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How to make bootable Windows 7 USB Drive Installer

 February 20, 2010 No Comment

Install Windows 7 by making a bootable USB installer for Windows with Koala. This is a free software that lets you create a bootable USB thumb drive installer for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server System 2008!

A bootable USB installer is very useful for installing Windows on systems with no optical drive like the netbooks. Netbooks are small, light and inexpensive laptop computers suited for general computing and accessing web-based applications. As they are optimized for low weight and low cost, they find increased patronage among a vast majority of users in developing countries. But the lack of optical drives in netbooks, make installing an OS like Windows very difficult.Koala addresses this problem by letting you create a bootable USB thumb drive installer for windows including Windows 7 and windows vista.

How to make bootable USB Drive Installer for Windows 7

Koala creates a bootable USB from Windows disc instead of an ISO file. Hence to create a bootable USB thumb drive installer, you need a computer running windows (windows XP or later), a DVD for the windows OS for which you want to create the bootable USB installer (Windows 7, Vista, Windows Server System 2008), .NET framework 2.0 or higher and a pen disk with 4 GB capacity.

  • Free download Koala from here
  • Insert the DVD for Windows 7 (or Vista or Windows Server System 2008) into the optical drive of your PC
  • Insert the flash disk (USB thumb disk or pen disk) with or over 4 GB capacity, into the PC’s USB drive.
  • Run the program Koala
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  • Click Scan for Source to scan the source (optical drive) for the OS for which the bootable USB installer is created
  • Click Scan for destination to scan the destination USB drive for creating the bootable installer
  • Next, click the Start button to begin making the bootable USB installer for Windows.

That is all!! In approximately 10 minutes, a bootable USB thumb drive installer is ready for Windows 7 (or Vista or Windows Server System 2008)!!! You can now use this bootable USB installer on any netbook to install the latest version of the Windows OS.Enjoy!!!