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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Create bootable Windows XP/7 USB/Pen-Drive

First download  "WinToFlash" here.
Extract it, and open "wintoflash.exe".




Then click on the green button as shown in figure.Then click next.


Now select "Windows file path" which is the source of your CD/DVD. (If you have ISO image then you can extract it to a another clean drive or another usb drive and select it as "Windows file path")
then select USB drive location

Click next & follow the rest instructions.
After few minutes your USB drive will ready to boot & install.

Remember, not all motherboard/bios supports USB drive booting. So first you should check your bios for boot options like "boot from external drive" or "boot from usb" or "boot from flash drive" and make it first boot device.

Sometimes when you install from USB it gives error-


Line 52 of the INF file \$WIN_NT$."BT\winnt.sif is invalid
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.

If this error occurs then open your USBdrive & navigate to \$WIN_NT$.\BT\winnt.sif
Now open winnt.sif with any text editor like notepad or notepad++.
At line 52 it will look like this-

ComputerType = "Standard PC", Retail"

To remove this error add a double quote just before Retail and save it. But take care of extension while saving. Extension must be in winnt.sif not winnt.sif.txt.

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