How to Create a bootable Windows Vista and Windows 7 USB

August 31st, 2009 | by admin |

I never like writing an image on CD/DVD and then installing an Operating system from CD Drive.I hope you also don’t.Therefore installing windows or any other Operating from CD is just a boring and time taking job.Who wants these slow speed CD/DVDs? when we have GBs of USB Flash Drives.

If you want to install Windows 7 or Windows vista on a computer which doesn’t have CD/DVD ROM on it (e.g. Netbooks).In this case you only have one option available which is Installing Windows Vista or Windows 7 from a USB Drive.

So first of all you will have to create a bootable CD of Windows vista or Windows 7.This is neither a very easy job nor very difficult.You will have to go throught the small process which is mentioned below in this post and at the end you will have a bootable windows 7 or windows vista USB which will be capable of installing these OS.

The Process of creating bootable Windows Vista and Windows 7 USB has been broken down in to multiple steps for your ease.

First of all let me write down the requirements

- 4 GB USB Flash Drive

- Windows 7 (ISO or extracted files) or Windows Vista FIles

1) Download Windows 7 Beta

Download Latest version of Windows 7 or copy windows vista files from CD to your Local Drive (e.g. C:).

2) Format the USB Flash Drive

My computer–>Removable disk(F)–>Right click and choose Format the USB Flash Drive using the NTFS file system.

3) Extract the Windows 7 ISO file

4) Copy BootSect.exe

When you are done with extracting files from windows 7 iso.Open the extracted folder and open the “boot” folder, inside which we’ll find a file called “bootsect.exe” that we’ll need to use.Copy the file (CTRL+C) and then open up “Computer” or “My Computer” and double-click your C: drive.We’re going to paste (CTRL+V) that “bootsect.exe” file right into C: so we can easily access it in a moment.

5) Time to make the USB Flash Drive Bootable

Programs > Accessories and then right-click on Command Prompt and choose “Run as administrator.”

Inside cmd, type and enter the followings:

1. cd\
2. bootsect /nt60 g:

I have assumed the drive letter of your USB thumb drive is g:, so replace “g:” in the above phrase with whichever letter is assigned to your particular thumb drive. Hit enter and you should see: