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- Insert your thumb drive. Open explorer right click on it and go to format. Make sure your drive is larger than 3gb and use format using NTFS. \n\t
- Download mrbwiz http://mbrwizard.com/ Extract it wherever you want. \n\t
- Open a command prompt and browse to the mbrwiz directory. \n\t
- Run this command mbrwiz /list Note the number of your USB disk. \n\t
- Now run this command mbrwiz /disk=X /active=1 Where X is your drive number from step 4. \n\t
- Now change your directory on your command prompt to the Windows 7 CD. Then browse to the boot directory. \n\t
- Type in this command bootsect /nt60 Y: Where Y: is the drive letter of your USB drive. \n\t
- Now copy all the files from your windows 7 DVD to the USB drive. This should be around 3GB. \n\t
- Now set your computer that you want to install Windows 7 to USB priority. \n
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Creating a bootable USB drive for Windows 7 installs
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