Legolash2o Posted August 15, 2011 Posted August 15, 2011 (edited) The 'USB Boot Prep' tool let's you prepare your USB stick so that you can install Windows Vista/7 from it, your computer does require support to boot from USB for the USB stick to work.Caution: The 'Full (Format)' button will format everything on the USB stick. W7T will ask if you're sure though.Yellow: Usually means it is RAW and has not been formatted, not bootable.Green: This means the drive is already bootable.Step 1: Plug in your USB stickThis tool won't work without a USB Stick so go ahead and insert one.Step 2: Select your stickHopefully W7T will detect your stick and list it, select the disk/partition you want to be bootable and click start.Step 3: Select Quick or FullQuick: This will just mark the partition as 'Active' and convert it to NTFS if needed.Full: This will 'Clean' the USB stick remove all partitions and data.W7T will work it's magic and let you know when it's done, once done you just need to copy and paste your installation files onto the USB stick. Edited March 28, 2012 by Legolash2o kerwerner, jorgen, Rek1t and 2 others 5 Quote
Bouffski Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Thanks for this !Works like a charme!Cheers Quote
Er1ch Posted October 22, 2011 Posted October 22, 2011 I want to install Windows 7 from my USB hard drive. Since I don't want to erase everything on the drive, is it possible to use a single partition for that purpose? Quote
Legolash2o Posted October 27, 2011 Author Posted October 27, 2011 (edited) Sorry for the late reply i hardly read anything in this sub-forum, i'm sure it can be added to W7T quite easily.EDIT: Just press the 'Quick' button on USB Prep Tool, it doesn't format it. Edited October 27, 2011 by Legolash2o Quote
latino Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 is possible to separate this program ..? I just need the USB Boot Prep Quote
MBrys331 Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 i am asking can i boot os from this Toshiba - Canvio 1.50 TB External Hard Drive is it the same process as a flash drive and thank you for help Quote
bphlpt Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 Boot from, ie the OS is installed on the External Hard Drive, or Install from, ie the install source is on the External Hard Drive and you are going to actually install to some internal drive in your system? Cheers and Regards Quote
MBrys331 Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 i was going to make the external hard drive active for bootable and i was going to add windows 7 files to the drive just like the {flash drive} has wintoolkit to pre pair the drive and have the external drive as primary and work from the external drive Quote
Jognt Posted October 9, 2013 Posted October 9, 2013 Does this function have support for booting under UEFI mode?Or do I still need to manually create extra EFI folders for that? "What are you talking about?" [click me] Quote
bluesmoke Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 The 'USB Boot Prep' tool let's you prepare your USB stick so that you can install Windows Vista/7 from it, your computer does require support to boot from USB for the USB stick to work.Caution: The 'Full (Format)' button will format everything on the USB stick. W7T will ask if you're sure though.USBBoot.pngYellow: Usually means it is RAW and has not been formatted, not bootable.Green: This means the drive is already bootable.Step 1: Plug in your USB stickThis tool won't work without a USB Stick so go ahead and insert one.Step 2: Select your stickHopefully W7T will detect your stick and list it, select the disk/partition you want to be bootable and click start.Step 3: Select Quick or FullQuick: This will just mark the partition as 'Active' and convert it to NTFS if needed.Full: This will 'Clean' the USB stick remove all partitions and data.W7T will work it's magic and let you know when it's done, once done you just need to copy and paste your installation files onto the USB stick.thanks for tool but where is downlaod link Adem2808 1 Quote
wela Posted August 13, 2014 Posted August 13, 2014 (edited) HiI have a Prob with a new USB Stick. After inserting the Line was yellow Filesystem "Fat32", Bootable "False", Status "False". Ater clicking "Quick" the Line turn to "green", Filesystem "Fat32", Bootable "True" but the Status is "False". A test PC did not find a bootable device. Any idea why? :doh: I did not change Biossettings. Edited August 13, 2014 by wela Legolash2o 1 Quote
tony26 Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 all you did was to make the drive activeyou need to put so type of boot files on the drive Quote
son goku Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 Hello, Does the Quick option in this "USB Boot Prep" in this tool supports booting and installing in native UEFI mode (provided that the install.wim is under 4GB)? Quote
Legolash2o Posted February 19, 2015 Author Posted February 19, 2015 No it currently doesn't. v2 will though since I now have a UEFI computer to test it on Quote
son goku Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) Ok. thanks! will v2 also have the same option of "Quick" and "Full (format)" in its USB Boot Prep tool?When will be the public release of WinToolkit v2? Thanks! Edited February 19, 2015 by son goku Quote
Legolash2o Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 USB Boot Prep is already working in v2.x Quote
Adem2808 Posted September 2, 2017 Posted September 2, 2017 On 18.3.2014 at 7:31 AM, bluesmoke said: thanks for tool but where is downlaod link Quote
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