Creating bootable USB for a Windows 7 install on a Windows 10 machine?

[Redderious]

Hi Hi,

I was recently asked by a friend to help install a HDD and load Windows 7 on a new laptop of his without any optical drive. My question is this: Can I move the Win7 install from his DVD onto a bootable flash drive that was formatted on my machine which runs Win10? Both are x64 versions, but his is an OEM System Builder edition, if that may make a difference.

If this is a problem, do you know any other way of getting Win7 on his machine (excluding finding another Win7 computer to do it on). I thought of maybe getting an external optical drive and using that, but my assumption, and I may be wrong, is that it won't show in the BIOS boot order without having drivers for it installed.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Math Geek]

you should have no problems making a usb drive from the dvd install media you have. so long as they are the same version (32 or 64 bit) then it'll go fine.

there are a lot of ways to go about it but i tend to use power iso as i have for years. you can also go to MS and make a usb drive. they still let you download it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

either way amounts to the same thing.

 

[Redderious]

you should have no problems making a usb drive from the dvd install media you have. so long as they are the same version (32 or 64 bit) then it'll go fine.

there are a lot of ways to go about it but i tend to use power iso as i have for years. you can also go to MS and make a usb drive. they still let you download it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

either way amounts to the same thing.

Thank you, that's a helpful link to have. The flash drive was formatted via CMD and the OS was installed w/o any issues. The whole process took maybe 45 minutes, top.

 

[Math Geek]

no problem. is why we here

glad i could help