How to make a Windows OS bootable USB drive
For sometime now I have been looking for ways to install Windows OS to a netbook. I have the OS CD or the ISO image but how do I install it to device without a CD/DVD drive?
Searching around the net, I found two excellent pieces of software that will make your USB drive/ thumb drive into bootable Windows installer. It works great with Windows XP/Vista and Windows 7.
WintoFlash
This is a great no-brainer software.
Simply download software and launch it. Plug-in your thumbdrive, pop-in your Windows OS CD into your PC and let it do its magic. Here is how:
1. Download from wintoflash.com
2. Extract the files the your lour choice of drive
3. Lauch the WinToFlash
Ignore the warning. Click ok
4. Click the Windows setup transfer wizard
5. Click Next
6. Select the Windows files path and the USB Drive and Click Next
You will need to accept the warning that come up after this.
7. Transfer begins and you should be set to install Windows to your CD/DVD driveless PC/netbook.
Unetbootin
Unetbootin is mainly used to make a linux distribution bootable from USB drive. You can select the list of distribution and select the USB drive. Unetbootin will automatically download the distribution from the net and make it bootable.
We will make use of this to make a Windows ISO image to be transferred to the USB drive and made bootable.
1. Download Unetbootin and extract
2. Launch the app
3. Select the ISO image of your Windows OS and select the USB Drive
Click ok, wait and you are done.
Final Thoughts
WintoFlash is the easiest to use of the two applications. It makes a USB Drive bootable by making use of your Windows OS CD. The unetbootin will require you to convert an existing CD to an ISO first.
By the way I do not recommend piracy. Please always use a licensed OS to do these.
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