her for christmas
LOL) to try this. Looks like it’s worth it thanks

80. pirater2113

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Posted May 21, 2009 at 5:55 am | Permalink

so if you do this tut correctly on a vista computer then you can use the pen drive on a Xp
computer?

81. Jay
Posted May 21, 2009 at 9:01 am | Permalink

Hey Bro can one dual boot using this…. ie. Vista and Windows 7

82. mads
Posted May 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

perfect. great guide. thanks

83. Omer
Posted May 22, 2009 at 2:22 am | Permalink

Dear,

I want to install windows 7 RC through USB/Pen drive.


But when i open the command prompt and write LIST DISK there (after DISKPART), it only
shows my hard drive there, that is DRIVE 0 only, though i try it after inserting USB.

Y is it so?

84. mike
Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:12 pm | Permalink

FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)

Yeah lol, it’s taking a loooong few seconds on my 8GB drive

85. mike
Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

I have a question for you, admin.

What if I want to rollback changes made to my USB drive? Or can I leave it like that
(partitions, ntfs) for regular use after installing windows 7?

86. admin
Posted May 22, 2009 at 11:26 pm | Permalink

@Jay
Yes, you can dual boot.

87. admin
Posted May 22, 2009 at 11:28 pm | Permalink

@ pirater2113
You can use this to create bootable USB on Vista and 7 only. If you have created on a Vista
computer then you can use it on a XP computer to boot.

88. Yue
Posted May 23, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Permalink

i tried it and it won’t work, i am using an old portable hard drive which is 5 gb, is it alright
with it?

89. znakistu
Posted May 26, 2009 at 12:34 am | Permalink

10x for this useful tutorial


it’s working on vista tomorrow i will try on win 7.

10x a lot

90. trav
Posted May 27, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

Can I do this with an SD card and USB adapter?

91. anil
Posted May 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Permalink

made a usb with above tutorial, will install windows 7


i wanted to install windows 7 64 bit but have 32 bit vista
now in order to install windows 7 64 bit, it seems, i will have to burn a dvd

92. Tweakwindows
Posted May 28, 2009 at 1:11 am | Permalink

@Trave

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I haven’t personally tried using SD card. But you should be able to do that.

93. Tweakwindows
Posted May 28, 2009 at 1:13 am | Permalink

@All
We are going to close the comments for this post.

94. JP Jones
Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:35 am | Permalink

I used this method successfully on two computers. I was very surprised that when I was
unable to change the boot sequence to USB in the BIOS on an older laptop, windows 7
installed anyway. I was pretty sure that it wouldn’t work but I tried it and presto! It went
through the three reboots and installed perfectly. Has anyone else had this happen?

95. William
Posted May 30, 2009 at 7:19 am | Permalink

this method from microsoft takes out the last part using bootsect. and it still works.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx

96. Christian Saborio


Posted May 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm | Permalink

Worked like a charm, great instructions, thanks!

97. aaraza
Posted May 31, 2009 at 12:40 pm | Permalink

Hi,
Great guide. However, I am stuck after:

bootsect.exe /nt60 h: (h is my usb drive letter)

The message I get is: “Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device
objects: Access is denied.”

I followed the steps twice niowand get the same result. Am I missing something? Would
greatly appreciate any help…I have a netbook down and would like to put Windows 7 on it
using a USB stick.

Thanks!

98. aaraza
Posted May 31, 2009 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

Please ignore my last message – I was not running command prompt as Administrator!

99. Saurabh Zagade


Posted May 31, 2009 at 11:11 pm | Permalink

I m very very thankful to U for such HELP…..

100. Ben Charlton


Posted June 2, 2009 at 11:52 am | Permalink

You can follow my guide to creating a bootable usb disk under windows xp then follow this
guide from 5 onwards.

101. Giorell
Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

I want to ask something. Can I return my flash drive back to normal after this? Leave a tagg
on my guest book or email me rather.

102. murtaza
Posted June 4, 2009 at 12:30 pm | Permalink

Hey..hv vista already installed on my pc..need 2 install win 7 as dual boot..i tried once dual
bootin with xp bt resulted into bootin f only xp..cud u pls help me out hw 2 dual boot win 7
wid vista…

103. ferris
Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:57 am | Permalink

Best guide I have ever used… Thank you, hats off sir.

104. Bogdan
Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:48 pm | Permalink

I find it funny that you say this is a 100% working guide but you don’t mention that fact that
the Win 7/Vista USB boot drive needs to be created on computer running Windows 7 or Vista.
That should really be added to the Requirements section so you can call your guide 100%

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working. I seen a few comments from people saying it doesn’t work because they’re trying
to make the boot drive from within XP.

105. Bogdan
Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

Other than that small piece of missing information, the guid e is great!

106. Jacob
Posted June 6, 2009 at 8:34 am | Permalink

(I’m hoping HTML will work )

trying the F:CD BOOT command (where F is my DVD drive location), it returns the following
functions

Firstly, from DISKPART (which you didn’t say to leave, not sure if you meant to or not)

Secondly, from C:\Windows\System32 (where your screenshot is taken from)

107. Jacob
Posted June 6, 2009 at 8:38 am | Permalink

Sorry, images weren’t displayed from html


I’ll just explain it

from C:\Windows\System32, after running the F:CD BOOT


it returns a simple “Parameter is incorrect.”

from DISKPART it gives me a list of about 25 sub commands


not sure about the right word for that

thankyou but, your guide seems very will explained (just having some technical issues

108. Mark
Posted June 6, 2009 at 9:40 am | Permalink

Awesome work! Clear and very simple! For everyone having problems, keep in mind the
guide is only for:
- Windows 7 installing / not running from an USB drive
- MB with USB boot support

Just follow the steps.

Thanks for this guide!

PS:

109. TSurF
Posted June 6, 2009 at 11:47 am | Permalink

Great guide… cheers bro!

110. Shaz
Posted June 7, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial… I followed it all through until I boot through usb and setup
program comes up. When I get to, select which drive you want the installation I cant select
my usb drive it comes up with the message below:

“WINDOWS CANNOT BE INSTALLED TO THIS DISK. SETUP DOES NOT SUPPORT


CONFIGERATION OF OR INSTALLATION TO DISKS CONNECTED THROUGH A USB OR IEEE
1394 PORT.”

I tried 3 different computers and a few new laptops and come up with same message. I read
these forums and people successfully installing them, What am i doing wrong. Can you
please Help.
I’ve been at this for almost 2 weeks.
I can boot from usb but can’t install onto it. I am trying to install vista.

CAN YOU PLEASE HELP.

THANK YOU

111. admin
Posted June 7, 2009 at 11:14 pm | Permalink

@Shaz
You can’t install Windows on USB using this guide. You can only use this guide to create a
bootable USB and then use it as installation media.

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112. Shaz
Posted June 7, 2009 at 11:27 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot for fast reply. Is there a way that I can install vista onto my external hard
drive? if so how is it possible.
Thank you

113. CMal
Posted June 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm | Permalink

Thanks, this worked really well.


Couldn’t get my old DVD drive to read quickly/effectively enough and this did the trick!

Well chuffed ;D

114. Julio Bravo


Posted June 9, 2009 at 3:57 pm | Permalink

It works fine, except one problem: when I run the windows7 64bits RC1 \boot\bootsect.exe
in my Vista 32, it doesn`t work. I did it running from the \boot folder of the windows7 Beta1
32bits and it is OK.

115. Laymain
Posted June 9, 2009 at 11:47 pm | Permalink

If you have a version problem with bootsec.exe, just use bootsec.exe from a Vista DVD. Put
back your Windows 7 after and continue following the guide

116. Gregor
Posted June 11, 2009 at 12:33 am | Permalink

Thanks ! Have a nice day.

117. xopher
Posted June 11, 2009 at 9:37 am | Permalink

very nice toot.

as an Ubuntu user I enjoyed being able to do this kind of stuff from Win7 7127 on my
desktop to make this 7210 for my netbook without using linux.

imagine that.

118. JakeDK
Posted June 11, 2009 at 4:06 pm | Permalink

Great guide, thx

Had a problem with step six but thats because the written command is wrong, but I figured it
out when I saw the command in the scrren thx again – just what I was looking for.

119. Bernard
Posted June 12, 2009 at 2:15 am | Permalink

I used this method and created a USB drive for my Windows 7 installation. Works flawlessly!
Oh, and the installation of Windows now takes only 8 minutes.

120. Brantyr
Posted June 22, 2009 at 3:28 pm | Permalink

Step 2: don’t you guys know if you hit winkey + R you get the oldschool run box which
automatically starts whatever you run from it with admin privledges?

121. Chris
Posted July 11, 2009 at 9:44 am | Permalink

Great guide, thanks.

To those, like me, that are (were) running Vista 32-bit and wanting 7 64-bit:
In step 7, use bootsect.exe from your Vista CD. Barring any other issues, it will work
perfectly. It did for me.

122. DaveG
Posted July 11, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

Hello, TweakWindows, and thanks, but… I know what you mentioned about Vista, which I AM
using, I used a Sandisk 8GB and waited half an hour for the formatting process (hardly a few
seconds, but I wasn’t surprised, and I’d like to know how you get that on a 4GB flash drive),
I followed each of your steps in order twice while running an Administrator command
session, with positive feedback after each command was completed, and then I reordered
my BIOS boot priority (which had the same effect as hitting F12, other than F12 not requiring
another BIOS session to boot normally from your hard disk again). Looks like I did
everything right, and STILL I can’t boot from a flash drive. I see most others have not had
that problem, but I made sure that I did what you said, with the right stuff, and still I
crashed with this error: “BOOTMGR NOT PRESENT (or MISSING something similar) and that

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was after the “BOOTMGR.EXE /NT60…” command completed with success! I know nothing of
boot managers, much less repairing them, but I sure would appreciate a clue (wherever it
is)! I am close to hopelessly frustrated on this, even if this is the best tutorial I’ve seen so
far, and if I can’t resolve it here I will probably give up – please help!

123. DaveG
Posted July 11, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink

Oh…did I misunderstand that this is for making use of an image file? Is that not how Vista is
normally distributed, on a normal DVD? I am trying to install a modified version of Vista,
distributed by .iso, for two very good reasons: 1) I’m on a bloatware diet, and 2) I’m trying
to replace what I already paid for, after it got wiped (yeah, the whole freak’n disk), and if
you Microsoft pirate hunters have a problem with that, then you can go impale yourselves on
your own swords! To any who would clue me in on what else may be needed besides the
image file (after following the above steps), or explain any non-troll reasons why this
method would not work with what I am trying to do, I’d be most grateful.

124. Veselin Belchev


Posted July 13, 2009 at 3:36 am | Permalink

If you have Windows XP all ready installed just fallow 6. 7. 8. 9. Before this steps format
your USB FLASH drive in NTFS format. It’s all ready works to Windows 7 and Windows Vista

125. PCLove
Posted July 13, 2009 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

On #4 where the file system is being set, you can use QUICK to speed up the formatting like
this:

FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK

It’s so much faster!

126. ????????
Posted July 15, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

Thanks!

This would really help me a lot installing on Vaio Type P.

127. kuld33p
Posted July 19, 2009 at 12:02 am | Permalink

I am getting a window at the installation process to select a driver. I can not go pass that..
any idea.. I tried to select windows/inf folder as well.. but no luck.. installation does not
proceed.

128. JonJon
Posted July 19, 2009 at 3:12 am | Permalink

Hello, I’ve already tried this guide a week ago and it works. I have windows 7 in my hp mini
2140. But now I want to downgrade again back to Windows XP.

Can I use this guide again? but rather than to put the windows 7 installation in the usb it
would be the windows xp? Or should I search another guide for this? I haven’t tried it yet. I
just want to ask here first before I try.

Regards,

129. konrad
Posted July 19, 2009 at 10:21 pm | Permalink

it works flawleslly tnx man

130. admin
Posted July 20, 2009 at 11:06 am | Permalink

Sorry, JonJon.. This guide is only for Windows 7 or Vista.

131. Me
Posted July 20, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Permalink

Hi,

Is it possible to create a multi boot?


So one can select what version to install from the same stick:
Windows 7 x64 or x86
Windows Vista x64 or x86

132. ive
Posted July 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

some bios don’t recognise NTFS formatted usb keys as boot device, so you might still want to
format as FAT32, even if it makes your key slower

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133. Jean-Sébastien
Posted July 21, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

Very great work! Thank you very much!

134. Peter
Posted July 22, 2009 at 8:37 am | Permalink

Hi Admin,

Quick question- Would this method work with my Vaio boot disk? instead of a standard
windows cd. Thanks in advance.

135. Mahesh
Posted July 22, 2009 at 7:45 pm | Permalink

When I tried executing “LIST DISK” in command prompt,I couldnt find my USB drive listed
in.
So I couldnt proceed.
Please guide me

136. Shom
Posted July 26, 2009 at 7:14 am | Permalink

Excellent tutorial, thanks!

If the flash drive has been previously used for as a bootable installer for a Linux distro then
the MBR needs to be reset, which can be done by modifying the Step 7 command to:
bootsect /nt60 H: /force /mbr

This will remove the Master Boot Record so Windows boot loader will kick in, instead of Linux
(GRUB).

137. admin
Posted July 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm | Permalink

@Peter
Bootable Windows DVD or Image is required to make this happen.

138. Franck
Posted July 27, 2009 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

For the ones that do not want to burn a blank DVD, you can mount the .iso file you
downloaded (e.g. using VirtualCloneDrive) and do the copy from there.

Will give this tutorial a try shortly to get the SevenRC on my X200 (small & great but no
optical drive).

139. Bernard
Posted July 27, 2009 at 11:58 pm | Permalink

Hi. I followed this guide to make a bootable Windows 7 usb drive a few weeks ago, and it
worked perfectly!
Now I have downloaded a new version of Win 7 (The RTM released just recently), and I
wonder if I have to follow this guide from step 1 to remake the bootable drive, or is it
enough for me to erase the content on the flashdrive and then copy from the image, the last
step?

140. Waqar
Posted July 28, 2009 at 4:03 pm | Permalink

Nice tutorial… will do installing!!

141. 9shares admin


Posted July 29, 2009 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

usb drive will be not available when use diskpart command in windows xp. you should use
vista or later versions of windows.

142. Patrick
Posted July 30, 2009 at 3:02 am | Permalink

all that is necessary is to format your USB and then copy all files from the the cd/dvd(iso or
whatever) to the device. Then just to be sure to boot from the device via the bios or boot
selection.

143. Michael
Posted July 30, 2009 at 10:57 am | Permalink

Has anyone found out a solution to the problem of it sating BOOTMGR not found. Press ctrl
alt dlt to restart when trying to boot it. I can’t get passed that.

144. Torpido
Posted July 31, 2009 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

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copy entire system File(U3) and then paste it back after a format for the purpose of above
guide will i be able to still use it the U3, and if yes must i format it back to FAT32?

145. Mark
Posted July 31, 2009 at 10:06 pm | Permalink

After trying over and over i finally got it. It was bringing up my vaio recovery tools, so I had
to take my hdd out of the boot order and it worked like a charm.

146. Franck
Posted August 1, 2009 at 2:35 am | Permalink

I got the install to run on the X200 using the USB, but I had to deal with a “cannot create or
locate system partition” error. That is an error linked to the usage of USB media and not
DVD.

If the USB is first in the BIOS, then the Custom upgrade option simply fails to find the HDD
where to create the system partition (100MB)… I initially wanted a dual-boot of my Lenovo-
Vista, but I had to completely format the drive finally. Once blank, I could put it first in the
BIOS (since not bootable yet)… and the system booted on the USB.

From that tricky point, it went smoothly. This guide is great.

147. 9shares admin


Posted August 4, 2009 at 9:52 am | Permalink

nice article..thanks

148. Yan Li
Posted August 5, 2009 at 3:36 am | Permalink

Hey, thanks for this great article. I’ve used this several times already, since I felt my
original windows 7 64-bit was not to my liking on my new laptop. I found out why the
“bootmgr is missing” message was showing after correctly carrying out all the instructions. I
put the Windows 7 ISO on my usb instead of the folders/files inside the Windows 7 ISO/CD!

149. VladamirTOM
Posted August 7, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

Great guide. Worked perfectly thanks a lot. Now I don’t have to worry about finding a disc
drive just for a folding rig.

150. Kusta
Posted August 8, 2009 at 3:38 am | Permalink

If you click right, you get properties of the drive – any drive – and then click “format”. I
think that will short this procedure of formating drive, for those who do not like to typing.

151. Hisham
Posted August 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm | Permalink

I have a problem here !! someone could help me please ?? When I’m formatting the USB
Drive and after it finish I got this msg: “DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is
incorrect.
See the System Event Log for more information.” What’s that supose to mean ?? Could
anyone give me the solution please.

152. Minh Tran


Posted August 8, 2009 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the guide. Perhaps you should update it with Shom’s comment(#137). I was
using a usb stick that formerly had the linux grub loader on it. I was getting the missing
bootmgr error message until I used the /force /mbr option like Shom suggested.

Also, formatting is very slow – I would add the QUICK option on the format command.
Although in Windows 7, I can just right click on my usb drive letter in my computer & quick
format it using NTFS – bypassing DISKPART altogether.

153. Barry
Posted August 9, 2009 at 12:42 am | Permalink

Worked fine, though format was a little slow.

Thanks for an easy to follow guide!

154. Nikunj
Posted August 9, 2009 at 6:43 pm | Permalink

its really works.

155. Pali
Posted August 10, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink

Thanks for this guide! Exelent job. Thank you again! Pali from Hungary.

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156. Marleybrit
Posted August 10, 2009 at 11:05 pm | Permalink

does this work with XP?

157. Gaurav Akrani


Posted August 11, 2009 at 6:38 pm | Permalink

This article is really only awesome guide which works.

Worked 100% without any flaws and mind irritating drills.

Please don’t try this on your Windows XP Pro Operating system and waste your time.

It is only for Windows Vista and/or Windows 7 Beta users.

I tried it as instructed on windows 7 beta and worked like charm.

Can somebody please tell me similar 100% working guide for triple booting Windows 7 +
Windows XP + Ubuntu Linux.

Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.

Rds, Gaurav Akrani

158. Tried 4 times?


Posted August 13, 2009 at 11:19 pm | Permalink

Troubles… I can boot from the USB stick into the Windows setup 7 fine. However, every time
the computer restarts, it restarts the setup.

So… During the next restart I pulled the USB stick out and Windows “started”. The setup
picked up where it left off. The green bar wasn’t moving at all though.

So I ran it all again – I rebooted (with the USB stick plugged in), reformatted the destination
drive, re-ran the full setup, pulled the stick out for the first restart… You know that black
screen where you can choose safe mode or regular mode? There are 2 Windows 7 options
there and every time I repeat the above, it adds another Windows 7 option.

What am I missing??

Thanks for any help….

159. Tried 4 times?


Posted August 13, 2009 at 11:21 pm | Permalink

Oh hey! Never trust a green bar… It worked after a loooong time.

160. Chris Leiter


Posted August 15, 2009 at 1:59 am | Permalink

Step 6 works more efficiently if you enter it as one line:

CD /D D:\Boot

161. NoR3N
Posted August 15, 2009 at 5:19 am | Permalink

thx a lot You save me many Hours from searching external dvd drivers… Perfect JOB!!!

162. RnR
Posted August 15, 2009 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

Very good, I’m going to boot it in a few seconds from now…THANX

163. CK117
Posted August 17, 2009 at 4:20 am | Permalink

If you have problems with the BOOTSECT.exe part, just add /force to the end.

164. Robert
Posted August 19, 2009 at 11:20 pm | Permalink

Thanks a bunch for this tute, it has saved me hours of frustration and bad words.

I created a USB install and will use it tonight on my guinea pig system.

165. JB
Posted August 20, 2009 at 3:06 am | Permalink

Thanks – the format took ages on my 16gb cruzer…

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Also, my source was an ISO of the x64 RTM build. First try, I mounted this with MagicISO
and copied files with explorer – had a problem with a missing file “boot\bcd”, so I started
again, but used 7-zip to extract the iso, and am now through with the install, which flew by in
just 20 or so minutes.

I think that copying files from the magiciso mounted iso was not the ideal way to go… 7-zip
seems to have done the trick for me.

166. JONNYK
Posted August 21, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Permalink

GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!!!!

Go to device manager and go to properties and select policies, and select the “better
Performance” the bottom one for you to use the BOOTSEC.EXE part.

You might have to reboot.

I also suggest you use KILL U3 utility for san disk.

167. Mindslight
Posted August 22, 2009 at 11:42 pm | Permalink

Thanks !

Johannes from France

168. Josh
Posted August 25, 2009 at 4:57 am | Permalink

Excellent stuff. I tried following “other” sites’ instructions only to find they didn’t even create
the boot sector. This worked like a charm. Thanks!

169. Anonyme
Posted August 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

Damnit, can’t do it on a x64 Win7 DVD from XP 32 :/

170. rockystuud
Posted August 28, 2009 at 12:35 am | Permalink

Hi ! Thanks. It works fine . Thanks a lot for your effort and clear instructions.

171. jiji
Posted August 30, 2009 at 1:59 am | Permalink

“FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)”

This is bad . Very bad.


It doesnt take few seconds.
It does take very many seconds.
Formatting quick is much faster and enough (I already did to this stick two times before) .
Please correct.

172. David Amison


Posted August 30, 2009 at 6:45 pm | Permalink

Just tryed it worked perfectley thanx!!!!!!!

173. YASEEN
Posted September 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Permalink

AWESOME!!!

174. vagothcpp
Posted September 5, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink

Replace format fs=ntfs


with format fs=ntfs quick
to make it format faster.

175. Harris
Posted September 7, 2009 at 10:30 am | Permalink

thanks bro..

176. JHANU
Posted September 10, 2009 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

thanks man thats ur great work keep on doing……..

177. Dan Berger


Posted September 12, 2009 at 8:27 am | Permalink

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For those of having the 32/64 bit problem, just follow the beginning of the guide and after
you finish formating, copy & paste (drag and drop) the contents of the dvd (which you can
virtually mount on your hdd) onto the usb stick. it will be bootable and will work!

178. Zak
Posted September 12, 2009 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

hai dude it really works great.


can u also tell me how to create an live pendrive (like live cd).

179. e
Posted September 12, 2009 at 11:38 pm | Permalink

work like magic


Thanks alot
Keep posting !

180. klokluider
Posted September 22, 2009 at 1:07 pm | Permalink

XP users follow this method:

Just for completion

1. First create your bartpe files using UBCD4WIN


2. after you have done that create your usb flashdrive using UBUSB
point to the files of your bartpe
be sure you check create cd image and let de default Z in place
check if you have selected the right drive
press go

after finished you have a bootable usb drive which is able to get in a xp environment.

3. Now copy the content of your win XP CD to a folder XPCD on the flash drive (x:\xpcd)
4. after copying boot the drive in the PC and select Compatibility Mode (Memory Mapped)
5. after finished you select the commandline and type

X:\XPCD\i386\Winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource

6. first enter the xpkey and name of the computer and region then click next
7. Now you’re asked if you want to upgrade to the XP NTFS filesysten, select “NO” for this
then hit Next.
8. It’ll now see “Copying installation files” and the familiar green progress bar. Shortly after
“Copying Installation Files” is complete, setup will close without notice or any type of
prompt, this is normal.
9. remove the flash drive and Reboot your computer and setup will continue from the hard
drive where you can choose to install XP or do a repair install if XP is already installed.

http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11375&st=570

181. Malone
Posted September 27, 2009 at 2:48 pm | Permalink

Working. Perfect. Thanks for it, amazing work.

Kingston 8GB
Windows 7 RC
on Dell Optiplex GX270, BIOS A07

Only … little mistake at point 6:


Quote: “D:CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.”

The right command is: ‘D: CD Boot’


Need space between D: and CD BOOT

See screenshot.

182. Simran
Posted September 28, 2009 at 9:38 pm | Permalink

I have installed windows seven using the method provided by you but I am not able to play
my pen drive in my car CD player. I mean when I try to play songs in my car, it do not work
now. Please give a solution.

183. Malone
Posted September 29, 2009 at 11:08 pm | Permalink

@Simran
Format, and write songs again on it.
FAT32 will be OK.

184. acme
P t dS t b 30 2009 t 4 12 |P li k

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do you have to copy the entire contents of the win7 disk? my thumbdrive isn’t that big.

185. jj
Posted September 30, 2009 at 10:46 am | Permalink

D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H:
Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:

D:\boot>

——————–
Any suggestions?

186. cj
Posted September 30, 2009 at 11:20 am | Permalink

i will tell you one thing,this is the first advice i have gotten from that internet that works
perfectly,i wanted to upgrade my pc to 7 so i formated my vista not knowing that my cd rom
was messed,so i was running out of options to install 7 until i saw this and i saw all the
instryctions carefully,here i am with my pc typing this and my pc is perfectly in shape,thank
you very much,you are a saviour

187. admin
Posted September 30, 2009 at 11:22 am | Permalink

@Acme
Yup. You need to copy all the contents you your thumbdrive.

188. Faisal
Posted October 3, 2009 at 8:08 pm | Permalink

good job…. my laptop dont have DVD drive. Thanks for the post

189. widL
Posted October 13, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink

I love this guide, it works flawlessly. Thanks for sharing!

190. vietha
Posted October 13, 2009 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

It works like a charm

thx alot

191. Scott L
Posted October 14, 2009 at 4:51 pm | Permalink

I would just like to let anyone and everyone in here know that I specifically followed this
guide yesterday for XP and it worked.
http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/install-windows-xp-on-mini-note-usb.html

Since the comments here are confusing : NOTE this guide is not to create a Win 7 USB stick
under XP but to actually make a Windows XP stick under Windows XP to install XP, it worked
for me and seemed to have the least amount of fiddling.

- Enjoy.

192. licitatii
Posted October 14, 2009 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

very nice tutorial but please help me. Everithing works well but when it’s go to drive
option(where you format you disk) it ask about a device driver to load and install ??????
What to do? setup cannot continue…

193. marvin carter


Posted October 15, 2009 at 9:02 am | Permalink

you most do these commands in windows “safe mode” to avoid the “Access denied”
message.

194. jose mari


Posted October 16, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

YEAH TNX DUDE… ^_^ ANOTHER NEW IDEA ON INSTALLING WINDOWS 7 ^_^ NICE POST

195. jose mari


Posted October 16, 2009 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

jj
Posted September 30, 2009 at 10:46 am | Permalink
D:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 H:

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Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:

D:\boot>

——————–
Any suggestions?

HEY jj JUST COPY ALL THE CONTENTS IN YOUR WINDOWS 7 TO YOUR USB IT WORKED JUST
FINE… ^^

196. Martin
Posted October 17, 2009 at 12:31 am | Permalink

Hello,

I have the folders for Windows 7, and I want to burn a DVD to install from (I need to format
my PC, so I can’t just install from within XP). However, I can’t just burn the files to the DVD,
cus then it won’t let me boot from it.
Any ideas on how to do just that? How do I make it bootable?

197. Jackson
Posted October 17, 2009 at 4:25 am | Permalink

So.. can I still used the usb drive after this? Can I reformat it to fat32?

198. Zaino
Posted October 19, 2009 at 1:50 pm | Permalink

hey really great guys, but i couldnt show my usb drive in step “LIST DISK” only the local
drivers…

please help.

199. mugurelu
Posted October 19, 2009 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

Can i use an external hard drive? A partition of it from which to install w7?

200. admin
Posted October 19, 2009 at 4:25 pm | Permalink

@ mugurelu
Since you are going to create a bootable drive, you need to format the drive completely. So,
you can’t use just one partition. And about external drive, it should work fine (I have tested
on flash drives only).

201. admin
Posted October 19, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink

@ Jackson
You should be able to format it with FAT 32 or NTFS.

202. ceeque
Posted October 20, 2009 at 3:12 am | Permalink

simply does not work. One of the main reasons being is you have typed out the commands in
the text differently to what you have input into the command screen, you have ommitted the
spaces in your text yet placed spaces in the command prompt, and even after correcting
those errors all you get is:”bootsect.exe is not recognised as an internal or external
command, operable program or batch file”
Yet another waste of yours and my time……

203. Vandit
Posted October 20, 2009 at 8:27 am | Permalink

Thank you very much for sharing this trick.


My DVD of Win 7 was corrupt & I was not able to install.
Then after searching on net I got your trick & applied on my USB. It successfully worked &
Win7 was installed in less than 30mins with all drivers.
I would be really happy to help you if you need any help in future.
Once again Thanks.

204. Andy Mac


Posted October 21, 2009 at 5:02 pm | Permalink

Great share, thanks.


Worked on my DVD-less home server, saved me alot of time. Only problem I had was my
systems BIOS settings, missing USB option in the boot order, but did let me enable boot
from USB, just needed to remove memory stick at the right times during restarts.
Thanks again.

205. JM
Posted October 23 2009 at 2:10 am | Permalink

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If you have XP do this instead of diskpart:

1) Right click on the USB drive and click format.


2) Run a quick format
3) Open up DOS box and type convert i: /fs:ntfs (Where “I” is your USB drive latter)
4) After that goto step 5 on this list

Works great in XP

206. Anasazi
Posted October 23, 2009 at 4:36 am | Permalink

I just tried to install win7 using this guide but when I tried to boot from the usb drive it said
bootmgr is missing. But I did every step here and the bootsect command was successful.

207. Raul
Posted October 24, 2009 at 2:32 pm | Permalink

Thanks, a great walktrough!

208. Zack
Posted October 25, 2009 at 12:39 am | Permalink

Hello, If you are running Windows 7 already you can just go into Computer and then format
it like you regularly would format a usb drive as NFTS. It saves quite a bit of time and
basically cuts this process in half.

209. Xerxz
Posted October 25, 2009 at 5:11 am | Permalink

What if i dont have the cd and i just have the files on my pc what do i do then??? any help
would be much appreciated.

210. admin
Posted October 25, 2009 at 11:53 am | Permalink

If you have Windows 7 ISO, you need to extract it first to a folder and then to the USB.

211. CHINMAY
Posted October 26, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Permalink

what if i hav 2 install windows xp??

212. John
Posted October 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink

Thanks dude, worked great!

213. Ralph R
Posted October 29, 2009 at 3:16 am | Permalink

I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and selected
my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is there a
way for me to restore the partition and data on the “slave” that I inadvertently cleaned and
partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot!

214. Ralph R
Posted October 29, 2009 at 3:19 am | Permalink

I was successful in following your instructions, that is after I initially screwed up and selected
my slave HD as though it were the flash drive. My question here would thyen be; Is there a
way for me to restore the partition and data on the “slave” that I inadvertently cleaned and
partially formatted? I know, you need not say it: I am an idiot!

215. Doron
Posted November 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Permalink

This worked awesomely on vista. Thank you very much.


But how does one reverse the procedure?
Do I simply reformat the USB shtick?

216. WiZoOo
Posted November 6, 2009 at 2:19 am | Permalink

awesome guide, works for me with win 7 oem bie final x86. thanks alot dude!

217. tristian o'brien


Posted November 6, 2009 at 4:28 am | Permalink

nice one, thanks.. the BOOTSECT command made my usb drive become a viable source to
install Windows 7 on an Asus EEE Pc.

218. Diptiman
Posted November 6, 2009 at 11:50 am | Permalink

It’s not that cool dear. I am trying to do the same(i mean using bootsect.exe) from Vista.

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Still there is a problem saying “Your version of bootsect.exe is not compatible with the
current version of windows”. Please suggest.

Thanks

219. admin
Posted November 7, 2009 at 12:02 am | Permalink

@ Diptiman
If you trying to create a Windows 7 or Vista on Vista/7 you should not face any such
problems. And if you trying to create a bootable USB of Vista/XP/7 on XP, you will see error.

220. Eugene Ishchenko


Posted November 9, 2009 at 12:44 am | Permalink

Thank you for this wonderfull solution. It’s easy and worked for me.

221. Alex
Posted November 10, 2009 at 3:24 am | Permalink

HELOO ,I HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN I PUT F:/BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 I: IT SAYS THAT


“COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIETED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:ACCES
DENIED
WHAT TO DO PLS HELP

222. Michael
Posted November 10, 2009 at 6:32 pm | Permalink

Hi there,
for all the people having problems at step 6 try this

6. Type in the cmd window CD/DVD DRIVE LETTER: and press enter i.e.
D:
Then Type CD BOOT and press enter
Then proceed with step 7
Hope this helps

223. Tomasz
Posted November 12, 2009 at 4:24 am | Permalink

I did EXACTLY as it says and my netbook doesn’t wanna boot from USB…I checked BIOS
settings couple of times and it is set to boot from removable device…which is correct I
guess…no idea what to do

224. Tomasz
Posted November 12, 2009 at 4:43 am | Permalink

OK I found it….when EEE PC starts you need to press ESC key in case to display BOOT
DEVICE SELECTION menu

225. Chase
Posted November 12, 2009 at 5:17 am | Permalink

For those having problems with “access is denied” during the bootsect command, be sure to
open cmd exactly as mentioned in the instructions. I assumed that being logged on as an
administrator or using /runas was sufficient, but I guess things are different in Vista/Windows
7.

226. hicom5
Posted November 14, 2009 at 6:42 pm | Permalink

problem:
“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume
device objects: Access is denied.”
————————————————-
answer:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

On the pop-up right click context menu, select


“Run as Administrator”

227. Jason
Posted November 14, 2009 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

100% working… confirmed! Thanks for the tutorial… it was easy, and accurate.

228. Willaim
Posted November 17, 2009 at 4:42 am | Permalink

This process worked fine. THANKS!!!

229. Navster
Posted November 17, 2009 at 4:56 am | Permalink

Brilliant Guide… Worked a Treat….

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230. NICERED
Posted November 17, 2009 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

Any method to know your win7 and vista compatibility (x64, x86…) before installing win7?

231. Euphie
Posted November 18, 2009 at 9:53 am | Permalink

Have you made the XP guide yet?

232. admin
Posted November 18, 2009 at 5:53 pm | Permalink

@Nicered
You can use official Windows 7 upgrade advisor (it’s free) tool to check compatibility issues.
Here is the link:
http://www.intowindows.com/test-your-pc-software-compatibility-with-windows-7-using-
windows-7-upgrade-advisor-final/

233. Lurvinzy Andrew


Posted November 23, 2009 at 7:32 pm | Permalink

Hi~ Thanks for the tutorial currently copying the files hope it works!

234. ahmed
Posted November 24, 2009 at 6:46 am | Permalink

I LOVE YOU!!!

my cd drive doent work so USB was the only option.

GREAT TUTORIAL!!!

235. Andrew J. COwell


Posted November 25, 2009 at 4:08 am | Permalink

Worked as advertised on my Dell Mini 9.

236. dsfjdifja
Posted November 29, 2009 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

why do all this when you can just make virtual cd drive and boot from it? 2 minutes work lol.

237. Please Help me !


Posted November 29, 2009 at 11:49 pm | Permalink

Hi,
Please help !!! Here what I have done:
1.Download Windows 7 iso file,which I put it in isoBuster and extracted.
2.Coz I have listen it is better to make clean instalation,I bought new WD external
HDD-Passport Studio 500 Gb and put it all information from my PC to HDD (around 90Gb
very important data + windows 7 of course)!
3.I run “cmd” and get in DOS
- “diskpart”
- “list disk”
(coz there were nothing,not disk 1,2,3-i just select disk 1-don`t ask me why,coz i don`t
know for myself,coz i am stupid!!!)
- select disk 1
- clean…
After i wrote “clean”,I discconect usb cable,coz I afraid-what does “clean” means!!??
For god sake-i have all informations from last 6 years on my external hard disk…

Now,my WD doesn`t work,everything is ok in “drive manager”,when i conecct usb cable


there is the external usb hard drive showed up on the Safely Remove Hardware list right
down,but I can not enter into the disk-inside and I am so affraid and desperate and don`t
know what to do…
How you can see,I am bigginer,but please tell me what is the best solution for me to do now
and to don`t lose my data on WD (if i already didn`t lost
Please,please help-with days I don`t know what to do….
My e-mail is via_makedonia yahoo dot com please write me there.
What I have tried:
coneccting my WD with 3 dieferent cables-usb and firewire in dieferent ports.
installing drivers from wd site

When I check Device Manager it shows that the device is installed and working properly but
it will not show in “my computer” and I can’t access it.
before the problem,my HDD appeard as drive H:
I wouldn’t be half as frustrated if it hadn’t been working properly before this.Plus-ALL data is
on my HDD,and I don`t even know if it is still there

I do it this:
2 Step Solution for XP users:
Part 1:
Go to
Control panel -> Performance and Maintenance (cannot be in classic view to see this link) ->

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Administrator Tools -> Services -> Universal Plug and Play


If Universal Plug and Play is set to manual switch to automatic.
Part 2
Double Click Safely Remove icon on the bottom right-> Select device->click Properties ->
click Volumes -> click Populate -> hit OK -> if nothing shows it may need to be formatted

Also i was in DISK MANAGEMENT,but except formating disk,I don`t see solution
And formating will erase all data on the disk,isn`t it?! (if i have it,of course).
again nothing

Thanks in advance !!!!!!

238. pawan
Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink

great work …………….


thanks a lot

239. pawan
Posted December 1, 2009 at 9:46 pm | Permalink

great job ……….


thanx a lot.

240. carl
Posted December 1, 2009 at 10:00 pm | Permalink

have tried your process a few times with vista and 7 and works great but whilst installing
windows i get an error code 0×80070241? any ideas why i get this code. pls help

241. Aaron
Posted December 2, 2009 at 12:43 am | Permalink

Finally found a method that works. This actually works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, awesome.

242. Throwlands
Posted December 2, 2009 at 5:00 am | Permalink

I just finished assembling a new computer that only has SATA connections and all I have are
PATA CDROM drives. Your guide saved me from spending money on a drive I’d only need
once.

Many thanks.

243. Blake
Posted December 3, 2009 at 11:12 am | Permalink

I did every step right and got the right results. Even the Bootsect.exe part. it told me it
successfully created it. i went to boot desktop from USB and STILL got the BOOTMGR is
missing. Now i did it with vista from XP and it worked great. i had the vista install cd. now
from vista to 7 its different. its an .iso file. is that why i cant make it work?

244. Kevin
Posted December 3, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

When I get to step 6 and type CD BOOT, I receive an error message:

“They system can not find the specified path”

I have a crappy Sony upgrade CD and it is not bootable. Could that be why I get that
message? If the CD is not bootable, does that mean I can not create a bootable CD?

245. Todd
Posted December 4, 2009 at 1:35 am | Permalink

I can’t thank you enough.. my dvd-rom has been down, tryed fixing with the filter delete but
computer still doesn’t recognize it, but it spins up at start up, I can put dvd in and it acts like
it wants to but nothin..(yes all the bios stuff been checke, enabled and so on) —– so needless
to say this little fix has been a God sent.. Works like a champ.. the only think that didn’t
work was
“Format fs=ntfs” I formated it the old fashed way..
and in step 6. “D:CD Boot” I had to do “CD/Boot” amazing how that little / makes all the
difference…

I was a computer with xp and a good dvd drive to set up a third drive to boot from and
re-install vista on my laptop..

Thx again..

246. Chris
Posted December 4, 2009 at 2:49 am | Permalink

This is an excellent guide for anyone and I am very greatful you took the time to do this.

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Quick note that may confuse people, in step 6 where it states “D:CD BOOT” should be “D: CD
BOOT” as shown in the screen shot.

Thank you for the brilliant guide!!!

247. vaitheeswaran
Posted December 4, 2009 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

Hey Thanks Man , for your help.


and i don’t understand onething.

how do u find about disk 1 or disk 2 of usb . explain that dude.

thanks in advance

248. vaitheeswaran
Posted December 4, 2009 at 4:56 pm | Permalink

hi again one more doubt.

BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: ?

so my usb drive name is 1201(E)

i have to type 1201 E: or must type NT60 E: ?

249. Gabe
Posted December 7, 2009 at 4:39 am | Permalink

Works great, thanks.

250. Tom
Posted December 7, 2009 at 9:20 am | Permalink

some ppl may be having problem with this part

D:CD BOOT

needs space between D: and CD Boot, like this:

D: CD BOOT

251. Johnathan M Camien


Posted December 8, 2009 at 7:29 am | Permalink

I am not sure if this is posted but for everyone that has the CD as an ISO file you can use
MagicISO to mount the ISO file to a virtual drive so that the system sees it as a CD/DVD.
then just use that drive letter in place of the CD/DVD drive letter in the guide. Worked like a
charm for me.

252. Saleem
Posted December 8, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

everything went fine. booted on the flash drive, but can’t partition using win 7. installation
stopped there. what to do? tried it on asus Eee mini.

253. YES IT WORKS 4 ME


Posted December 9, 2009 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

THIS POST WORKS out of the box, but those with problems pleeez pay SPECIAL attention to
the G A P S in the commands. I followed the posters text AND viewed/compared the same
commands in the pictures when I got stuck as others have here, and it all worked! D:CD
BOOT should be D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter -> a gap
between D: and CD BOOT, which another commenter here ‘Malone’ kindly pointed out and
got me hunting for other gaps to finish the job, . Also a gap at BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: not
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: Follow the posters instructions and compare against the pictures
and you are good to go! Welcome to DOS commands and sneaky ball breaker gaps which
are easy to miss, lol! This is a great post, just needs a bit of a mop up, many thanks to the
poster!

254. Pown
Posted December 9, 2009 at 11:50 pm | Permalink

i get a disk read error occurred when i try to boot from the usb i followed the guid and it
should work, whats wrong?

255. matthew
Posted December 10, 2009 at 8:22 am | Permalink

worked great. thanks.

256. waseem
Posted December 10, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

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I had a problem in start.


As in window Xp in command prompt Diskpart command LIST DISK doesnot show usb as
disk.
It shows it as volume.
kindly guide me whats the problem.
Regards

257. killak
Posted December 10, 2009 at 7:32 pm | Permalink

Hey, great guide!


Before I start I wanted to confirm something; when I’m done, if I want to use the pen drive
again, I just format it from My Computer right?

258. RS232
Posted December 11, 2009 at 8:44 am | Permalink

Thanks for this wonderful how to..GRRRRRRREATTTTT!!!

259. PARAS
Posted December 13, 2009 at 7:16 am | Permalink

INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH ALL THIS PROCESS WE CAN JUST USE “WIN2FLASH”
APPLICATION FROM WIN2FLASH.COM OR JUST CAN GOOGLE WIN2FLASH AND EASILY GET
IT.

I AM USING WIN2FLASH FOR SOME TIME AND BEST PART IT CAN INSTALL WINDOWS XP AS
WELL AS WIN 7 BOTH FROM USB PEN DRIVE.

TESTED BY ME ON ACER LAPTOP(7), HCL LEAPTOP(2), AROUND 19 DESKTOPS

260. Gregory
Posted December 13, 2009 at 8:48 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much!!! It took a lot of configuring and restarts but I finally managed to
recover my OS with zero data loss. After I back up my stuff, I’ll be installing Win7 using
microsoft’s boot tool.

261. RPJ
Posted December 16, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

Worked perfectly. Used it on a 4Gb SD card with a USB SD reader to install Win7 64-bit on
an Acer laptop. Many thanks.

262. CrabQuiche
Posted December 17, 2009 at 4:34 am | Permalink

If you are doing this guide from XP, use the HP USB Flash Disk Format tool instead of steps 3
and 4. This is because XP’s DiskPart Tool does not support The NTFS Formatting for USB flash
disks. Thank you for a great guide. I am working on a tool which does it all for you, called
7toUSB.

263. Piyush
Posted December 17, 2009 at 10:57 am | Permalink

If u get this message ‘Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied.

goto C:/Windows/System32/ (before doing anything (or before running DISKPART)

right click on cmd.exe

Run as administrator (just second option)

and repeat whatevr is given in this website…..DONE

264. teejay
Posted December 17, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Permalink

‘A disc read error’…plz help me.i changed the BIOS priority to USB HDD.there were other
options USB FDD,USB CDROM,USB ZIP.

265. Jake
Posted December 18, 2009 at 12:53 am | Permalink

Thank you very much, this worked perfectly for me.

266. kamlesh
Posted December 18, 2009 at 2:31 pm | Permalink

it is very very helpful for me.


thank’s.

267. david dizzle

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Posted December 19, 2009 at 8:16 am | Permalink

I have a question for you, I have done this guide


over and over again different ways on different operating
systems and I cant get it to work, I am wanting to install
windows 7 iso on my desktop pc which is an xp machine. I changed the bios boot sequence
so it detects the usb first actually I made them all usb and it still gos straight through the
boot sequence and right into the xp bootup screen. I dont know what to do please help.

thank you, david

268. admin
Posted December 19, 2009 at 11:09 am | Permalink

@ David Dizzle

It seems your PC doesn’t support USB booting, or your Windows 7 ISO is not bootable.

269. david dizzle


Posted December 20, 2009 at 6:56 am | Permalink

If it doesnt support usb booting then why is it an option in the boot sequence?

270. andrew panda


Posted December 20, 2009 at 8:47 am | Permalink

this works like a charm, did a vista install from usb. thanks!!!

271. chacha
Posted December 20, 2009 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

“Could not map drive partitions to the associate volume device object: Access is denied.

This happened right after bootsect.exe/nt60 E:

(The usb key is considered by the comp as drive E)

I tried the so-called easier guide link, it couldn’t even find an iso file in the windows 7 files.
(It’s on a cd)
And i know there is nothing wrong with the windows 7 cd, i just used it last night to install it
on my uncles comp, which is where i’ve been trying to go through this guide)
I need it on a usb key so i can install it on MY notebook. Help anyone?

272. chacha
Posted December 20, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

Okay so, access isn’t denied anymore. but it still says the same thing besides that

273. Senior47
Posted December 21, 2009 at 2:19 am | Permalink

Thanks for this easy tutorial! Now, just a easy question!-)


On my USB-pen drive there is space enough for both the 32 and 64 bits version of windows
7. Would it be possible to have a menu from which one could choose which OS to install?
A new easy tutorial maybe!-)

274. JaFar
Posted December 22, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink

Thanks Chase (post 226) finally found that out and was going to post with solution but seen
yours. Took me 20 minutes to realize that you have to right click and run as admin in Vista
and 7

275. hnnn
Posted December 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Permalink

thanks man for this guide!

276. rik
Posted December 22, 2009 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

hey i got an iso file i downloaden from school

(we get free software there)

and i cannot do step 5 is that a problem?

and i got an iso file when i want to select is with the dvd usb tool program it said that it is not
valid

can anyone helpe me?

277. toderu
Posted December 24, 2009 at 5:51 am | Permalink

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Hello,
great work,
for saving time you can use “format fs=ntfs quick”
that can save some time if you have a big usb stick.

278. CroatianBoy
Posted December 31, 2009 at 4:09 am | Permalink

Hello and BIG THANKS FROM CROATIA

100% WORKING,

EASY AND FAST WAY TO INSTALL WINDOWS WITHOUT DVD

279. Z1pp3r
Posted December 31, 2009 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

This is AMAZING! THNX MAN! Nice Tutorial!

Keep doing making tuts like this!

280. Sam
Posted January 1, 2010 at 2:15 am | Permalink

Just thought others should know, command in step 7 must have a space after EXE

As published BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:

This works BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:


(shown in the screen cap correctly)

–Sam

281. triple six


Posted January 4, 2010 at 10:00 pm | Permalink

thankx… its work.

282. Brody
Posted January 5, 2010 at 12:02 am | Permalink

Well, accidentally formatted my external HDD with my movie library, .ISO library, and all of
my pictures on it, but, my fault.

283. KIRITH SIVA


Posted January 5, 2010 at 4:46 pm | Permalink

HEY,

MUCH APPRECIATED! GREAT TUTORIAL! AND IT WORKS!! YOU SAVED ME SOME DOLLARS.
THANKS VERY MUCH!

KIRITH SIVA.

284. Paul
Posted January 7, 2010 at 4:11 am | Permalink

Man… After days of searching and trial and error, FINALLY this is a guide that WORKS!
I have just installed Windows 7 on my netbook and I am sooooo freakin’ happy.

I blog about computers, software and web development in German and I would like to ask
your permission to translate this guide into German and publish it on my blog. With full
credits to you and a link to the original guide of course.

285. Nathan
Posted January 7, 2010 at 6:21 am | Permalink

Great guide, but MS has now made it much easier for us:
http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

286. Vaidy Mohan


Posted January 9, 2010 at 2:00 am | Permalink

Awesome. I could restore my system from what you could call as disaster.

Thanks so much.

Vaidy

287. Ahir @nurag


Posted January 9, 2010 at 3:07 pm | Permalink

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thank for this update…….all of u………..

any new update so mail me this mail id……..

i will wait your reply………………….

288. Brandon
Posted January 10, 2010 at 6:04 am | Permalink

This worked flawlessly for upgrading my wife’s PC. She had a DVD ROM drive that refused to
be recognized and this was an awesome work-around and super fast.

Thanks!

289. somebody
Posted January 10, 2010 at 10:55 am | Permalink

go here for these things in a nutshell from micro$oft


http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

290. lucy
Posted January 10, 2010 at 11:20 am | Permalink

you cant copyright anything in the command prompt screenshots that you did using MSFT
instructions for this process.
dolt.

291. Michiel
Posted January 11, 2010 at 4:48 pm | Permalink

About step 6:

D: CD BOOT

The “CD BOOT” is not doing anything. Just D: is enough, anything after that is ignored.

For the rest: thanks for the guide, it’s really helpful for a lot of people I think.

292. renren
Posted January 13, 2010 at 3:36 pm | Permalink

nice i will try this

293. XAce
Posted January 17, 2010 at 6:03 am | Permalink

Thank you,Streamlined instructions,it worked perfectly.

294. Robbie
Posted January 19, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

hey it wont let me do the last command, BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F: , my flash drive is f and it
says could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is
denied???????.. what do i need to do

295. slownie
Posted January 20, 2010 at 12:59 am | Permalink

Excellent work, thank you. This is good help the beginner users.

Many thanks
bye slownie

296. zdarova
Posted January 20, 2010 at 3:22 am | Permalink

i had some problems at the begining, as i have raid 0 with amd southbridge.

so guys, for Windows 7 x64 you need the folder /boot from a 32 bit dvd instalation if you
want to prepare the usb drive on a 32bit PC (i used from the DVD of RC win 7 a had from
may 2009…)

it worked fine, i tried first with an Ultimate version x64


now i want to install the Profession Win 7, because i have the license from the university for
it

thanks!

297. kk kangan
Posted January 20, 2010 at 2:50 pm | Permalink

great.. thank you. it worked like a charm.

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298. khang
Posted January 22, 2010 at 2:09 am | Permalink

you should clarify step 5 for those who dont have the windows dvd. Mounting an image isn’t
something everyone knows about. Like myself, I am assuming most people who are gonna
use this guide only have the .iso file and not the dvd.

299. Patryk
Posted January 22, 2010 at 8:42 am | Permalink

;( well, mine went bad, really bad, my disk 1 was my second hdd (i realized that after) u
should add how to discover what disk is the usb, i’ve deleted all my most important files;( i
reached active, i didn’t made format, is there a way to take back my stuff?

300. John
Posted January 23, 2010 at 2:58 am | Permalink

Worked Perfectly. I can now have the great W7 on my laptop with a burned up DVD drive,
lol

301. Paul Smith


Posted January 26, 2010 at 6:49 pm | Permalink

Worked perfectly. Thank you.

302. Sinner
Posted January 27, 2010 at 7:36 pm | Permalink

This is stupid, I didn’t have to do all this crap, all I did was format my 4GB flash drive in fat
32 format, copy the contents if the Windows 7 DVD contents to the USB flash drive. And then
set the bios to boot from flash. all done with my mouse, no diskpart or cmd prompt.

303. maseo
Posted January 29, 2010 at 11:00 am | Permalink

@khang, if you only have the .iso file of windows 7 and not the dvd, (install power iso
trial-free online), nxt double click .iso image and it appears in power iso, in toolbar of power
iso click on ‘mount’ select ’1 drive(in drop out menu) follow a couple of prompts and its
mounted….nxt…go to ‘my computer’ and you will see a virtual drive(DVD Drive) their with
the windows 7 in it, right click on it and explore(or open in new window) all the files are their
and you can now copy them to your pen drive.

a much easier and quicker way is (assuming you have power iso installed) is simply right
click on .iso image and mount from their, my computer, explore or open…copy files//simple
really,

304. maseo
Posted January 29, 2010 at 11:10 am | Permalink

@ patryk

if you didnt get as far as format then you should be able to recover files, im assuming your
disc drive has dissapeared from ‘my computer’?? if so, go to start menu>>type partition in
search bar (dont hit enter) clcik on the ‘create and format partitions’ file>>a box will appear
and take a minute or 2 to load in all your partitions…..once loaded you should see your
missing partition/drive…if so right click on it..select ‘change drive letter and paths,>>select
‘add’ from the nxt pop up box>>type a letter in, make sure the letter is not assigned to any
other resources (egzample…type letter R ) once you put the letter in, just click ok, your
partition should be back as normal now in my computer.

305. steve
Posted January 30, 2010 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

This works like a charm. If your having problems try the other easy installation that he has
posted on the link at the top of the page. That one has only 4 steps that u follow. In any case
both of these installation guides have my 5 star rating*****

306. SANRocks
Posted January 31, 2010 at 4:03 pm | Permalink

very very tankssssssssssssssssssss……my rateing is 5*****

307. lenny
Posted January 31, 2010 at 10:26 pm | Permalink

it worked you are a star i bought my note book for £50 coz it wouldnt load up,, best £50 ive
spent in a long time thanks to your help,,, cheers

308. Omega
Posted February 3, 2010 at 4:47 am | Permalink

1st off, nice tutorial! I used my iPod touch as a flash disk, and used ultraiso to make the
image<—so far so good, everything loads but I get a message stating that 'device drivers
are missing' [paraphrased] I read around and it looks like it may be cd/DVD not being
supported, but I'm installing from USB, no need for DVD drive help pleez

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309. le
Posted February 5, 2010 at 2:17 am | Permalink

that sir,
simply put, is ‘the bollox’,
TUVM

310. antonio
Posted February 6, 2010 at 8:50 am | Permalink

Hi, does this step’s will reformat my flash drive?

311. admin
Posted February 6, 2010 at 4:48 pm | Permalink

@Antonio
Yes, it will format your drive.

312. Geoff
Posted February 10, 2010 at 9:01 am | Permalink

Worked perfectly!!!

The funny thing was my Windows 7 Ultimate DVD was scratched, so I tried to use my
Windows 7 Home and that didn’t fit on my 4gig USB stick.

Than I tried an 8 Gig microSD card and that did fit…and booted perfectly on my Asus R1600.

Thanks for really well written and detailed instructions.

313. Victor Aroma


Posted February 11, 2010 at 7:27 am | Permalink

This tutorial is awesome!


Thanks for the helpful tips.

Cheers,
Victor Aroma

314. Rohit
Posted February 12, 2010 at 7:09 am | Permalink

Perfect .. 10/10 !

Thanks for sharing this valuable info ..

315. duncan
Posted February 12, 2010 at 12:14 pm | Permalink

my netbook is 32 bit and my win7 is 64bit.. im wondering if this can be installed..


and if it cant can yyou please tell me how i could upgrade my netbook to 64bit?

316. xkovi
Posted February 12, 2010 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

The easiest way how to install Win7/Vista from usb is just to format your USB stick (from
windows, no cmd line needed!) and extract files from *.iso into root of your USB
stick….nothing else…tested million times

317. zorzer
Posted February 16, 2010 at 2:02 am | Permalink

thx! 100% working like you said

318. SG
Posted February 16, 2010 at 2:03 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot! The MS tool kept erroring out when trying to create a bottable USB installer
from the DVD. However your instructions worked like a charm…Thanks!

319. aj
Posted February 16, 2010 at 7:10 am | Permalink

Although there are a couple of tools out there to help simplify this process, I just ran across a
new one that works under XP as well. Bootsage is another nice utility to add to your toolbelt.
http://firesage.com/bootsage

320. The-Stoic
Posted February 22, 2010 at 5:44 pm | Permalink

You are a legend. Got a SFF here and no DVD or CD-Dom. Used your instructions to get
Windows Home server up and running. Thanks for the info.

321. noneya bizness

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Posted February 24, 2010 at 2:16 am | Permalink

yea, this is stupid…..just format and copy windows 7 files to usb…DONE

322. Harry
Posted February 24, 2010 at 2:51 am | Permalink

Thx dude !

323. Moosewad
Posted February 24, 2010 at 11:23 am | Permalink

once i hit “format fs=ntfs” it just says 0 percent and stays there.

Help!!

324. lakshay
Posted February 25, 2010 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

I am not getting my pendrive disk number.

when i type list disk


only disk 0 is visible

i have tried on all USB ports

325. Vicky
Posted February 27, 2010 at 3:47 am | Permalink

Excellent guide.
I need to save this site on my pc.
Extremely useful and helpful
Thanxs.

326. DG3
Posted March 6, 2010 at 12:19 am | Permalink

Thanks for the guide ^^ verry usefull! You saved me from CD/DVD’s with windows and
others!

327. khizer
Posted March 6, 2010 at 11:00 pm | Permalink

nice work!!!
can anyone tell me how to put xp in the usb and make it bootable..please
thanks

328. deo
Posted March 11, 2010 at 2:05 am | Permalink

In case you get error message “Access Denied” in the last step you may need to start
“Virtual Disk” service from Start->Run->services.msc

329. Richard Borg


Posted March 11, 2010 at 2:31 am | Permalink

Excellent tutorial worked like a charm!

Thanks!

330. ralph
Posted March 12, 2010 at 10:40 pm | Permalink

Really helpful.

thnx

331. padam
Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

You should really give the _original author_ credit, instead of pretending like you wrote this
guide yourself.

Just a couple of weeks after it’s posted here:

“link removed”
You turn around and post it here.

You can try to deny it, but it’s the _exact_ same steps in the _exact_ same order, on top of
using the _exact_ same commands, again, in the _exact_ same order.

Plagiarism is baaaaaad.

332. admin

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Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:43 pm | Permalink

@Padam
How can you say that just because order of commands are same? You know, one can’t
create a bootable disk by entering those commands in random order. So steps will be same
if you refer other sites too. I can’t blame other sites for that right? You need to execute the
step 1 first and then 2.. You can’t reverse it!

333. Kevin Woley


Posted March 13, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

Looks like you guys did a great job copying the instructions from here:
“link removed”

Way to pass it off as your own.


Kevin

334. padam
Posted March 14, 2010 at 5:19 am | Permalink

“just because [...]“? It’s kinda cute how you ignored the other points. The order of the
commands is important, but they do _not_ have to be executed in that exact order.

Furthermore, I’m even more convinced you have no idea what any of the commands posted
do – as you’re misleading users into thinking that bootsect doesn’t work on XP installs or
vista installs with XP as the target. It’s a matter of changing the /n60 argument to /nt52 for
it to use the master boot code that’s compatible with NTLDR (rather than BOOTMGR, which is
what Vista/7 uses).

To quote you in case you decide to go deleting it:

“This guide doesn’t work for XP..Only for Vista and Windows 7.. [snip]“

335. admin
Posted March 14, 2010 at 8:45 am | Permalink

@Kevin
I don’t know what to say! For your kind information, Microsoft has given the how to make
bootable usb in its WinPE help guide. Do download and read it before making such
comments.

336. AbhishekDatta
Posted March 14, 2010 at 8:25 pm | Permalink

AWESOME man! solved my prob.

I… AM… YOUR… FAN… NOW…

337. padam
Posted March 14, 2010 at 9:13 pm | Permalink

The fact that you removed the link to his blog from both of our posts speaks volumes in
itself. There are other links all throughout the comments on this page, _none_ of which have
been removed.

kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

Leave it up this time, let the users make their own decision as who stole it from who.

338. admin
Posted March 14, 2010 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

@Padam
I have deleted the links just because I don’t allow readers to post links in comments. You
might get two or three links in the whole comment section (in this post). And mind that I
could have deleted your comments if i had done so. Hope you got it. Also note that I will be
deleting your future comments as I don’t like to argue on a useless topic.

339. Andy
Posted March 15, 2010 at 12:15 am | Permalink

@admin
y wasting time on useless things/people……..

plzz help me out through the problem soon…..

340. Rob
Posted March 15, 2010 at 4:02 am | Permalink

Works perfect.
Thank you very much for youre efforts!

341. Andrew
Posted March 15, 2010 at 7:17 am | Permalink

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If you have the following error:

“COULD NOT FIND MAP DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:
ACCESS IS DENIED”

Then when you opened your command prompt you did not right-click and run as admin.

342. Peje
Posted March 16, 2010 at 6:25 pm | Permalink

Working fine & smooth.thanks for the tutorial!

343. Sanjay
Posted March 17, 2010 at 6:09 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much..it is working fine…..

344. mwawe
Posted March 17, 2010 at 8:56 pm | Permalink

im trying to make a usb with Win7 64bit my OS is Win7 32bit and i have problem in step 7.

system sayid:
version of F:\boot\bootsect.exe is proper with version running on this PC….

anyone know what to do ??

345. mwawe
Posted March 17, 2010 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

correct:!!!!!

version F:\boot\bootsect.exe is NOT proper with….

346. MTL
Posted March 18, 2010 at 7:37 pm | Permalink

Great guide. For those of us who are not builders or very familiar with computers, including a
detailed step on how to change the boot priority in BIOS from HDD or CD to USB would
make this guide complete…

Thanks for your time and effort on what is here though – Much appreciated!

347. Diego Freniche


Posted March 19, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Permalink

Thanks! After trying a lot of “tutorials”, this one WORKED. I’ve finished installing my Asus
904 HD

Thanks again!

348. Sathya
Posted March 20, 2010 at 12:30 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot!!!!
It worked good for me… Only thing you could further mention is that “diskpart doesnot
recogonise removable storsge in xp” it works only in vista (or) win 7.

349. visions
Posted March 20, 2010 at 1:41 am | Permalink

CD BOOT Problems you need to *press ctrl c then type the commands below 100% working
for me now

D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.

350. shakir
Posted March 24, 2010 at 1:37 am | Permalink

superb expalanation…. anyone will easily understand…keep it up..

351. Huy Nguyen


Posted March 24, 2010 at 8:51 am | Permalink

Excellent

Works great for me

Thanks

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352. underworld666
Posted March 25, 2010 at 6:07 pm | Permalink

Really great!!!
This tips works fine for me.

Thanks!

353. david
Posted March 28, 2010 at 3:51 am | Permalink

i cannot burn cds or photos onto a disc when i try it says put disc into cd drive d .Thanks if
you can help me

354. rudnueva
Posted March 30, 2010 at 10:53 am | Permalink

Does it work in cmd 5.1 bro…? particularly in Windows xp service pack 3…..I tried but it
doesn’t work……thank you

355. Oleg
Posted April 1, 2010 at 7:55 pm | Permalink

Hi
Thanks a lot for info.
Can I have both, vista and win7 on usb stick at the same time? Just out of interest.

Thanks

356. RM
Posted April 2, 2010 at 7:05 am | Permalink

I did this from a Windows 7 computer and was able to install Windows 7 from USB with no
issues at all.

Well done!

357. Patatattat
Posted April 2, 2010 at 8:55 am | Permalink

I did this process on a SATA SSD 16gb harddrive I had, and it worked! Beautiful.

358. Rishad
Posted April 6, 2010 at 5:28 pm | Permalink

Thanks Alot man, This is very usefull for me…….

Thanks buddy……

359. Rajesh
Posted April 6, 2010 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

Man, just worked like a charm in the second try. First try I had error “COULD NOT FIND MAP
DRIVE PARTITION TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT:
ACCESS IS DENIED”

Solution:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

On the pop-up right click context menu, select


“Run as Administrator”

Repeated all the steps once again.. and Voila…

thanks a lot my Friend..

360. Tim
Posted April 12, 2010 at 4:42 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much! Great detail!

361. Skyler
Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:41 am | Permalink

I did all the steps up until 5 now I was wondering I don’t have Win 7 on a disk just on my
hardrive can I just copy over to my USB at this point? and would I still have to change the
Bios settings?

362. Amos
Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

Hi, excellent instructions…I’m almost there but when i run format fs=ntfs I get the following
error message right at the end of the format..

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“100 percent completed”


“diskpart has encountered an error the parameter is incorrect”

have you seen this before and if so any suggestions?

i’m on Vista

363. Amos
Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

actually you can’t continue with the instructions, if you try assign you get “There is no
volume specified. Please select a volume and try again”

364. Krim
Posted April 15, 2010 at 2:46 am | Permalink

When I put the usb in, it gets to the boot screen and says “BOOTMGR IS MISSING” and I’ve
repeated the BOOTSECT steps already.

365. Hannibal
Posted April 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the tutorial, it work perfectly.

i also have a WINDOWS 7 AIO DVD 33 in 1 i had put together and put that on a USB too, also
works perfectly.

thanks again

366. Hannibal
Posted April 16, 2010 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

TO AMOS

make sure you fill all details in CAPITAL LETTERS and just take your time to go through it
again.

367. Zaid rohid


Posted April 16, 2010 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

i hv problem with this technic.. the command sound like this..

“Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects :
Access is denied. ”
someone please help me….

368. VolN
Posted April 18, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

To Zaid

try to run cmd.exe as administrator and it will be fixed

369. Harjinder Singh


Posted April 25, 2010 at 4:30 pm | Permalink

u r the best men i think bcz u simply tell us the setp for install window frm usb.anybody
easily do it. thanx for ue help.

370. miro
Posted April 26, 2010 at 5:51 am | Permalink

You need to add > Type EXIT < To exit the diskpart after formatting. Like this:

5. Type EXIT to exit DISKPART

6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following command
now:

D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

Otherwise very helpful indeed


Thanks

371. izdelava spletnih st


Posted April 27, 2010 at 10:57 am | Permalink

Great article!

Helped my friend’s laptop

372 leahcim

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Posted April 28, 2010 at 9:14 am | Permalink

i gotta try vpc mode…………… tnx

LeAhCiM

373. Zaid rohid


Posted April 29, 2010 at 1:44 am | Permalink

THANK YOU… !!! YOU ARE THE GREAT!

374. hamedshaik
Posted April 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Permalink

try dis guyz its vry easy

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-vista-or-xp-usb-flashpen-
drive-with-a-single-click-must-try/

375. Derick
Posted May 2, 2010 at 6:52 am | Permalink

insert the usb flash drive hit any key depending your pc you have to go to the system bios

376. Omni
Posted May 2, 2010 at 7:00 am | Permalink

Works with doing a quick format aswell, as it takes long time to do a regular.
Super guide!

377. Mohamed
Posted May 4, 2010 at 6:33 pm | Permalink

This excellent work / / / I will by experience

378. ferpuj
Posted May 6, 2010 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

Try wintoflash and forget all your usb problem, all you need installation cd win7/vista/xp
wintoflah and usb stick 4gb for 7/vista 2gb for xp… drivers and stripcan do it later.

379. mani
Posted May 12, 2010 at 2:39 pm | Permalink

now microsoft provide their own tool to create a bootable usb drive to install windows vista/7
/2008/2008-R2

380. Waqas Muhammad Akash


Posted May 12, 2010 at 5:39 pm | Permalink

32 bit and 64 bit. This method works on both vista and win7. either 32 bit or 64 bit.
now because 64 bit capacity is more than 32 installation CD or DVD.
I have 16 GB card. On this card i have
win 98
win me
win professional 2000
win server 2003
win NT networks
win xp ( all in 1 ) home, professional, media center edit
win vista (all in 1)
win 7 ( all in 1 ) 32 bit and 64 bit is only win 7. above rest os are only 32 bit…
I have installed too many times on different system different os what customer ask for it. via
using this memory card…..
simply booting and them select from the list what i need to install then after that setup for
that windows will run up…..and so go on….
waqas _ akash AT yahoo DOT com if some one need please send me personal email….

381. litesh
Posted May 13, 2010 at 10:22 pm | Permalink

tnx i like it

382. litesh
Posted May 13, 2010 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

sir after installing windows i got error on pendrive that window was unable to format nw ho
to format it into fat again.

383. Madhur Makwana


Posted May 19, 2010 at 10:01 am | Permalink

Thanx man.. great work..

384. Bill Gates


Posted May 21, 2010 at 5:50 am | Permalink

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Thanks man. Worked a treat!

385. setu
Posted May 24, 2010 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

May be I am in biggest trouble of my life with computer, I was following your steps without
knowing that my main backup data hdd (500gb) was attached and I follow all the steps till
the formatting ….where I realized I have formatted the wrong one..and if I don’t get my
data back I will be at zero….al my work and everything was in it n I don’t have a dvd back
up as well…..i know it’s stupid fuc’ed up situation ……any help will be life saver….please
pls…..get me out of this………..

386. admin
Posted May 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm | Permalink

@Setu

You can try EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard free edition to get back your data. I hope you will
get back your data.

387. anon
Posted May 28, 2010 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

After copying is complete, delete the file ‘ei.cfg’ to make all Windows varients available.

388. oxygen
Posted May 28, 2010 at 8:20 pm | Permalink

or HP USB Format Tool

389. Matt
Posted May 29, 2010 at 5:51 am | Permalink

OMG, this works so well, thanks, i have tried so many other “guides” and they did work.
THANKS

390. Benjamin
Posted June 1, 2010 at 7:44 am | Permalink

To anyone else still having the error in DiskPart, you MUST right click the CMD shortcut
within your Accessories folder and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.

Otherwise, permission denied errors.

391. Suneev
Posted June 1, 2010 at 11:35 am | Permalink

I put forward my warm thanks for the help this post provided me.

This process is working fine with windows 7

Thanks Again

Suneev
suneev.lpu@gmail.com

392. Michael
Posted June 1, 2010 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

I’ve used this guide before with success, but it’s not working this time. Every time I type in
“cd boot”, I get an error message stating “The system cannot find the path specified.” I’ve
already tried two computers and I get the same message. I also tried replicating the exact
steps I did the first time by using a virtual drive, but that isn’t working either. What’s wrong?

393. azhk
Posted June 6, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot for the excellent guide!

394. Robin
Posted June 7, 2010 at 10:43 pm | Permalink

After step 7 it shows an error stating “Could not map drive partitions to the associated
volume device objects: Access is denied”
Any idea how to solve this problem?

395. Peter
Posted June 8, 2010 at 12:16 am | Permalink

Thanks for the article, worked perfectly.

396. Dennis
Posted June 8, 2010 at 2:25 am | Permalink

Thanks! Works great!

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397. somu
Posted June 8, 2010 at 4:05 pm | Permalink

In the step 5 you had mentioned “insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive” but
what if i don’t have optical drive, i am unable to go further this step.

398. MAN WITH NO NAME


Posted June 9, 2010 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

GREAT WORK THANK YOU !

399. Thankful29l
Posted June 10, 2010 at 10:50 pm | Permalink

Very well written guide, woks like charm

Thank you

400. ander
Posted June 16, 2010 at 7:23 am | Permalink

This is a good article, but it has an error. It says:

> 6. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th


> step. Type the following command now:
>
> D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive
> letter.
>
> CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.

What you meant to say was:

6. At the prompt, switch to your DVD drive. For example, if your DVD drive is drive D, type:

D:

…then press Enter.

7. Type CD BOOT and press Enter, to see the message below.

(I would make typing CD BOOT a separate step.) Cheers, Ander

401. Taleeno
Posted June 16, 2010 at 5:34 pm | Permalink

I did this the first time and it worked fine- But i copied the wrong version of Win7 which had
expired. Do i need to run command prompt again for the newer version or can i just copy the
files over from the new DVD and go straight away?

402. mezvix
Posted June 20, 2010 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

for windows xp users format usb with petousb tool you can get by googling around and
runbootsect as instructed , other wise boodsectis also available standalone on many websites
to make usbs bootable .it even supports making xp bootable usb

403. SATADRU
Posted June 21, 2010 at 11:12 am | Permalink

HEY GUYS JUST MOUNT THE WIN 7 ISO FILE IN DEMONS TOOL IN XP AND INSTALL IT TO
THE PARTITION U LIKE….THERE IS NO NEED TO USE ANY DVD OR USB PENDRIVE…….ANY
PROBLEM!! MAIL ME satadruhalder@yahoo.co.in……..

404. joseph
Posted June 24, 2010 at 3:30 am | Permalink

Todo funcionó a la perfección.


Gracias !!

405. Santhosh
Posted June 24, 2010 at 10:20 pm | Permalink

thank you………dis is very interesting..

406. Ahmad Bukhori


Posted June 25, 2010 at 10:52 am | Permalink

work wonderfull on my external hard drive…


thank you.

407. Brad
Posted June 26, 2010 at 9:21 am | Permalink

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Just awesome. Very nicely done, easy to understand and exactly what I was after.

408. Raeef
Posted June 26, 2010 at 12:52 pm | Permalink

Thanks, I used it on my Sony Vaio upgrade media on my NW180J

It worked perfectly.

409. Harsha Madushan


Posted June 26, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Permalink

Thanx a lot !!! work perfectly……… Use full for me….

410. Anurag
Posted June 26, 2010 at 7:06 pm | Permalink

EXCELLENT GUIDE THANK U VERY MUCH…it worked in first time

411. Victor Fernandes


Posted June 28, 2010 at 10:49 am | Permalink

Sir,
At present I am using Windows XP which I would like to replace by Windows 7. Please help
me to install Windows 7 on my computer.
Thanking you.

412. raksmey
Posted June 28, 2010 at 3:07 pm | Permalink

thank you post is very useful for me. but does it work?

413. Hudson
Posted June 29, 2010 at 6:52 pm | Permalink

I’m currently at the copying files to USB end stage. But for anyone who reads down here,
make sure to check that you’ve selected the right disk in stage 4, one way to do this is by
typing DETAIL DISK and hitting enter after the SELECT DISK 1 line, brings up a load of
details and a volume list at the bottom, with name, size etc, mine was Disk 4.
(Using a different guide I manage to format my D:, good thing I’ve got a server backup.
DON’T MAKE MY MISTAKE)

414. Venthan
Posted June 29, 2010 at 10:24 pm | Permalink

Hey,

Thanks a lot, this helped me to resolve my issue after a 5 days struggle

415. nex
Posted July 1, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

hi,anyone can help in bios settings,how it is done to select pendrive ..i cannot do it although i
have new m/b and all above trick ..but i can’t detect my bootable drive…may i lack this
idea…help me out …..thanks

416. solem
Posted July 2, 2010 at 2:48 am | Permalink

I was a bit sceptical about this actually working. It just seemed too good to be true, this
being Windows and all. But it actually works.

Like mentioned earlier it’s not possible to run bootsect from 32-bit windows on a 64-bit
version.

Also, I had to run cmd as admin or else bootsect would complain about something I can’t
remember atm.

417. real1tyFTW
Posted July 4, 2010 at 2:21 pm | Permalink

OMG THANX !!!!!!!!! I HAD A MAJOR FKING ISSUE, ! AND BY JUST SAYING the first 2
commands the SETUP started and i was good to go THX
ALLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

418. solarni sistemi


Posted July 5, 2010 at 7:19 am | Permalink

i found this article helpful because recently i had problems with usb and booting. THANKS

419. Jibba
Posted July 6, 2010 at 2:15 pm | Permalink

Don’t know why everyone post hard guides with cmd promt. There is a program directly
from Microsoft to do that same thing in 3 clicks It also works on pirate/cracked copy of

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windows 7 .

Download and guide: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

420. twe
Posted July 9, 2010 at 1:14 am | Permalink

Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was easy and helped things run much more smoothly.
What a relief!

421. Jan
Posted July 10, 2010 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

This guide didnt work for me. When I try to boot the USB drive it just says “invalid partition
table” and halts.

422. Jan
Posted July 10, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

I fixed it, it didnt have anything to do with this guide. If you get the error “invalid partition
table” try configuring your usb drive to load as hddd and not removable/fdd.

423. Fane
Posted July 13, 2010 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

it works on 16 Gb USB Disk ???

there is a maximum size of USB Disk ? 10x for answer

424. Kumar
Posted July 16, 2010 at 1:06 pm | Permalink

There is always an easy way, download the tool from windows website and vollla sit back
and relax it will do everything for you !!!

http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

425. Igre
Posted July 24, 2010 at 8:34 pm | Permalink

Great written guide!

426. LT
Posted July 25, 2010 at 4:00 am | Permalink

I just had to tell you this was so easy, even for a non-techie like me, and by far the easiest
setup instructions on the web. I am installng Win 7 on my (6-yr old) son’s netbook as we
speak 7 he is so impressed!

427. bat787
Posted July 29, 2010 at 10:10 am | Permalink

Perfect explaination.. Many many.. many many..man thanks

428. Johnny
Posted July 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Permalink

To get this working in XP just use a Windows 7 virtual machine. Virtual Box is easy enough.

It’s working for me.

PS. Not sure if it has been said, but not looking through all the comments lol

429. Kamesh
Posted July 31, 2010 at 2:13 pm | Permalink

I have a doubt in 5th step whr u say to insert Win 7 DVD…but if my cd-rom is not working
how can i insert DVD in tht place..my rom is not even opening if i press the button..then
what should i do??

430. Kayes
Posted July 31, 2010 at 5:32 pm | Permalink

This is really cool man, buy 1 thing in the step 7 when i type BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: it was
not working but next time when i tried it was working.

Any way thanks for the real tutorial. I hope i will see more useful tutorial soon.

431. Summitsingh Thakur


Posted July 31, 2010 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

Thanks! 100% Working for me. Well, before I was able to install Ubuntu only.

432. Ghost

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Posted August 4, 2010 at 10:54 am | Permalink

ThanX allot to whoever brain is behind all this…. Works 110% clean & safe install. No
problems faced. Follow the steps as written

433. Cristian C.
Posted August 6, 2010 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

Thank you!!!
Your tutorial is excelent!
Simple, safe and easy to follow.

Thank you, thank you!

434. Adlantis
Posted August 7, 2010 at 5:45 pm | Permalink

Really great guide, easy to understand and follow, thanx a bunch!

435. Maneksh.V.Thomas
Posted August 7, 2010 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

THANK YOU Soooooo Much Man… you saved me…

436. SHAILENDRA
Posted August 8, 2010 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

Your The Best Boss!!!!

437. Michelle
Posted August 9, 2010 at 8:02 am | Permalink

OMG.. This saved my whole day..


OMGH!!!!!!!!
Im back on my own pc – it worked
TYSM !!!!!!!!!!
FANTASTIC.

438. junex
Posted August 9, 2010 at 11:15 am | Permalink

how can i sure that..this is working…and it is good to used it.?

439. avaton
Posted August 10, 2010 at 12:37 am | Permalink

excellent work m8

440. Steve
Posted August 12, 2010 at 4:19 am | Permalink

what a legend!! I was completely lost and you have saved me – worked a treat.

Many thanks -

441. Mack
Posted August 12, 2010 at 8:43 am | Permalink

Everything worked fine down to copy the files from the DVD to the USB. I get a ‘Can’t read
from the source file or disk. bootsect.exe.mui’

Any ideas are appreciated.

442. adel
Posted August 13, 2010 at 12:38 am | Permalink

DiskPart> select disk 3


DiskPart> clean
DiskPart succeded in cleaning the disk.
DiskPart> creat partition primary
DiskPart> succeded in creating the specified partition
DiskPart> select partition 3
The specified partition is not valid.
Please select a valid partition
there is no partiotion selected.

thats the eror i get please help me.

443. AJ
Posted August 13, 2010 at 8:04 am | Permalink

What a guide, 101% working. People still leaving comments every day after one year. One
of the best guides ever if you ask me! THANK YOU, you deserve it!

444. Smithy

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Posted August 13, 2010 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

Jesus, how many times has the guy got to say it. ITS FOR WINDOWS VISTA AND 7 NOT XP .
Bunch of retards!

445. NLkiwi
Posted August 15, 2010 at 11:43 pm | Permalink

Followed instructions and worked great, no issues. Created a Win7x64 usb install from a
Win7x64 machine. Install was for a HTPC with no optical drive.

446. odotan
Posted August 16, 2010 at 11:52 am | Permalink

The easiest method yet


OFFICIAL FROM MICROSOFT

http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool

447. Tammi
Posted August 17, 2010 at 2:21 am | Permalink

I had an error, when I tried to format, that said Virtual Disk service error: the file system is
incompatible. I fixed it by using quick format instead. Use this command

format fs=NTFS quick

I hope this helps somebody. =)

448. rakesh
Posted August 17, 2010 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

by the way I’m using MSI P55-GD65 motherboard and transcend 4GB USB drive.
is it my board or the usb drive….A Read Error…
please help

449. Rahul
Posted August 17, 2010 at 6:41 pm | Permalink

This method will not work if you are running on Windows Xp.The best alternative will be to
use either use either the microsoft method or try to use softwares like WintoFlash to
automate it for you.

450. Abdullah
Posted August 17, 2010 at 8:57 pm | Permalink

This method worked for me 100%, i am installing right now from a 8GB USB. Thanks a lot
!!!!!

451. Corey j
Posted August 18, 2010 at 3:13 am | Permalink

worked well with windows server 2008 ENT, on my xeon server

Also if you are making the usb disk from a 32 bit machine and your having problems, saying
incompatable stuff, than go to a machine which is 64 bit, and do it over

anyway good luck with everyone else, and these steps

452. LAP87
Posted August 18, 2010 at 11:15 am | Permalink

Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool , takes your ISO and makes a bootable USB Drive or DVD.
Works under Xp/Vista.

http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool

453. Johnsin
Posted August 18, 2010 at 7:58 pm | Permalink

Wow this was so Educational… I tried to do it with both x64 and x32 and there it was on my
EHDD! Cool Guide! Thanks man

454. Hesus
Posted August 18, 2010 at 11:40 pm | Permalink

Pardon me but this is pretty useless. If i had a windows dvd why da hell would i need to boot
from usb? The only reason i wanted to boot from usb was to not waste time on going out of
the house and buying a new dvd. Instead i wasted my time on this.

455. Frankie
Posted August 19, 2010 at 4:10 am | Permalink

When you said insert the Windows Vista/Windows 7 disk, did you mean insert a blank disc or
the disc that already has the software on it?(The $100 disc from store that comes in the

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software box)

Thanks

456. DRBDANISH
Posted August 19, 2010 at 5:17 am | Permalink

It was a success.. Thanks mate…

457. admin
Posted August 19, 2010 at 9:20 am | Permalink

Frankie, put the disc that has Windows 7 on it. Good luck!

458. Roxy
Posted August 19, 2010 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

I followed this guide but when booting up i have an error message ‘A disk read error’

What is the problem?

459. Litlis
Posted August 19, 2010 at 2:07 pm | Permalink

I do all the steps but on step 7 then i write “bootsect.exe /nt60″ he write this:
This version of G:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windo
ws you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you n
eed a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the
software publisher.
then what should i do??

460. good stuff


Posted August 19, 2010 at 4:55 pm | Permalink

Appreciate such a good info. Deserve moar views&comments.


Such success made me cum four times in a row, thanks mate. You need a one gosu sexy
treat like good asss penatration.
Wish u good sex GG.

461. Valdez
Posted August 19, 2010 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

This worked well for me to create Win7 32 bit usb version,


but when I tried to make 64bit version on another flash drive using a 64bit DVD I got
boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible…..I am using 32bit Vista to make these drives. Can I
modify the code to make this work? Or do I need to find 64bit machine with DVD drive?
Thanks,
Valdez

462. admin
Posted August 19, 2010 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

Try to do it on x64 version of Windows.

463. tavu
Posted August 20, 2010 at 12:26 am | Permalink

I can’t copy the autorun file from the Windows DVD to the USB stick. It says I need to
provide an administrator to copy to that folder. Everything else is copied, just the autorun
has this problem. What can I do?
Thank You.

464. puneet
Posted August 22, 2010 at 2:01 pm | Permalink

Thanks dude great job, very easy & good explanation

465. Miss Pretty


Posted August 22, 2010 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

I want to know the detail steps on how you can repair window operating system.

Thanks

466. Miss Pretty


Posted August 22, 2010 at 10:09 pm | Permalink

Also i want some things on Virtual LAN, the problems and prospects of it.

Thanks for your help.

467. miss26
Posted August 23, 2010 at 3:35 pm | Permalink

hi, have a problem in step 6..my dvd drive is E, and my usb is G……

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E: CD BOOT
E:\boot>bootsect.exe /nt60 G:
Target volume will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied.

pls help me in this problem..thanks

468. Uwais
Posted August 24, 2010 at 7:21 am | Permalink

hi
i am using this method to install snow lepoard on a previously windows machine will it
work??
btw my snow lepoard image is on my comps HD so i cant complete step 5 onwards?? what
do i do??

also is there anyway of reversing this procedure after i haveinstalled the OS so i can use the
HD as a mass storage device after??

thanks

469. john
Posted August 24, 2010 at 7:25 am | Permalink

hi am i able to use this method to install MAC OS snow lepoard. i have no disk just the .DMG
file so i cant complete step 5 onwards. will it still work??

also am i able to reverse the effects on my external HD so i can use it as a mass storage
device after??

thanks

470. admin
Posted August 24, 2010 at 8:48 am | Permalink

@ John
Sorry, I have no idea about Mac OS.

471. DANNY
Posted August 24, 2010 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

Thanks man this is by far the best and accurate tutorial for making a win7/vista bootable
usb…

472. DANNY
Posted August 24, 2010 at 9:47 pm | Permalink

@John, no you can’t as NTFS relates to windows file system only.

473. Dave D.
Posted August 25, 2010 at 7:23 am | Permalink

Hey, I tried it and works perfectly, thanks a lot…i’ve tried other guides with no success but
your guide is fantastic…keep up the good work…this world needs more helpful people like
you.

474. RAZON
Posted August 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

MANY MANY THINKS SIR BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM TO COPY “SETUP.EXE” FILE
WHY IT NOT COPY. PLEASE EXPLINE ME SIR

475. Fi156
Posted August 25, 2010 at 3:21 pm | Permalink

Nice How To, but the command: format fs=ntfs needs HOURS not minutes…

476. naveen kumar


Posted August 26, 2010 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

Works like magic….. Thanks

477. Madhav
Posted August 27, 2010 at 1:01 pm | Permalink

@Fi156 better use format fs=ntfs quick This will take you a few seconds. that command
without quick will take long time because it performs a complete format. thanks

478. KOUSHIK
Posted August 28, 2010 at 12:08 am | Permalink

actually i have a another problem i have a pen drive but its don’t show its original memory

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and it is not to be formatted .this pen drive is 8 gb but showing 69mb.if you give me a
suggestion that how i am recover from this problem so iam glad ti you.

479. Richard
Posted August 28, 2010 at 11:16 am | Permalink

You rock man! Thanks for this guide. I’ve spent two whole days trying to repair my corrupt
Windows 7 installation on my Netbook, which has been a challenge as it has no optical drive,
so having a bootable Flash Drive was the perfect answer. Thanks again!

A few tips to others:


- The format of the USB drive takes a while, just be patient (I used the full format, not quick,
just to be sure!)
- If you’re getting an Access Denied error when trying to map partitions, it’s because you
didn’t run the command prompt as Administrator. Right click on the Command Prompt
program as select “Run as Administrator”
- When setup has completed, don’t forget to set your boot priority back to the Hard Drive in
the BIOS!

480. Anku
Posted August 28, 2010 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

Thanx a lot mannn!! it really works!! u r awsum!!!!

481. Cheryl
Posted August 29, 2010 at 10:39 pm | Permalink

I have done this – what method of copying files from cd to usb is best, I Right clicked copyed
then right clicked and pasted. When I tried to boot up I got BOOTMGR.exe missing and it
wouldnt boot up. Am I doing something wrong?

482. Amp
Posted August 30, 2010 at 10:27 am | Permalink

will this work for Windows 8?

483. zero
Posted August 30, 2010 at 9:22 pm | Permalink

i’ve already try your method, but i have a problem here which is, after my computer restart
to finish the installation, it came back for the begiining to format my computer and not
proceed for the “completing installation”…how to overcome this problem?please help me…

484. Ed
Posted August 31, 2010 at 3:46 am | Permalink

Worked for me. Thanks to all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are using Windows XP to create your bootable USB, these steps worked for me. I just
omitted steps 1-5

Download and install http://i.thepcspy.com/USB_Boot.zip


Archive Password: “pasta”

Open and find your USB drive and format using NTFS

6. Now open another command window and type following command

J: (Drive letter of Windows 7 iso mounted with demon tool or ultraiso)

CD boot

bootsect /nt60 Y: (Y is drive latter of your USB drive )

Update BOOTMGR for USB Pen Drive

7. Now copy all files from drive where you have mount Windows 7 iso

8. Now reboot your computer and press F9 to get your BIOS screen and select USB drive as
your boot drive.

9. If every thing goes fine, Your Windows 7 Installation should start from your USB drive

485. GEORGE
Posted August 31, 2010 at 6:01 am | Permalink

Worked like a charm!

486. zero
Posted August 31, 2010 at 6:50 am | Permalink

i’ve already try your method, but i have a problem here which is, after my computer restart
to finish the installation, it came back for the begining to format my computer and not

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proceed for the “completing installation”…how to overcome this problem?please help me…

487. Farshid Bohlooli


Posted September 1, 2010 at 1:53 am | Permalink

hello..
Thank you so much..
i’m iranian..
my laptop have not DVD Rom..
I want you to tell Persian: ???? ?????..
????? ??? ???? : Thanks really

488. gaithat
Posted September 1, 2010 at 8:06 pm | Permalink

It was a perfect explanation.

Thanks for such a nice tutorial.

Only problem, I faced with BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:command.


Once you invoke Command Prompt like run as Administrator there was nothing like …

Windows Xp does not recognize removable drive under: LIST DISK segment.

Pl. keep it up.

489. bulger
Posted September 2, 2010 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

Does not work on my vista laptop….. tried several times now keep getting “‘BOOTSECT.EXE’
is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file,”
Thanks to the author as I have used this for Windows 7 previously and it worked fine but any
help with vista install would be appreciated!

490. I8bnsober
Posted September 4, 2010 at 2:35 am | Permalink

Worked great for me except the clean command run as (admin) gives me an access denied
on v*sta and w*n7 but I skip this step and even use the same window to perform the
partitioning and the bootsect, worked great on both.
Thanks.

491. Karlo Antukin


Posted September 5, 2010 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

for those whos stuck at step 7 coz Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume
device objects:
Access is denied. run cmd as administrator that would do the trick

492. bziz
Posted September 5, 2010 at 9:13 pm | Permalink

problem with could not map … access denied but here is the solution:
you have to go into run and go into cmd. then you have to minimise it and on your taskbar
right-click the icon for cmd and also right-click on command prompt then click on run as
administrator

493. Darky
Posted September 5, 2010 at 11:19 pm | Permalink

Hey…Can i install windows 7 with usb * i dont have dvd reader atm * if i dont have a
windows before it..Like my old windows crashed & now am without windows at all & i wanna
install windows 7 & no dvd reader ,thx alot

494. TechNazgul
Posted September 6, 2010 at 12:49 am | Permalink

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Worked like a charm for me with Windows 7
Ultimate x86 installing to an Acer Revo 1600 (which I’m using to test out the new XBMC beta
release of Dharma).

495. young money


Posted September 6, 2010 at 1:03 am | Permalink

hey buddy thanx


its working and the way you have explained the steps its easy to understand.
thanx again
if more solutions are available on any problems regarding windows please tell me.

496. IceaTronic
Posted September 6, 2010 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

Pro Tip:

When formatting the USB Stick, use the following:

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format fs=ntfs quick

Takes about 30 seconds to format the drive. Incredibly handy if your USB stick is 8GB+ like
all of mine are. I dont want to wait 20 minutes for it to format…

497. thedeamon
Posted September 8, 2010 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

I think the guide will also work for XP USB boot.

We have to use Vista’s bootsect.exe which can reinstall XP’s bootsector.

To (re)install an NTLDR or BOOTMGR bootsector you will need Bootsect.exe.

Copy it from a Vista DVD if you want to include it on the USB root directory.

bootsect.exe /nt52 H:

I would suggest try to format the USB key as FAT & then install the boot manager followed b
dumping of the XP CD to start testing.

Start with FAT/FAT32/NTFS to see which one works.

If NTFS on key works, it will also mean a super fast Windows install over USB 2.0.

Catch: ensure to use correct bootsect.exe for x86 & x64 OS.

498. Azmi
Posted September 9, 2010 at 4:55 am | Permalink

Hey!

I don’t know how you saved my life. I shall thank you for thousand times for this and once
more thousand times for your efforts on this. It really worked. Thank man, appreciate it…

499. deeh
Posted September 9, 2010 at 8:13 am | Permalink

work just fine,.. thank you..

500. Andy
Posted September 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm | Permalink

Thank you so much! It’s so simple and yet I could not manage to install Windows from USB.
Now it finally worked! Thanks!

501. Ricky
Posted September 10, 2010 at 10:05 pm | Permalink

Worked well for me, the only thing is I had to pull the drive out during the first reboot or the
install would start all over again.

502. Gagandeep Singh


Posted September 11, 2010 at 8:00 am | Permalink

HI.
This is Gagan from http://www.softwaresgiant.com and do you know that you have really
helped me a lot?I had original windows 7 ultimate 32-bit DVD but it sisnot run on my PC as I
had no DVD player.So I made this bootable HD and am enjoying 7 because of you.

Thanks

503. Rets
Posted September 12, 2010 at 6:47 am | Permalink

I did steps 1 to 4. My usb was plugged and so was my 500GB external hdd. It was too late
when I realized that I did step 4 on my external hdd. Now, I cant open my external hdd – it
always says your drive needs to be formatted. Please help =<

504. mary
Posted September 12, 2010 at 4:53 pm | Permalink

Thank you so much, it worked like a charm!

505. matthew
Posted September 13, 2010 at 1:40 am | Permalink

can i just say if u are using a bigger hard-drive eg a 250g external it takes about 1-2 hours to
format to ntfs

506. nando
Posted September 13, 2010 at 2:28 am | Permalink

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THANK YOU!! this guide is awesome. worked without any problems.. and the speed of install
increased! now it installs about 5x faster.. it used to take 1 hour. now it took 20 minutes
:O!!! thanks!

507. MightyAL
Posted September 13, 2010 at 3:53 pm | Permalink

Good advice is hard to get, thx for complete instructions.


I dont trust downloaded tools, got some probs with english cos i´m from germany but this
was site was best i found

508. james asare baffour


Posted September 13, 2010 at 10:24 pm | Permalink

1)why do we use optical cd whilst basing on pen drive to install windows?

2) Can installing windows wit the help of pen drive be apply on any computer capacity?

509. Suraj Yadav


Posted September 14, 2010 at 2:06 pm | Permalink

Hi, Thanks very much.

510. mikaboshi
Posted September 15, 2010 at 1:41 am | Permalink

Thnx allot for this great guide

I had the official ms tool to make your usb installer disk, but somehow it always ended up
telling me it couldnt copy the files to my usb drive. Doing it manually worked like a charm!

Thnx allot! (again ^^):)

511. Shen
Posted September 15, 2010 at 5:52 am | Permalink

When I followed this method, I manage to get the OS to boot from the USB, but then that
creates another problem. Vista confuses itself by reading the USB as another hard drive. The
error “Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.”
shows up in the Disk Partition page. My computer only has one hard drive so it must be the
USB causing the problem. Can anyone tell me how to get around this problem?

512. ICHI
Posted September 15, 2010 at 1:38 pm | Permalink

AWESOME GUIDE!! IT WORKS WHEN I INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE. YOU’RE A BOMB!!


THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS..
KEEP IT UP!

513. FrackMicrosoft
Posted September 16, 2010 at 12:03 am | Permalink

This will work on non-vista computers if you use an external hard drive and skip the format
command.

514. Boy XatZ


Posted September 16, 2010 at 6:58 pm | Permalink

amazing… this guide really worked!!! plus you don’t need to use any programs.. /heh

515. DANNY
Posted September 16, 2010 at 8:02 pm | Permalink

Diskpart has encountered an error;access is denied .see the system event log for more
information

no usable free extent could be found.it may be that their is insufficient free space to creat a
partition at the specified size and offset.specify differant size and offset values or dont specify
either to creat the maximum
sized partition.it may be that the disk is using the mbr disk,,,partitioning format and the disk
contains either 4 primary partitions,no more partitions may be created,,or 3 primary
partitions and one extended partition ,only one logical drives may be created,,if you can help
thanks

516. Ryan
Posted September 17, 2010 at 12:02 pm | Permalink

Is it just me or does it take more than just a few seconds to format the selected drive????

517. Ryan
Posted September 17, 2010 at 12:03 pm | Permalink

Maybe a few minutes….

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518. weeds season 6


Posted September 17, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

Great write up!! this really helped me out and btw this can work on non-vista computers if
you use an external hard drive

519. rohit
Posted September 17, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

I got “Bootmgr is missing”. I m using dell

520. saif
Posted September 18, 2010 at 3:22 am | Permalink

hi i m using win xp above all steps done n my bios have option usb hdd but i its not booting
plz help

521. Nith
Posted September 19, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Permalink

This works perfect. Thanks !!

522. Lorem ipsum generato


Posted September 19, 2010 at 6:40 pm | Permalink

I was just looking for this guide! Tnx!

523. Bane
Posted September 19, 2010 at 7:04 pm | Permalink

hey, the guide is dreat but like some ppl here I have the “missing bootmgr” problem, You
sad fix it… but… how ??? please help me , I am trying to set win 7 on HP notebook wich has
vista, and your steps I^ve done on other PC wich has win 7 on it,because dvd rom on
notebook doesnt work. my USB drive is external HDD 1Tb.. folowed all steps one by one,
then attached ext hdd on notebook and set booting from USB… still have msg missing
bootmgr….
heeeeeeelp! thx!

524. darkan9el
Posted September 19, 2010 at 8:09 pm | Permalink

Awesome tut, just got windows 7 32bit on my nieces Acer Aspire One, straight on everything
installed. I’d say 10-20mins faster too than conventional DVD installs.

Pressed F2 on boot to get into setup, Acer Aspire will see the USB and show it by name, I
just moved it to the top of the Boot list using F6 saved changes and rebooted. Once W7 has
installed you have to go back into setup (F2) to change the boot sequence back to the HDD.
Just finished updating. If only life was this simple’s lol!

525. justme!
Posted September 21, 2010 at 3:42 am | Permalink

look’s like a nice method but! how do i ‘reverse’ the disk-on-key properties to it’s defaults,i
mean in this whole procedure you actually change the file system of the disk-on-key and
some other properties,how to reverse all that?

526. Sudheera
Posted September 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

Great work….it worked for the first time…thanks a lot …..

527. Tom
Posted September 23, 2010 at 2:49 am | Permalink

Hey, Thanks! great guide. I even got it to work using Windows XP!
Tom

528. geoff
Posted September 24, 2010 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

when you say copy ALL the files, does that mean hidden and system files contained within
the CD? do you recommend drag/drop copy or a CMD Copy?

529. dallas fox


Posted September 24, 2010 at 9:23 pm | Permalink

what if the windows 7 copy isn’t on a dvd but has been downloaded iso?

530. kevin
Posted September 25, 2010 at 5:59 am | Permalink

Actually /active= should have 0 (most of the time) it’s the partition number OF the drive (0
as it’s formatted) otherwise you’ll get “invalid parameter…”.

531. are_peace22
Posted September 26, 2010 at 10:12 am | Permalink

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nice thx for the guide

532. unification
Posted September 26, 2010 at 1:37 pm | Permalink

hello . i did all steps and it end successfully .


but when restart my pc and set usb boot .
my system cannot boot from usb and display this message
” … read disk error …” .
while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest.
but not working for this way that you say.
please help me . and contact by me via email adress .
thank.

533. Lucas
Posted September 27, 2010 at 10:13 am | Permalink

Perfeito com Windows7 ENG. Muito obrigado

534. unification
Posted September 27, 2010 at 7:57 pm | Permalink

please help me. i need to this.

535. unification
Posted September 28, 2010 at 4:54 am | Permalink

hello . i did all steps and it end successfully .


but when restart my pc and set usb boot .
my system cannot boot from usb and display this message
” … read disk error …” .
while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest.
but not working for this way that you say.
please help me . and contact by me via email adress .
thank.

536. marcus
Posted September 28, 2010 at 6:28 am | Permalink

i cant do the “clean” bit. error occured, unable to access. help pweez

537. jainil
Posted September 28, 2010 at 8:54 am | Permalink

i cant see my pendrive in command prompt in list disk…


what i have to do ???

538. daniel plasencia


Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:33 am | Permalink

thanx for the tips but i am getting a message saying could not map drive partition to the
associated volume device objects: acces is denied on step 7 can you help?

539. ehsan
Posted September 29, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Permalink

thanks alot dude!

540. Prithviraj
Posted September 29, 2010 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot . Worked like a charm, very detailed and precise. Great job keep it up

541. Dave Sanders


Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm | Permalink

Great step by step instructions. Even though I’ve done this dozens of times, it’s great to have
a site I can trust to refer to when my (poor) memory fails me.

Thanks!

Dave Sanders
Microsoft MVP

542. Peyman
Posted September 29, 2010 at 7:59 pm | Permalink

Great JOB . Thanks

543. admin
Posted September 29, 2010 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

Thanks for your kind words Dave Sanders.:)

544. Justin A

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Beautiful! Flawless! Stupid sata DVD died and with no replacement and no time to spare this
worked perfectly. Make sure drive is emptied as he states. Make sure! Otherwise, awesome.
Thank yooouu.

545. turnkey website


Posted October 1, 2010 at 7:31 pm | Permalink

i have a question that before reading this tutorial or finding it i bought a 2gb pen drive and i
think this procedure does not work with 2 gb pen drive or does it?

546. Donna
Posted October 2, 2010 at 10:02 am | Permalink

WOW – Thanks a lot. It worked like a charm. I really appreciate your help. Keep up the good
work. It is people like you that make the world a better place.
Thank agian

547. Donna
Posted October 2, 2010 at 10:06 am | Permalink

Thanks again

548. Sharma Mohit


Posted October 3, 2010 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

plz tell me how to edit bios settings?

549. Trevor
Posted October 4, 2010 at 12:56 am | Permalink

This works great, thanks alot.

550. Erik Hurtig


Posted October 4, 2010 at 2:43 am | Permalink

I just have to ask

Why not just copy all the files from the installation image to your drive, and have bootmgr
ran from there instead?

551. Jay Bee


Posted October 4, 2010 at 6:40 am | Permalink

This thread is getting long, but it is only fair to say thank you for this great guide. Thanks a
lot.

552. AJIT
Posted October 4, 2010 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

MAN ITS AWESOME IT WORKS GREAT

553. Modeste
Posted October 4, 2010 at 9:22 pm | Permalink

Tres bonne solution


elle marche à merveille

554. Ankit
Posted October 5, 2010 at 1:27 am | Permalink

i am using win7 32 bit. can i use bootsect to create a bootable USB to install win7 64 bit? i
have the ISO file for win7 64 bit, but have no clue how to get it to work.

PS- my DVD drive is kaput.

555. Anggi
Posted October 5, 2010 at 9:55 am | Permalink

Thank for tutorial installing windows 7

556. Mark
Posted October 6, 2010 at 10:30 am | Permalink

Thanks for the superb guide! I was able to get all the way to the final command with no
problems. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate edition (Custumized Nvidia edition) in 64 bit
mode. I get the following message when I try to enter the BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
command:

‘BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or


batch file.

any help would be MOST appreciated…

557. Mark

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Please disregard my previous post….I forgot the CD BOOT command before attempting it. I
have successfully updated the USB stick with the bootcode.

Again:

THANKS for this AWESOME guide…!

558. Doug
Posted October 7, 2010 at 3:24 am | Permalink

When I received this error:

file : \Boot\BCD
status : 0xc000000e
info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration

I used another thumb drive and the problem was solved.

559. unification
Posted October 7, 2010 at 5:09 am | Permalink

hello . why you dont answer to me .


i did all steps and it end successfully .
but when restart my pc and set usb boot .
my system cannot boot from usb and display this message
” … read disk error …” .
while i use slax in this usb pen and working truest.
but not working for this way that you say.
please help me . and contact by me via email adress .
thank.

560. JB
Posted October 9, 2010 at 1:47 am | Permalink

Since I’m trying to make a LiveCD bootable through USB, it’s not a normal official Windows 7
CD, and there is no BOOTSECT.EXE whatsoever, so I can’t make it BOOTMGR Compatible.
Any other solutions?

561. piyush
Posted October 9, 2010 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

my dvd write is not working.how can i do this step D: CD BOOT.pls mail me ans.

562. Nishant
Posted October 10, 2010 at 12:26 am | Permalink

I tried with both vista and 7


no prob in installation,
but in vista, no user profile is being created to log in.
In 7, finalisation takes all its life n after shutting down after first use, in gives problem from
second use on ward.
it was irriteting..
wasted full night..!

563. Sandeep
Posted October 11, 2010 at 5:30 pm | Permalink

@nishant-this process only creates the way by which u can boot the setup progress with the
pendrive…comparatively faster than cd or dvds….the problem you are facing is due to wrong
installation files

564. Kir
Posted October 11, 2010 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

Thank you very much!

I’m Russian, but I didn’t find any working instruction for my problem on russian lanquage.
This quide helps me to install Win7 Starter on my netbook using USB HDD.

P.S. Sorry for my engligh

565. Leo
Posted October 12, 2010 at 1:13 am | Permalink

Can i use this for install windows xp to?

566. Sam
Posted October 12, 2010 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

This worked fabulously. Thanks for the easy to follow instructions! I had been looking for this
solution for a long time.

567. Ionut
Posted October 13, 2010 at 1:34 am | Permalink

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Thanks a lot.
Worked perfectly!

Very well described.

568. Jamie Kitson


Posted October 13, 2010 at 5:44 pm | Permalink

You really should put a link to the MS USB/DVD tool more prominently on your site, why
bother with this complicated method?

http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool

569. Jony D Rico


Posted October 14, 2010 at 7:40 am | Permalink

Excelent it works great thank you, you save my life

570. Andres Au
Posted October 16, 2010 at 6:20 am | Permalink

You can also check the drive number designation in the device manager under “disk
management” if you have trouble selecting the appropriate disk as described in step four of
this guide.

571. pempoy
Posted October 16, 2010 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

Worked great! Thanks a lot.

572. KB
Posted October 16, 2010 at 9:36 pm | Permalink

THanks for the insight, I was going crazy trying to get this to work. A lot of sights miss the
part about this only working in Vista/7!

573. JACK91
Posted October 16, 2010 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot dude..it is awesome..installed in 11 minutes..WOW

574. Crypdan
Posted October 17, 2010 at 3:30 am | Permalink

When you say copy windows 7 contents, you mean the documents or a iso file?

575. haroldcore
Posted October 17, 2010 at 9:48 am | Permalink

what if i dont have a win7 disc? what if i just have an ISO but not on a cd. because i have an
ISO on my downloads.

576. AJ
Posted October 18, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Permalink

Works perfect, thank you.

577. dvhirst
Posted October 19, 2010 at 4:47 am | Permalink

Well, it worked as advertised (Windows7), but only after going to Control Panel – User
Account Control Settings and specifying “Never notify”. Before taking this step, the Bootsect
command failed with “Access denied”.

Now, on to setting up BartPE on this bootable 4GB USB drive…

Thanks!

578. KGB1953
Posted October 19, 2010 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

Nice Tut man. Easy to follow and love the pics

579. KGB1953
Posted October 19, 2010 at 1:22 pm | Permalink

If you have an .iso file just mount it with magiciso. Google it.

580. c0de
Posted October 19, 2010 at 11:58 pm | Permalink

Each tutorial to this Thema goes that way:


“First you use this Tool ,then use this tool and then do this dont mind why…”

What about people dont have Windows?

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I have only a far idea what to do with the USB Stick when i dont have those super special
Windows Tools…

Always those Windowlooker with there freaky tools xD


Never have a idea what they do ^^

581. Jaimie
Posted October 21, 2010 at 7:08 am | Permalink

Nice one works a treat.

Additional info:
1.) during the diskpart in command prompt, users need to cancel or ignore any prompts by
windows to automatically format the drive.

2.) If you get the message from command prompt when coppying the boot info that the
device is currently locked, it’s probably either your antivirus trying to scan the empty drive,
or it’s windows that has automatically opened the drive contents in a window. Stopping the
antivirus or any open windows other than commandprompt associated with the USB or
external drive and trying again from where it said “device locked” works.

Thanks for a brilliant post. Saved me hours. I’m setting up a PC with old DVD drives and
three have failed! Saved me getting a new DVD drive!

582. Samuel
Posted October 23, 2010 at 6:31 am | Permalink

PLEASE HELP!

I am having troubles with step 6:

I have typed in C:\Windows|System32> D: CD BOOT


Then when I type in D:\> CD BOOT
it says that The System Cannot Find The Path Specified.
My disk is definitely in the drive and is definitely drive D: so what is wrong?

583. elise sayer


Posted October 24, 2010 at 7:02 am | Permalink

make it work

584. chielt
Posted October 25, 2010 at 4:52 am | Permalink

I have a 4GB usb pendrive. When I try to do ‘CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY’ it tells me the
drive isn’t big enough te create a partition without extra parameters. Please advise.

585. nikhil
Posted October 25, 2010 at 10:54 am | Permalink

Ultimate guide..Fully working on Lenovo..

586. Albert
Posted October 25, 2010 at 11:10 am | Permalink

hey, i keep getting “… invalid ms-dos command” when copying the disk content in step 8.

587. Albert
Posted October 25, 2010 at 11:18 am | Permalink

and my explorer crashed.


I created this in win 7.

588. shoab
Posted October 26, 2010 at 3:06 am | Permalink

sir pls tell me about how to create usb bootale for install windows xp-7 by usb device like
pen drive.

589. SATHISH
Posted October 29, 2010 at 7:11 pm | Permalink

ya its really nice to do but in between i got some error .. but i think that the inspections
given above are really gud .., the same time after i did some steps my usb drives crashed ,
after that i cant able to use d usb .., so please avoid stop in between.. thanks

590. SATHISH
Posted October 30, 2010 at 12:46 am | Permalink

Hey Sorry For My Previous Post .., I Tried once again these steps i finally got thanks

Its Working Great …. Thanks

591 paras kumar

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Posted October 30, 2010 at 8:56 pm | Permalink

i have no cd drive so haw to make bootable pen drive

592. mukesh
Posted October 31, 2010 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

thanks dear its greet. working and help me lot


thanks again

593. Vyom Neeraj


Posted November 1, 2010 at 3:29 pm | Permalink

Great post..!! Followed all the instructions step by step and works like a charm..!!

The only tip is that this wont work for xp since in xp, the MS DOS disk manager does not
show usb disks. it will only show the HDD as disk 0. There is no disk 1. But when i tried with
vista, then it shows usb as disk 1 and all the steps worked easily.

Thanks again man..!!

594. Jeffrey
Posted November 1, 2010 at 6:03 pm | Permalink

i tried but it does boot.

595. SherwinQ
Posted November 4, 2010 at 10:03 am | Permalink

It works great, thanks for sharing this man.

596. marshmallow
Posted November 5, 2010 at 8:45 am | Permalink

where u download window 7 file

597. FilledVoid
Posted November 5, 2010 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

This worked perfectly for a system that I was fixing which had a broken DVD drive. The
method used was able to make my external drive bootable with Lenovos DVD image.

Thanks a ton.

598. Alex789045
Posted November 6, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink

THANKYOU finally one of these guides works YES!!!!

599. Vash
Posted November 6, 2010 at 4:29 pm | Permalink

hey bro i’ve read all the instructions, i’ve never try it myself but on about the comments
above, it’s a kind of 99% of believing you!!!hope i could make it!!!thanks

600. bINK
Posted November 6, 2010 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

thank you sir for your assistance on how to install windows from a usb , i have a oem cd with
all of the versions of windows on it and it works flawlessly with the usb method . i have
sucsescfully install starter, basic, home premium x86, x64 , and so on but my faviort useing
this method is what i have on my asus mini netbook with 500 gb hard drive and 4 gb
memory with windows 7 ultamate x64

601. sandy
Posted November 7, 2010 at 2:08 pm | Permalink

F:\BOOT>bootsect.exe /nt60 H:
Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied.

dis is d error i am facing plz help me out

602. sandy
Posted November 7, 2010 at 2:40 pm | Permalink

i solved that prob…. thanks for the artical….

603. lunatic
Posted November 7, 2010 at 9:35 pm | Permalink

Brick both of the usb drives I had thanks.

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Worked like a charm good job buddy.

604. griff
Posted November 9, 2010 at 8:40 pm | Permalink

Have used this a bunch of times, really good guide thanks.

The only difficulties i had were resolved when i ran command prompt as an administrator.

605. James
Posted November 10, 2010 at 6:59 am | Permalink

Awesome write up, worked like a charm! Thank you!

606. Deepak kumar


Posted November 10, 2010 at 8:13 pm | Permalink

after giving this command BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:


it gives error
could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied

607. Alan
Posted November 11, 2010 at 3:22 pm | Permalink

Much appreciated. I have an old Pc with org CD drive. It just wouldn’t read the Win 7 CD. My
HD was dead and I had to install a new one. Luckily I had my laptop with WIN 7 installed.
Took a while but we are up and running again.

608. 1234
Posted November 11, 2010 at 7:43 pm | Permalink

after instalation if i want to use my flash drive as a normal storing device, what do i have to
do?
just format? or it will stay a bootable device 4 evar?

609. removals companies


Posted November 12, 2010 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

this tutorial was what i was needing for my cd driveless laptop

610. David Brennan


Posted November 12, 2010 at 5:38 pm | Permalink

One of your command prompt lines is formed incorrectly but will still work:
i.e.

D: CD BOOT
CD BOOT

should be just

D:
CD BOOT

or:

cd /d D:\BOOT

but the guide works perfectly anyhow. Thanks very much.

611. LIM
Posted November 13, 2010 at 7:41 pm | Permalink

sorry i need ur help becaused after i done everything and restarting my computer to select
to boot option from usb drive, but screen pop up a message of boot manager is
missing….how to solve this problem. look forward for ur answer, thank you for helping me

612. dark8soul
Posted November 14, 2010 at 8:52 am | Permalink

for those who have trouble with all these instructions


try downloading wintoflash. very simple to use

613. A random dude


Posted November 15, 2010 at 12:06 am | Permalink

Right, it looks good, but I’ve yet to try it, for a few reasons:

1. How do you reverse the process for the USB, in case I want to use it as normal again after
I’ve booted up my PC with it? Can it be done? How? Maybe it works anyway? I don’t want to
ruin a good 16GB USB for it otherwise.

2 I’ve got my Win7 on an ISO on my HDD and I COULD install it using e g DaemonTools or

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some such directly, but there are things that are better with a booted installation, thus I
want to go with that option. But, my question is this, can I do as with the CD/DVD drive with
a virtual drive, where I mount the Win7 .ISO and do Step 6 with the mounted drive?

Many thanks in advance!

614. lacie
Posted November 16, 2010 at 2:47 am | Permalink

thank you!

615. Scott
Posted November 16, 2010 at 4:51 pm | Permalink

I got a problem on the final step: BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

The error reported an inability to complete the step due to a compatibility issue with the
version of windows I’m running….. suffice to say I’m PRETTY MUCH flabbergasted at this
point, any help hopefully? pending thats enough information

616. Ståle
Posted November 16, 2010 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

A very good and easy to follow guide. Thank you.

617. Agana
Posted November 16, 2010 at 7:04 pm | Permalink

this is great. it works great. thanks!

618. SREEJITH
Posted November 19, 2010 at 6:48 am | Permalink

I did this and installed Windows 7 Ultimate successfully….

THankx….

619. Vici
Posted November 19, 2010 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

Great tehnical post! Tnx for sharing!

620. Purushotham
Posted November 20, 2010 at 12:07 am | Permalink

I did everything, but when I tried to boot, It says “A disk read error occurred, Press
control+alt+del to restart.. Plz help me.

621. Jason
Posted November 20, 2010 at 2:11 am | Permalink

Thank you Thank you Thank you


easy to follow and worked like a charm!
Thank you Thank you Thank you

622. King Matt 85


Posted November 21, 2010 at 12:32 am | Permalink

Awesome. Well done pal!

623. Zaq
Posted November 21, 2010 at 1:19 am | Permalink

So i was on a mission for a free netbook. the job was to fix a laptop without a cd drive that
worked. SO i turned to this. needless to say. Thanks for the net book. Your a money saver
bud thank you!

624. NEERAJ
Posted November 21, 2010 at 2:06 pm | Permalink

yOU ARE GREAT


tHANK,S

625. kyle
Posted November 22, 2010 at 4:46 am | Permalink

um in stuck at spet 7 help plz it says it does not recognize “bootsect.exe as an interal or
external command”

help plz

626. kyle
Posted November 22, 2010 at 4:47 am | Permalink

im stuck not “in stuck”

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sorry typo

627. Žan
Posted November 22, 2010 at 10:23 pm | Permalink

I get Invalid MS-DOS function and I cannot copy boot folder…


Thanks for help!

628. deamon
Posted November 23, 2010 at 3:32 am | Permalink

works great,… thanks man. cheers

629. freddyzdead
Posted November 23, 2010 at 10:38 am | Permalink

If you really want to claim “100% Working” then why is step 6 still wrong?

It says:
====================================================
D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.


====================================================
when it should say:
====================================================
D: and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.


====================================================

This is easy to fix and it is confusing a lot of people.

Also, I think FAT32 would work ok; speed difference would be insignificant.

And I think the BOOTSECT.EXE part is redundant because DISKPART prolly already did that.
That’s why some ppl have got it to work when they left out that step.

Anyway, the main thing is it works. You just need to shout in caps that it DOESN’T WORK IN
XP. Maybe the morons would see it then.

630. Qiang
Posted November 23, 2010 at 1:47 pm | Permalink

I tried this solution. “List Disk” works on Vista, not XP.

631. Michael
Posted November 24, 2010 at 12:34 am | Permalink

I don’t have any Drivers when I try to install Windows 7 on my Netbook with no OS, what do
I do?

632. mallikarjun
Posted November 25, 2010 at 11:08 pm | Permalink

hey… after copyin the files to usb, i tried to install it on other comp by changing the boot
order… i’m getting a error BOOT MNGR MISSING… please help me with this…

633. Ryan
Posted November 26, 2010 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

i followed this instruction and I unfortunately 2 of my drives are now missing. i only have my
drive C visible

i am running windows 7(32bit) with 1 SATA HD(had 3 partitions now only C is visible) and 1
IDE HD

can someone please help me with this??

634. magallanes
Posted November 27, 2010 at 3:53 am | Permalink

Thanks.

btw, you can do (if you know that you pendrive is not defective):

FORMAT QUICK FS=NTFS

instead of
FORMAT FS=NTFS

635. Andreas
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Hi, I’ve tried to install win 7 from usb using wintoflash but faild due to ther error that I need
cd/dvd drivers. The solution was removing the usb and reinserting it then I cancelled the
setup and went to repair options. I then chose command prompt. After reinserting the usb
you will have 3 discs. Mine were X: which was the boot disc (supposedly the usb but it
wasn’t) c: (the usb after inserting it again) and d: (the cd-rom). On the command prompt I
had to navigate to X:\windows. (type: “cd X:\windows” without quotes) then type: “bootsect
/nt60 C: “(this loads the bootmgr on the usb. the usb in my case was C: so you have to find
yours) after that just restart and the setup will continue without errors. best of luck

636. gride420
Posted November 28, 2010 at 3:26 am | Permalink

great how too now i want a very easy how too on putting x86 and x64 bit of windows and of
vista on one disk. Then should be able to do this guide and have both on 1 thumb drive. In
the process of putting each os from xp up on 1 thumb drive each. Much faster installs and no
more burning disc. Thanks

637. ors
Posted November 28, 2010 at 10:52 am | Permalink

All of you who get “Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied.”

Try running cmd as administrator!

638. l0stb3ta
Posted November 30, 2010 at 2:35 am | Permalink

Out of curiosity, do folder permissions have to be set so that hidden files and folders must be
enabled? I tried this with my USB stick, and I get a missing operating system error. I copied
everything I could see from my Win7 DVD, but if there are hidden files on the DVD that could
explain the missing operating system error that both Jonathan and I are getting.

639. Daniel
Posted November 30, 2010 at 7:44 am | Permalink

I have a Net Book that came with Windows 7 Starter. I would like to install the Ultimate
Edition on it but it has no CD Drive. I got my hands on the Windows file but they are in ISO
format ready to be copied to a disk and boot off of said disk. Is there a way I can copy these
files onto a Flash drive instead and boot off of the Flash drive?

640. Gamer
Posted December 1, 2010 at 8:34 am | Permalink

Thanks!

641. nik
Posted December 1, 2010 at 9:15 am | Permalink

what happens to pendrive is it able to function normally after this…

642. anand
Posted December 3, 2010 at 4:34 am | Permalink

Thanks man it really worked

643. shane
Posted December 3, 2010 at 8:12 am | Permalink

i did this to a tablet pc that had no dvd-rom, and did NOT support USB boot option….i simply
yanked the drive from the tablet pc, connected it to a different pc via usb bridge, followed
the procedures above, put the hard drive BACK into the tablet pc, fired it up, and windows
began installation. Worked great, and didnt even create a second partition to do it lol

644. Eye Webmaster


Posted December 4, 2010 at 3:22 am | Permalink

Thank for this article I’ve made a working bootable USB of my own. I need this to make my
computer renewed and prepare it for my SEO work task.

645. Naval
Posted December 4, 2010 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

I haven’t the window 7 dvd disk. can I use above tips for Windows Xp or where can I get win
7 files. pls help.

646. LWN
Posted December 6, 2010 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

We’re in 2010, and for those of you that have had no success (ISO-file not recognized for
example) using the Microsoft ISO-tool mentioned on occasions in this thread, the real
solution that ALWAYS works is here:

http://firesage.com/bootsage.php

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647. MD
Posted December 7, 2010 at 6:28 am | Permalink

AWESOME dude!! This worked 1st time, better than buttered popcorn

648. Thomas
Posted December 9, 2010 at 12:33 am | Permalink

For those who had the error


Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
Access is denied.

REMEMBER TO OPEN CMD WITH ADMINISTRATOR PERMISSIONS!!!

649. zORG
Posted December 9, 2010 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

admin permissions doesn’t fix this problem thomas

650. Goose
Posted December 10, 2010 at 5:43 am | Permalink

I could not get this to work.

When I used “BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:”


I got an error stating that it is incompatible with my current windows. I am running Vista
32-bit right now and I am trying to use my USB stick to install Windows 7 64-bit. Anyone
help me?

651. bukag
Posted December 10, 2010 at 6:40 am | Permalink

how do they do it??

652. Easy123
Posted December 10, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

I have used this method several times and it works GREAT. Instruction are very easy to
follow.

For those having trouble with not being able to copy the contents of the DVD to the thumb
drive b/c you dont have a DVD drive. I would suggest to either perform these steps on a PC
that has a drive or if you have a iso or a rar image of a DVD you can use magiciso (free) to
create a virtual CD ROM drive and then mount the image to a virtual Drive.

Works GREAT.. I used this for Vista and Windows 7 32 and 64 bit.

If you cant figure it out READ the instructions Carefully or take your USB thumb drive and
DVD to a local computer shop and have them do it for you. Make sure you give them this
sites URL b/c it works just fine. Quick and Easy.

Thanks

653. Juan
Posted December 11, 2010 at 4:53 am | Permalink

Thank you! I keep this page on my favorites and use it often.


This worked without issues.
Those having problems are either using the wrong drive letter, have a syntax error, or don’t
have the USB as the first boot device on the BIOS.
Another thing to consider is that not all boards allow booting from a USB drive – especially
older one.
Don’t drive yourself crazy if the option is there, your computer is somewhat old, and it
doesn’t work. Chances are booting from USB is not supported.

Good luck.

654. George
Posted December 11, 2010 at 12:32 pm | Permalink

I was installing Windows XP on old laptop, but installation process aborted in the midway
giving me some error, while I was using similar guide to install XP. So, I have removed HDD
(2.5 with IDE interface) and formatted it on using another laptop which is running on
Windows 7 (I used IDE to USB adapter to connect it). Thus, now when HDD is clean and I try
to boot up from USB (setting it in BIOS to boot up from USB), it gives me only blinking cursor
and it does not go anywhere. If I remove USB and tries to boot up from HDD it gives:

BOOTMGR is missing
Press ctrl+alt+del to reboot

As I remember on Win 98 there was ‘copy SYS’ command to start command prompt. Any
alternative on XP? I simply need to get command prompt started and than I’ll take it from
there to install XP.

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Please help if any one can!

655. ice
Posted December 11, 2010 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

if you get this message after typing BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:


“This version of F:boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re
running.”

meaning you are running 32 bit windows and trying to execute a 64 bit bootsect.exe

all you have to do to fix this is to copy your 64 bit windows 7 on to the usb and then insert a
32 bit dvd and execute the 32 bit bootsect.exe on to your usb

656. Senthilkumar
Posted December 12, 2010 at 8:16 am | Permalink

Awesome. Worked exactly.

657. Khalid
Posted December 12, 2010 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

it required software like “wintoflash”

658. Khalid
Posted December 12, 2010 at 12:42 pm | Permalink

please me give more details through email for this process

659. Khalid
Posted December 12, 2010 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

please me give more details it required any software like “wintoflash”

660. George
Posted December 14, 2010 at 5:40 am | Permalink

To ice

Any idea about my issue?

661. Li Xin
Posted December 14, 2010 at 3:44 pm | Permalink

It is working! Good instructions,and easy to follow. Thanks

662. sM4llziE
Posted December 14, 2010 at 6:57 pm | Permalink

Wait.. There’s an official tool? You could have put that at the beginning xD

663. Ice
Posted December 15, 2010 at 12:08 am | Permalink

To George
reasech how to get BOOTMGR back on the HD.
The orginal problem, before you formated the HD, sounds like a bad Ram, run a memory
test in bios if you have it, or get a new ram chip if you can to make sure.

664. LefterisTR
Posted December 15, 2010 at 2:51 am | Permalink

win7 usb

665. paulette
Posted December 15, 2010 at 7:28 am | Permalink

Hi. I have been trying to do this and I get stuck on this part where it says to do:
Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:

D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.

BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:
Is there something Im doing wrong? Also can this be done on a computer running windows 7
for a vista? My desktop is windows 7 and my laptop which im trying to fix was vista. I erased
everything on the laptop hard drive on my windows 7 computer so did that mess it up?
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks

666. paulette
Posted December 15, 2010 at 7:31 am | Permalink

To George:

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Did you figure it out? My laptop does the same thing with the blinking cursor and I have tried
everything I can think of.
Thanks

667. Phil
Posted December 15, 2010 at 6:23 pm | Permalink

I used this guide 3 times now, still havent gotten the commands tattooed on my backbone..
but.. works 100% every time. I installed win7 on my own laptop, my pc, one work pc, and
now using it on my girlfriends laptop. thanks a lot for the simple guide, everyone saying it
doesn’t work, either aren’t following the steps, or should check to see that they arent trying
to install windows on their washing machine or something. if u follow the steps, it will work. I
actually get a error message on the final step, but I have still been able to complete the
installation every time. thanks man, people like you are what makes the www great.
Sincerely
Phil

668. Nihar
Posted December 17, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot ……i was having problem in cd/dvd drive….u solved it…thanks again.:)

669. sintayehu
Posted December 17, 2010 at 7:06 pm | Permalink

I am very glad right now. I was highly frustrated because I thought my computer is not
gonna be compatible for windows 7. I tried many things even went to repair guys. Only this
page worked for me. I thank you guys! really I’m happy!

670. Michael
Posted December 17, 2010 at 9:17 pm | Permalink

Nice Guide, took me 5 minutes to complete this tutorial. You Rock!

671. Ajmal
Posted December 18, 2010 at 12:01 pm | Permalink

I am using a 8GB usb, but in “LIST BOOT” command Disk 0 mean only hard disk is
mentioned no other disk there.

SO what to do?

672. George
Posted December 18, 2010 at 12:10 pm | Permalink

To Ice
Thanks, I’ll give a try. I do not think its RAM issue though.

To Paulette
Once I try it, I’ll update you here.

673. lambang
Posted December 18, 2010 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

how do I get the uninstall windows 8? please in reply

674. lambang
Posted December 18, 2010 at 12:45 pm | Permalink

how do I get the windows 8 install? please in reply

675. hisham
Posted December 18, 2010 at 8:39 pm | Permalink

itz awesome thankz alot ……….


i thought
it may not work but it worked after that
thankz thankz
can i know ur name plzzz
itz awesomw

676. maryam
Posted December 18, 2010 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

excellent..
Thanks a lot

677. sumit
Posted December 19, 2010 at 6:08 pm | Permalink

hi……… i have not yet checked it whether this works or not but hope for best….

678. Stanislavsky
Posted December 19, 2010 at 11:16 pm | Permalink

Thank you sooo much for the guide, really simple to follow up !!!

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Kudos for you and your website !!

679. BOSS
Posted December 20, 2010 at 5:29 am | Permalink

I FOLLOW ALL THE PRECEDURE THEN ITS GAVE ME BOOTMGR IS MISSING

680. Srinivasan
Posted December 20, 2010 at 10:43 am | Permalink

Perfectly worked for me…


Just followed your instructions…. Great and Thanks…
I was actually trying to install over the network where two systems were connected to the
same home group, But it was little scary. This one was easy.
Appreciate if you could give a tutorial for the installation over the same network.

Thank
Srini

681. raj
Posted December 20, 2010 at 10:41 pm | Permalink

*Waits for a 200GB HDD to format F_F *

682. Abhilash Thomas


Posted December 22, 2010 at 1:02 am | Permalink

Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its realy working for me.. you are realy genious.. thanks man

683. sms
Posted December 22, 2010 at 2:05 am | Permalink

it works like a charm


i’ve installed windows 7 in my precision workstation 490
Thanks alot

684. Jaques
Posted December 22, 2010 at 4:02 am | Permalink

Been going through guides and suggestions all over the place this evening, but I found this;

http://www.computerbild.de/download/WinToFlash-4776317.html?dl=1

That just works, you just need your Win CD and a 4GB+ USB drive and you are all set…

685. mar mar


Posted December 22, 2010 at 4:15 am | Permalink

ok what do i do if i dont have the disk but i do have all the stuff i need saved on another flash
drive?

686. Max
Posted December 22, 2010 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

I have only one question, can i make the bootable flash drive on any win, i mean, im using
xp and i want to make win7 x64 bootable flash drive, is that possible?

687. victor
Posted December 22, 2010 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

Works great! Keep up the good work. Thank you.

688. peety
Posted December 22, 2010 at 11:43 pm | Permalink

very nice guide. thanks. only issue im having is its taking FOREVER to format a 8gb usb drive

689. peety
Posted December 22, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

i am thinking i mightve been better off specifying ‘quick’ in the format

690. Xao
Posted December 23, 2010 at 12:24 am | Permalink

this tutorial works only with the computer u have made the changes? or if i plug out the usb
and put it in other computer it will work!?

691. MSW SUX


Posted December 23, 2010 at 1:00 am | Permalink

I DIDNT GET A VISTA DISK WITH MY PC, IT CAME PRE-INSTALLED!!

692. Win7easyinstall
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Hi all!

Here are some tips.


1. Can only be created from a computer running Windows 7 or Vista
2. You can only create a drive that is the same type as the os your using. i.e. 64bit drives
cannot be made on 32bit installed!
3. Do not install to flash/pen/usb drive, install to hard drive!
4. Make sure you have backed up all your data since this is clean install.
5. Format and install speeds vary depending on your flash drive and its capacity. i.e. A 4GB
drive will be quicker at formatting than a 8GB model.

Hope this helped!

@marmar
Download a program that can create .iso files or if you have the .iso on another drive simply
mount with Virtual Clone Drive or Daemon Tools (Virtual Clone Drive is easier, once you
have got the .iso with all the files in mount and use the virtual disk drive letter in the cmd
and it should be easy!

Thanks,
Win7easyinstall

693. Win7easyinstall
Posted December 23, 2010 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

I am going to reinstall my Win 7 now! WAs having problems with when on startup it would
say File: James and the ‘OPEN WITH’ box i would have it close 3 of them every time! :/
Hopefully this works cause my pc take months to load up win 7 ultimate (1GB Ram) also I
get blue screen of death! (I got too many programs on startup )

win7easyinstall

694. Chandan SIngh


Posted December 24, 2010 at 1:12 am | Permalink

Thanx, it’s 100% working.

thank u for giving this code

695. Bill Brown


Posted December 24, 2010 at 4:41 am | Permalink

Please help me its not working!??!?!!? I got an error during my first install so I checked to
make sure my hardrive was okay. I opened it up and noticed a wire was disconnected so I
soldered it back in place(I’m rather smart hardware type stuff) and then I further proceeded
to make sure the physical hard drive disk didn’t have any scratches on it (it was pretty
clean). So yea, It is beyond me why it is not working, have any ideas?

696. WildSchatz
Posted December 24, 2010 at 6:59 am | Permalink

Man, thank you for making my Win7 USB installation as easy as possible. You steps worked
like a charm. Had to go this route after the DVD installation would error out. Thanks again!!

697. Eddie K.
Posted December 24, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

Use your brain, put the UPDATE call in the first line not in the last one! This is all a waste of
time since MS Tool does it all instantly.

698. LlF
Posted December 24, 2010 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

have anyone used this tool:


http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

699. spag
Posted December 26, 2010 at 11:55 pm | Permalink

Hey, the instructions were great! during the installation process, setup returned to the initial
installation screen instead of restarting after expanding the files. I rebooted the computer
and after that it finished setup without issue.

700. Bradley Rimbleus


Posted December 27, 2010 at 3:59 am | Permalink

I followed this guide and succesfully installed windows on a computer.

However using the same USB on another computer, I get the following error (yes, all bios
settings are correct, such as boot from usb, usb legacy)

I have the right version (32bit).

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A disk read error occurred; Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

any solution to this?

701. Andrew Benson


Posted December 27, 2010 at 1:10 pm | Permalink

Thou art a god among men, and I shalt worship thou as such. No seriously this is the most
useful thing I have seen the past two years. You have saved what little life I actually have.

702. Ted Allen


Posted December 27, 2010 at 11:07 pm | Permalink

Awesome! Well written, easy to understand, and worked well. Thank you!

703. james mccoy


Posted December 28, 2010 at 5:31 am | Permalink

awesome tutorial

704. Alan
Posted December 28, 2010 at 9:01 am | Permalink

Thanks a huge huge amount!!


Acer Aspire One froze while running XP recovery. Dead computer…
Used your instructions and loaded Windows 7.
Worked Great!

705. lee
Posted December 28, 2010 at 2:08 pm | Permalink

awseome

706. Mark D
Posted December 29, 2010 at 2:38 am | Permalink

Make sure you run the command prompt as Administrator if you are doing this within
Windows 7.

707. Anthony Maes


Posted December 29, 2010 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

Hi, thanks for the tutorial, this was thew only one that worked over network. LAN. BooT.

708. arthur
Posted December 30, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

this is great! I accidentally erased all the content of my external drive during the process but
its my fault.that doesn’t matter anyway I can install Windows 7 Ultimate to a computer from
usb flash drive now.thank you!

709. Tobias
Posted December 31, 2010 at 3:03 am | Permalink

Wonderful, i fixed my netbook. Super

710. chrisNova777
Posted January 1, 2011 at 6:19 am | Permalink

the steps are nowhere near difficult to follow, but this just flat out doesnt seem to work for
me, I always always always get the BCD Boot Error :

file : \Boot\BCD
status : 0xc000000e
info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration

when trying to boot.. Can anyone point out what could be causing this? which thumbdrives
are people using here that have experienced success?? ive tried with a patriot Xporter XT
8gb and a Lexar 8gb Secure and no go so far with either of them…

711. chrisNova777
Posted January 1, 2011 at 6:35 am | Permalink

ok so i just tested the usb from the patriot xporter XT and it works on the machine ive
created it on, but not on the machine im trying to use it to install on, do you have to make
the disk on the machine that you are using it on?

712. TheOriginalPol
Posted January 1, 2011 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

THANK YOU! I really do appreciate you writing instructions on how to properly do this. I saw
a bunch of those guides where folks said to just ‘copy all the files over to a FAT32 drive’ and I
knew that couldn’t be right… sure enough it wouldn’t work for me. You are a gentleman and
a scholar.

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713. vamsee
Posted January 3, 2011 at 1:02 am | Permalink

its working fine.. but problem is that… booting started automatically from pen drive and files
expanded… then when it restarted in the middle… again booting started from beginning by
reading files from usb… its an unending cycle… wat to do??? im panicked…. tell a solution
asap…

714. darkathena
Posted January 3, 2011 at 3:24 am | Permalink

hey guys to make the format faster enter..

FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK OVERRIDE

DarkAthena

715. Tastyklean
Posted January 3, 2011 at 5:22 am | Permalink

I like the fact that people will follow all steps but fail to read the title. Its A Tutorial For Vista
And 7 Based Systems. Xp Does Not Have The Tools To Do This.
Anyway.
Life Saver Thanks Buddy !

716. Bradley
Posted January 3, 2011 at 9:59 am | Permalink

awesome. worked on the first try. you rule.

717. Jeremy
Posted January 4, 2011 at 4:49 am | Permalink

Hello,

Some motherboards, (like mine,) DO support booting from USB, but the bis lists USB devices
as ‘Hard Disk’s instead of ‘Removable’. So in order to get it to boot from USB you must
change the hard disk boot order. So when you are installing windows 7 it comes to a point
where it needs to reboot to finish the installation. But when it reboots it begins the install
sequence all over again. This is because it booted from the USB again.
FIX:
-just watch and wait for the reboot, then hold ‘del’ or whatever key gets you to your bios on
your system. then switch the hard disk boot order back to device #1 being the partition
where you chose to install windows.
voila! your install will continue as normal.

BTW my motherboard is ASUS P5N-D

Also, this guide is totally awesome – works perfectly, thank you.


Jeremy

718. Jeremy
Posted January 4, 2011 at 5:10 am | Permalink

my previous post was directed to ‘vamsee’ of post #713 to answer the question there.

719. Saravanan
Posted January 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm | Permalink

When i am trying to boot from Pendrive i am getting below error message.

A disk read error accoured.


ctrl+alt+Del to restart.

I am using Asrock P4i45GV Mothoer board with Bios versio 3.0.

Anyone can help me?????????????????

720. Grafi?no Oblikovanje


Posted January 7, 2011 at 6:09 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot! This help me so much, expecialy because my dvd was broken…

721. FREDDY U.
Posted January 7, 2011 at 9:02 am | Permalink

IT WORKED 100%
JUST FOLLOW EVERY STEP AND THAT’S IT.

722. Danny
Posted January 7, 2011 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

I wonder if anyone has accidentally formatted the wrong drive aka Disk 0. Would be a laugh.

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723. ankkit
Posted January 8, 2011 at 10:31 pm | Permalink

i got error coping bootmgr code it said


program to big to fit
i m using 4gb kingston pendrive
plz help……

724. dallas
Posted January 9, 2011 at 4:35 am | Permalink

hey… so if i put my copy of windows 7 on flashdrive it should boot right…. i do not have
windows 7 disk the file is just in my computer…. so do i just put it on flashdrive then follow
next steps

725. ARC™
Posted January 9, 2011 at 11:32 am | Permalink

not working the 1st time i try it. im on 2nd attempt now. the thing is, i keep my windows
installer file and everything on my hard disk(H) and not dvd/cd. So, does it mean that I have
to alter the 6th step correspond to the letter of my hard disk?

726. japex
Posted January 9, 2011 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

“No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct
drivers, and then click ok”

i can reach the “Install” part but then it comes up with the error message above. i cannot
load drivers since when i browse. i cannot seem to see the USB. ive put an AHCI and Chipset
driver there but cant browse because i cant see it. help pls.

help please. putang ina kasi tong gumawa ng tutorial eh. gago.

727. Damon D.
Posted January 10, 2011 at 1:08 am | Permalink

Works Great , Thank you very much

728. Andreas
Posted January 10, 2011 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

Just for the record;

You don’t have to do the steps after step 4. All you need to do after step 4 is to copy the
contents of the Win7 DVD to the flash drive and then it’s good to go.

729. romance
Posted January 10, 2011 at 6:10 pm | Permalink

hi, in step 4, u’ve mentioned to format the pen drive. i did it but the process is very slow
because the format command is applicable for thorough formatting. can i format the pen
drive in that step in quick mode? thnkx

730. Juna
Posted January 11, 2011 at 5:11 am | Permalink

I followed these instructions to the letter. Diskpart showed my USB drive to be disk 3. I
formatted disk 3. Whoops, my 250 Gb data drive just lost everything on it! <:-{

Why tell people to use such a truly shit utility as diskpart when you can format a disk from
Windows Explorer?

731. David C.
Posted January 11, 2011 at 6:37 am | Permalink

Worked like a charm! Thanks!!!

732. sd
Posted January 12, 2011 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

This version of F:boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re
running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need a X86 (32-Bit)
or X64(64-Bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. “

733. Ankit singh


Posted January 12, 2011 at 3:08 pm | Permalink

hi,
my cd drive is not working and when i put any usb drive and boot my system it shows some
error like disk not found.
please help me. i want to use windows 7 on my laptop.

734. Chucho
Posted January 13, 2011 at 7:14 am | Permalink

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Can I do this to install it on a new pc? dont have any OS on it.

735. D.R.Kurrey
Posted January 13, 2011 at 11:20 pm | Permalink

There is problem !
“Operating System not found”

736. D.R.Kurrey
Posted January 13, 2011 at 11:21 pm | Permalink

problem arise at the time of booting from usb

737. Shivams
Posted January 14, 2011 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

Thanks for ur post. But when i’m installing win7 through usb wen it is restarting for the first
time it is again automatically going boot again. Thus my installation stopped in the middle.
Please help me in installing my OS..
Thanks,
regards,
Shivams

738. Anshul Kataria


Posted January 14, 2011 at 4:28 pm | Permalink

hey bro i dont have cd of windows 7 but i have an iso image of it in my drive. How to use this
process without cd?
please tell

739. admin
Posted January 14, 2011 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

Anshul Kataria, please use Virtual Clone Drive (free) software to mount the ISO file.

740. TED E
Posted January 14, 2011 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

I locked at step 5… i thing the problem was my anti virus program… turn it of and voila!

741. Tyler Perry


Posted January 15, 2011 at 12:43 pm | Permalink

I tried to install Win xp on my EEEpc 1000H but for some reason it wouldnt boot unless i put
the USB stick in….lol, its mad when Win 7 is much easier to setup and install than XP.

742. PIyush
Posted January 15, 2011 at 8:09 pm | Permalink

Thanks

743. Moniz
Posted January 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

Thanks man, it’s worked…

744. GLa5s
Posted January 17, 2011 at 3:34 am | Permalink

What if I am doing this on a netbook where there is no dvd drive but I have the files on my
desktop already? I am lost on what to type in when the instructions say to insert dvd

745. Noodles
Posted January 17, 2011 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

hi for all the people that have win 7 on there hdd just use magic iso or damon tools and run it
on a virtual drive it works tested my self

746. kathir
Posted January 19, 2011 at 9:59 am | Permalink

thanks a lot..its working !!!!!…

To open cmd prompt,please do the following


All programs—>accesories—>cmd—>right click and click run as administrator…
then follow the instructions given in the guide…
once again thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

747. Ankit
Posted January 19, 2011 at 2:40 pm | Permalink

thanks m8,
many many thanks.. with my optical drive malfunction, I had no other option to reinstall the
OS, you really hav been of great help.. thanks again..

748 Helmi

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Posted January 19, 2011 at 7:15 pm | Permalink

Its work…thank you..:D

749. walent
Posted January 20, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Permalink

Works on Windows 7, even without bootsect.. thanks!!

750. Sam
Posted January 20, 2011 at 11:07 pm | Permalink

thanks alot it worked just fine please email me if you have any more tutorials (its a bit late
but)’Happy New Year’

751. kregg
Posted January 21, 2011 at 4:42 am | Permalink

Uhh… guys… You do realise there is a Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool that does all this
ridiculous hard work for you, right? And it’s from Microsoft too.

Save yourself 5 hours and use that instead.

752. juozas
Posted January 21, 2011 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

Thanx work good.

753. Sanjay
Posted January 21, 2011 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

Really it was helpful to me.


@Brandon Only Works on VISTA AND WINDOWS 7.

754. Jonathan
Posted January 22, 2011 at 6:43 pm | Permalink

Excellent post. Very helpful.

755. Eumesmo
Posted January 24, 2011 at 3:44 am | Permalink

You can also try BOOTICE to set partition active and write Windows 7 boot sector

756. denbang
Posted January 24, 2011 at 5:53 pm | Permalink

Double thumbs up!

757. GOOD WORK


Posted January 24, 2011 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

thanks alot

758. Shashi
Posted January 25, 2011 at 12:59 am | Permalink

Goog for this information and we can load two operating system in USB so that we can insatll
at time windows 7 or windows server 2008

759. Thebest**
Posted January 25, 2011 at 4:01 am | Permalink

The best tutorial, i have used this many times without any problems and it rocks any time
with no problems …thanks for posting this

760. Chris
Posted January 25, 2011 at 5:58 am | Permalink

Hey followed the instructions and everything seems to work to a point. When windows starts
it gives me the splash screen that says “Install Windows” or whatever, when I click it the box
disappears for a second, and then reappears. Can’t actually get to the install, weird.

761. bohari
Posted January 25, 2011 at 6:04 am | Permalink

its rewlly good abd i try it later

762. Manjunath
Posted January 26, 2011 at 3:42 pm | Permalink

Helped me very much to install windows 7 using usb. Just ensure that you run Command
Prompt as Run As Adminstrator (Right Click Option on cmd). I wasted much time using
normal mode.

763. bmac3

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Guys please help me. CMD crashed when I was doing the FORMAT FS=NTFS at 23%. Now
my USB-Stick isn’t working because it is displayed as NTFS. I can’t access it at all. How can I
get it right again?

764. vikrant
Posted January 27, 2011 at 12:32 am | Permalink

Thank a lot. Very useful tutorial

765. Cristian
Posted January 27, 2011 at 2:09 am | Permalink

i did everything but i wanted to install but what will i have to do in the bios setup?

766. Shaikh NOman Nasir


Posted January 27, 2011 at 3:43 am | Permalink

Hey i am trying to follow your steps… But when i write BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F:(MY USB
DRIVE LETTER IS F) THEN I GOT THIS MSG

“TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.

COULD NOT MAP DRIVE TO THE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECT

WHAT TO DO ?

767. shahin
Posted January 27, 2011 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

Thanks….

768. Jan
Posted January 28, 2011 at 9:56 am | Permalink

Hi. i have followed you guide and i got to boot the usb successfully, but when windows 7
starts. it doesn’t get to the installation process, it’s just stock on the windows 7 background
and the mouse pointer, what do you think is the problem? is my motherboard not compatible
? i have asus p5sd2-vm. or is it with my installer that has the problem?

thanks in advance!

769. piet
Posted January 29, 2011 at 7:44 pm | Permalink

dude, you so rock!!!


i hav espent hours creating stupid osis using low quality tools to get to this point.. and yet it
was so simple this way!! thumbs up dude

770. Tony
Posted January 29, 2011 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

Super…USB win7 boot disk is working fine…Thanks a lot !!!!!

771. Putra Haikal


Posted January 29, 2011 at 9:46 pm | Permalink

Hi there,

this guide is working fine.

thank you for shared with us

772. gez
Posted January 30, 2011 at 4:48 am | Permalink

@ Jan
Just leave it, it will eventually bring up the language option and continue..it just takes about
5-10 mins and appears as nothing is happening..just be patient!

773. hAMMAD
Posted January 30, 2011 at 3:57 pm | Permalink

Some times /nt60 do not work for whatever reason then we can use /nt52.

774. Eason
Posted January 30, 2011 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

Its 100% working

BUT since its other laptops bios are new now. Its not removable devices for me but Hard
Drive

775. just me

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Posted January 31, 2011 at 1:21 am | Permalink

wish you would have stated that if you do not have a win 7 dvd/cd, and the info is already on
your flash drive, proceed to step #x. I just wiped out my usb drive which had all of my win 7
data on it. thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

776. Al
Posted January 31, 2011 at 4:25 am | Permalink

Hi I’m facing the same error as sandy in post #601.

Access denied error running Bootsect.exe Please help!

Thanks, –Al

777. Joe
Posted January 31, 2011 at 6:50 am | Permalink

Thank you so much for your help.


It’s very cool.

778. Bachir
Posted January 31, 2011 at 11:22 pm | Permalink

Any one faced this message when trying to copy file into USB stick? “”Can’t read from the
source file or disk. bootsect.exe.mui’”". When I presses skip I got same message for other
file names!!!!!

Post #441 had teh same problem

regards

779. Thomas
Posted February 1, 2011 at 2:15 am | Permalink

If you have access denied error, run cmd in run as adminstrator mode.

780. Andreas
Posted February 1, 2011 at 9:35 am | Permalink

Works just as described. Thanks very much, saved my bacon after realizing Mom-in-Law’s
PC didn’t have DVD drive.
To Al: had same error. Make sure you are running CMD as Admin. If it doesn’t prompt you
for permission on launch, you didn’t launch it right. Use the right-click “run as administrator”
option.

781. balaji
Posted February 2, 2011 at 1:39 am | Permalink

Hi, i would like you to guide me that how can i deploy xp/vista/windows7 wherein the os to
be loaded from the centralized server to the client desktops. Is there any software or
freewares available. Can anyone help me how to proceed with

782. PerT
Posted February 2, 2011 at 3:44 am | Permalink

Hi Al

I had the same – look at #577 and change to “never notify”


BUT I had to reboot – after I changed to “never notify” – before it worked.
After reboot – you can go step 6 – by open the cmd again.

783. Dark
Posted February 2, 2011 at 5:48 am | Permalink

F**king awesome!!! Thanks brawah


Works great!

784. Shane
Posted February 2, 2011 at 2:13 pm | Permalink

Worked a treat !!
Thanks !

(remember guys – right click on the cmd to run as administrator or the boosect.exe wont
work)

785. NOOR
Posted February 4, 2011 at 3:41 pm | Permalink

HI !!!
I’m Palestinian , So please excuse my English!!
I want to ask about the commands
SELECT DISK 1
CLEAN

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CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY


SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT

Are these commands affect the machine I’m working in ?

I have a windows CD BUT My lptp DVD machine is out of work , and i need to install windows
7 on my lptp

IF I used this guides to install the CD contents to USB on my friend lptp ,,, does this affect
hers ?

Thanks a lot

786. phil
Posted February 4, 2011 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

if step 7 fails, run command prmopt as administrator.

787. anjan rai


Posted February 5, 2011 at 1:31 am | Permalink

Hey man, thanks a lot. i was searching this type of method from last few days and now i got
sucess. it really worked. THANKS alot bro.

788. lunjanie2
Posted February 6, 2011 at 2:15 am | Permalink

After using BOOTSECT letter on the USB drive chnaged from F: to G:, if that is of help for
someone there. Check the drive letter before doing step 7

789. Katherine
Posted February 6, 2011 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

I can’t figured out whats going on >__> I’ve changed the bios and I get an error. “bootmgr
cannot be found”

790. Manindra Agrawal


Posted February 6, 2011 at 7:48 pm | Permalink

hi Thnx a lot its work properly. if i want to make Bootable USB for XP
is i will follow above steps or some other steps

Thnx for it

791. Israel
Posted February 6, 2011 at 10:21 pm | Permalink

Worked perfect…
Tryed with 7, 32 and 64 bits
Ty

792. Bhupend
Posted February 8, 2011 at 10:45 pm | Permalink

it works

793. moksha
Posted February 10, 2011 at 7:12 pm | Permalink

Thanks a million tonne. You’re a savior. This really works. My DVD drive isn’t working and I
had no choice.

794. LeAnna
Posted February 10, 2011 at 8:32 pm | Permalink

Thanks for the great DIY article! One question: what to do for people without the
Windows7/Vista DVD? Software came pre-installed with licenses stick to the bottom of the
netbook.

795. DR
Posted February 12, 2011 at 1:10 am | Permalink

How do i get my USB flash drive to function as a mass storage device again?

796. Florin
Posted February 12, 2011 at 1:52 am | Permalink

I tried to install the way this tutorial said but at the formating the memory stick as NTFS it
taked me samething more than 1 hour and got an error of formating also. So I had formated
as NTFS in Windows 7 and copyed the files from the win7 image mounted with daemon tools

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(drag & drop – I had unchecked “Hide protected operating system files” from Folder and
search options)and worked just fine with installing windows 7 on another computer.

797. nainglinn
Posted February 12, 2011 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

It can do bootable usb with Transcend . I have tried to do bootable drive with Verico usb but
I cann’t .

798. DIODIM
Posted February 13, 2011 at 1:38 am | Permalink

wonderfull guide man…you rock!!

799. Jason
Posted February 13, 2011 at 3:49 am | Permalink

Thanks! This really help me out in a jam. Not having a dvd-rom with my netbook can be a
pain at times.

800. Joao
Posted February 14, 2011 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

Worked great! Dell Optiplex 160 – no DVD ram, only USB. Thanks!

801. JIM
Posted February 16, 2011 at 10:05 am | Permalink

thanks alot

802. Michael
Posted February 16, 2011 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

LIST DISK only shows my 2 local harddisk, and not the USB flash drive.

803. Jaideep Arora


Posted February 16, 2011 at 11:52 pm | Permalink

Pappi Boss Aap Chaa Gaye !!!!!

Master Brain Bhai!1 kya baat hai,


It helps me a lot on my mini laptop to install windows on my own.

Thanksss!!!
Bravo Yaar

804. Elli Bagelman


Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:55 am | Permalink

Thanks! worked like a charm

805. Jaideep Arora


Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:31 am | Permalink

So Dammnn Good, Marvolous Work, Grt,


U Must be some Windows Co-worker na.

Win 7 get installed only in 15 min compare to DVD Rom drive which takes 20-30 min.
Time, Money & Pressure, CD Cost etc. everything I saved
I purchased a new Flash Drive of 8GB and it works for me so good.
Bye, Have more fun and also give me the XP Booting related post.
Thanks Admin

806. anonymous
Posted February 17, 2011 at 6:24 pm | Permalink

sir when i type list disk , my USB volume is not listed, please help !!!

807. killer_boy
Posted February 18, 2011 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

i’ve been follow ur steps and instruction to the last steps.. but after the bootsect.exe part i’ve
got this

“target volumes will be update with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access denied.”

can u help me with this thing please..

808. asanka
Posted February 18, 2011 at 9:33 pm | Permalink

Thnx man, it workd

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809. josh
Posted February 19, 2011 at 2:47 am | Permalink

can i use win to flash and get the file on to my usb and follow the steps? if so what file type
should it be after i format so the cpu can read it?

810. RAJU THOKAR


Posted February 19, 2011 at 6:10 pm | Permalink

How to copy the windows 7 on Flash drive, directly copy and paste as we usually do in Flash
drive or through command?

811. Christian
Posted February 20, 2011 at 9:30 am | Permalink

Thank you so much – this was the easiest install I’ve ever done.

812. Arjun3111
Posted February 20, 2011 at 10:24 am | Permalink

thank u very much…..a sigh of relief…..phewww…..!!!


god bless u…. keep rocking….

813. Erik
Posted February 20, 2011 at 12:32 pm | Permalink

can i do that all that work in my desktop for formating my laptop, or all this work have to be
in that computer wich will be formated?

814. franz99
Posted February 20, 2011 at 2:44 pm | Permalink

I followed sucessfully all the steps of this guide under Windows 7 Pro but when booting on my
USB pendrive
I get the same error as mentionned earlier by madmax :
file : \Boot\BCD
status : 0xc000000e
info : An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration

I could not find in this discussion above any answer to madmax’s question so could please
help us
Do you think this error message related to the preparation of the USB pendrive or to the
capabilities of my mainboard ?

I get the same error message when using the official MS Tool
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-7-usb-to-install-windows-
7-from-usb-flash-drive-using-windows-7-dvdusb-tool/

815. Asger
Posted February 20, 2011 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

100% is nothing … MANY THANKS!!!!!!!!

816. flex
Posted February 21, 2011 at 1:14 am | Permalink

Fantastic guide… thanks!

817. Alex
Posted February 22, 2011 at 4:15 am | Permalink

Hi,
thanks for the support it worked perfectly!!!
i have a little problem altough, i used my phone memory card as boot usb and now i can’t
use it in the phone again, somehow the phone can’t recognise it… how can i fix it?

818. Gaurav
Posted February 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm | Permalink

Yes it is “100% working.”

Thanks dude!!

819. Ajmat husain


Posted February 24, 2011 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

i am very happy bcz it is very simple formula.

820. Sunmaster14
Posted February 25, 2011 at 8:07 am | Permalink

to avoid ACCESS DENIED errors, run cmd from system 32 folder “Run As Administrator”

821. HakuginLabs
Posted February 25, 2011 at 3:33 pm | Permalink

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For those having issues with not having a dvd to copy the files from. Use a virtual drive,
there are a few good free programs that will mount iso images into a virtual dvd drive.
For people having issues with the bootsect.exe step, you will need to make sure you are
using a 64bit OS to create a 64bit usb installer. I ran into this myself using 32bit vista on one
of my laptops. I had to use my 64bit vista laptop to create a 64bit windows 7 usb isntaller for
my netbook.

And remember to run Command Prompt as admin, if you run into issues with cmd prompt
dropping admin privileges after exiting diskpart, you may be having an issue with the UAC.
Just open a new cmd prompt as admin (easiest fix).

Great guide btw. Allowed me to format and reinstall 7 (using the DVD provided by the
manufacturer) on a netbook without using an external dvd drive which I did not have the
money to buy.

822. HakuginLabs
Posted February 25, 2011 at 3:37 pm | Permalink

@Alex
Sorry, forgot to add this to my previous comment.
There are a few options for restoring the memory card to being usable in your phone.

Option 1: Delete the partition and create a new fat32 partition (I’ve noticed a lot of phones
don’t recognize ntfs easily, some do). This is the easiest option

Option 2: This is for advanced pc users.. You can download and burn off a “Live” version of
linux that will boot from disc and provide a full linux environment and use a disk partitioning
program like gparted or Disk Utility

I recommend option 1, worked for a co-worker that had run into the same issue.

823. alexander
Posted February 26, 2011 at 6:13 am | Permalink

hi,

thanks for the answer! sorry for being stupid, but how do i delete the partition? :)

824. Mark Anthony


Posted February 27, 2011 at 7:14 am | Permalink

hope this works..


I need to reinstall my windows 7

825. Sunil Rana


Posted February 27, 2011 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

I have got a problem with my laptop that it is comfortably running the video DVD’s but it is
not detecting the bootable DVD. How can i install the windows. Shall i copy the contents of
DIsc image file in to USB and then make USB bootable and boot through it..
Please suggest …..

826. nobbler
Posted February 27, 2011 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

Great stuff. Worked like a charm. I tried another method that didn’t boot at all, but this one
worked on the 1st try. I dir get an ACCESS DENIED when it tried to lock the disk for the
‘bootsect.exe /NT60 h:’ command, but it worked anyway. If you do it this way you’ll end up
where you wanna be. Thanks!

827. Ajmal Khan


Posted February 28, 2011 at 6:43 pm | Permalink

Hi
I have got the problem in step 4.
In step 4 my flash drive do not show in command promt.
please solve the problem and reply me. Thanks

828. joe
Posted March 1, 2011 at 5:35 am | Permalink

Can I use an sd card instead? I tried and it can’t create a partition when I type in create
partition primary.

829. bharathp
Posted March 1, 2011 at 10:48 am | Permalink

i tried the steps suggested to format laptop using usb . in second step i typed LIST DISK

830. bharathp
Posted March 1, 2011 at 10:58 am | Permalink

i tried the steps suggested to format laptop using usb after insert the usb(pen drive 4gp) in
usb port. in second step i typed LIST DISK . it list out disk0 only. it did not list any other

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disks such as disk1 for usb that i was inserted. so i cant proceed further .please tell me that
how can i proceed further.

831. Ryan
Posted March 1, 2011 at 2:32 pm | Permalink

Everything went smoothly and I could boot from the USB but after that there is a message
thy says: Bootmgr missing press ctl alt del to restart how to fix?

832. aRjay T.
Posted March 2, 2011 at 12:35 am | Permalink

Hi! I have been using this Howto coz its really working. One observation though, after I
converted the usb as a bootable win7 installer, I couldnt use it as file storage anymore. This
happend to a brand new usb as well as my good old usb that has write protect switch.

Everytime I try to store files on an already bootable usb, its as if the the system releases the
usb (like as if I ejected it) then after a few seconds, the system detects it again that its there
and will offer for a scan for error. If I choose to scan, it wont push through and re-offers it
again and again.

Btw, I cant format nor do anything to the usb’s partition.

833. puthea
Posted March 2, 2011 at 5:43 am | Permalink

when i install. it can not create system partition. why?

834. Clint Sulis


Posted March 2, 2011 at 7:07 am | Permalink

This is a perfect guide that does exactly what it says. Anyone who has problems with this
guide is a noob.

835. Del
Posted March 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm | Permalink

Help
boots from usb, loads ok, then restarts but just starts the “load windows 7″ process again. if i
take out usb it says no operating system.
sorry, as you can probably guess, i am a bit dim at this stuff

836. WILL
Posted March 2, 2011 at 3:25 pm | Permalink

hi i got to step 7 and tryed it but got

could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
access is denied.

can someone please help

837. GREAT JOB


Posted March 3, 2011 at 4:24 am | Permalink

Tnx a lot! mounted .ISO with daemoon… works perfect


But is possible to make multi boot usb key?
windows X64 + 86 + Linux I now linux don’t like ntfs…
Can be this created on fat32 oh “forget it should be linux tool”
Tnx for this!!!

838. GREAT JOB


Posted March 3, 2011 at 4:33 am | Permalink

ok it’s already in your site…

839. SmVueno
Posted March 5, 2011 at 3:36 am | Permalink

Thanks!
i’we been using this guide soo much now it’s almost abusive.

840. Bek
Posted March 5, 2011 at 11:16 pm | Permalink

I get stuck on step 4; how do i know which disk is for my usb? I selected disk 1 anyway and
typed in CLEAN. its tells me VIRTUAL DISK SERVICE ERROR: there is no media on the
device.” i didnt think anything of it because the usb didnt have anything on it to begin with.
so I typed in Creat Partition Primary then tells me “No usable free extent could be found. it
may be that there is insufficent free space to creat a partition at the specified size and
offset….”
I dont know what that means. my usb is 4GB, is that too small? am I doing it wrong?

841. Zham
Posted March 6, 2011 at 1:55 pm | Permalink

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I compelete all the steps but when I use it in my laptop, I get this message “BOOTMGR is
missing”. I don’t know what is the problem.

842. sumit
Posted March 6, 2011 at 10:09 pm | Permalink

I m stuck here.. please help..

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]


Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.0.6001


Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: SUMIT1-PC

DISKPART> LIST DISK

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt


——– ———- ——- ——- — —
Disk 0 Online 186 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 3875 MB 0 B

DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> CLEAN

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

There is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size


and offset.
Specify different size and offset values or don’t specify either to create the
maximum sized partition.

DISKPART>

843. Vibhakar Lal


Posted March 7, 2011 at 1:54 am | Permalink

Awsome ,
This work like Charm,
All we me People must follow are steps,
Religiously,
I am able to install in 12min .

844. Hey Bek


Posted March 7, 2011 at 1:58 am | Permalink

Hey Bek. Normally the DISK # would be the last on the list. Before you start, unplug any
other external device from your system. And note if you have more than one internal hard
drive. So if you have 2 internal drives and the one usb drive (the one you want to load the
boot on), then the list would be:

Disk 0 (1st internal)


Disk 1 (2nd intermal)
Disk 2 (external)

Also the Size column, in your case should be a little under 4 gig. Will show something like
3242 MB.

Hope that helps

845. 11225e
Posted March 8, 2011 at 8:43 am | Permalink

Hi. I’ve read all the posts hoping to solve my issue – but no luck. I hope someone has the
answer…
I am trying to make my 1TB eGo USB 2.0 Desktop Hard Drive bootable. I am running Win 7.
The bios hardware supports booting from a USB drive, and I am able to select the USB drive
from the boot menu. But when I choose the USB drive, I get:
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
I am able to read/write from the USB drive normally via Win 7 with no problems. The USB
drive is formatted NTFS and could this matter – my computer is 64 bit and the USB drive is
formatted with whatever you get when you select NTFS – would that be 64 bit in my case?
Lastly, when I try the Windows 7 USB Tool, I can’t even get past selecting an ISO file – it

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says mine are invalid.


Is there any help for me??

846. shaheryar
Posted March 9, 2011 at 6:20 pm | Permalink

please help me i am having an error (could not map drive the partition to the associated
volume device object:access is denied) please help me

thank you

847. chetan
Posted March 10, 2011 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

Hello, I am trying to install win7 ,I am reaching till getting install option after boot but I am
getting error like “required cd/dvd drive device driver is missing.if you have a driver floppy
disk,cd,dvd or usb flash drive,please insert it now…plz help me urgent

848. karthik0000
Posted March 11, 2011 at 7:50 am | Permalink

Installing operating system through usb flash drive is really a difficult task how ever installing
vista and windows 7 are now made easy using the usb flash drive. The above listed post
explains a step wise approach to installation using sub flash drive. impressive post , keep
updating more important stuff.

849. TianYi
Posted March 13, 2011 at 11:17 am | Permalink

Great Guide Man


Working Very well.

Thanks for your Post………

850. Juan
Posted March 13, 2011 at 2:38 pm | Permalink

Thanks much, had a problem with access denied but read thread and I was not running CMD
as administrator. Went back and ran CMD as admin and worked great!, needed win 7 for a
NETBOOK format and reload.
thank you for this guide!.

851. Myat Min


Posted March 14, 2011 at 3:05 pm | Permalink

I get following error message after BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G: command

852. Nigel
Posted March 15, 2011 at 2:46 am | Permalink

If I make the key on an ASUS windows 7 will it work to repair a totally f-ed up medion vista
who always gets a blue screen while booting in evey single mode?

853. Major
Posted March 15, 2011 at 7:30 am | Permalink

I have made an usb also with this methos, i have always the same problem. at the first it
does not ask me to press any key to boot which it begins automatically. So it never finishes
the installation since when the system reboots after the first phase, the installation starts
again loading the files. any suggest please?
From a DVD there is no problem since it asks me to press any key to boot…

854. saddavi
Posted March 15, 2011 at 1:38 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot. u really really helped me.


keep it up.

855. Cheers
Posted March 15, 2011 at 5:35 pm | Permalink

Had problem at bootsect but this [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine


/dd535816.aspx] simple one worked at windows vista 32bit to install a windows 7 64bit.

856. Cheers
Posted March 15, 2011 at 5:39 pm | Permalink

forgot to add: use the ntfs instead of fat32, it’s better for larger (>4GB) drives

857. michal
Posted March 16, 2011 at 12:24 am | Permalink

hi all got a problem. try to instal windows 7 from pendrive and after i make a choice with
language time etc, on next screen showing me message i havent got some drivers and i
need put a cd with windows. what i cant do becouse i havent got a dvd rom.

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