Install Windows 7 from USB Stick (No more burning on DVD Media)
Windows 7 RC has come out and most of you must be looking at possibilities of installing and playing with the new gen Windows OS as I was till yesterday! A big pain in this entire process is first download the image from the site and then burn it on a DVD.
Fortunately Windows 7 removed one of those pains and allowed us to install directly from a USB Stick. A very nice article is already published on the same which you might have already seen (TechNet Magazine).
I tested the same and it’s really amazing so including it here for your reference:
- First, you’ll need the DiskPart utility on the system you will use to prep the thumb drive. This is a free disk partitioning utility that is likely already installed on your Windows system. If not, you can download DiskPart here.
- Launch the DiskPart utility by typing diskpart at the Start Menu.
- Then run the list disk command to check the status of your drive.
- Now run select disk 1 where the "1" is actually the corresponding number of your USB drive.
- Run clean.
- Once the thumb drive is clean, you can run create partition primary.
- Now make the partition active by entering active
- Then you need to set up the file system as Fat32 by running format fs=fat32 quick (quick, of course, specifies that you want to perform a quick format to speed up the process).
- Entering the assign command gives the USB drive a drive letter, making it easy to access from Windows Explorer
- Then you can copy everything from the Windows 7 installation DVD onto the USB key (a simple drag and drop will do).
That’s it…..now you can insert the thumb drive into the system you want to install Windows 7 onto and boot the system. The installation will now proceed as usual—but really much faster. So enjoy Windows 7 experience.
Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
PingBack from http://windows7live.info/?p=2582