Right-click on the Windows 7 iso file and select Extract files. Extract the files to a folder (you can name the folder any name you want, but for illustration purpose, I name it win-7) in your desktop. In your command prompt, cd to the windows 7 folder. Now, copy all the files from the Windows 7 folder to the USB flash drive. Reboot the computer.
To create a bootable USB drive manually, we will use the Command Prompt as a Windows default program. Here are step by step to create a bootable USB drive as the Windows installation media. To create a bootable USB drive as a Windows installation media, we require at least 4 GB for minimum capacity. Larger capacity is better.
At this moment, I use the USB flash drive with 2 GB of capacity as just an example. It's due to some reasons that my 4 GB flash drive encountered an unusual problem that i have to fix later.:D. Insert your USB flash drive to your running computer. As the first step, we need to run Command Prompt as administrator. To do this, we need to find cmd by typing ' cmd' in the search box on Windows Start Menu. After search result for ' cmd' appears, right click on it and select ' Run as administrator'. Type ' diskpart' on Command Prompt (without quotes) and hit Enter.
Wait for a while until the DISKPART program run. Type ' list disk' to view active disks on your computer and hit Enter. There would be seen that the active disks shown as Disk 0 for hard drive and Disk 1 for your USB flashdrive with its total capacity. Type ' select disk 1' to determine that disk 1 would be processed in the next step then hit Enter. Type ' clean' and hit Enter to remove all of data in the drive.
Type ' create partition primary' and hit Enter. Creating a primary partition and further recognized by Windows as ' partition 1'. Type ' select partition 1' an hit Enter. Choosing the ' partition 1' for setting up it as an active partition.
Type ' active' and hit Enter. Activating current partition.
Type ' format fs=ntfs quick' and hit Enter. Formatting current partition as NTFS file system quickly. Type ' exit' and hit Enter. Leaving DISKPART program but don't close the Command Prompt instead. We would still need it for next process. Let us assume that the flash / USB drive is the D: drive and the DVD installer located on drive F.
The first step, we will navigate Command Prompt to set installation DVD as its active directory. By default, Command Prompt's active directory for Administrator permission is on C: Windows System32. We will navigate Command Prompt to set on DVD (F:) as its active directory.
Just type ' f:' then hit Enter, and the active directory changed to F. Type ' cd boot' and hit Enter. Active directory changed to F: boot. Type ' bootsect /nt60 d:' and hit Enter. Creating boot sector on D: drive (USB flash drive). Type ' exit' and hit Enter to close the Command Prompt. Until this step we have made a bootable USB drive sucessfully, and the flash drive is ready to be used as a boot media.
I need some help can anyone help me this is the issue i have is that very last step where i copy the files i need it explaned a little better the file is on the usb when i try to open the file it said to burn to disk.do i do that and where do i do that do i just put in the disk and burn to the disk lol i am smart at these thing i really am but i just cant get it to boot off the usb when i restar the option is there to boot off but nothing happens when i try to i would llike some help asap!!!!!!! Why would an article/tutorial for Windows suggest formatting the drive as NTFS if it should be FAT32? I get that from reading some of the comments, and I've been having one hell of a time trying to make an.iso file to a bootable USB flash drive. Part of the problem seems to be the.iso generated in EaseUs ends up using.pbd instead in certain conversion programs like PowerISO. If the drive should be converted to FAT32 for Windows, is there not a file size limit with FAT32 like people are saying? What happens when your ISO file is say, 80GB?
My flash drive is 256GB. I can't understand why it's so difficult to make an.iso image file bootable on a USB flash drive. I've tried all the programs for Windows 7, Windows 7 USB, RUFUS, Etc.Either the file can't be burned or there's not enough room on the disc or a number of any other errors. @MattT96 There area a couple reasons for this. But ill answer your questions first.
Yes there are file limitations with FAT. IMHO id prefer all drives be exfat but there are its own limitations with that.
In this particular instance there are rarely individual files 'with-in' the.iso file over 4gb so you dont run into these size limitations. So you notice i said 'with-in' the.iso. This is because you cannot make the.iso itself bootable. What you do is make a bootable drive, and then unpack the.iso to the drive. So if you downloaded an ISO and need to make a drive, you can use most image burning software and burn the iso to a disk. If you want to use a Thumb-drive what you would have to do is follow the instructions in this instructable, and then mount the ISO to your computer using a program like ISO-Mount or Virtual drive. Once mounted copy the contents of the iso over to the bootable thumb-drive you just made.
Hope that clears it up man.
Is it possible to install Windows 7 onto a USB drive? You probably have heard of, which allows you install a portable version of Windows 8 on a Microsoft certified USB flash drive. If you are addicted to the old operating system (OS) Windows 7, you may wonder is there a way to install Windows 7 on USB removable storage device? With Windows 7 on a USB flash drive or external hard drive, you can take it with you wherever you go and run Windows7 on any PC.
Windows Setup can detect USB hard drive, but when you select the external drive as the target location to install Windows 10/8/7, you will get the error “”. Luckily, there is a workaround for this, and it is quite simple. Even those who does not know how to install Windows from a USB drive can follow this guide to get it done, What do you need to prepare? You may have read some other tutorials or guides talking about installing Windows 7 on external hard drive, but the process is cumbersome and not easy to follow.
Here, I will recommend you a free tool AOMEI Partition Assistant that can do this trick for you, so you only need a few clicks. It provides Windows to Go feature that not only allow you to run Windows 10/8/8.1 from USB stick, but also install Windows 7 onto USB removable storage devices. It does not require Microsoft certificate USB drives.
An external hard drive or USB flash drive that has more than 16GB of capacity. For better performance, it is recommended to use a USB 3.0 drive, and of course, you need to connect it to a USB 3.0 port. Windows 7 installation file with file extension.iso,.wim,. A working PC running Windows 10/8/7.
Any version is okay. Free disk partition manager software AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition. How to install Windows 7 to external hard drive? Before you do, you must know the USB external drive will be reformatted to NTFS file system.
If there are any valuable data on it, you should save it to another location beforehand. When you prepare the things listed above, you can follow the steps below to create Windows 7 USB install. And run AOMEI Partition Assistant. Connect the external drive to your PC. In the main interface, if you see the USB drive is showing in AOMEI Partition Assistant, click on the option Windows to Go Creator in the left panel. Otherwise, you should check is there is a connection problem.
Step 3. In a pop-up window, click Browse to select the Windows 7 installation file, ISO, ESD, or WIM format is all okay. Step 4. Click Proceed to start this operation. When the process finishes, you use this new created bootable USB drive to boot any Windows PC and bring this portable version of Windows 7 with you. As you see from the screenshot, the USB flash drive used to install Windows 7 is an MBR disk, which means it can only boot PCs with Legacy boot mode enabled. If you want it to boot UEFI boot mode computers, you can without data loss. Besides the ability to install Windows 7 on USB drive, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard also provides many other great features, like without reinstalling Windows, Merge Partitions and Resize Partition without data loss. If you need more advanced features like convert dynamic disk to basic without data loss, you can try the.