windows 7 usb boot

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I have searched the forum and the internet and it only came back with the microsoft usb boot tool and some other lengthy procedure using diskpart. About six months ago there was a thread on here that advised on a specific application. It allowed me to make my usb stick windows 7 bootable in just one click. But i am sure it was not the microsoft tool.

Anyone have any ideas on what it was ?
 
You want to turn a USB stick into a W7 installer CD? Or you have W7 installed on a USB stick and you want to boot from it?
 
Turn a usb stick into a windows 7 installer.

I thought it was unetbootin but that only does linux isos. I could have sworn i used an application exactly like that and it just make the usb bootable in seconds. Amazing that i can't locate this software anymore.
 
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Ah right. Dunno about the tool you mention specifically, but just use diskpart. Takes seconds.

diskpart
list disk
sel disk x #where x is your USB drive
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign

Dump contents of W7 DVD onto USB drive. Job done.
 
Well yea i can find those instructions everywhere, just realy strange that i can not find the software that i used and now microsoft have brought out their own software and it is completely useless. Tells me incorrect iso, pointless.

http://jaxov.com/2009/09/install-windows-7-from-usb-stick-easily-unetbootin/

look here, there is instructions for unetbootin, i was sure that i used it. Thought i was going crazy there for a second. Must either be a problem with the ISO or unetbootin have somehow taken out windows 7 support.
 
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Ah right. Dunno about the tool you mention specifically, but just use diskpart. Takes seconds.

diskpart
list disk
sel disk x #where x is your USB drive
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign

Dump contents of W7 DVD onto USB drive. Job done.

Don't forget the boot sector..

Was it one of these?

http://www.intowindows.com/4-free-tools-to-create-bootable-windows-7vistaxp-usb-flash-pen-drives/


Don't know why anyone would want to use a third party tool, of dubious provenance, for something that can quickly be accomplished with the official Windows install media. :confused::confused:
 
MS have a tool on their website that does this, it mounts an ISO of the DL or disck to your USB stick.
I used it when I installed window vail home server test thing beta.
 
I tried a program called WinToFlash once.
Seemed to happily make a bootable USB drive that you could install Win7 from. But either I did something wrong or my USB drive was rubbish as it was slower than the DVD.
The mobo was part of a OcUK Overclocked bundle and in the BIOS they had disabled the onboard USB controller (or something, I think) and so when I was actually in Win7 it detected every USB device as being USB 1 (kept telling me the device could operate faster). So this might have been the problem there.
 
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