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First build. Trying to install W7 from a USB flash drive.
I got my first computer build done and I'm really proud of it so far.
Well I am a student so I decided to buy W7 from Microsoft for the student price. I had to download it so I didn't have a disk to load it from. So I followed this guide on how to use a flash drive to install W7.
HOW TO: Install Windows 7 from a USB stick
So far I have all of it done. I download W7 as an ISO file. used MagicISO to convert extract it to my flash drive. I went through all the steps to turn my flash drive into a boot device. I put all the files onto the boot device flash drive.
I start up my new build and go into the BIOS. I set the boot priority to boot first from my flash drive. When I save and restart it gives me the message that the boot device has no boot software on it.
Short story.
-Have the flash drive formatted as boot device.
-Have all the W7 files extracted onto flash drive.
-Changed BIOS to boot from flash drive.
-Still not working.
Also I can't redownload W7 or redo this because the files are already extracted onto my flash drive.
Any help would be awesome because I'm freaking out and ready to kill something.