Creating a bootable USB drive for Windows 7 installs

Published by jeremy.whittaker at October 21, 2009

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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.
Download mrbwiz http://mbrwizard.com/ Extract it wherever you want.
Open a command prompt and browse to the mbrwiz directory.
Run this command mbrwiz /list Note the number of your USB disk.
Now run this command mbrwiz /disk=X /active=1 Where X is your drive number from step 4.
Now change your directory on your command prompt to the Windows 7 CD. Then browse to the boot directory.
Type in this command bootsect /nt60 Y: Where Y: is the drive letter of your USB drive.
Now copy all the files from your windows 7 DVD to the USB drive. This should be around 3GB.
Now set your computer that you want to install Windows 7 to USB priority.