Create Bootable USB stick

Ever Wondered the need for a USB stick to boot from and install the Operating system with easy, without worrying about the problems of Optical drives/CD Roms/DVD Rom drives. As we all have faced some problem with DVDs which develop scratches and makes difficult for the drives to read the data on them resulting in missing files during installation? Or a slow installation with a DVD drive?

The advantage of USB stick are many a very compact size, large amount of data can be stored there are good large USB sticks are available upto 128GB size we can easily find a reasonable 32GB USB stick for a very cheap price. Here you may wish to find / buy some USB Drives from Amazon.

So lets begin with the simple method of creating a bootable USB Disk on Windows 7 Operating System.

First thing first we need the ISO Windows 7, here you can download them easily from MS site:

Windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit)

Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)

Windows 7 Professional (32-bit)

Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)

Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit)

Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

Once you have finished downloading your version of ISO file we will need to do the following:
1. Download a Tool from Windows web site here Or (there is another tool that can be used for buring ISO to USB or CD here is the url: http://wudt.codeplex.com/
2. Go the downloaded ISO folder and click browser ISO file.
3. Click on Next button.
4. Here you will be asked whether you want to save this file to a USB drive or a DVD, in our case Select USB device.
5. Connect the USB/Pen Drive to the USB with a capacity of at least 4GB plus.
6. From the Drop Down Menu Select the USB Drive and Start the process of copying.
7. After this process your will have a Bootable USB Disk