How To: Install Windows 7 Using a USB Flash Drive

In this video I explain how to install windows 7 / vista using a usb flash drive by copying the files from the image or disk.

- Commands -
diskpart
list disk
select disk #
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign
exit
xcopy "Drive Letter":*.* /s/e/f "Flash Disk Letter":

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[undertaker27full]

can you do it with a sd card

[grpace]

@undertaker27full Yep

[craekor]

Why are you making it fat 32 instead of NTFS for win7?

[grpace]

@craekor Its the installation not the actual seven.

[arieyhanz]

Is that okay to copy the windows files from DVD drive into the usb drive manually by copy paste on my computer?

[grpace]

@arieyhanz You probably could but might miss the hidden files.

I would recommend just using the commands.

[afanofgoodbands]

Im trying to use this to install Windows on a Mac. Any idea what format I should put this in? FAT32 doesn't seem to work.

[yxtai]

is it format?

[emailprashanthvg]

Hi mate i saw ur video of how to make an USB drive to change into bootable drive so that one can install the OS without DVD!! At the very last step while copying it copies first some 5 files after that it says access denied!! can i overcome this problem??

[SilentSoul4U]

the installer should be .ISO? or any?

[SilentSoul4U]

can i do that even i dont have Dvd-rom?

[pedgefish1]

If I amplified this by 10,000k I still wouldn't be able to hear it.

[sifeiliu]

can you speak louder?~~~

[geshansanthuksha58]

thanks brother ,,,very very thank u

u ar great

[BForL1f3]

i did everything but at the end i ended up with somthing like

Active - bla bla bla

Add - bla bla bla

etc

etc

i am using an iso and trying to do this for a 64 bit...