31 May, 2009
Creating Bootable Flashdrive for Windows Vista or Windows 7
Posted by: admin In: Laptop Tips
Technically creating a bootable USB Flash drive for Vista or Windows 7
is not too complicated. As long as your computer has Vista or Windows
7 installed you can easy following this instruction. First of all, the
requirement you need to have are USB Flash Drive (4GB+) and Microsoft
Windows 7 / Vista OS Disk. If you were, let’s following the next steps
to creating bootable USB Flash drive for Vista or Windows 7:
1. Format USB Flash Drive
a. Plug in USB Flash Drive
b. Right click on Start => All Programs => Accessories => Command
Prompt and select “Run as administrator”
c. Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following
into the Command Prompt window:
diskpart
list disk
The number of your USB drive will be list here and assume the USB
flash drive is disk 1.
Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window.
(Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below)
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=NTFS
assign
exit
Till this step your USB flash drive is formatted well.
2. Create bootable drive
a. Insert Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.
b. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:
d:
cd d:\boot
c. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a
Vista/7 image. Assume USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the
computer:
bootsect /nt60 g:
d. close the command prompt window.
3. Copy all files of DVD installation to USB drive
4. Setting BIOS to boot the computer from USB
Now you’re already done create bootable Windows 7 / Vista USB flash drive.