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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:\

3. Boot your computer from the USB stick & install Windows as normal