How to boot/install Windows 7 from USB Flash Drive

- Get a 4GB USB Drive and plug it in under Vista

- Click Start –> type CMD and right click Run as Admin

- Inside cmd, type and enter the followings:

1. diskpart
2. type “list disk” and you will see all connected disks and numbers
3. select disk X (X being the number of the usb disk )
4. clean
5. create partition primary
6. select partition 1
7. active
8. format fs=fat32
9. assign
10. exit

- Open your drive under explorer, copy all files from vista/7 iso to the usb drive.

- in Bios, set to boot from USB and have fun.

~ by fulopmihaly on October 21, 2009.