Install Windows XP, Vista or Seven from a memory stick

Using the "Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool"
If you have a Windows 7 DVD, here is how you can generate an *.ISO file image which can be used by the "Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool". Download the excellent and free ImgBurn application from our download section and insert your DVD.  Launch ImgBurn and press the "Create an image from a disk" option. Finally, click on the "Read" button. Your ISO file will be available after a few minutes, with the default storage location being "C:\Users\username\Documents\filename.ISO" which in other terms is the My Documents folder!

Why make things complicated when there is an easy solution? This is a question you should ask yourself, as there are number tools available to create a bootable Windows 7 memory stick, but why not just use Microsoft’s official Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool? It gets right to the point and also works on Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32 or 64 bits). The first step will require that you indicate the location of your ISO file. The second step provides you with the choice of burning your ISO file to a DVD, practical if you acquired your version from the Microsoft Store, or to copy the ISO’s contents to a USB memory stick. In our case, we of course took the second option.

At this stage, you now simply have to find the drive letter attributed to the flash drive. In our case, this was "K:\". Click on "Begin copying", and the USB memory stick will be formatted and updated. It only took 7 minutes to have a bootable Windows 7 memory stick available. Click on Start Over, and the procedure will be finished and you will have a bootable drive!