How to Create and Install Window 7 Using USB Flash Drive

In this article I will show you how to create and  install Windows 7 from a Memory stick ( USB Flash Memory ). This is very useful, if you do not have any available DVD to install  Windows 7 , and specifically, that Windows 7 is much more usefull, and over the next few months there will be additional builds for Windows 7, so instead of wasting a lot of DVDs to try out these builds, I will be showing you how to prepare a flash memory ( external USB stick/Hard disk ) to install  Windows 7 . And after install window 7 you also can update it to window 8 preview too.

Step 1: Build Window 7 Boot by flash

Requirement :

1. USB Flash at Least 4GB or Up
2. USB Yumi Pen drive Installer  Or Download Here
3. Window 7 ISO File Or Download at the follow link :

• Windows 7 Home Premium x86 ISO 32-bit 
• Windows 7 Home Premium x64 ISO 64-bit
• Windows 7 Professional x86 ISO 32-bit
• Windows 7 Professional x64 ISO 64-bit
• Windows 7 Ultimate x86 ISO 32-bit

1. Insert USB Flash into your PC
2. Open  USB Yumi Pen drive Installer 

Double Click on Universal-USB-Installer

Select Window 7 Installer

Select Brows

Brows To Your ISO File

Check Your USB  Drive Partition ( G, E, F ..)

Choose your USB drive which It was locate to and Check format => Create

Wait until format is complete

Wait Until the progress is finish

Now your USB Pen Drive is ready => Close

• Plug the USB stick to the machine you want to install Windows 7 to, and reboot/or start it up. 
• Change your BIOS Boot From USB Drive ( Mostly Press F2 or F12 or up to your PC) 

1. It will be Boot Automatic => Once booted, an animated logo for Windows 7 will be displayed and below it will show you that Windows is starting
   
   
2. Once it loads, choose your preferred language settings and then click Next
   
   
3. Click on Install now to start installing Windows 7 .
   
   
   
4. On the License Terms page, if you are from those people who don't just click Next on such pages ( who does not  ), under installation, you will notice that you may install and use as many copies of the software as you want, and that the software will stop running on the 1st of August 2009 ( Reminder : This is Public Beta 1 of Windows 7 ) . Accept the license terms by selecting the checkbox beside I accept the license terms, and click Next.
   
   
   
   
 On the installation type page, click on Custom (advanced) to start a new installation

I was running the setup on a blank hard disk that had no OS loaded on it before. so I was wondering why the Upgrade option was active and not grayed as it used to be when I used to install Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 on blank Disks !! I tried it and received the below message !! OK, I believe this should be fixed, as with Vista installation, the installer would gray this option out !!

1. Choose the partition or disk that you want to install Windows 7 on, and then click Next
   
   
2. Installation will start
   
   
3. The machine will reboot later and will start updating registry settings 
   
   
   
   
   and then setup will be starting services
   
   
   
   We will be back to the installation page, completing installation 
   
   
   
   
   computer will be rebooted to continue installation
   
   

 setup will prepare computer for first use

Setup will continue, and this time you will have to choose a username and a computer name



when you enter the username, the machine name will be automatically chosen as username-PC , if you do not wish to have this name for your machine, then simply change it and then click Next

Then you will have to enter a password for your username, In this page, I didn't like one thing, which is forcing me to provide a password hint if I have chosen to insert a password, as I usually do not like to provide password hints, I decided to leave the password empty ! and clicked Next

On the Product Key page, you can either enter the product key or simply leave it empty and click on Next.

On the recommended settings page , choose your settings and click Next

Select your Time Zone and set your Time and Date settings, then click Next

Setup will start to finalize and prepare desktop





And finally, Windows 7 desktop will be displayed.

Summary

Instead of wasting a lot of DVDs, specially if the product is still in Beta and will have lots of releases in the next few months, why not start using a flash memory to hold Windows 7 installation files, so that when a new Windows 7 or 2008 R2 build is released, simply delete the contents, rerun the xcopy command and you are ready to go again.Hope this post is useful for you. If u like this post click and Share it to your friends ..!