Install Windows XP, Vista And 7 From Bootable USB Flash Drive

Install Windows XP And 7 From Bootable USB Flash Drive

How to install Windows XP and 7 from a USB flash drive? The fastest way to install Windows XP, Vista and 7 is via a USB flash drive. Copying Windows installation files to your hard disk is another method, but what if you don’t have the required space, after all, 3 GB of hard disk space is alot just to store Windows installation files when you only format it once in a blue moon.

WinToFlash (Freeware) starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can alsow do this with your LiveCD.

  • You don’t have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs
  • You’re an IT technician or administrator, you have to install Windows on 100 PCs
  • Your computer don’t have a DVD drive, you don want to waste money on a DVD drive


Install Windows XP And 7 From Bootable USB Flash Drive

Important! Remember to change your boot sequence for your drive. Have the flash drive boot up first then the hard disk. Based on research, installation time has decreed by 25 to 30% depending on the specification of the computer.

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

venkatesh

how to install exe files in fedora 11

dht

create the boot flash from windows, that’s how

gher

The simpler way to install XP from USB is FlashBoot.
It automates everything.

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