Installing OS from Bootable USB Flash Drive

OLDPHART · 25 Jul 2009 at 19:56

Right my new build will just have a Sata Blu-Ray Rewriter, am l right in thinking that l install OS to a Bootable USB Flash Drive and set the Bios to USB first boot and it should install from there and also install the Sata Drivers for the Rewriter. As my PC’s have always had an IDE CD/DVD-ROM, a little bit unsure about this help appreciated.

Cheers oldphart.

coupe69 · 25 Jul 2009 at 20:01

Should install straight from disc, just set the blu ray writer as first boot device.

malef!c · 26 Jul 2009 at 08:30

If it doesn't, I have used this guide before to install from USB, which is also a bit quicker.

Daegan · 26 Jul 2009 at 09:01

Not that I've tried a Blu-Ray drive myself, but shouldn't it happily be able to read/write DVDs and CDs, be bootable and not require any special drivers?

Supertaff · 26 Jul 2009 at 10:52

This information was supplied to me by membe L33 and works perfectly for using a USB drive to install an OS.

"
Yes. Create an active partition on the USB drive (use diskpart or similar) and simply copy the entire contents of the Win 7 DVD/ISO to the USB drive.

To make an active partition in diskpart...

list disk (make a note of your USB drives number, replace X with it below)
select disk X
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
"

copy over your files for the operating system and then boot away from it.

Taff