{"id":318,"date":"2014-02-15T18:41:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T17:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wordpress\/?p=317"},"modified":"2015-01-09T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:47:37","slug":"how-to-create-usb-boot-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"How to create usb boot windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"\" class=\"ssag-opads-main     \" ><\/div><ol>\n<li>\n<div><b>Plug-in your Flash Drive.<\/b>\u00a0First plug-in your USB stick to your USB port and copy all the content to a safe location in your hard drive .<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Run Command Prompt as an administrator.<\/b>\u00a0To open a command prompt, go to the Start menu and search for CMD. Right-click on it and select\u00a0<b>Run as Administrator<\/b>\u00a0to use it with admin rights.\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Using the\u00a0<i>Diskpart<\/i>\u00a0utility find the drive number of your flash drive.<\/b>\u00a0To do so, type in the following command in the command prompt: DISKPART\n<ul>\n<li>Running DISKPART will display the version of DISKPART you are running and the name of your PC.<\/li>\n<li>Type \u201clist disk\u201d to see a display of all your connected disk drives. Make a note of the number assigned to your Flash drive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Format the drive.<\/b>\u00a0Execute the following list of commands one-by-one. Make sure you replace Disk 1 with the proper Disk number from DISKPART.<code>select disk 1<\/code><br \/>\n<code>clean<\/code><br \/>\n<code>create partition primary<\/code><br \/>\n<code>select partition 1<\/code><br \/>\n<code>active<\/code><br \/>\n<code>format fs=NTFS QUICK<\/code><br \/>\n<code>assign<\/code><br \/>\n<code>exit<\/code><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Make the flash drive bootable.<\/b>\u00a0Use the\u00a0<i>bootsect<\/i>\u00a0utility that is shipped with Windows 7. To do so:\n<ul>\n<li>Insert the Windows 7 DVD and note down the drive letter of the DVD drive. For this guide, the DVD drive is D: and the USB drive is G:.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the directory where\u00a0<i>bootsect<\/i>\u00a0is found.<\/li>\n<li>open command as Administrator<code>D:<\/code><br \/>\n<code>cd d:boot<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Use the bootsect to make the USB Drive bootable. This updates the drive with BOOTMGR compatible code and prepares it to boot Windows 7<\/li>\n<li><code>BOOTSECT.EXE\/NT60 G:<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Close the Command Prompt windows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Copy all files from the Windows 7 \u00a0DVD to the formatted USB stick.<\/b>\u00a0The safest and the fastest way would be to use the Windows Explorer. Open the disk, select everything, and drag it into your flash drive. This could take a few minutes to copy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plug-in your Flash Drive.\u00a0First plug-in your USB stick to your USB port and copy all the content to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}