If you want to upgrade your netbook to Windows 7, you may be wondering how to do it without a clunky external DVD Drive.Don't worry now!! Today i will teach you how to install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive.....:)
The installation of Windows 7 from a flash drive is essentially same as installing it from a DVD.Setting up your Flash Drive to a bootable device with the OS on the drive is a main work to start installation from the USB Drive. Here we will take a look at a couple of utilities that will easily allow you to create a bootable USB drive and copy Windows 7 to boot files to the drive..
Info: You need a minimum of a 4GB flash drive to dedicate to the installation files.
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
Now just wait for few minute to the process to be completed. The drive will be formatted and files copied to the flash drive.so back up your other datas from the drive befor trying this
Arter the process is finished you can see the files on the flash drive as you would if you opened the installation disc. Now you can start the installation on any computer that allows you to boot from a USB drive by using this boot methode.
WinToFlash
To transfer a Windows 7 installation disc to USB,You can choose another easy utility WinToFlash. Just follow through the straight forward wizard, and you can install Windows 7 from your flash drive within few minutes.
Tis methode offers different advanced features and tasks for other versions of Windows too.so you can create any windows OS boot images to USB by using this method.
Choosing the location of the Windows installation disc and the USB drive is easy by using this method. In this example the DVD is drive (E:) and the flash drive is (F:).I recommend you to turn off Antivirus to increase the speed of processing, but we had MSE running on our machine and it didn’t seem to affect performance at all.
Next, you’ll need to agree to the Windows 7 EULA and accept that agriment then hit "continue" button.
You should wait until the drive is formatted and the files are transferred over to the USB drive. The time takes for this process will be vary depending by the configuration of your computer system. In my test it took around 10 minutes to complete over to an 8GB flash drive.
Now all are done and your drive is ready!so you can install Windows 7 on your netbook or any other computer that supports booting from a USB drive by using this created flash drive.
Conclusion:
WinToFlash is still in Beta and doesn’t require installation to use. Microsoft’s tool apparently became Open Sourced recently, requires installation, and a few other requirements like .NET Framework. Both of these tools are free and each one works a bit differently, so you’ll need to decide which will work best in your situation. If you don’t want to manually create a bootable flash drive and copy the install files over, then you might want to check out these extremely simple to use utilities.
The installation of Windows 7 from a flash drive is essentially same as installing it from a DVD.Setting up your Flash Drive to a bootable device with the OS on the drive is a main work to start installation from the USB Drive. Here we will take a look at a couple of utilities that will easily allow you to create a bootable USB drive and copy Windows 7 to boot files to the drive..
Info: You need a minimum of a 4GB flash drive to dedicate to the installation files.
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
You have to create an image of Windows 7 if you have the ISO file.so using the Microsoft’s free utility is a quick and easy option to get the image on your USB flash drive. It requires XP SP2 or higher and if you’re using an XP machine you’ll need .NET Framework 2.0, and Microsoft Image Mastering API V2…. It seemed to work best if formatted the flash drive as NTFS before using the download tool. But that could be because of the flash drive i used…your mileage may vary.
It’s a straight forward process shows in this window, first browse to the location of your Windows 7 ISO file and click Next.
Now select your USB device…this also helps you burn the ISO to DVD as well if you need that option.
After choosing your flash drive,click "Begin copying" button to continue.
Now just wait for few minute to the process to be completed. The drive will be formatted and files copied to the flash drive.so back up your other datas from the drive befor trying this
Arter the process is finished you can see the files on the flash drive as you would if you opened the installation disc. Now you can start the installation on any computer that allows you to boot from a USB drive by using this boot methode.
WinToFlash
To transfer a Windows 7 installation disc to USB,You can choose another easy utility WinToFlash. Just follow through the straight forward wizard, and you can install Windows 7 from your flash drive within few minutes.
Tis methode offers different advanced features and tasks for other versions of Windows too.so you can create any windows OS boot images to USB by using this method.
Choosing the location of the Windows installation disc and the USB drive is easy by using this method. In this example the DVD is drive (E:) and the flash drive is (F:).I recommend you to turn off Antivirus to increase the speed of processing, but we had MSE running on our machine and it didn’t seem to affect performance at all.
Next, you’ll need to agree to the Windows 7 EULA and accept that agriment then hit "continue" button.
You should wait until the drive is formatted and the files are transferred over to the USB drive. The time takes for this process will be vary depending by the configuration of your computer system. In my test it took around 10 minutes to complete over to an 8GB flash drive.
Now all are done and your drive is ready!so you can install Windows 7 on your netbook or any other computer that supports booting from a USB drive by using this created flash drive.
Conclusion:
WinToFlash is still in Beta and doesn’t require installation to use. Microsoft’s tool apparently became Open Sourced recently, requires installation, and a few other requirements like .NET Framework. Both of these tools are free and each one works a bit differently, so you’ll need to decide which will work best in your situation. If you don’t want to manually create a bootable flash drive and copy the install files over, then you might want to check out these extremely simple to use utilities.












