How To Install Windows 7 Beta From A USB Drive To An HP Mini 1000 [Without Vista]

11 Jan 2009

HP Mini 1000. Check. Windows 7 Beta ISO. Check. 4 GB USB thumb drive. Check. HP Mini 1000. Check. Google. Check. Windows Vista. Uhhh… no.

That was my issue. There are a lot of great tutorials on how to create a bootable USB drive from the Windows 7 Beta ISO which Microsoft recently released. This is primarily a good solution for those of us with netbooks without CD drives. Unfortunately, a majority of these tutorials utilize a program called “diskpart”, which is a command line utility for managing partitions and disks. Coming from a UNIX background, I figured it would be easy to accomplish, but I found out the hard way, that the “diskpart” that comes shipped with Windows XP is not able to perform the necessary tasks. Namely, you won’t be able to see the USB drives in the list of drives, and you can’t set the USB drive to be active. I’ve got a lot more long winded blah blah for you, but I’ll get right to the point. Here’s how you do it if you’re stuck with Windows XP like I am. These instructions are were conducted on and are for an HP Mini 1000, I cannot guarantee this will work everywhere else (but I don’t see why it shouldn’t):

Ensure you have a USB Drive with more than 3GB capacity
Download and Install Daemon Tools Lite (or your favorite Virtual CD emulator)
Download the Windows 7 Beta ISO
Download and Install the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
Download and Extract MBRWizard
Insert the USB Drive
Launch the HP USB Storage Format Tool. Select your USB drive for device. Select NTFS for File system. Check Quick Format. Click Start to format the USB drive.
Mount the Windows 7 Beta ISO with Daemon Tools (make note of drive letter it assigns)
Set the USB drive to be the active partition with MBRWizard: Open a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd) and navigate to the directory where you extracted MBRWizard. Execute the following command: mbrwiz /list.
You should see your USB Drive in the list. Make note of the disk numbers next to the drives. In the following example, the HP Mini hard drive is drive #0 and the USB Drive is drive #1.
Execute the following command to set the USB drive to active: mbrwiz /disk=1 /active=1 In my example, the /disk=1 corresponds on the drive number of the USB drive. Make sure yours matches. Answer “Y” to the confirmation
Execute another list to ensure the active status has been updated. The USB Drive is now ready to be set to be bootable.
In the same command prompt, execute the following command to set the USB drive to be bootable: e:\boot\bootsect /nt60 D: (E: is the drive letter of the Windows 7 Beta ISO and D: is the drive letter of your USB drive)
Copy the contents of the Windows 7 Beta to your USB Drive
Everything should be ready. Reboot your HP Mini 1000, and on the boot screen hit F9. Select your USB drive from the dropdown list.

If it doesn’t boot, check the following:

The USB Drive is formatted properly.
The USB Drive has all the contents of the Windows 7 Beta ISO (including hidden files)
The USB Drive partition is set to “active” (mbrwiz /list)

Like I said earlier, it’s a much easier process if you already have Windows Vista, but I found there were a few kinks with Windows XP. I’m sure someone out there has found an easier process than this one, so by all means, share with the rest of the class in the comments. The fruits of ye olde labour:

Tags: beta, boot, bootable, daemon tools, drive, howto, hp mini, iso, mbrwizard, microsoft, netbook, partition, usb, Utility, windows 7

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January 12th, 2009 at 6:02 am

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Bwana

January 13th, 2009 at 2:43 am

Copy the contents

Windows Guy

January 13th, 2009 at 4:43 am

You can also below detailed guide which shows how to install Windows 7 using USB drive with screenshots:
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows...

January 13th, 2009 at 5:07 am

Thanks for commenting.

Your guide assumes the user has Windows Vista or Windows 7 to build the USB drive from. DISKPART on Windows XP fails to recognize USB drives and is unable to set them active. This guide is for those of us without an updated version of DISKPART

Mohamad

January 13th, 2009 at 5:43 am

a quick question…. when you say copy the contents of windows 7 to the usb… should we extract the iso or just copy the iso over?

THANKS!!@#! you are a life saver

Sakurina

January 13th, 2009 at 6:15 am

Planning on doing this on my Dell Mini 9 eventually. Awesome tutorial, thanks Bwana.

phillymaniac14

January 13th, 2009 at 9:37 am

Would you say that the 7 upgrade is worth it performance-wise? I was considering doing this, but was concerned about your comment that you lose frames in Hulu and Youtube HD. Would 2GB RAM remedy this? Thoughts?

January 13th, 2009 at 9:53 am

Know what's hilarious. Not 5 minutes after I responded to this comment, my RAM upgrade arrived. I'll let you know if it makes a difference

January 13th, 2009 at 10:58 am

No prob. Let us know how it goes on the Dell

January 13th, 2009 at 9:52 am

It's hard to say without actually doing it. My RAM still hasn'tt arrived though. I donit know if its the weight of Windows 7 (it's the Ultimate version) or some kind of incompatibility with Flash 10. I do know the hardware is capable of the video playback I mentioned since it worked like a champ under Windows XP home. Granted, I didn't do any kind of tweaking on Windows 7, it's the default install with all their recommended bells and whistles turned on. I imagine I could turn off a lot of effects and improve performance. I'm not going to try that until I upgrade the RAM to 2GB first.

Douglas

January 14th, 2009 at 2:43 am

where did you order your RAM from and for what price?

January 14th, 2009 at 2:53 am

Very curious to know if anyone has done this with the SSD drive. It reportedly takes a performance hit due to switching from FAT to NTFS.

January 14th, 2009 at 5:31 am

Wonder what these guys are doing about the SSD/NTFS problem: http://www.crn.com/hardware/212701047

Burke

January 14th, 2009 at 6:38 am

THANK YOU! Was trying to get this to work on an HP mini and it would not boot from the USB – I guess the problem was that the partition just wasn't active. Tried all kinds of tools, but your guide got me all the way through!

January 14th, 2009 at 7:09 am

No problem I felt your pain. I could not get the thing to boot until it was set active. Glad my pain helped solve yours

January 14th, 2009 at 9:09 am

Is this also the case for XP? In your Hulu tests, have you used 360p or 480p?

Also, in general, would you recommend this upgrade? Other than simply testing out 7, is it a substantial performance boost, or is the stuttering and audio pop too much to overcome? I have already tested out Windows 7 on another machine, so simply testing the OS is not a factor.

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michl

January 14th, 2009 at 11:10 am

excellent- i tried with hp and a dos disk- didn't know how to insert win7 infos to the mbr. thanks a lot

January 14th, 2009 at 11:44 am

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January 14th, 2009 at 11:45 am

Well the RAM helped some. I'm still dropping frames but not as many. I saw that you mentioned Youtube HD. Youtube HD is unplayable on the HP Mini. It's a slideshow. Fullscreen regular Youtube and Hulu is ok, but HD is out of the question.

vstoitsov

January 15th, 2009 at 1:31 pm

I'll try this method, as I have desktop PC, it have USB boot option in the BIOS and have no CD or DVD drive, and I also have another PC with XP, and was wondering how to make the disk part thing without integrated into XP, thanks to this guide, maybe I'll success, I will post the results tommorow

January 15th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

If you are preparing bootable USB on 32-bit machine with 32-bit Win XP Pro (mine is SP3), but you want to update the boot sector for 64-bit Win7 build 7000, you can't use the bootsect.exe on the mounted ISO image (it is 64-bit app, and gives error that it is not valid win32 app), you have to download fom internet 32-bit bootsect.exe, to copy on your HDD the folder "boot" from the mounted image, put the 32-bit bootsect.exe in the same folder (overwrite the 64-bit), than use the same method described in this great tutorial, open cmd, go to that folder boot on your HDD and the command is the same. Hope it helps

January 16th, 2009 at 7:26 am

Now, I can confirm, that it works without a problem on one of my desktop PC's. The USB is Patriot 4GB USB 2.0, the motherboard is Gigabyte GA-P35T-DS3P, the os is Windows 7, build 7000 64-bit.

Dougjr

January 16th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

I ran into a problem when trying to run the install. I am able to get it to try and boot from USB but I get the message "BootMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to continue". I ama running windows XP SP3 on a Dell. I have tried the process twice, and downloaded the ISO twice to make sure that wasn't the issue. Any suggestions?

January 16th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Getting Error message "BootMGR missing Press Ctrl+ALt+Delete … etc"

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LLshortname

January 17th, 2009 at 3:12 am

Couldn't you just mount the ISO in a program like DeamonTools?

claud

January 20th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

It works great !!!! chapeau. thanx.

Joey

January 20th, 2009 at 9:05 pm

On step 9, how do you navigate to the directory where you extracted MBRWizard?

Kate

January 20th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Open a new command prompt and type "cd desktop" and then "cd mbrwiz2.0" (or wherever the directory is located) and then type the mbrwiz /list command.

bas

January 21st, 2009 at 4:20 am

You don’t need some mbrwiz: The windows dvd comes with a tool to fix the mbr.

1) Just format the usb stick with the hp usb tool to fat or ntfs.
2) Then copy the data from the dvd to the usb stick (best is to copy the bootmgr file first).
3) Finally open a command prompt and go to the boot directory on the mounted windows 7 dvd (not the usb stick!).
4) Execute the bootsect.exe with
bootsect /nt60 /mbr [/force]

that’s it. works fine here

January 21st, 2009 at 4:21 am

hmmp, my mistake, it should read
bootsect /nt60 driveletterusbstick: /mbr [force]

sabadi

January 21st, 2009 at 11:14 am

I just had the exact same issue, on a Dell Latitude XT with Windows XP SP3. Would love any thoughts/suggestions. Difficult to get so close and then get stuck!

January 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am

I tried these options on my attempts and they failed. The USB partition was still not set to “active” therefore it would not boot. The only reason I use MBRWizard is to set the usb partition to active so it’ll boot.

January 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am

Thought the HP Tool did that, because I never did it. I format to Fat32, though.

Matt Popo

January 29th, 2009 at 8:38 am

Just sharing a little tip. It seems like there was some confusion on step 14?

To copy the contents, in command prompt:

cd
Xcopy E:*.* /s/e/f F:

^^^Where E: is your mounted ISO, and F: is the USB drive^^^

Vikas

February 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

I have a desktop PC. Followed all the steps mentioned in original post. But when I am booting the PC with USB as my primary boot device, it is displaying "J" character on the top-left of PC's screen and then nothing happens. Can you please tell me what am i missing ?

February 16th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

DUDE!!! ME TOO!!! Please email me popo7bballr@aim.com when you find a solution.

Basil

February 22nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Thanks Bwana. This method worked first time on my HP Mini-Note 2133. One question for you. Do you know what happens with Windows 7 Beta when the full version comes out. Do I have to buy the full version? will thePC stop working?
Thanks
Basil

TD99

February 26th, 2009 at 12:55 am

After searching and trying about 20 different methods found online, I *finally* got my SanDisk Cruzer Micro (8GB) to boot into the Windows 7 Installer. Here's what I did:

1 – Using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, I formatted FAT32 leaving all the boxes unchecked.

2 – Mounted the Windows 7 Beta ISO using Virtual CloneDrive (free, http://www.slysoft.com).

3 – Copied the contents of the ISO (all of the Windows 7 files and folders) over to the SanDisk.

4 – Renamed the file "BOOTMGR" to "NTLDR".

That's it! I was able to finally boot off the SanDisk using my Dell Mini 9 and install Windows 7.

BradMan

March 4th, 2009 at 1:07 am

do u mean yes or no

zeus

March 10th, 2009 at 4:14 am

this is freakin awesome thanks so much! I have a vista iso, and I had no cds large enough to put the whole thing on, so my only alternative method was to use my psp's 8gig memory card. Worked like a charm. Thank god for the psp. I think hp should put a link of this to their website, im sure people who are downloading the usb disk storage format tool might need this tutorial. Thanks again!

Prakash

April 1st, 2009 at 3:39 am

You are awesome Bwana. Thanks for all the help you give us

slimane

April 25th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

Hello, everybody
in first sorry for my english.
I try your expliation to copy Windows 7 to usb drive,
But as have not windows 7, i try your explicatio to wondows Xp, and
i can not found the boot directory to make commande:
bootsect / nt60 Y:
Must i install just only windows 7 and not Xp; how can i do to install windows Xp
Thank you for your help
Regards

Axel

May 1st, 2009 at 12:31 pm

Help, please!
I had mess up my HP mini 1000, and the OS can’t load.

When I try to put my USB drive, it boots but at some point the setup process stops and it says that it can’t find the setup files (though I copied them on the USB drive). I think it gets confused with drive letters.

questions:
does the described procedure work if I use another computer to prepare the bootable USB drive? The mini is useless.

If I want to extract the Win7 ISO into the USB drive, should I just copy the files dragging and dropping them from winrar window to the USB drive window or it is important to use daemon tools virtual drive and MBRwizard?

Thanks

Derek

May 6th, 2009 at 5:24 am

Thanks a heap! I tried 10 other websites before finding yours and finally getting it to work. Legend!

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May 17th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Hey , I have a Few Questions..Do u have all the Drivers? Card Reader , speakerss , keyboard mouse? Motherboard…

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Qwertinsky

May 18th, 2009 at 10:08 pm

I have tried this many times but all I get is a flashing cursor instead of booting.

I can boot from a flash drive that has Ubuntu on it just fine.

Where am I going wrong?

Leon Viveros

May 20th, 2009 at 10:44 am

Bwana. Nice tutorial. Worked great on my hp mini. Gracias.

Junior

May 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 am

I can’t install win7 using this tuto. I try intall from my external hd usb. Whats wrong?

May 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 pm

I got it to boot, but now it always says files are missing.

I have copied directly from a DVD and evened opened the .ISO file in Magic Disk and copied it.

But it still says files needed for installation are missing?

May 23rd, 2009 at 1:39 am

Some reason formatting the flash drive as fat32 worked fine but formatting as NTFS does not?

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Nick Huffman

May 26th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

Hey just wanted to say thanks for your time in writting this!

I did all the steps on a XP SP2 box and installed Windows 7 to my Dell mini in about an hour without an issue.

Cecilia

May 27th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

BootMGR missing Press Ctrl+ALt+Delete help please!

zaxx

May 30th, 2009 at 2:08 am

I tried many different methods and TD99′s way finally worked for me

LOOONEY2NS

June 5th, 2009 at 11:41 am

The method TD99 used works every time. No playing with DOS, no monkeying around. The whole process of making a bootable USB takes a few minutes. I have used it with every build of Win 7 from 7000 to 7127 without a hitch.

Jim

June 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am

bas, you are a certified genius. I’ve been spending hours trying to figure out why I couldn’t get the flash drive to boot up properly with the Windows 7 installation files. Everywhere you see reference to “bootsect” and quite a few people complaining about seeing the “BOOTMGR is missing” message. Noone else has been able to describe how to fix it, but yours is the first entry I found to refer to /mbr, and now my flash drive works like a champ!

adam

June 9th, 2009 at 8:40 pm

thanks you sooo much! I have been looking for a guide for the longest time that I can actually use with XP.
thanks again

June 15th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

bwana, daemon tools was problematic for copying files from the mounted iso image on winxp home, so as a workaround i used winrar to copy files to the usb drive.

Fabricio

June 23rd, 2009 at 1:28 pm

couldn’t do it =(
I followed this guide step by step, but all I can get is a “BOOTMGR file is corrupted” or an “error 0xc000000e”

i don’t know what to do =P

is it possible I got a bad download? It would be a pain to donwload it again and it still don’t work lol

Nadun

July 5th, 2009 at 6:07 am

Thank you so much for this! I managed to install W 7 RC on my MSI wind U90 thanks to this!

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July 6th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

Crystal clear instructions worked the first time. I would like to suggest reinstalling the synaptics touchpad driver (from hp.com) to get full functionality like the scroll strip back. Thank you for publishing this.

ToDougJR

July 20th, 2009 at 11:47 am

DougJR and all who get the BOOTMGR is missing.
I had the same problem and the fix will make you say, “DOH”.
If you copied your files over using right-click->copy then pasted into your USB drive it will create a top level directory with the name of your CD-ROM volume name.

In other words the install files are actually in the wrong place. In your USB drive you need to cut and paste everything a level higher.

System BIOS will look for BOOTMGR at the top level directory.

Jason

July 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 pm

hey im having trouble with step 13, i did everything else right but when i type in the command it says “The system cannot find the path specified” is there some other program i need to set it to be bootable?

smudley

July 25th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

Im really not liking this… my eeepc 1000 (xandros 40 ssd) sucks miserably… slow… upgraded to 2 gig… still sucks

Tried for hours to put eeebuntu nbr… not happening

Tried for hours to make usb here… not happening

Seriously Linux ppl, Microsoft ppl DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SO FUCKING DIFFICULT!

Why cant you just download the os drop it on a stick change boot priority and go?

Especially you linux assholes… leaner meaner linux but you have to know rocket science to find your file and forget about opening it

Maybe I am just not smart enough but I did bmyopc and managed to xp on a system with no floppy drive that needed sata drivers… THAT CAME ON A FLOPPY #@!$%##&^% DISK

I appreciate the efforts of the fella who created this tutorial I really do… maybe Ill figure it out eventually…

It just occurs to me that both MS and Linux folks might see this… Might need to see the level of frustration that is out there…

We dont all write code for a living assholes!

Hopefully engadget will pick this up and…. oh yeah nothing will change

P.S. Hey ASUS instead of releasing twelve more eeepc variations why you pay the extra 5 bucks and just put @!#$ XP on it and be done

kissfan003

July 26th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

I did it as described by TD99, but I had to use MBRWIZ to mark the drive active. I was using XP to prep… Awesome tips.. thanks for the help!

SRTIV

July 27th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

my bootmgr missing issue:

MAKE SURE WHEN YOU “COPY THE FILES TO THE USB” THAT YOU COPY THE FILES FROM THE MOUNTED VIRTUAL DRIVE AND NOT THE ACTUAL ISO ITSELF.

DOH!

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@SRTIV

QUOTE:
MAKE SURE WHEN YOU â€œCOPY THE FILES TO THE USBâ€ THAT YOU COPY THE FILES FROM THE MOUNTED VIRTUAL DRIVE AND NOT THE ACTUAL ISO ITSELF.
DOH!

this was my issue… well in addition to my foul tempered rant for which I would like to apologize whole heartedly…

Successfully installed on eeepc 1000 40 gig ssd with bwana tutorial…

first install went to 8 gig partition but only left about 800mb left… thought would be problematic in future so I reinstalled on to 32 gig partition…

fyi no email client with WIN7 ULTIMATE??
thunderbird is just as good just thought surprising

fyi if you own this model I can attest that there is a noticeable performance increase everywhere EXCEPT STARTUP… close to two minutes. I do intend to troll for some slimming down of WIN7 tuts just havent had the time.

fyi 714mb ram in use while running GCHROME (typing these words) and tsk mgr (systray wants to install some updates dont know if this is using ram)

manuel abitia

July 31st, 2009 at 12:31 am

mmm… one question does it work with windows 7 rc too?

Ghost Autumn

July 31st, 2009 at 1:56 am

Yay!!!! Your’s is hands down the best guide I’ve found. Thanks so much for sharing!

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August 5th, 2009 at 9:47 am

works. thank you.

JDCahill

August 6th, 2009 at 6:02 pm

“4 â€“ Renamed the file “BOOTMGR” to “NTLDR”. -TD99

Yes; I also needed to follow TD99′s lead (above).

THANKS All.

Jay

August 12th, 2009 at 8:50 am

loved this tut, i got through it with NO PROBLEMS UNTIL

lol

I tried to run the usb drive in a nHP desktop

here is what happened

It started to boot fine (which means the disk was obviously done right) but then it stopped at a screen and gave the following error

windows failed to start

BLAH BLAH BLAH

file: \boot\BCD

status: 0xc000000e

info: an error occured while attempting to read the boot configuration data

******************

its funny how absolutely DIFFICULT it is to use this win 7, you would think M$ would have made it EASIER

any help would be great

Alex

August 14th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

How can make it for multiple ISO (eg. windows xp, windows vista and windows 7) ?

Sam

August 17th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

Oh my word, thank you so much. No other guide to win 7 has even mentioned active partitions or making a drive bootable! Spent a day before I found this site. Wonderful, and in good order, top stuff.

Windows 7 uses a more sensible method of booting that will become the standard, but as ever when standards change, things used to boot.ini and old DOS standards will have problems

ericboyers

August 18th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Thanks to Bwana, just loaded Win 7 final on my Acer Aspire One using this method. Works great!

Mark

August 20th, 2009 at 11:07 am

This worked for my Kogan Agora Pro netbook. Tried plenty of other methods to create a bootable USB drive but none were successful, kept getting “Missing operating system”. I even had to use the HP formatter tool even though I wasn’t using a HP. More reliable than the built in Windows one!

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August 23rd, 2009 at 7:55 am

Really good guide wich helped me out with pretty much everything Thanks from Sweden!

Tuck Nasty

September 1st, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Works for me. Thanks for the great tutorial.

September 8th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

used this to install windows 7 on my acer aspire one (the one with a 16gb SSD) , works just as fast as windows xp does without having to install all those drivers. and looks great

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mon

September 28th, 2009 at 3:16 am

after follow step 4
e:\boot\bootsect /nt60 D: (E: is the drive letter of the Windows 7 Beta ISO and D: is the drive letter of your USB drive)

I can’t access my usb drive. It said “usb device not recognized.” Try to uninstall the drivers still not works, enable and disable hardware not works too.

How to fix this? Only this usb drive cannot be accessed, other usb drives recognized by xp.

Please help.

JoÃ£o Ricardo

September 28th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

Hey Bwana !
This is a great post for all… Help so much to install W7 in netbooks.

Good Job Guy !

o_o

October 4th, 2009 at 6:12 am

Thanks mate, that helped me to deploy Windows Server 2008!

John O.o

October 14th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

dude, you are epic. i am totally doing this as i am writing a sonnet for english
XD

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EtherHunt

November 17th, 2009 at 1:12 am

I found an app that automates the whole process.
I’ve been going over the guides.
I’m doing everything correctly.
Tried the NTDLR shit and it didn’t work.
Tried the FAT32 & NTFS, no luck.
navigated to the root of the mounted ISO
then did that whole cd boot
bootsect /nt60 blah blah blah:blah
not fing luck. I even went and bought a new USB
I feel like Shawty Lo, I dun dun it all. until I found this.
http://maketecheasier.com/updated-boot-and-install-windows-7-from-usb-flash-drive/2009/09/12
It’s still copying files. If it doesn’t work.
Then I know it’s not me. or the USB.
It’s the ISO I downloaded off TPB.
I’m downloading another torrent.
But I think it’s the same version.
All the Windows 7s out there are RTM.
regardless. I think some the torrents out there
are corrupted. It’s not our faults. It’s the files.
I just have to find the right one.
If it’s doesn’t work this next time.
I’ll try everything again but this time I’ll use a diff ISO.

Felix Baaken

November 17th, 2009 at 9:51 am

Thanks very much! Very helpful! Tried some other tutorials, none of which told me to set the SUB Drive active.

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November 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 am

HELP!!! I’ve been trying to get this for hours but it’s not working. When i get to mbrwiz /disk=1 /active=1 and I type Y, i keep getting the message “Error 64: Inavlid Parameter 2″. PLEASE help me fix this.

November 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 am

Oh btw, I changed mbrwiz /disk=1 /active=1 to mbrwiz /disk=2 /active=2 because my usb is listed as 2, and yes i am positive it is 2.

John Fred

November 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm

Tried this to install Windows 7 Professional on a Lenovo S10-2 and it worked a treat!

Cheers for sharing an invaluable and intuitive article!

sam

November 26th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

works!!! thaNKS

masterdam79

November 27th, 2009 at 6:12 am

From all the walkthroughs I could find, this was the one that worked for my MSI Wind u90

VDIAS

December 14th, 2009 at 10:22 am

One question… How to completely clean your usb device afterwards?

zob

December 21st, 2009 at 8:26 am

Thank you very much, works on lenovo Ideapad S12 as well.

Oli

December 22nd, 2009 at 4:36 am

Jack, did you try mbrwiz /disk=2 /active=1?

Geekoid

December 26th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

A completely new method for making a USB drive installer of Windows 7, courtesy of Microsoft themselves:

http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe

It works perfectly for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the OS, but will erase all data on your flash drive. External hard drives are not supported, however.

@VDIAS: to clean your USB drive completely, do the following:

1. Open an Administrator command prompt by searching for cmd in the Start Menu search box, then right-click the cmd item and select Run as Administrator. Accept the dialog and continue.

2. Type diskpart and press enter

3. Type LIST DISK. This will show all your drives, including flash drives, and their sizes.

4. Find the drive which is yours, and type in the corresponding name like so: SELECT DISK 2 (if your flash drive is disk 2). If correct, diskpart will inform you that Disk 2 (or whichever drive you entered) is now selected.

5. To be sure you have the right drive, type in LIST PARTITION. It will show you the partitions on the disk. Confirm this is the correct drive before continuing.

NOTE: If you want to be doubly sure you have the right disk (and I recommend you do check if even slightly unsure), click the Start Menu, right-click Computer, then click Manage. In there, go to the Storage section and click Disk Management. The disk numbers are shown there, along with their labels and drive letters, where relevant.

6. This next step will destroy any partitions and boot sectors on the drive, thereby rendering it uninitialized and any data on it inaccessible, so be sure you have the correct disk selected, and you’ve backed up anything on the flash drive you want to keep.

7. If you’re absolutely sure you want to proceed, type the single command CLEAN into diskpart. After a few moments, you’ll be informed your drive has been cleaned.

8. Repartition it again as you require, using your favourite tool.

That’s it, basically. Hope that helps.

yannis

January 16th, 2010 at 3:42 am

Thanks Bwana. For people who ask about step 11, if you disk has a different number just change disk# not also partition#. For instance, if your disk is number 5 the the command should be:
mbrwiz /disk=5 /active=1

antz

January 17th, 2010 at 2:18 pm

many thanks goes out to the author. recently bought an acer d250 netbook which came with XP home edition, i was able to successfuly remove the OS and install the new one Win 7. the only change i made was to install 2GB DDR2 and it works like a charm. i am able to run dreamweaver, photoshop and illustrator as well as oracle on this baby. microsoft really did a great job on this one unlike that resource hungry vista.
thanks again

CasÃ© Oliveira

January 25th, 2010 at 11:10 pm

I simply LOVE YOU!!!
After some days googling for a solution, I found here!
Thank you so much!

Vicki

February 1st, 2010 at 9:46 pm

While I was able to follow your instructions using MBRWizard under XP to make a bootable Win7 installation flash drive, I grew tired of repeating the command line instructions each time. After searching high and low… I finally found something that works for me every single time… even under XP. Check out Bootsage @ http://firesage.com/bootsage

February 13th, 2010 at 5:53 pm

Thank you Bwana for all of your help. I was able to successfully install Windows 7 on my brand new Eee PC 1005ha.

I did find and easier method to mount the windows 7 ISO:

1. Google PowerISO; then download and install
2. because PowerISO works with the windows shell, just right click on your ISO file and say “mount”
3. Enjoy!

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Vishal

March 6th, 2010 at 11:33 am

i did evrythin correctly m sure abt dat bt while bootin via USB it juss show a cursor blinking dats it…i hv tried evrythin plz hlp me out…

Fr33k

March 20th, 2010 at 9:42 am

Thanks, everything work perfectly!!!

Joker

April 1st, 2010 at 2:25 am

Thank you Bwana… You are a real life saver!

paulo

April 7th, 2010 at 8:46 pm

where i can download the device driver of hp mini 1000? hp support center website only have network drivers. does the other hardware is suppoeted by the windows 7?

Mikan

April 9th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

thank you boss, just threw a ssd drive into mine and didn’t know where to start to go from xp to win7. you saved me a ton of time!

Bipin

May 10th, 2010 at 2:07 am

I want repair Netbook OS files, which do not have CD-ROM, How to do that?. Bipin.

Puppies for Sale

May 21st, 2010 at 2:03 pm

I don't need this information as I have the original CD of windows 7. But you have done a good work and keep it up.

May 21st, 2010 at 7:03 pm

Cristobal

June 22nd, 2010 at 3:33 pm

If attempting via XP /disk=1 wont work. MBRWiz states you can type /disk=yes. and it worked like a charm

P.S. I helps to download the first version of MBRWiz

ghina

July 8th, 2010 at 6:02 am

Thanks for share useful article,..

Bob

July 8th, 2010 at 3:17 pm

this is spot on. ive doen it loads of times and wondered why it wasnt working on my acer then reaslised id copied the folder across as opposed to the contents within – ie bootmgr file, other files and folder…todoungjr is spot on

July 8th, 2010 at 3:18 pm

liekly, do a recopy

Daniel Kerr

July 12th, 2010 at 6:17 pm

I dont know how to get to mbrwiz on cmd

Raymond

July 19th, 2010 at 5:45 pm

How are going to that? If do not mind, can you please tell it how it was done in detail? thank you very much…

G4m3r G3m3z

August 11th, 2010 at 5:22 am

[tested & working]
…nice tutor bro

but, u can still install win7 using image mounting software (alcohol 120%, daemon or someting like that) just mounting the iso and install win7, but need windows installed on that pc/netbook first before upgrade/installing win7 (or create multiple-boot).

this tutor really useful for clean install that there aren't os installed before and dont have(or problem with) dvd room

just 1 question, if i format UFD (USB FlashDisk) using FAT16x LBA(using PeToUSB) can i still booting from UFD?

(try to combine with windows xp)

August 11th, 2010 at 5:23 am

so what the hell u're doing here….?
(selling ur puppies… i c…)

this tutor for netbook/pc without(or got problem with ur) dvd rom…

and doing this tutor still need windows 7 cd/iso as source

David_Ford

March 21st, 2009 at 11:31 pm

Also, thanks to @Bwana for the tutorial on installing Windows 7 on the Netbook. http://bit.ly/hwN7

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