Tip: make your PDC 2. USB hard drive a bootable Windows 7 install disk. If you’re one of eight thousand people lucky enough to attend PDC 2. GB portable hard drive with “the goods” then I have some extra good news for you, your hard drive can also become a bootable Windows 7 install disk. The best part is that you don’t even have to delete any of the existing files on the drive since there’s about 9. GB free of the 1. GB drive. This is especially handy if you’re trying to install Windows 7 on a device without a DVD drive or if you don’t have any blank DVDs to burn the ISO on. Of course this guide also works if you have an existing portable USB hard drive that has enough free space to partition and a copy of a Windows 7 ISO, which I’m sure you can get *wink*. Step 1: Click open the Start Menu, right click on “Computer”, “Manage”. Open the “Disk Management” tool. Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD By: Arie Slob. Slipstreaming a Service Pack, is the process to integrate the Service Pack into the. If you’ve misplaced your Windows 7 install disc, which may be the actual discs that came with your PC or a retail Windows 7 install disc that you bought se. Step 2: Find the USB hard drive, should be 1. GB. Right click on the volume and click “Shrink volume”. Shrink the volume by 1. MB. Step 3: Right click on the new unallocated volume, “New Simple Volume”, format as “FAT3. Check “Perform quick format” unless you have time to waste. Step 4: Right click on the new volume, “Mark Partition as Active”. Step 5: Mount the Windows 7 ISO from the USB (\Windows. Need installation media to reinstall Windows? In this article we'll show you where to get Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 installation files and how to create a bootable. ISO\6. 80. 1. 0. 0. Client_en- us_ULTIMATE- ULTIMATE_GB1. CFRE_EN_DVD. iso) using your favorite ISO tool (I use Daemon Tools Lite). Step 6: Copy the entire DVD directory into your newly created volume. Step 7: Now take your USB drive and tell the PC to boot from USB. The Windows 7 setup should appear. To restore your USB drive to the previous state and reclaim the 1. GB of space, simply delete the new volume created and extend the original volume to consume the entire 1. MB now unallocated. UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive. How to Create a Bootable UEFI USB Flash Drive for Installing Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8. Information. This tutorial will show you how to create a Windows 7 or Windows 8 or 8. USB flash drive for UEFIfrom either a Windows 7 or Windows 8/8. ISO or DVD. Note. Requirements: At least a 4. GB USB flash drive. Windows 7 ISO or DVD (If you want to install Windows 7)6. Windows 8 ISO or DVD (If you want to install Windows 8)6. Windows 8. 1 ISO or DVD (If you want to install Windows 8. Set the boot mode to use UEFI and not CSM (Compatibility Support Module)in your UEFI firmware settings. Temporarily disable Secure Boot in your UEFI firmware settings. Some motherboards will not boot from a USB unless you do this first. When the Windows installation is finished, you can enable secure boot if you like. If you have fast boot or ultra- fast boot enabled in your UEFI firmware (if supported), then you may need to temporarily disable it until Windows has finished installing to be able to boot from a USB flash drive at boot. EXAMPLE: UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive. NOTE: This is it listed in the motherboard's boot menu. To Create a Bootable UEFI USB Flash Drive using Free Program "Rufus". Download the latest version of Rufus at the link below, and save it's . Connect your USB flash drive if you have not already. Run the rufus_v###. Yes if prompted by UAC. NOTE: ### = latest version number. Set Rufus with the settings below: (see screenshot below step 5)Under Device, select the USB flash drive you want to format and use. Under Format Options, check Create a bootable disk using, click/tap on the browse icon to navigate to and select your 6. Windows 7 or Windows 8 or Windows 8. ISO file, and then make sure that Standard Windows installation is selected (dotted). Under Partition scheme and target system type, select GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer. Under File system, select FAT3. Under Cluster size, select the (Default) (ex: 1. Under Format Options, check Quick format. Under Format Options, check Create extended label and icon files. Under New volume label, you can enter any name you like for the USB flash drive, or leave the default name. When ready, click/tap on Start. Click/tap on OK to confirm. Rufus will now start creating the bootable UEFI USB flash drive. When Rufus is "DONE", you can close Rufus. NOTE: It could take a little while to finish. You are now ready to do a clean install of Windows 7 or Windows 8/8. UEFI with your bootable UEFI USB flash drive. To Manually Create a Bootable UEFI USB Flash Drive. Connect the USB flash drive. Open an elevated command prompt in Windows 7 or Windows 8/8. In the elevated command prompt, type the commands below one at a time and press Enter after each one. Make note of the Disk # (ex: Disk 4) for the USB flash drive. Warning. It is critical that you use the correct disk #. If you do not, then you could delete the wrong drive below and lose everything on it. In the elevated command prompt, type the commands below one at a time and press Enter after each one. NOTE: Substitute # in the first command with the actual disk # from step 4 above. For example: select disk 4select disk #detail disk (this is to verify that you selected the correct disk before using "clean" below)cleancreate partition primaryformat fs=fat. Make note of the volume letter (ex: K) for the USB flash drive in the command prompt. Do step 8, step 9, or step 1. Windows 7/8/8. 1 ISO or DVD. Warning. It has been reported that using the downloaded Windows 8 upgrade ISO does not always give you an UEFI bootable USB option in the boot menu. If this happens to you, then use the ESD- TO- ISO. Simon (SIW2) below to create an ISO that will work with UEFI. Afterwards, start this tutorial over using this new ISO instead. See OPTION TWO here: https: //www. A) Open File Explorer, navigate to the . Mount. (see screenshot below). B) The mounted . iso file will now automatically open. Select all files in it, right click or press and hold on the selected files, click/tap on Send to and the Removable Disk for your USB flash drive letter (ex: K) from step 6 above. C) This could take a bit to copy the ISO contents to the USB. D) When finished, go to step 1. A) If you have not already, you will need to download and install the latest alpha version of the free program 7- Zip. NOTE: You can use any program that performs the same function to extract or mount an ISO, but I just find 7- Zip easier to use. B) Open Windows Explorer, navigate to the . Zip and Extract files. C) In the Extract dialog, click on the browse button, select the Removable Disk for your USB flash drive letter (ex: K) from step 6 above, and click on OK, and OK. D) This could take a bit to copy the ISO contents to the USB. E) When finished, go to step 1. If Using a Windows 7 or Windows 8/8. Installation DVD. A) Insert the Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation DVD into the CD/DVD drive. B) In the Computer window, open the DVD. C) Select all files in it, right click or press and hold on the selected files, click/tap on Send to and the Removable Disk for your USB flash drive letter (ex: K) from step 6 above. D) This could take a bit to copy the DVD contents to the USB. E) When finished, go to step 1. If Using 6. 4- bit Windows 7 Note Thanks to theog for this step. You do not need to do this step unless you are creating a 6. Windows 7 UEFI USB flash drive. If you are not, then go to step 1. A) On the USB flash drive, "copy" the efi\microsoft\boot folder up one level into the efi folder as efi\boot. B) If you have not already, download and install the latest alpha version of the free program 7- Zip, then run 7- Zip. C) In 7- Zip, navigate to the sources\install. Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw. USB flash drive, select the bootmgfw. OK, and close 7- Zip. D) Rename the bootmgfw. E) Copy/Move the renamed bootx. A) on the USB flash drive. You are now ready to do a clean install of Windows 7 or Windows 8/8. UEFI with your bootable UEFI USB flash drive.
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