Monday, February 20, 2012

Make All-in-One USB Boot Disk - 7

This post will brief about how can we install windows 7 from usb drive bootable which has the grub4dos bootloader.

1] Prepare the target usb drive by my prevous post.
2] Install grub4dos bootloader to usb drive and add windows 7 pe to this bootloader menu.
3] Go to target usb drive, make a newfolder named as 'WIN7SOURCE' with capital and no space.
4] copy the contents of windows 7 iso to WIN7OURCE folder.
5] Download - NT6.X_fast_installer_100219.7z
6] Extract it to the root of target usb drive.
7] Now boot the usb drive by windows 7 pe from RAM
8] First Format the local hard disk drive(target-install-drive) where we want to install win 7, with ntfs-quick.
9] Go to usb drive -> NT6.X_fast_installer_100219 -> run Installer.cmd
10] This program will require ImageX, bootsect, bcdboot in system32 directory
11] It will ask for source wim file, which is available to usbdrive -> WIN7SOURCE -> Sources -> Install.WIM
12]  It will ask for drive letter of Target Install-Drive
13]  It will ask for drive letter of active partition, give it the same as Target Install-Drive
14] It will ask for Target Install-Drive is on usb?
15] Mark the target install drive as active by windows management console.
16] Reboot computer, remove usb disk
17] It will boot from target-win7-install-drive and start installing the win7 to that target drive.

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