USB Drive was first made available for commercial use in year 2000. Due to its durability and portable size it soon become more popular for storage and data transfer application.

That also leads to situation that people now have very less task remaining for DVD drive, installation of windows and software/drivers become primary task. People also discover their DVD drive not working in case of such urgent need. Here, comes the need of installing windows through USB drive. Or you may simply wanted to install window through USB drive if you have ISO image of installation DVD.

The desired task will be performed in 3 steps(works for windows vista/7/8/10)

 

Step 1: Prepare BOOTABLE USB drive

 

To prepare windows bootable USB drive-

  1. Connect USB drive to Windows 7/Vista running pc
  2. Run CMD.
  3. Type Diskpart (a new DOS window will appear with “DISKPART>”).
  4. Type “List Disk” and identify the USB drive from the list appeared.
  5. Type “select disk 2” (assuming disk 2 is the identified USB drive). wait for windows message: Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
  6. Type “clean”. (this will erase complete USB drive along with partition information)
  7. Type “Create Partition Primary”.
  8. Type “format fs=fat32 quick” and wait for formatting. (you can also use NTFS instead of fat32)
  9. Type “Active”
  10. Type “Exit”.

 

Step2: Copy installation data to USB drive.

 

Simply copy all the files located on the windows installation DVD to USB drive.

If you have ISO image extract all the data to USB drive using “7 zip”

Alternatively you can use power ISO or daemon tool.

 

Step3: Reboot system with USB attached.

 

All you need to do is reboot your system with USB plugged in and follow the windows instruction(rest is same as installing windows through DVD).

If system doesn’t boot with USB drive, you need to configure BIOS of  system on which you want to install windows. Make USB storage as first boot device.

Again, reboot system with USB attached.