Installing Windows 7 via USB flash drive!

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

while the OP can set the topic - he cant set any rules. thats w1zzards job.

While you can set any rules you like, you lack the authority to actually back them up, so unless a moderator or admin agrees with you, your rules simply wont get enforced.

indeed some people have gone overboard - but he linked to one hell of a simple tool that seemed to do the job well.

I half agree. While I see your point I see Kyle's as well. Since it is his thread, he should be able to say what he wishes about his own thread and what he wants to see/not see in that aforementioned thread. Not to step on any toes, but moderators should support an OP in that regard whether they agree with them or not.

 

[Solaris17]

while the OP can set the topic - he cant set any rules. thats w1zzards job.

While you can set any rules you like, you lack the authority to actually back them up, so unless a moderator or admin agrees with you, your rules simply wont get enforced.

indeed some people have gone overboard - but he linked to one hell of a simple tool that seemed to do the job well.

Dont you think calling out my mod status is a little low? sure its simple fact but isnt not trashing a thread simple respect? please correct me if im under the wrong impression but arent we supposed to practice respect here? if not maybe that line should be added.

 

[kyle2020]

Dont think of them as rules so much, more common courtesy, and im sure that you can atleast offer me that? I may just be a lowly regular forum user, not a super do0per moderator, and my friends may not be neither, but all Im asking for is a little respect - I made the thread to share my method, and if anyone else wants to share their method, fine - just not in this thread as it defeats the object of me spending 'x' ammount of time taking all the screenshots and writing the instructions, when someone can then just glance past all my hard work and click on a readied link.

Please, just see where Im coming from and give me a little bit of respect towards it.

 

[mrw1986]

I think all the methods should be consolidated in this thread for easier viewing...but thats just me.

 

[Mussels]

Dont you think calling out my mod status is a little low? sure its simple fact but isnt not trashing a thread simple respect? please correct me if im under the wrong impression but arent we supposed to practice respect here? if not maybe that line should be added.

hmm? i was talking in general, not about status.

I just think its a little overboard for a thread starter to make his own 'rules' for the thread.

 

[Mussels]

I think all the methods should be consolidated in this thread for easier viewing...but thats just me.

if i get consent from kyle2020 (the thread starter), i'd do that. My thread does contain my method, as well as alternatives people have suggested.

 

[kyle2020]

Meh. Nail in the coffin tbh, see you guys later.

 

[Solaris17]

good news boys that might help some of you!!! so after i first read this i was like awsome and it worked fine..i was very pleased...until i realized that your speed depended alot on how fast the machine was and if it had usb 2.0...then i came to realize..what if the machine doesnt support booting from USB? now as i was thinking this i looked in my computer and saw that i installed an 80GB sata drive i pulled from an old laptop...now the drive was empty and wasnt really doing anything..i installed it for the "cause i could" factor...then i thought...hell even an old 10GB ide drive is faster than usb....and when i worked at GS i loved having one of those "hidden" install partitions..now i knew you could make one using acronis and some other programs...but i mean who wants to blow the money and go through a lengthy process to do that?.....so i wondered...what if?...what if i could do this trick on not a usb drive...but a REAL HDD? so i go for it....and if i remember correctly some of the commands didnt work..HOWEVER all the important ones did..and guess what i found? the other day my OS got currupted...so i went into bios and changed the boot order setting my 80GB sata drive as number 1 ...and whalla the windows loading bar zoomed by and i was at repairing windows b4 i knew wtf happened!!! so their you have it boys grab one of those old rusty HDD's throw it in your rig..follow the steps..and you have yourself a repair partition!! GL

 

[kyle2020]

Mate, thats a cracking idea

I have an 80GB Caviar sat in my machine, making that a permanent windows disc is actually quite a good idea . . .

 

[Solaris17]

Mate, thats a cracking idea

I have an 80GB Caviar sat in my machine, making that a permanent windows disc is actually quite a good idea . . .

the best part is if you use something like nlite or w/e to slip stream drivers after it makes the iso just open the iso extract the files and dump those on the disk after you prep it and you have yourself a modified repair partition! with all your drivers already their!

 

[wiak]

http://wintoflash.com/home/en/ =)

 

[Solaris17]

proof skies...a good way to tell just an FYI the vista/7 symbol will appear when its been done properly

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

intresting concept i happen to have an extremely old eide drive a maxtor 40gig laying around from an old 1999 HP comp i wonder if i can get this to work on the eide ..... ill give it a try later on seems like a good fail safe when overclocking to extreme heights just in case u thrash the install lol

 

[Solaris17]

intresting concept i happen to have an extremely old eide drive a maxtor 40gig laying around from an old 1999 HP comp i wonder if i can get this to work on the eide ..... ill give it a try later on seems like a good fail safe when overclocking to extreme heights just in case u thrash the install lol

go for it and let us know! and if you need help i can help ya..thats what saved me i nuked my boot loader with an unstable OC

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yea well i know for a fact my phenom II 940 can hit 4.2ghz on air with a xiggy dark knight on an asus board in vista 64bit i have no idea how my gigabyte board will handle it so if i can get the old maxtor drive up and running (its in a box somewhere i hope its not dead) i can at least push the upper limits with abit of safety


checked the maxtor drive its got alot of bad sectors nearly half the drive is corrupted gonna try and reformat it then short stroke the drive depending on where those bad sectors are

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yea i tested it no luck the drives dead -_- guess ill have to go to the town dump see if i can find any hdds that work haha

 

[Izliecies]

I checked my BIOS (Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P) and it offers to set the boot device as:
hdd
cdrom
zip
usb-fdd
usb-zip
usb-cdrom
usb-hdd

Which one should I use?

 

[Mussels]

Usb-hdd

 

[Izliecies]

Hmm. I cant seem to get past list disk part - I have tried 2 different USB drives but none of them ar shown when I type list disk. I see just the HDD.
What to do?

 

[Neelesh]

I will be trying to install my os from my thumb drive. and for the setting up of the thumb drive for installation purpose, couldn't we do that form GUI itself?

 

[Izliecies]

Hmm. I cant seem to get past list disk part - I have tried 2 different USB drives but none of them ar shown when I type list disk. I see just the HDD.
What to do?

Bump!

 

[kyle2020]

what are the usb drives formatted as?

 

[twicksisted]

wow!! thanks, thanks and thanks, very usefull post right there...

 

[shevanel]

very cool dude. this will be highly useful

Thanks

 

[kyle2020]

Thats ok and 5k posts!

Check out my sort of thank you thread to mark my 5k posts

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=107285