How to make Bootable pen drive / flashdrive for window 7

How to make Bootable pen drive / flash drive for window 7

While out there are many utilities or tools for one to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 7 installation, the DiskPart program comes with Windows XP or above can also be used to get this job done without extra cost.

As you can see from the screenshot (below), I have done the following steps in Windows 7 Command Prompt window to create a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 7 Enterprise installation:

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You should able to follow these steps, to create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive, in Windows XP or higher. In brief, thekey point is using diskpart to set a partition to active (bootable) and then copy the Windows 7 DVD content into this active partition.

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1) Connect a USB flash drive (min. 4GB for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit).

2) Open Command Prompt window and execute diskpart. In Windows Vista / Windows 7, you need to run Command Prompt with elevated privilege.

3) At DiskPart prompt, type list disk to display a list of mounted disk drive detected by Windows. In the list, you should be able to recognize the USB flash drive connected to Windows, by looking at the Size column. (In my screenshot, this is disk 2).

4) So, execute select disk 2 and then run list partition to display the partition table of the selected disk 2 (i.e. the connected USB flash drive).

5) Execute select partition 1, suppose I would like to choose this partition to work on. Indeed, that is the only partition on the USB flash drive.

6) Now, execute active to set the selected partition as active partition (i.e. bootable partition). By then, the list partitionreport will display an asterisk mark in front of the “active” partition record.

7) Exit from DiskPart program and proceed to use robocopy to duplicate Windows 7 DVD contents to the “active” partition of USB flash drive. For example:

robocopy D:\ E:\ /MIR /V /FP /LOG:C:\Win7.log /TEE

Where D: is the DVD drive containing the Windows 7 DVD; E: is the active partition of USB flash drive; /MIR is to mirror whatever inside the source to the destination; the rest of option switches used are for logging purpose.

Once the robocopy completes successfully, there you will have a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 7 installation :-)

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Method 2 - Suggested by Kevin Ying: UNetbootin 

Method 3 - Suggested by Shep................: WinToFlash 

Method 4 - Suggested by Barney: WiNToBootic