Installing Windows 7 through USB drive

 

Open the command prompt and do the following procedures

Run select disk 1 where the "1" is actually the corresponding number of your USB drive.

Run clean.

Once the thumb drive is clean, you can run create partition primary.

Now make the partition active by entering active

Then you need to set up the file system as Fat32 by running format fs=fat32 quick (quick, of course, specifies that you want to perform a quick format to speed up the process).

Entering the assign command gives the USB drive a drive letter, making it easy to access from Windows Explorer

Then you can copy everything from the Windows 7 installation DVD onto the USB key (a simple drag and drop will do).

Now you can insert the thumb drive into the system you want to install Windows 7 onto and boot the system. The installation will now proceed as usual—but faster.

Remember to set your boot bias to USB drive.

-Yuva