[Pardon]

Hey guys, I just got a new rig and am waiting on the CPU to arrive since UPS found it necessary to ship it the opposite direction then fly it back to a state above me which makes me say many bad words about them in the meantime. Anyway, I was just wondering if it is possible to make a windows 7 installation USB drive from my current XP SP2 Home Edition machine? Every guide I've seen requires Vista/7 and I can't seem to find anything else at all. Would appreciate some help on the issue. :4-dontkno

Notes: I have an OCZ Diesel 4GB drive which is formatted to NTFS and is ready for the disc, just can't find a reliable way of creating one.

 

[Pardon]

Bit of an update here, I have a thumbdrive loaded with Win7 on it, but I can't create the bootsect.exe since it requires 64 bit for my version I'm putting on the drive, and I'm running an outdated 32bit machine. Any way to work around this maybe? All I need now is that .exe file.

 

[Pardon]

Re: Windows 7 Thumbdrive From 32 Bit OS

One final update here, not trying to spam or anything, just want to make sure this is archived with google in case somebody else tries this.

All I ended up doing was taking the bootsect.exe off of the 32bit installation disc, overwriting the 64 bit version in the /boot directory on my thumb drive with it, then opened the command prompt and did the usual BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 x: with "x" being the letter of your USB key, and it worked fine. What a hassle for such a simple solution, hope this is useful to somebody else that may haplessly google an answer. :wave:

 

[Dunedin]

Hello Pardon

Thank you very much for posting that solution.

I`m sure someone will need it :smile:

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