Burn ISO To USB

Making a USB flash drive bootable sounds like a fairly simple task, but it’s not an easy task always. While using the Command Prompt method (see how to make USB bootable using Command Prompt) to transfer all setup files to the USB drive is the easiest and best way, many users are having difficulties using the Command Prompt.

If you’re having a bootable ISO file and looking for a straightforward tool to burn your ISO to USB drive, ISO to USB is the right tool for you. ISO to USB comes with all basic options that you need to create a USB bootable.

Download ISO to USB setup file, install the same, and run it with admin rights. Once launched, click the browse button to browse to the ISO file location and click open button to load the file. Next step is to select your USB drive from the drop-down menu.

Be sure to select the right drive as the tool will format your USB drive before transferring setup files to the USB. Chose FAT32 or NTFS as your file system, enter a volume label (should not exceed 11 characters) and finally select bootable option.

Before you click the burn button, once again make sure that you have left no important files in your USB and you have selected bootable option. Finally, click Burn button start transferring files to the USB drive. When you see “burning will erase all data on USB” warning, click Ok button to proceed. The tool might take a while to complete the transfer process.

You might see “not responding” in the title bar of the tool but don’t close the program. Once ISO to USB completes its business, you will see “successfully completed” message.

ISO to USB supports Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 as well as Windows 8 operating systems. We tested it on Windows 8 Pro (x64) to transfer Windows 8 RTM (x86) files to a flash drive and can confirm that the tool works as advertised.

Please note that ISO to USB can burn only ISO files and if you’re having extracted files we recommend you use Rufus tool or Microsoft DVD/USB Tool.

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How To Create Bootable Windows 7 USB To Install Windows 7 From USB Flash Drive (Using Windows 7 DVD/USB Tool)

As we reported earlier, Microsoft released a free tool called Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool to help you install Windows 7 on all netbooks in simple steps.

Although you can refer our how to install Windows 7 from USB guide to do the same, this tool simplifies the job. Here are the five simple steps that you need to follow to create a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows 7 from USB device:

Note: You need a USB flash drive with a minimum of 4 GB of free space. And also please backup your data from USB first.

1. Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool and install it.

2. Run the program, browse to your Windows 7 ISO image using the Browse button.

3. In this step, you need to select your media type. As we are here to create a bootable USB, simply click on USB device button.

4. Select your USB flash drive from the drop down box and click on Begin copying button.

5. The Windows 7 USB/DVD tool will take a few minutes to complete the procedure.

6. You are done. Reboot you machine and start installing Windows 7 (Windows 7 installation procedure).

Windows 7 Installation

While most of the Windows users are familiar with the Windows installation, there is one part of the user who really doesn’t know how to install Windows Vista/7 on their system as they have been using preloaded Windows on their PCs.

So I thought of writing a simple guide to cover Windows 7 installation procedure. Before we get into the innards of the installation you need to read below articles to make yourself familiar with Windows 7.

* Installing Windows 7 using USB drive

Here, I assume that you have bootable Windows 7 DVD or USB and you have already kept a partition (Minimum 16GB) to install Windows 7. I assume that you have made necessary changes to the BIOS so that you can boot from DVD/USB.

1. Boot your PC using Windows 7 DVD/USB drive and press any key if you see “Press any key to continue message”

2. Next select your language, keyboard type (Generally US) and time format.

3. Click Install button.

4. Click the box labeled “I agree with the license terms” and click Next to proceed further.

5. In the next screen click on Custom (advanced) option. I hope you are not upgrading here. If you are doing an upgrade then just click on the Upgrade option.

6. This is the important step as you need to select the drive which you have already prepared for the Windows 7 installation. Note that selecting a wrong partition will wipe out the data. Also note that Windows 7 creates another small partition of 200 MB if you are installing Windows 7 on an empty hard drive. Don’t worry as the 200MB partition will not be shown in explorer.

7. You can also format the selected partition by opening drive option and then choosing Format option.

8. Click on Next button to start Windows 7 installation. Windows may restart many times during the installation and you need not to worry about that.

9. After completing the installation Windows will give you the below screen to enter your username and password.

10. In the next step you will be asked to enter the Product Key. Enter the key that you have got and click Next button.

Here you need to select the Windows 7 update option. Click “Use recommended settings”.

Select Time Zone, date and time and click Next.

In the next screen, you need to select the type of network. That is, choose between Home network, Work network and Public network.

11. Finally Windows will ask you to create a group depending on the type of Network you have chosen. If you are not sure, just skip as you can do it later as well.

12. You will see Windows 7 desktop. That is, you have successfully installed Windows 7 on your PC.

13. Good luck!

Rufus: The Fastest Tool To Create Bootable USB Drive

Windows users have a lot of good utilities to create a bootable USB using an ISO file and then install Windows from a USB flash drive. Windows 7 DVD/USB Tool, UNetBootin, WinToFlash, and Universal USB installer are the some popular utilities available for the job.

While most of the utilities mentioned above do their job very well, the only catch is that all these tools take considerable amount of time to transfer the ISO onto the USB.

Users who don’t want to use the command prompt method for creating bootable USB media should check out Rufus utility. Rufus is a small utility for Windows and helps you create bootable USB drives. The best thing about this tool is that it’s faster than other tools. According to the developer of the tool, it’s twice as fast as the official Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool, Universal USB installer and UNetBootin tools.

Apart from Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Vista, Windows and Windows 8, this software also supports Arch Linux, Hiren’s Boot CD, Parted Magic, NT Password Registry Editor, Knoppix, Kubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Fedora and many other Linux distributions.

Download, run the utility, select your USB drive and browse to the ISO file to begin transferring ISO file contents onto the USB drive. You might also like to know how toinstall Windows 7 on USB drive and repair Windows 7 from USB flash drive.

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Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool From Microsoft

We have already covered how to install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive.

With the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has released a small utility that allows you install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive. Although this is just another tool, many of you might like to test it.

The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.

System Requirements:

      # Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

      # Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)

      # 50MB of free space on your hard drive

      # DVD-R drive or 4GB removable USB flash drive

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