CS101 Assignment: <a> Zaman University Phnom Penh Cambodia </a>

2.  Installing Windows 7 from a flash drive is essentially the
same as installing it from a DVD. Most of the work is setting
up your flash drive so it becomes a bootable device with the
OS on it. Here we will take a look at couple of Utilities that
will allow you to easily create a bootable USB drive and
copy Windows 7 to it.
 Note: You’ll need a minimum of a 4GB flash drive to dedicate
to the installation files.

3.  If you have an ISO image of
Windows 7, using Microsoft’s
free utility is a quick and easy
option to get the image on your
USB flash drive. It requires XP
SP2 or higher and if you’re
using an XP machine you’ll
need. NET Framework 2.0 and
Microsoft Image Mastering API
V2…both of which can be
downloaded from the link
below. It seemed to work best
if I formatted the flash drive as
NTFS before using the
download tool. But that could
be because of the flash drive I
used…your mileage may vary.

4.  It’s a pretty straight forward
process, first browse to the location of
your Windows 7 IOS file and click Next.

5.  Select USB device…this also helps you burn the ISO
to DVD as well if you need that option.

6.  Choose your flash drive and click Begin
copying.

7.  Now just wait for the process to complete. The drive will be
formatted and files copied to the flash drive.

8.  When the process is finished you will be able to see the
files on the flash drive as you would if you opened the
installation disc. Now you can start the installation on any
computer that allows you to boot from a USB drive.

9. If you want to transfer a
Windows 7 installation
disc to USB…another
super easy utility to use is
Win To Flash.

10.  Just follow through the straight forward wizard,
and you’ll be ready to install Windows 7 from your
flash drive in no time.

11.  The neat thing about this utility is it also offers
different advanced features and tasks for other
versions of Windows too.

12.  It’s as easy as choosing the location of the Windows
installation disc and the USB drive. Where in this example
the DVD is drive (E:) and the flash drive is (F:). They
recommend to turn off your Antivirus to increase the
process speed, but we had MSE running on our machine
and it didn’t seem to affect performance at all.

13.  Next, you’ll need to agree to the Windows 7
EULA and hit continue.

14.  Now just wait until the drive is formatted and the files are
transferred over to the USB drive. The amount of time it
takes will vary between systems. In our test it took around
10 minutes to complete over to an 8GB flash drive.

15.  That’s it! Now the drive is ready so you can
install Windows 7 on your net book or any other
computer that supports booting from a USB
drive.

16.  WinToFlash is still in Beta and doesn’t require
installation to use. Microsoft’s tool apparently became
Open Sourced recently, requires installation, and a few
other requirements like .NET Framework. Both of these
tools are free and each one works a bit differently, so
you’ll need to decide which will work best in your situation.
If you don’t want to manually create a bootable flash
drive and copy the install files over, then you might want
to check out these extremely simple to use utilities.
 http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/9585/how-
to-setup-a-usb-flash-drive-to-install-windows-7/