Comments on: How to Install Windows 7 from Usb Flash Drive Without Any Software

By: Tanmay

Tanmay — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:24:27 +0000

@Andrei: Actually a USB device is not bootable by default and a PC needs to reconize the device as bootable first to get into the installation process. That is why the Diskpart part is must. Otherwise Windows won’t be able to detect your device as boot device.

Feel free to ask any question. Thanks.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:38:10 +0000

Hello,

Thank you for the tutorial. I tried wintoflash and didn’t work. I did all steps and now will try the bootup.

I actualy wanted to ask you why do I have to do this diskpart part. Doesen’t work if I just format the drive with windows expoler thingie and copy the files from the dvd?

By: Dante

Dante — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:52:37 +0000

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By: Virus.Alert

Virus.Alert — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:03:35 +0000

For All Who Gonna Try This Tutorial..

Please Run All Those Commands In Windows 7 Or Vista :)

It Will Not Work In Windows Xp :P

Windows XP Will Not Show The Flash Drive When U Hit The ” List Disk” In Diskpart utility :P

Try This Link & Download That mkboot.exe & Follow The Instruction, It Works in XP : )
http://www.bahamassecurity.com/software/utilities/mkboot.asp

[ N-Joii ]

By: Tanmay

Tanmay — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:33:34 +0000

@Dream 183: Great. You can always share your ideas with me. If not publicly, contact at my mail address: tanmay@techtipsgeek.com

By: Dream183

Dream183 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:22:26 +0000

I have an idea with separate partition for Win7, one partition for WinXP and one partition for Linux distros. But I’m missing some advanced knowledges about windows boot parameters to get it running with grub and/or isolinux. Maybe this could be the way to make it working from linux command line.

I’m thinking about how to get it together from windows command line but I’m worry about the linux distros loading from within the windows boot manager or another boot manager w/o any other application.

By: Tanmay

Tanmay — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:06:47 +0000

@Dream183: Yes, it’s challenging. Definitely write about this if I find any solution. Thanks for the head up.

By: Dream183

Dream183 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:50:30 +0000

Great tutorial man. Thanks for your effort. But what about something more advanced, e.g. multiboot USB drive with Win7, WinXP and some Linux distros without any application, only from command line. Doesn’t matter whether linux or windows command line. Could you prepare some tutorial also for this? I guess it’s a sufficient challange ;)