Create a Windows 7 Ultimate installation flash drive. Five programs for creating a bootable USB flash drive. Additional method for Windows XP

Make a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7

Where to download the Windows 7 image - watch the video below

Very often, when reinstalling Windows, you need a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7. How to do it? The process itself is not complicated, but let's try to figure it out.

Here we will describe 2 very different methods in order to create a bootable USB flash drive from an iso image.

We will analyze everything from beginning to end, we will try to clarify all the details of creating a bootable installation flash drive with Windows 7

We also recommend reading the article on how to properly install Windows from a flash drive; sooner or later it may come in handy. All programs used here work perfectly under Windows 7, 8, 10.

The 2nd method is also very noteworthy; with it we will make a bootable Windows 7 flash drive without any programs, using the Windows command line, although it is noticeably more complicated.

It is important to keep in mind that the USB ports must be in order (or at least one of them is what we need). The fact is that if we use a faulty USB, then there may simply be a loss of contact and nothing may work out. Plus, of course, the flash drive should also be in order, in general, keep this in mind.

Original Windows 7 images for flash drive here: http://nnm-club.me/forum/viewforum.php?f=504

Let us clarify the following points when creating a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7:

1. First we need to find a windows iso image(to do this, in any search engine we write - download Windows 7 torrent, download one of the proposed options using the free torrent program. However, do not forget that you have a good antivirus, plus you can download only from trusted sites, ask your friends and acquaintances about such ). We will assume that we have found
2. Let's move on to the flash drive, we will completely clear it, so copy all important data from it in advance
3. Also, don’t forget about the size of the flash drive.. You need at least four GB, although more correctly it is no less than the size of the iso image

How to make a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 7-10? Step by step instructions

Now let's prepare the flash drive, for this we need to format it. We do it like this:

1. We go to “My Computer”, find the flash drive we need there
2. Right-click on it
3. Select "Format"
4. In the window that appears, you can also check the box for “Quick, clearing only the table of contents” - this will be quite enough in most cases
5. That’s it, click “Start”, an additional warning may appear, we agree
6. We wait for the process to complete (usually no more than a minute)
7. At the end, the flash drive is ready for further actions, it is completely empty

If you have any questions with formatting or would like to learn more about this important and useful process for information storage devices, we recommend that you view the corresponding section. In which, by the way, you can select a program for formatting a flash drive, if it does not want to succumb to this process in the standard way (as described above), plus with the help of additional programs for formatting a flash drive, you can improve its technical condition.

Now we are almost close to the process of creating a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7, for this we will consider a very interesting and simple program .

Download the original ISO image of Windows 7

The simplest, most convenient and free program to solve our problem is Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

Very convenient, bootable fleshka is done in just 4 clicks, and it can also be made into a boot disk.

Or you can do it from the official website using this direct link http://wudt.codeplex.com/ (copy, paste into the address bar of the browser and press enter).

The Microsoft .NET Framework_Online_Setup is also required in the system (completely free, online loader, which means the Internet must be turned on), usually this utility is already installed in different windows assemblies. In general, this is an official application from Microsoft, it is also important for the operation of other programs and games.

And so, you downloaded Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Now install it.

Open the program. We see this window.

Click on “Browse” and look for the Windows iso image we need on the computer.

Now if you specified an iso image, click “Next”. Now click on “USB device”.

Here we click on “Begin copying”.

And so began the process of recording an ISO image of Windows 7 onto a USB flash drive. We are waiting for the end.
The Windows 7 bootable USB flash drive is ready.

We recommend that you read the article on how to properly install Windows 7 on a netbook. So you will know what to do if the question arises of reinstalling Winows 7 on a netbook, laptop or computer without disk drive.

The second method is not simple. It is interesting for those who do not want to install any additional programs on their computer

This method uses the Windows command line, through which, by the way, you can do many more interesting things.

And so, let's go. We connect the flash drive to the USB port. Please note that a 4 GB flash drive will be used here. Open the command line like this, “Start” - “Run”:

Enter the command “cmd” and press “Enter”:

This is what should appear:

The first command we enter is “diskpart”, a special editor that gives us the ability to manage disks, press “Enter”:

Now we write “list disk” and press “Enter”, thereby getting a list of devices:

Now you need to determine without errors where your flash drive is located, in our case it is “Disk 3”. It most likely will not match yours, just make sure that you have found your flash drive correctly. If you have, for example, a flash drive “Disk 1”, then write it in the line and press “Enter”.

Attention! If you do not correctly identify the flash drive, you can format one of your hard drives and lose all the information on it.

1. So, enter “select disk 3″, press “enter”
2. The program detects our flash drive
3. Now enter “clean”, which will delete files on the flash drive, press “enter”
4. Next, enter “create partition primary”, press “enter”
5. With this command we created a section
6. Now enter “select partition 1”, press “enter”
7. Now enter “active”, again “enter”
8. Now we need to make the file system format for the flash drive NTFS by formatting it using “format fs=NTFS” or for quick formatting we write “format fs=NTFS QUICK”, press “enter”
9. We are waiting for the completion of the formatting process
10. Everything is ready

• We write “assign” and the flash drive will automatically receive a letter, for us it is J
• Upon completion, a window with the flash drive will automatically open
• Now we need to exit using the “Exit” command
• That's it, the bootable USB flash drive has been created, now you need to copy all the files from the installation operating system to it

It’s just important to understand that it’s not the iso image that should be copied in one file, but all the folders that are included in this iso image. To do this, you just need to mount it with some program, for example DAEMON Tools.

That's all, we have looked at the question of how to create a bootable USB flash drive with the Windows 7 operating system.

In this article I will describe several ways to make a bootable USB flash drive for free and without much effort:

Let me explain why I chose these three options, so:

The advantages of creating a bootable USB flash drive using the UltraISO program are that even in trial (free) mode, this program will help you create a bootable USB flash drive without any problems and it also has many different functions. The disadvantages (if they can be considered such) are that it needs to be downloaded and installed; the installation process itself consists of pressing the Next button 4 times. In my opinion, the ideal third-party solution for creating a bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP, 7, 8.

Creating a bootable USB flash drive using a utility from Microsoft - USB/DVD Download Tool, the advantage of this method is that without special skills and abilities, thanks to a few clicks of the mouse you get a bootable flash drive. Minus - an official (downloaded from the Microsoft website) ISO image of the operating system is required, otherwise the utility may not accept your ISO image and refuse to write it to a flash drive, or it will give an error when creating the image (I personally encountered such problems, which is why I consider it necessary to indicate them ).

And finally, creating a bootable USB flash drive using the Windows 7 command line. The big advantage of this method is that you don’t need to install anything, but simply by entering a few commands, you will get a bootable flash drive with Windows XP, 7, 8. I don’t even know the disadvantages of this method ...probably only because it is not attractive, since all commands are executed on the command line.

So, to create a bootable USB flash drive you will need:

1 Flash drive with a capacity of at least 4 Gb (everything must be removed from the flash drive, as it will be formatted)

2 ISO system image

3 BIOS, which will allow you to start installation from a flash drive

4 Utility for creating an image (UltraISO, USB/DVD Download Tool)

If you have all this, then let's get started:

Creating a bootable USB flash drive using the UltraISO program.

First of all, download the latest version Ultra ISO .

After that, start the installation of the program, click "Next"

We agree to the license agreement

Select or leave the default installation location for the program

After this, the UltraISO program will open, click "File-Open"

Select an ISO system image, in this example Windows 8 will be used

After that, click "Boot - Burn Hard Disk Image..."

In the next window, select the device on which the image will be written and click "Record".

After this, a warning window will appear indicating that everything will be deleted from the flash drive, click "Yes".

Then the recording process will begin, which will last several minutes.

After the writing process to the USB flash drive is completed, it becomes bootable.

To avoid guessing, here's some advice for you:
— If your laptop has an MBR disk partition, then do it in Diskpart as usual
— If you have a GPT disk partition in your laptop, then do it in Rufus in GPT UEFI

Then you won’t make a mistake and you will be happy!!!

aaalekseyyy 22.11.2015

Deniska, apparently your BIOS is configured by default to boot from the extended version of Boot UEFI, which is supported only by Windows 8, 8.1, 10.
Windows 7 does not support booting from Boot UEFI Extended, for Windows 7 you need to downgrade Boot UEFI from Windows 8.1 Extended to Launch CSM. And to do this, you first need to disable the protection Secure Boot.
In addition, check that to download and install on a GPT disk, Windows 7 must be x64(64-bit).