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May 17th, 2009 at 3:32 am
I followed these steps and ended up with a bootable USB Windows 7 Install drive, but couldn’t RUN Windows 7 from it. When I booted from it, it tried to install to my Hard Drive.
June 13th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Will this place the Windows 7 installer on the USB flash drive or an operational copy of Windows 7 on the flash drive.
I di not want to have to install Windows 7 on my laptop. I would like to be able to boot Windows 7 fron the USB flash drive and run it froM there.
Thanks,
John
Salt Lake City, Utah
July 6th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
@John,
Wouldn’t we all.
This procedure creates a bootable USB install disk.
July 13th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Then please rewrite the article. It states “Create Bootable Windows 7 USB Drive” not Create Bootable Windows 7 INSTALLATION USB Drive. Your source does and you fail to mention it. Itdoes seem like you are claiming to have a bootable USB drive with win 7 on it. Thats how i got here too.
July 17th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
the text of the article is very misleading, please do NOT write about something you don’t know… let others handle it
August 5th, 2009 at 8:53 am
If you want to try out Windows 7 without having to mess up with your current Operating System, You might want to consider using VirtualBox. It requires a lot of memory to work decently.