I found a way to install WIN7 from a 4GB usb stick that is installing much faster as from the DVD-ROM 1.) just quick format the stick to NTFS from WIN7 or using HP Format tool 2.) open a command prompt and type D: (suppose D is the DVD-ROM Drive with WIN7 Kit in it) 3.) type cd D:\boot (suppose D is the WIN7 instalation DVD) 4.) type bootsect /nt60 E: (suppose E is the letter of your USB Stick) 5.) using windows explorer just simply copy the whole instalation Kit from DVD to the root of stick E 6.) change settings in BIOS to boot from USB first You'll be surprised how fast will be the install and can be used on laptops without optical storage or if you want to give that little motor a break so it won't spin that much during instalation
this is actually a longer more complicated method. From Vista/7 all you have to do is use diskpart to format the drive and set it active.
use ultraISO and run as administrator. Bootable/Write Disk Image choose your usb drive and you're ready to go
format ok so now I've seen this a few different ways. Ive seen people say fat16 is best, I got mine working with fat32. and now your doing NTFS? Whats gonna be the difference and why are guides mentioning the Partition Format if it doesnt even matter...
This is the correct way to do it Code: Open the elevated command prompt with administrator privileges and type the following commands. C:\Windows\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7000 Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: AVIRAJ DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B Disk 1 Online 3834 MB 0 B DISKPART> select disk 1 Disk 1 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> clean DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk. DISKPART> create partition primary DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition. DISKPART> format fs=fat32 quick 100 percent completed DiskPart successfully formatted the volume. DISKPART> active DiskPart marked the current partition as active. DISKPART> exit Leaving DiskPart... C:\Windows\system32>exit Now, just copy the files located on Windows 7 DVD Media As long as it is not FAT16 you will be fine, NTFS works the best because it can handle large files where FAT32 can't.