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Install Windows from USB

Have you ever wanted to install Windows from a USB ? Or you work as a services, and you have to format a PC but it doesn’t have a CD/DVD reader? Dont worry, thanks to WinToFlash you can now install Windows XP, Vista, and 7 onto a flash drive as well as Server 2003 and 2008. WinToFlash can also transfer Windows Preinstallation Environments to flash drive.

The process is simple and mostly obvious. You tell WinToFlash where the installation files you want to transfer are located and either let the transfer wizard take care of things, or specify settings like what kind of format the flash drive will undergo. In our test using a USB 2.0 generic flash drive it took about 12 minutes to turn a Windows 7 installation DVD into a USB-based installer.

WinToFlash is also freeware and of course it runs under Windows only. And please dont forget to setup the BIOS to boot from the Flash Drive first.