Making a Win7 USB bootable?

Not me, the guy above ^^ I can get mine working perfectly with WinToFlash, just the Microsoft software refuses to even begin going through the stages to get it to work. Have always used WinToFlash anyway.
 
Xanth said:
I use WinToFlash on my 4GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro, so not sure what your issue is with the 8GB one?
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No idea what was wrong with it, I tried several different methods, but just couldn't get it recognised as a bootable medium by any PC, whether it had Windows, DOS or a Linux distro on it (it worked perfectly OK in other respects). In the end I just couldn't be bothered, life's too short and flash drives aren't exactly hard to come by.

I've had the same thing happen before from time to time over the years, although I can't remember what the offending drives were on those occasions (they would have been small/cheap ones though).

ToejaMz0r said:
Tried googling it?
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No, do you think I should give that a go? :p
 
i have a sandisk cruzer blade and i've always used the microsoft tool. but for some reason my pc won't boot from it. but it's worked with loads of laptops so i thought it was just a quirk with my own pc. but having seen this thread and just tried wintoflash, my pc now boots from it. how odd!
 
CaptainCrash said:
A 4GB (where 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) formats to around 3.82 gibibytes, so that makes sense, but even the x64 Win7 install files should fit on with room to spare... were you using some kind of customised setup disc as the source?
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Ah yes :)

I slipstreamed SP1 into it as well. Forgot that. Still, something to consider if you want to do that, a 4 GB isn't enough.
 
Hudzy said:
Ah yes :)

I slipstreamed SP1 into it as well. Forgot that. Still, something to consider if you want to do that, a 4 GB isn't enough.
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Still doesn't compute - the standard Win7 HP x64 SP1 ISO is 3,319,478,272 bytes, and the files themselves when extracted total 3,337,736,192 bytes (I guess there are a few hard links in the DVD filesystem).

I haven't tried manually slipstreaming SP1 into a pre-SP1 disc, maybe that takes up more space for some reason... failing that, perhaps you have some kind of proprietary Win7 setup disc with extra stuff included?
 
If your ISO is over 3.1 gb, ditch it, it's not the right one. No point manually slipstreaming, it's a waste of time. With 2000/2003/XP it works fine, but with Vista and above, it's more of a reverse engineered hack that isn't supported by MS
 
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