Spyderz Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 wanted to reformat my windows 8 using a bootable usb drive was going to use the windows 7 usb/dvd download tool from MS that seems to be highly recommended by online guides tried downloading but guess MS removed the directory since the file link is down what other ways to go about doing a bootable drive? I have the iso file in hand. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Max Norris Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Not something I do often myself.. I think I used a program called Rufus to automate it very easily, was a click-click-done sort of thing, quite painless. There's Unetbootin too but if I recall you need an older build of it to work properly with NTFS, the newer ones don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sc302 Veteran Posted August 12, 2014 Veteran Share Posted August 12, 2014 yumi http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ Works best if you let it format the drive fat32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Robot Emas Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 i recommend Rufus. I'm always use it. http://rufus.akeo.ie/ goretsky and +Zlip792 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Eric Veteran Posted August 12, 2014 Veteran Share Posted August 12, 2014 Rufus is useful. You can still get the Microsoft one from it's CodePlex page here: http://wudt.codeplex.com/ goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +BudMan MVC Posted August 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted August 12, 2014 I have used rufus a few times, I would recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DKAngel Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 yeah i use the windows 7 usb tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shiranui Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Has to be Rufus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dadwen Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Hmm intresting tool, while back I was doing it so much I made a batch file :batch file contained diskpart /s c:\E_drive.txt > logfile.txt :and the E_drive.txt file contained. Select Disk 1cleancreate partition primaryselect partition 1activeformat fs=fat32 quickassign **the flash drive was always E: (disk 1) on my computer I formatted it on goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PGHammer Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Not something I do often myself.. I think I used a program called Rufus to automate it very easily, was a click-click-done sort of thing, quite painless. There's Unetbootin too but if I recall you need an older build of it to work properly with NTFS, the newer ones don't. I use Rufus for this - works with Windows or any other bootable ISO image (including non-Windows boot images). I've used it with Linux distributions and Android as well. Absolutely freeware and lickety-split fast. http://rufus.akeo.ie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 guitmz Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 +1 to rufus but windows 7 dvd tool works fine as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wanted to reformat my windows 8 using a bootable usb drive
was going to use the windows 7 usb/dvd download tool from MS that seems to be highly recommended by online guides
tried downloading but guess MS removed the directory since the file link is down
what other ways to go about doing a bootable drive? I have the iso file in hand.
thanks.
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