usb booting

[mcgoo]

Hi, i followed the guide to set my usb drive to boot windows 7 ,below.
All goes well until select partition 3 in my case.
I get an error saying no partition selected?Any one an idea as to why it sees the partition in List Disk but not when i get to the part select partition 3?





DISKPART and hit enter.
LIST DISK and hit enter.
Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.

4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do.
SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello mcgoo, welcome to Seven Forums!




But the partition in the commands is not #3 it's Disk1 partition1; correct?

 

[mcgoo]

No,my usb drive is partition3,so i would enter 3 as 1 is another drive.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Try diskpart, list volume.

 

[mcgoo]

I tried as you suggested and list volume says usb drive unusable and it wont format>

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

No,my usb drive is partition3,so i would enter 3 as 1 is another drive.

According to this Disk 3 is the USB and it being the last to be created there's no way it could be partition 3 as the least it could be is partition 4.

 

[Dwarf]

Your USB drive is listed as Disk 3. So, instead of entering Select Disk 1, you would enter Select Disk 3.

I take it that you are wanting to create a bootable USB drive to make the reinstallation of Windows 7 easier. See http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html

 

[mcgoo]

Yes as i said thats what i did!1


Hi, i followed the guide to set my usb drive to boot windows 7 ,below.
All goes well until select partition 3 in my case.

 

[Dwarf]

Are you getting stuck at Steps 5 & 6 of the Tutorial?

You don't enter Select Partition 3 to select your USB drive, rather you enter Select Disk 3.

 

[mcgoo]

Ok.i think i did that but wrongly said partition3.I will try again and see what happens.

I have been doing it correctly but get to select partition 3,the get this error

 

[Dwarf]

I see where you are going wrong. Disk 3 only consists of a single partition. At Step 9 of the Tutorial you need to enter Select Partition 1.

 

[mcgoo]

i now have a bootable usb drive

Firstly thanks to everyone who gave assistance.

couple of things i found

When you select your usb disk(my case it was disk 3)
when you get to the part select partition 1. It is partition 1
I wrongly assumed that as it was disk 3 it had to be partition 3.
I also thought if i selected partition1 ,the next step being to format i would potentially format another drive not the usb drive.
As disk 3 has been selected,then it is this drive you are putting a partition on EG partition 1.
A bit confusing and it could have been explained better on the tutorial.

I also used this as a guide as i found it more informative
How To: Install Windows 7 from a USB Key! - Page 1 | Maximum PC


Hope my efforts will help some else avoid the mistakes/assumption i made and hopefully my explanation is clear enough:huh:

thanks again to those who tried to help

 

[Dwarf]

You're welcome. Glad to have helped.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Glad to see you have it sorted and thanks for the update.