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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.

Edited by Legolash2o
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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?

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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 by Legolash2o
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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

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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 

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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

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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. :blush:

Edited by wela
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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)?

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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!

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