How to install windows 7 on a pc using bootable USB?

When installing windows 7 operating system using CD, due to some reasons, installations may stop. To avoid this situation, we can install windows 7 into PC from bootable pendrive. The minimum requirement for this is 4 GB USB drive, windows 7 installation DVD.



Follow the below steps to install windows 7 using bootable USB

Format your USB drive or Pendrive using NTFS Format.
Start menu--> Command prompt--> Run as administrator.

Now type the below commands and hit enter.

diskpart. This is to open the disk partition program.

Now to show the list of drives, type list disk.

Select your drive in the appearing disk list.

Now type SELECT DISK X (in this, replace the letter x with your USB drive letter)

Now type CLEAN.

Then, type the below commands and hit enter.

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1 (Assuming your pendrive/ USB drive is 1).

ACTIVE.

FORMAT FS=NTFS.

ASSIGN.

EXIT (Now the disk partition program will exit).

Insert Windows 7 DVD into the CD drive.

Your DVD drive and Pendrive partition letter may differ from PC to PC (for example DVD drive: G, Pendrive: I)

Now type G:CD BOOT.

Now type this command BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 I: to update your USB drive with bootmgr code.

Finally copy the Data from the DVD to Pendrive.

Insert the Pendrive into the PC and restart your PC.

Go to BIOS settings by pressing F2, F12 or DEL. in booting options select USB/Pendrive.

Now it’s ready to install Windows 7 and now you can install windows 7 operating system using USB Drive.

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