Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Use a USB Thumb drive to Install Windows 7 or Windows 8


  1. Download diskpart installer from Microsoft site. Install it.
  2. Open command prompt as Administrator and type diskpart.
  3. Enter list disk and you will see all connected disks and numbers.
  4. Enter select disk X (X being the number of the USB Thumb drive).
  5. Enter clean Note: Make sure you don't have any files in the USB thumb drive.
  6. Enter create partition primary
  7. Enter select partition 1
  8. Enter active
  9. Enter format fs=fat32
  10. Enter assign
  11. Enter exit
  12. Extract the iso downloaded from my previous post and copy files from the iso image to the usb and boot your pc with USB Thumb drive.
Enjoy installing and using Windows 8 !!!

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