Installing Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 from USB Stick Jaxidian Update, UEFI - Dell PowerEdge R510
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With Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 recently going RTM, I’ve found myself installing them in quite
a few diferent conigurations. One coniguration that I’ve recently ran into is installing it into a machine with
no CD drive of any means. I know I could carry around a USB-based DVD drive but instead, I wanted to have
a USB pen drive to install it from. After some research, I found that it was relatively easy to create such a
tool!
1. Either mount the ISO or insert the DVD for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 into your
computer. Let’s say it’s at D:\
2. Format your USB stick to FAT32 (I used default settings for everything via the Windows format tool).
Let’s say it’s at H:\
3. Run the following commands at a command prompt:
d:\boot\bootsect.exe /NT60 h:
xcopy d:\*.* /s /e /f h:\
At this point, you should be able to boot of of your USB stick (pending proper BIOS settings on the machine
you’re booting up from) and it will install Windows of of the lash memory! Easy as that! This has been done
from Vista and Win7. I’m not sure about other OSes.
[edit]Updated: Thanks to Arktronic for identifying a missing command. Apparently my USB stick was made
bootable previously and I didn’t realize that.[/edit]
August 28th, 2009
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