[How to install Windows from USB- WinSetupFromUSB with GUI]

Ok, I see..

So WinPE is the only way to do this at this time.

I had a PE image running on my flash drive, and it was able to start setup of Windows 7 32-bit, but not 64-bit, but after reading a little bit of the guide I now know what to do

But, PE is a little slower than booting the files direct (but yeah, it's no other way).

And I also will loose the possibility to run the repair program for windows 7..

But I have downloaded rescue discs for 32 and 64 bit, so I can just run them as isos from grub4dos I guess..

[How to install Windows from USB- WinSetupFromUSB with GUI]

Ok, I found out that now.

The files got copied to the second partition instead of the first one.. for some reason..

In my computer I only see one partition, and that is the letter K:, and is the second partition..

But in Disk management I se both, but something is really wierd there.. This first partition is letter K: and the secon one has no letter, and I can't assign one.

So.. My computer reports that K: is about 4GB (second partition) and disk management reports K: as the first partition and about 11GB :S

But as you say, if I partition it as one partiton.. can I have both Windows 7 32 and 64-bit at the same time?

Think i read about it somewhere, that it was not possible.

[How to install Windows from USB- WinSetupFromUSB with GUI]

Ok, then I try agian.. but this time on the flash drive.

This is what I do:

Run WinSetupFromUSB, select the flash drive, run "Bootice", Perform Format.

Then I select USB-HDD mode (mutli partition).

There I make 2 partitions this time.

1: 11288MB (NTFS)

2: 4000MB (NTFS)

3: 0MB

4: 0MB

(So I can use the first one as windows 7 32-bit + some image files, and the last partition as windows 7 64-bit).

I then click "Process MBR", and selects Grub for DOS, and click "Install/Config", and "save to disk", and then i go back and click "Process PBR", selects Grub4DOS.

After that I install Windows 7 32Bit to first partition, and Windows 7 64-Bit on the other partition.

After this is done I'm goin to thest the flash drive and see what happends.. will update this post or someting when I'm done

If anybody can see something wrong in what I'm doing, please correct me

[How to install Windows from USB- WinSetupFromUSB with GUI]

Ja9, I think it has something to do with your source. Is it original?

I've had the same issue until used the original Windows 7 which came with the laptop, no more "missing device driver" errors.

My images is from the MSDN site, I only have deleted the ei.cfg (so I have all versions instead of just Pro) file from the iso's, and added norwegian and litauian lang-packs.

They are both working from dvd disc, and I have also used one of them from usb once (that time I used microsoft's program, or something else to make the flash drive bootable).

[How to install Windows from USB- WinSetupFromUSB with GUI]

Hi.

I'm trying to build a multiboot 16GB usb flash disk..

But always get som errors..

First I tried just to boot grub4dos from it, and make that loading a Windows 7 iso.

That worked fine, until where I select what type of windows 7 I want to install..

It asks for a cd-rom device driver.

Then I tried to boot a winpe image, and then start 7 setup from that, and then it worked for 32 bit, but not 64-bit.

And after a little more searching i found this topic here

And instead of trying this on my flash disk, I iused a 160GB usb disk.

I partitioned it to 4 partitions, and installed norwegian xp pro sp3 and windows 7 32-bit (english, norwegian and litauian) on first partition, and 64 bit win 7 on second partition.

It started just fine with grub, but I still get the "missing cd-rom device driver" when I try to install windows 7.

I used "WinSetup-1-0-beta4" to partition, format, install grub, and install windows on my usb drive.

[Windows 7 MUI Slipstream]

Can this method be used on a x86/x64 AIO image?

Tried it in virtual pc with windows 7 RTM installed, but something got screewed up.. so think i have to reinstall w7...