I made a bootable windows 7 install usb drive, primarily as an exercise. I may want to use it to do a clean installation if for some reason I want to re-install from scratch. I know how to get the computer to boot from a flash drive, but what I DON'T know is if I have to do that more than once or if the installation proceeds to the end after the initial boot. My reason for installing from a flash drive is that installation is said to go faster than from a dvd. The internet hasn't been helpful in this case.

In short, I want to know how to do a Windows 7 installation from a flash drive. It may sound like a dumb question, but I have learned that the only dumb questions are the ones I don't ask. My apology to you, I wasn't exactly the soul of tact in my reply. In fact your reply needs some more detail to help me as I am not very computer-savvy. The fact is, I can boot from the usb drive and start setup, but what I don't know is what to do about the several restarts that occur during the installation process. THAT'S the thing that I have been unable to find anything about and that's the thing that makes me nervous.

Incidentally, I used an app, Rufus, to create the bootable flash drive from an.iso file if that makes a difference. I assumed that I could not just copy files from a dvd so I took that approach. Once again, my apology.

I wasn't exactly the soul of tact in my reply. Here is the expanded version of my recipe. It assumes that your Windows 7 installation DVD is visible on drive D: and that your flash disk is on drive F. • Click the Start globe, then type cmd.exe and press Enter.

CD, DVD and USB flash drive Whether you need to distribute your programs or documents via a CD, DVD or USB flash drive, Visual Installer is the right. I'm trying to figure out how to install Visual Studio Community 2015 on another drive besides my C: drive. Every time I open the installer of VS it shows the save.

This will start a Command Prompt. • Type this command and press Enter: robocopy D: F: This will copy the DVD to the flash disk. • Type this command and press Enter: D: Boot Bootsect.exe /NT60 F: This will make the flash disk bootable. • Type this command and press Enter: diskmgmt.msc This will launch the Disk Manager. • Right-click the flash disk at the bottom, then left-click Mark partition as active. Whether doing all of the above to gain a few seconds during the installation process is debatable.

This is quite clear even to me. The app that I used to make a bootable usb drive, Rufus, left me with a flash drive (drive X by the way) that showed up as an active, primary partition without any further fuss. For what it's worth, I keep a shortcut for cmd.exe on my desktop as I use it to run defragmentation and temporary-file deletion of files over 7 days old, and I use it periodically to run chkdsk and sfc /scannow. By the way, there are far more difficult formulas for using cmd.exe to make bootable drives than the one you gave me that involve diskpart, which I leave alone. As far as I am concerned the question is answered.

Thank you for your consideration. Soundpool On High Rar.