Is it possible to burn Windows 7 to a USB flash drive? Five programs to create a bootable USB flash drive
Good day, dear readers! I continue to write articles on the topic of installations and operating systems, and today I will tell you how Easily burn Windows 7 and 8 to a USB flash drive using the program. In previous articles I told you how to install it in the BIOS so that . And now I got to Windows 7 (8). Let’s sit back and see how easy it is to do it all :)
How to burn Windows 7 and 8 to a USB flash drive?
First, download program entitled Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool and launch.
Although the program is called Windows 7, it is also suitable for Windows 8. And as they say, if there is no difference, why pay more :)
In the window that appears, click the button Browse and select the Windows 7 (8) image. Click Next.
Then a window will appear in which we select the usb device to record windows 7 (8). Click USB device.
In the list, select your flash drive if it has not yet been identified and click Begin copying, to program started recording.
After Windows 7 (8) entries to a flash drive can be closed program. If you go to the flash drive you will see the recorded files.
Now all you need to do is start (8).
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There comes a time for every PC user when they need to reinstall Windows. But here's the problem. The disk drive is broken or the device does not have one at all. What to do then, there is only one way out - create a bootable USB flash drive. How to make a bootable Windows USB flash drive, learn about it by reading this article.
Preparation
Before you create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows, you need to prepare. You need to have with you:
- flash drive with sufficient memory;
- Windows 7 ISO image;
- ISO image burning program.
The operating system required for reinstallation can be downloaded from the official Microsoft website. This can be done by paying a certain amount or by entering a special code that comes with a licensed Windows boot disk. However, not every user can afford to purchase an operating system. In this case, the ISO image can be found on the World Wide Web without any problems. However, you should be careful. Attackers can insert various malicious programs into hacked operating systems. Therefore, you need to download the image only from trusted resources.
It is also worth noting that the storage device will be completely formatted when recording the image. If there is any valuable data on it, then it is worth recording it on a separate disk or any other storage medium.
Creating a bootable USB flash drive
Making a bootable USB flash drive is very simple. Anyone can cope with this simple task if you follow certain instructions. There are at least 4 ways to install Windows 7 from a flash drive. They differ from each other in the software that is used to install Windows on a flash drive.
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
To create a bootable USB drive, you can use the official tool from Microsoft. The program can be downloaded directly from the Microsoft website. To create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7, you must follow the following instructions:
When the image copying process is complete, you will have a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7 ISO at your disposal. Now you can install Windows 7 on your PC.
Ultra ISO
There is another way to make a USB flash drive with Windows. This method involves the presence of a program called Ultra ISO. Ultra ISO- paid software for interacting with images. You can download a 30-day trial version. The program has quite extensive functionality. With its help you can record, edit, convert images, etc. But it is the recording function that interests us. You can burn a Windows 7 image to a USB flash drive using the following instructions:
As one might understand, the process of creating a bootable USB flash drive is Ultra ISO does not require any specialized knowledge. A bootable Windows XP flash drive can be made in the same way.
WinSetupFromUSB
To create a bootable Windows USB flash drive, you can use WinSetupFromUSB. The program has several functions for working with images. Nevertheless, we are interested in creating a bootable USB flash drive. The program consists of only one window and is quite simple to use. To create a flash drive, you need to do the following:
Now the Windows 7 bootable USB flash drive is ready and can be used.
Windows command line
You can create a bootable Windows USB flash drive using Command line OS. Creating a bootable flash drive this way is a little more complicated. However, you don't have to download any additional programs.
After preparation, you need to write the OS installation files to the device by simply unpacking the image downloaded from the Internet. And thus, you will have at your disposal a flash drive with Windows recorded.
Conclusion
This article examined the question of how to create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive to reinstall this OS. To solve this problem, you can use one of the four methods proposed above. Each user has the right to choose any of them based on their preferences or capabilities. To obtain the desired result, you must follow the instructions given above for the selected method.
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It's no secret to many that UltraIso is one of the best programs for writing Windows images of all versions to a flash drive. That is, in essence, with its help you create a bootable USB flash drive from an iso image in just a few clicks. You will learn how to do this in this article.
It is also one of the best programs for burning a Windows image to a USB flash drive.
So, to start recording Windows 7 onto a flash drive via ultraiso, launch the program. The main window opens in front of us.
UltraIso main window
In it, select “File” -> “Open”.
Open the windows image
In the window that opens, you need to select the Windows image that will be written to the USB flash drive. You had to download it in advance, for example on the Internet.
Selecting an image to burn
Select the iso image and click the “Open” button.
Now we insert the flash drive on which our image will be written to the USB connector.
Attention. There should not be any data important to you on the flash drive, since all of it will be destroyed during formatting.
Let's go directly to recording in UltraIso
A window will open in which you need to check that the flash drive you need is being used, and the recording method should be “USB-HDD+” and all other parameters as in the figure below.
Setting the parameters for writing a Windows image to a USB flash drive
First, click the “Format” button. In the window that opens, select the “FAT32” file system and check the “Clear table of contents” checkbox.
Preparing a flash drive for writing Windows to it
After a few seconds, the flash drive will be formatted. Click “Ok” and close the formatting window.
Now, in order to burn Windows 7 to a flash drive via ultraiso, click the “Burn” button and in the window that opens, click “Yes”.
Data Deletion Warning
Burning Windows 7 to a USB flash drive via ultraiso
The recording process will begin. After which you will need to close the Ultraiso program and your bootable flash drive will be ready for use. All you have to do is boot from the flash drive and you can start installing Windows.
The recording time depends on many parameters, ranging from the capacity and speed of the flash drive, ending with the volume of the image that you write to it. But on average, within 15 minutes your bootable Windows USB flash drive will be ready.
Now you know how to use UltraIso - Programs for writing windows to a flash drive to write Windows 7 and thereby make a bootable flash drive from an ISO image.
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Increasingly, USB drives are used to install or reinstall the operating system. They are not only easy to transport, but also more functional than CDs (for example, a netbook does not have a disk slot).
Sometimes during the installation of new software, a driver error may occur: “The required driver for the optical drive was not found.” In this case, you should connect the flash card to a different slot. This problem usually occurs among users of new PCs equipped with 2.0 and 3.0 USB ports. The newer port is not supported by Windows 7. You can identify it by its blue color.
We will tell you how to create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive in several ways.
What do we need to create a bootable USB flash drive?
To create a bootable USB flash drive, we need the following things:
- A disk with a recorded Windows 7 OS or its image.
- Empty flash drive, size 4 GB or more.
- Settings that make it possible to work with a flash card in the BIOS.
If you do not have a boot disk, you can download the OS from the Internet. Use only trusted sites.
Format flash drive
As for the memory card, it must be completely cleaned. To do this, you need to resort to formatting. Save important files before starting this process. The formatting itself can be done both while recording the boot file, and before.
To clean the flash drive, connect the USB to your computer. In the My Computer folder, right-click on the icon of the desired removable disk. Click "Format".
When specifying parameters, select the NTFS file system. You can also change the name of the removable drive (Volume Label). Other indicators should not be changed.
The flash drive can be formatted using the command line. To do this, write in it: format H:/FS:NTFS/Q/V:My_Fleshka and press Enter.
Selecting boot in BIOS
To select boot from a flash card, enter the BIOS. Typically this is done by pressing Delete or F2.
First, you need to make sure that the USB controller is turned on. The status can be checked in the Integrated Peripherals tab. Opposite USB Controller and USB Controller 2.0 should be Enable.
Command line
Burning a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive using the command line is the simplest method, which does not require additional software downloads. However, you will need to enter a fairly large number of tasks.
Open the command line using the combination Win + R – cmd. Enter the following tasks using Enter:
- Diskpart. This command allows you to manage objects via the command line.
- List disk. After entering this command, a list of disks will appear in front of you. Determine which one is your flash drive. As a rule, it is located after the hard drives. In addition, you can recognize it by its memory size.
- Select disk #. Instead of #, write the number under which the flash drive is listed.
- Clean. Deletes all information from the selected media.
- Create partition primary. Creates a primary partition.
- Select partition 1. Select the created partition for further work with it.
- Active. Enabling a section.
- Format fs=NTFS . This command will format the flash drive on the required system.
- Assign. A new disk will be created. If necessary, you can assign a letter to it by adding letter=N.
- Exit.
- Next, simply transfer the OS files to removable media and you can get to work.
This method is complicated only by a large number of commands. You may have noticed that the process of formatting a flash drive is included in the description of the steps. If you have done this beforehand, simply omit these items.
Please note that the files you transfer to the flash drive must be unpacked. The program will not work if you just transfer the .iso file.
Ultra ISO
The utility is designed for developing and editing disk images. Making a bootable Windows 7 ultraiso USB flash drive is quite simple. To do this, you just need to download and install the program. You can purchase the full certified version or use the free trial mode.
Install the program on your PC using the Installation Wizard. As an administrator, launch the application by clicking Trial period. Next, follow this algorithm:
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
This application is publicly available and works on the ultraiso principle. It is offered by the official Microsoft developer. 
Go to the Start menu and launch the program. Find the image of the software you need. Click Browse, select a file and click Next.
A window will appear asking you about your preferred media - flash card or disk. Select USB Device.
Click Begin copying. If a pop-up window appears, select Erase USB Device – Yes.
When the process is completed, the flash drive can be used.
UNetBootin
The advantage of this program is that you can simply download and run it. No installation required. Creating a USB flash drive with Windows 7 takes place in one step.
In the main window, check the box next to Disk image. On the same line, click ... and select the image.
In the bottom line, enter the details of the removable device. Click OK.
If your device already has this operating system installed, a pop-up window will appear asking you for permission to overwrite the disk. Agree with the action. 
A bootable USB flash drive will be created.
Hello!
To install Windows on a modern computer or laptop, they are increasingly using a regular flash drive rather than a CD/DVD disk with the OS. A USB flash drive has many advantages over a disk: faster installation, compactness, and the ability to be used even on PCs that do not have a disk drive.
If you simply take a disk with the operating system and copy all the data to a flash drive, this will not make it an installation drive.
I would like to look at several ways to create bootable media with different versions of Windows (by the way, if you are interested in the question of a multiboot drive, you can read this:).
What you need
- Utilities for burning flash drives. Which one to use depends on which version of the operating system you decide to use. Popular utilities: ULTRA ISO, Daemon Tools, WinSetupFromUSB.
- USB drive, preferably 4 GB or more. For Windows XP, a smaller one will be suitable, but for Windows 7+, it will definitely not be possible to use less than 4 GB.
- Installation ISO image with the OS version you need. You can make such an image yourself from the installation disk or download it (for example, you can download the new Windows 10 from the Microsoft website using the link: microsoft.com/ru-ru/software-download/windows10).
- Free time - 5-10 minutes.
Creating a bootable Windows USB flash drive
So let's move on to ways to create and burn media with an operating system. The methods are very simple and can be mastered very quickly.
Universal method for all versions
Why universal? Yes, because it can be used to create a bootable USB flash drive with any version of Windows (except XP and lower). However, you can try to burn media in this way with XP - but it doesn’t work for everyone, the chances are 50/50...
It is also important to note that when installing the OS from a USB drive, you do not need to use USB 3.0 (this high-speed port is marked in blue).
To record an ISO image, you need one utility - Ultra ISO (by the way, it is very popular and many people probably already have it on their computer).
By the way, for those who want to burn an installation flash drive with version 10, this note may be very useful: (the article talks about one cool utility called Rufus, which creates bootable media several times faster than analogue programs).
Step by Step Actions
Download the Ultra ISO program from the official website: ezbsystems.com/ultraiso. Let's get started with the process right away.
If you are unable to create bootable media using the ULTRA ISO program, try the following utility from this article (see below).
Creating an image of Windows 7/8
For this method, you can use the recommended Microsoft utility - Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool (link to the official website: microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool).
However, I still prefer to use the first method (via ULTRA ISO) - because this utility has one drawback: it cannot always write a Windows 7 image to a 4 GB USB drive. If you use an 8 GB flash drive, that's even better.
Let's look at it step by step.
Bootable media with Windows XP
To create an installation USB drive with XP, we need two utilities at once: Daemon Tools + WinSetupFromUSB (I provided links to them in