The 'USB Boot Prep' tool let's you prepare your USB stick so that you can install Windows Vista/7 from it, your computer does require support to boot from USB for the USB stick to work.

Caution: The 'Full (Format)' button will format everything on the USB stick. W7T will ask if you're sure though.

Yellow: Usually means it is RAW and has not been formatted, not bootable.

Green: This means the drive is already bootable.

Step 1: Plug in your USB stick

This tool won't work without a USB Stick so go ahead and insert one.

Step 2: Select your stick

Hopefully W7T will detect your stick and list it, select the disk/partition you want to be bootable and click start.

Step 3: Select Quick or Full

Quick: This will just mark the partition as 'Active' and convert it to NTFS if needed.

Full: This will 'Clean' the USB stick remove all partitions and data.

W7T will work it's magic and let you know when it's done, once done you just need to copy and paste your installation files onto the USB stick.

Edited March 28, 201212 yr by Legolash2o

Thanks for this !

Works like a charme!

Cheers

I want to install Windows 7 from my USB hard drive. Since I don't want to erase everything on the drive, is it possible to use a single partition for that purpose?

Sorry for the late reply i hardly read anything in this sub-forum, i'm sure it can be added to W7T quite easily.

EDIT: Just press the 'Quick' button on USB Prep Tool, it doesn't format it.

Edited October 27, 201113 yr by Legolash2o

is possible to separate this program ..? I just need the USB Boot Prep

Use Rufus.

i am asking can i boot os from this Toshiba - Canvio 1.50 TB External Hard Drive  is it the same process as a flash drive and thank you for help 

Boot from, ie the OS is installed on the External Hard Drive, or Install from, ie the install source is on the External Hard Drive and you are going to actually install to some internal drive in your system?

 

Cheers and Regards

i was going to make the external hard drive active for bootable and i was going to add windows 7 files to the drive just like the {flash drive} has wintoolkit to pre pair the drive  and have the external drive as primary and work from the external drive 

Does this function have support for booting under UEFI mode?

Or do I still need to manually create extra EFI folders for that?

 

"What are you talking about?" [click me]

The 'USB Boot Prep' tool let's you prepare your USB stick so that you can install Windows Vista/7 from it, your computer does require support to boot from USB for the USB stick to work.

Caution: The 'Full (Format)' button will format everything on the USB stick. W7T will ask if you're sure though.

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Yellow: Usually means it is RAW and has not been formatted, not bootable.

Green: This means the drive is already bootable.

Step 1: Plug in your USB stick

This tool won't work without a USB Stick so go ahead and insert one.

Step 2: Select your stick

Hopefully W7T will detect your stick and list it, select the disk/partition you want to be bootable and click start.

Step 3: Select Quick or Full

Quick: This will just mark the partition as 'Active' and convert it to NTFS if needed.

Full: This will 'Clean' the USB stick remove all partitions and data.

W7T will work it's magic and let you know when it's done, once done you just need to copy and paste your installation files onto the USB stick.

thanks for tool but where is downlaod link

It's within the main program

Hi

I have a Prob with a new USB Stick. After inserting the Line was yellow Filesystem "Fat32", Bootable "False", Status "False".  Ater clicking "Quick" the Line turn to "green", Filesystem "Fat32", Bootable "True" but the Status is "False". A test PC did not find a bootable device.

 

Any idea why?

 

:doh:  I did not change Biossettings.

Edited August 13, 201410 yr by wela

all you did was to make the drive active

you need to put so type of boot files on the drive

Hello, Does the Quick option in this "USB Boot Prep" in this tool supports booting and installing in native UEFI mode  (provided that the install.wim is under 4GB)?

No it currently doesn't. v2 will though since I now have a UEFI computer to test it on

Ok. thanks! will v2 also have the same option of "Quick" and "Full (format)" in its USB Boot Prep tool?

When will be the public release of WinToolkit v2?

 

Thanks!

Edited February 19, 201510 yr by son goku

USB Boot Prep is already working in v2.x

thank you

On 18.3.2014 at 7:31 AM, bluesmoke said:

thanks for tool but where is downlaod link