Cannot reinstall Win7 Home 64bit using USB


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #1

    Cannot reinstall Win7 Home 64bit using USB


    Hi,

    I keep getting a black screen with one white dash when i'm reinstalling win7 with my USB.

    My laptop is working and booting up fine but I would like to reinstall Win7 Home 64 bit again. I do not have the Windows 7 installation disc so I followed the instructions on the page below to create my bootable USB drive using the WUDT.
    USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create

    After creating the USB drive, I restarted my computer, got into my BIOS setting, changed the boot priority to USB first but I kept getting a black screen with one white dash.

    I tried buring the ISO file i downloaded from Digital Rivers using UltraISO and I got the same black screen.

    When I tried creating a UEFI bootable USB drive using the same image using Rufus following the instructions here:
    UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive - Create in Windows

    I got the error code 0xc0000225 saying that the disc drive is inaccessible.

    I'm using a Sandisk 8gb USB drive:
    Amazon.com : SanDisk Cruzer 8 GB USB Flash Drive SDCZ36-008G-B35 : Electronics

    Also, when I try to run the bootable USB using MobaLiveCD it says that there is an error trying to copy kqemu.sys. Is this information relevant?

    What should I do to be able to reinstall win7?

    Here are the specifications of my laptop:
    Asus K42JK
    i5-540m
    ASUSTek Computer Inc Motherboard
    8gb DDR3 ram
    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100
    American Megatrends BIOS version 203
    Win7 Home Premium 64 bit

    Thanks.
    Last edited by verakyle; 06 Jan 2014 at 17:43.
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  2. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    Try Wintobootic

    WiNToBootic bootable usb drive windows vista/7/8 - Bootable USB | Bootable USB

    And download the iso from here

    http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technol...download-links

    And I wouldn`t change the boot order in the bios, just use the proper 1 time boot key to boot from the usb flash drive, if not the install will keep starting over and over again from the usb flash drive.
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  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I have successfully reinstalled win7 on my computer using Wintobootic after many unsuccessful attempts at making a bootable USB using WUTD, Rufus, UltraISO etc. Thank you for the help.
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  4. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #4

    Happy to help

    Glad you got it fixed up

    Mark the thread solved if you`re good.
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