Booting from a USB drive has been a goal for many in the past few years. Even before the Days of Windows 7 people were looking at the idea of creating a bootable USB drive for installation, maintenance , testing, or recovery. There have been many techniques developed and many tools release to help people accomplish this task. Most of them are pretty straightforward, but even so the majority require a few steps and some time dedicated to get the job done.
For the person who doesn't have the time or energy to explore all these avenues and wants to install Windows 7 from a USB drive there is another solution, the "Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool". Some people might think that this tool will download Windows 7 for you but that's not the case. It will, however, create a bootable USB drive that you can use to install 7.
You will need : 1) A dot net enabled machine 2) A USB drive, 3) The USB/DVD download tool, and a Windows install image. If you don't have an image cause you didn't buy one you can always create one from your Windows install DVD using ImgBurn.
How it works: 1) Install the tool and then run it, 2)Indicate the source path to your .ISO and click next, 4) Select your USB device and your done. Once the process is finished you can use the USB to install 7.
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