Install Windows (Vista, 2008, 7, 2008 R2) from USB Stick
1. Clean, Partiton and Format the USB stick
Run CMD.EXE and type the following command. Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as “disk 1″. Double check that by doing a list of the disks (type “list disk”) before cleaning it).
- diskpart
- select disk 1
- clean
- create partition primary
- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=fat32
- assign
- exit
2. Copy Windows DVD ROM content to the USB Stick
Type the following command to copy the Windows DVD content to the USB stick.
- xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\