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Install Windows 7 from a USB drive the very easy way

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Install Windows 7 from a USB drive the very easy way

The fastest way to install windows 7 is from a

bootable usb drive. You can cut the install time
down to around 15 minutes compared with 3040 via DVD if you use a fast drive.
People still asking me to explain what is the best
way to do this as many of the guides online are
too complex, or require third party software
which doesnt always work as they supposed to.
With this BootableUSB guide all you need to
ensure is that your motherboard supports USB
booting, and this is a common feature now for most of the computers.
Today I am going to publish a step by step guide which works perfectly and doesnt require any
additional tools I have been doing it for some time now to create bootable Windows install
drives.

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You need to get hold of a fast USB 2.0 flash drive. It doesnt need to be 32GB or
bigger,however, all you need is a 4GB unit. The faster it is, the better.

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What you need:

Windows 7 DVD install disc or ISO image
USB Drive (4GB+ and as fast as you can get)

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Before going any further, make sure you have removed any important files on your drive to a
safe location, what we are about to do next is to erase the entire contents of the drive.
Insert your DVD of Windows 7 into the computer, but dont start the normal install process.
Open your My Computer and make a note of the drive numbers of both the USB drive and the

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As you can see from the image above, the DVD drive is drive has letter D assigned and the USB
drive is E.
Open the command prompt with admin rights. Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit
Shift+Ctrl+Enter.

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command prompt (you dont need to type in upper case).

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Next type
DISKPART
this loads the diskpart application we need to proceed
Then type
LIST DISK
the image above shows our 32 GB USB drive is listed as DISK 2
so you have to type
SELECT DISK 2(your USB Drive may have a different number, dont follow exactly this text it
depends on your usb drive)

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You will get a successful response Disk 2 is now the selected disk

Next we want to clean the USB drive

Type:
CLEAN

you will get a successful response DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

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Afterthe drive is cleaned follow the list in the image above (detailed below in list order) you
can also note the successful text responses from the OS as you enter each command.
SELECT DISK 2(or what number your USB drive has)
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
Formatting can take a little time depending on the size of the drive, our 32GB unit took about
10 minutes to format-you will see a percentage readout until it is finished.

Next type:
ASSIGN
EXIT(DISK PART will exit)
TypeD: CD BOOT(substitute the D if necessary with the letter of your Windows 7 DVD drive)
then key
CD BOOT
then
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BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E:(substitute the E if necessary with the letter of your now ready USB
drive) we are telling the system to create a boot sector file on the USB drive.
Now you can exit the command prompt and copy all the files on the Windows 7 DVD to the
USB drive.
Once this step is finished youll be ready to boot from this drive, all you need to do is configure
your motherboard bios setup toboot first from USBrather than hard drive or optical drive. If
you dont know how to do this, refer to your specific motherboard manual or search the
internet.
Now, Windows 7 installation should take between 40% and 60% of the time it does from the
DVD disc.
Last step: Drink a cup of tea, from now on you can do this again and again

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bernard January 19, 2015

100% works fine !!! thank you
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radik January 22, 2015

Hi, im trying to follow your instruction.
But in the end, when i tried to do this :
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: (substitute the E if necessary with the letter of your now ready
USB drive) we are telling the system to create a boot sector file on the USB drive.
Then error massage appeared :
Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access Denied
Im using 8 GB USB. is it not enough ?
Thanks.
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Utsav January 25, 2015

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If people are still getting this issue (if they are still trying to do this) then we can use
the /force switch while updating the boot record:
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: /force
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rakesh February 1, 2015

Could not map drive partitions to the associate volume device object
access denied
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Guwapo January 30, 2015

Missing from this list:
The first thing you have to do is right click COMMAND PROMPT. click RUN AS
ADMINISTRATOR. Now when youre at the FORMAT FS=NTFS, add space and type
QUICK so it wont take you a lot of time formatting the USB. And thats it. You wont
encounter the BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: it says Could not map drive partitions to
the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.
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Nick February 5, 2015

Hi, you need to run it as an administrator, usually right clicking the icon will give
you an option to do this. Good luck
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radik January 22, 2015

Problem solved,
Run CMD as administrator will help to solve \
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: it says Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume
device objects: Access is denied.
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Kamil January 22, 2015

its been long time i havent used dos commands. it was nice to work on it. and finding it
working successfully directly led me to add this page to my favourites in my browser.
thanks for detailed instructions. thanks again and again.
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KUNAL January 23, 2015

hey
i am trying to make usb from mt system so what command should i write in place of cd
boot
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Kitta January 23, 2015

Does the disk have to be NTFS or can I use FAT32?
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shyam January 23, 2015

100% working
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varun January 24, 2015

really thank you so much,
all the help was very helpful & simple & working.
THANKS
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lauri January 27, 2015

Almost finished. After having written E:\>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 D:, I got the following
message: BOOTSECT.EXE is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.
Whats wrong; what is the remedy?
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shane January 28, 2015

still getting the old
Could not map drive partition to the associated volume device objects: Access Denied
even after using the force prompt.
I am in CMD as administrator with no luck.
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Allan January 29, 2015

100% working!! simple and easy

thanks!!

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dibyaranjan Senapati January 30, 2015

Hi. I am facing problem while running BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F:
I am getting an error message saying the version of g:\boot\bootsect.exe is not compatible
with the version of the windows you are running.
I am using 32 bit windows 7 and trying to make bootable for 64 bit windows 7. what should
I do now?
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Garvit Singla February 1, 2015

well i think you cant make a 32-bit windows bootable usb in 64-bit windows and
vice versa. so you need to use same type of os.
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Eric January 31, 2015

I have an external HD via usb that Im wanting to use. Right now I have it partitioned into 2
different drives. Can I use one of those partitions? Right now one is completely empty and
would be perfect. If so how? lol
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Steve February 1, 2015

Very nice. Great instructions.
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Tejas February 5, 2015

D:\boot>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: /force
Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
Drive E: maps to volume \\?\Volume{e246b536-2977-11e4-8259-806e6f6e6963}.
This volume does not appear to connect to any disk partitions. Volume bootcode
is always unused in the absence of associated partitions.
PLEASE Help
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joos February 5, 2015

D:\>cd boot
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D:\boot>bootsect.exe /nt60 f:
This tool can only be run on systems booted using a PC/AT BIOS. This system
was booted using EFI or some other firmware type.
Im using MS Surface Pro 3.
Is there a work around for this?
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Babu February 9, 2015

Every step executed successfully, copied all contents of Windows 7 DVD into USB. In BIOS,
enabled USB booting, given 1st priority. It is not installing from USB.
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