You can use the following tutorial to install Windows 7 specially on various netbooks,desktop,laptops or PC via usb drive only.
Here is a step by step guide to create a bootable Windows 7 USB Drive that will allow you to install Windows 7 without CD/DVD.
Step 1: First thing first, take a backup of your USB Drive on your hard disk.
Step 2: You need to run Command Prompt as an administrator. For this, Go to start menu and type cmd in the search box . Right click on it and select run as Administrator to use it with admin-rights .
Step 4: Now run ‘select disk 1′ to select the USB drive for further activity. Then you need to run ‘clean’ and ‘create partition primary’ command to remove everything on USB and make USB drive a primary partition respectively.
Instruction for Windows XP user for Step 4: As Windows XP ‘DISKPART’ command don’t show USB drive, you need to download a third party tool MBRwiz and extract it on your hard drive. First format the USB drive by right clicking on it and clicking on ‘Format’ option from right click context menu(uncheck quick format). Now run command prompt using following path: Start->run->cmd. Now dir to directory where you have extracted MBRWiz and first run ‘mbrwiz /list’ command to get the disk number of USB drive and then run ‘mbrwiz /disk=X /active=X’ (X is Disk Number of your USB Drive) to activate it. Now back to your system drive to follow further instruction.
Step 5: Now you need to make the USB Pen Drive a bootable one. For this, first insert the Windows 7/Vista DVD and note down the drive letter of the DVD drive. In our case it’s ‘I:’ and our USB is ‘O:’. You now need to run following command:
D:Step 6: Now you need to copy all files from the Windows 7 DVD to the formatted USB stick. For this, you can use ‘Windows Explorer’.
cd d:boot
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 G:
Exit
***This article is tutorial purpose. You should replace your Drive letter and Disk number as per your system otherwise this may damage your hard disk or whole system.
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