- The Best Way
- Please Take Care: During this procedure you'll lose any data on your USB flash drive.
- Please be extra careful during formatting, if you choose the wrong drive, it will erase it completely.
- This guide provided as-is, at your own risk.
- System Requirements:
- You will need: PC running Windows XP/Vista/7/8 Windows 7, 32/64-bit (depending on the system) installation disk USB drive with at least 8GB of free storage.
- Preparing the USB drive:
- Open command prompt as administrator -
- Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select Run as administrator or type cmd in the Start search bar.
- On command prompt: type diskpart and press enter.
- Locate your USB drive disk number by executing list disk.
- If the USB drive is 1. Run the following commands:
- select disk 1
- clean
- create partition primary
- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=NTFS
- assign
- exit
- Now we have prepared USB drive.
- Now its time to make it bootable:
- Insert Windows 7/8/10 installation disk, (32/64-bit installation disk) into DVD drive.
- If DVD drive D: then Go to D:
- And type cd boot
- If your USB drive letter is “e” (check by going on my computer) please type bootsect /nt60 e:
- Now Copy all the files of the installation disk to the USB drive. (Just go to your DVD Drive and select all and go to USB drive and paste all)
- You are now ready to install Windows from USB flash drive!
