How to install Windows 7 from USB Drive

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If you want to install Windows 7 on a notebook pc then you can find handy instruction on installing Windows 7 from a USB drive which posted in Microsoft's TechNet Magazine.

It will be a faster process to install Windows 7 from USB drive rather than from a DVD drive.

There is a video made by Dennis Chung, IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft.

is the link to see that video.

As TechNet posted there, you have to do the following steps:

1. At first you need DiskPart partition software to prepare your USB drive for this procedure. If you do not have DiskPart partition software in your pc then you can easily download DiskPart from Microsoft.

2. So you have DiskPart installed in your pc then launch it by typing diskpart into the Start Menu search box.

3. Then run the list disk command to check the status of your drive.

4. Then run select disk 1 where the "1" is the corresponding number of the USB drive.

5. Next run clean.

6. After that run create partition primary.

7. Then by entering active make the partition active.

8. Then run format fs=fat32 quick to set the file system to Fat32.

9. For easier access from windows explorer give the USB drive a drive letter by assign command.

10. Now copy everything from your Windows 7 DVD to the USB drive.

11. That's it your drive is ready, just stick it into any pc or notebook and boot the system from it, the installation will begin.

Source: TechNet

[nikjerry]

Its really very surprising as Windows 7 from USB. As I have installed that from that from the CD, but the one thing is that I never heard about that we can also installed that from the USB and the another thing is that I never got any that type of source ion USB.