Microsoft Windows 7 on Bootable USB?

~ Kevin Remde

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Microsoft Windows 7 on USB: Two Reasons Why

Good article.. and I do hope Microsoft decides to package and sell Windows 7 on USB sticks.. because on hardware that supports it, booting to USB and installing the OS from that is pretty cool.. and pretty fast.

But I’m not sure what all the fuss is about.  It’s very easy to create your own bootable USB stick and copy the contents of the Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2) installation to it, and then boot into it. 

“Oh yeah?”

Yeah.  In fact, I’ve attached a document to this blog post that I created for a user group “Load Fest” I helped with several weeks ago.  It gives you a step-by-step on how to prepare the USB stick prior to copying the DVD (or a mounted .ISO) onto it.

Hope you find it useful!

How to prepare a USB thumbdrive to boot and install Windows 7.docx

Published by Kevin Remde

Kevin Remde President - CMIT Solutions of the Twin Cities West Kevin has held positions such as Sr. Technical Evangelist, Software Engineer, Information Systems professional, and Information Systems manager. He loves sharing helpful new solutions and technologies with his IT professional peers, and is passionate about helping people and businesses succeed through the intelligent application of information technology.

2 thoughts on “Microsoft Windows 7 on Bootable USB?”

  1. There was a TechNet Edge video a while ago that showed how to do this.  I was shocked how much faster it was than using the DVD.

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