How do you make a USB drive bootable so I can load W7 on a netbook?

Hi saverio, yep you can use ImgBurn, or PowerIso, or Alchol 120%. Yep, it will recognise it, but your BIOS has to support that...if your pc is new, don't worry, it will.

r.

I followed your excellent thread and it worked like a charm!

I'm truly impressed, I really am!

And then there was easy transfer.... I can only say I still backed everything up thinking I can't put my life in the hands of easy transfer... what can I say... superb!

I am really really impressed, it was only let down by an issue with some still stuck in the floppy age antics from adaptec which meant that I couldn't try the system out on a sata controller card but hey...

Anyone know if any of these methods work with EFI?

if it does not boot after following any of the tutorials, try writing the boots sector also

the commands should look like this

diskpart
select disk 1 *the usb disk
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=NTFS QUICK
assign
exit
e:\ *the mounted or unrared windows instalation folder
cd boot *the mounted or unrared windows instalation folder
bootsect /nt60 f: *f: is the usb stick

I am trying this but when I double click Bootme.Zip I a box that says "Archive not readable, would you like to try a password?" Is it password protected ? I think I will try downloading from another source. Maybe this one is corrupt ?

Please advise

Thanks !


EVGABuzzer

SpcCdr said:

tdk08 said:

or this which to me seems less complicated: Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive at Kevin’s Blog

^^ Ugg, that's clunky too
So instead do this: (even less complicated)

You will need HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8 (be warned many google links for the HP tool are DEAD)
You can find it Here!
and Bootme.zip

1. Run "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool"
2. Select your Thumb Drive as Device
3. Select FAT as File system
4. Volume name "Windows 7"
5. Select Quick Format
6. Select Create a DOS startup disk
7. unzip the bootme.zip and point "Using DOS system files located at" to the unzipped folder with files inside
8. Start Format
Ta-Da
Sorted!
PS You wont see any files on the usbstick as they are in the boot sector

(you can also optionally do a second "format" using NTFS- don't worry "all data on drive will be lost" does NOT include the boot sector files.

There you go-My first How to... for WSF.
Cheers ALL

USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create

Hi,

I followed the guide where I used HP USB storage format tool and bootme.
I got it to boot from the USB but when it does it opens a command prompt, now my question is:
how doe I start the windows installation from there?

kind regards,

Jos