Help installing Win7 on a USB Stick

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Yes that works, but I really don't know what to write there.
 
But I have done already that. Win7 is already on the USB stick.
 
No no, thats instructions for using disk part to blank the hard drive... From that guys perspective, he's using diskpart to put it on a USB, but you can load the USB and go through the same process to wipe the internal hard drive. Once thats done, the windows USB should (hopefully) see the internal hard drive to install to. :thumbsup:


Note its a very similar process, you just have to target the internal hard drive for the clean rather than the USB. :)
 
Ok, I did a 'clean all' on that HD. Should I wait an hour or so?
 
Once it's empty. Just close the prompt and resume windows setup. It should see and format the hd for you now.

If I had my laptop with me I'd write out step by step guide for it :-)

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Phantom said:
Ok, I did a 'clean all' on that HD. Should I wait an hour or so?
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IF it's 'doing things' then yeah I'd go make a cup o tea or something. If its a low level format it does (and it looks like it is based on that guide) it might take half an hour or so.

Sadly I haven't had to do anything like this since the days of XP so I don't know the process windows 7 does too intimately.

Once it's done however, as Gouldin says above, just close the prompt and install or reboot and start the win7 install from the USB drive again as you did earlier, it should be able to see the drive this time around. :thumbsup:
 
Ya can't break it, so should be fine. Just using clean rather than all just deletes the mbr and is a lot quicker though :-)

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Cleaning is done successfully according to diskpart. Trying a 'list disk' and it says that disk 0 is 298GB free. But again Windows7 cannot find anything. Do I have to do something else? As to activate, or assign C:/ for example?

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I've seen 2 varations when formatting the USB stick. Should it be NTFS or FAT32? :unsure:
 
Your USB stick format doesn't matter. At this point, you're going to need to google what chipset the laptop uses, download the relevant drivers. Extract them if they're zipped and when setup asks to select the HDD (Which it can't find currently) select load driver and point it to your chipset/sata driver.

I'll have access to a computer on Monday, so will be able to help a lot more then with links and better instructions.

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I've created a partition under the label "C:" and when I tried to select that partition, it says to format it first, but when I try to select it it says the following:

Windows can't format C
Check to see that the disk and drive are connected properly, make sure that the disk is not read-only, and then try again. For more information, search Help for read-only files and how to change them.

So, how I check if it's read-only?
 
what options do you have in the bios?

is there something called disk2disk recovery? try turning it off.
 
Did you activate/initialise the partition?


Once the drive is done, you should be able to...



  1. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

    list partition

    Make note of the number of the partition that you want to mark as active (we'll call this n).
  2. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

    select partitionn

    Select the partition, n, you want to mark as active.
  3. At the DISKPART prompt, type:

    active
 
Cannot change the attributes using diskpart. It says always 'failed'.
 
I wish I was in front of that thing... If you've done everything above, I'm out of ideas besides popping the drive out and attempting to install windows to it on a desktop machine (then transfering back).
 
Welcome to the world of tech support! :lol:


It wont be anything serious, did you try the bios settings that bazzaq suggested?

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If that doesnt work I'm with gouldin other than putting the drive in a desktop machine with a dvd drive and installing windows on the drive that way. You wont need the chipset drivers if the desktop recognises the drive.
 
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