Install Windows 7 from USB Drive [Automatic PenDrive Setup]
- Windows 7 can be installed from a USB/Pen Drive. All you need is a 4GB Pen Drive and a .ISO Windows7 image.
- No need to so anything else, the official Windows 7 USB installer does it for you. Various guides available on internet show you how to make your USB bootable with Win7 setup in a series of setups which include formatting USB drive to NTFS, setting it as active, copying files and then finally executing a command-line exe to make it bootable.
- Not any more!
- Now you just have to download and install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Creator which will automatically make your pen drive ready to boot and install Windows 7.
- You can download it using following link:
After downloading and installing the tool, when you launch it, it’ll ask you to select the path where you have stored Windows 7 ISO file:
Click on the desired button. If you select “USB Device”, it’ll ask you to insert the USB device. If your USB device is compatible, it’ll be automatically detected by the tool:
Click on “Begin Copying” button. Now you’ll be prompted to format the USB device. Accept the confirmation:
That’s it. The tool will start copying the installation files to USB device:
At last, it’ll show a message that “Bootable USB device created successfully”.
System Requirements:
- Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
- Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
- 50MB of free space on your hard drive
- DVD-R drive or 4GB removable USB flash drive