Windows 7 professional installation from a flash drive. Changing BIOS settings and starting installation

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The instructions from this article should be used if the user has already burned a Windows 7 image to a flash drive using specialized programs. There is more than one way to write an operating system image to optical or flash media:

Now we will look in detail at how installing Windows 7 from a USB flash drive. Let's change several parameters in the BIOS or Boot Menu, boot from the media and begin the installation.

Installing Windows 7 from a flash drive is quick and easy, the main steps

Before installing any system, be it Linux, Android or various Windows edition It’s worth remembering that this process is not complicated and anyone can handle it, the main thing is to follow the instructions that have already been made for you, beginners, and use it correctly.

Steps to be followed below:

setting up the computer BIOS (setting the drive boot priority);
installation of the system with setting the necessary parameters;
installing drivers and setting up the system for the user.

BIOS Settings

Each computer has a chip built into its memory that stores a basic input/output system that has a set of firmware that allows you to customize the hardware. There is an old version of the system called Legacy BIOS and the one used in modern computers- BIOS UEFI. The settings may differ in both cases.

Now you need to find out your model motherboard or laptop, and then the keys that must be pressed to enter the BIOS. I advise you to read the article about where many models of motherboards and laptops are described. Typically these are the DEL, F8, F12, F2, F9, F11, and others keys. In some cases, you need to go to a special menu using the ESC key, and then press F10 or F9.

After getting into the BIOS, you need to find the boot options, which are in different types basic system I/O are different. After which you need to boot from the media and the installation of Windows 7 from the flash drive will begin.

AMI

In the AMI BIOS, use the arrows to switch to the “Boot” tab and find the “Boot Device Priority” option there. Here we will set the loading priority. In some cases, the name of the device will be listed first, for example, the name of the hard drive. To move these devices in places, you need to press the F5-F6 keys. In another case, the user will see the lines “1st Boot Device”, “2nd Boot Device” and so on. Here, first of all, you need to select a bootable USB flash drive.

Phoenix Award

In this type, the necessary boot priority options are found in the Advanced BIOS Features section. The first device is First Boot Device. Here we display the flash drive. The second device is designated as Second Boot Device, and the third is designated as Third Boot Device.

To save the parameters, as in the previous case, press the F10 key.

BIOS UEFI()

The parameters of this type of BIOS are not particularly different from previous options. There is simply a beautiful and convenient GUI, and in some cases all parameters are translated into Russian, which increases the ease of use.

On the main screen below there is a “Boot Priority” section. All media are marked there. In order to put the flash drive in first place, just left-click and drag the icon to the first place. Don't forget to save your changes before exiting.

Boot Menu

Using (read), you can immediately boot from a flash drive, bypassing the BIOS. Typically, entry is carried out using the ESC key or another. You need to find out about this in the passport for the motherboard or on the Internet according to the laptop/motherboard model.

Installing Windows 7 from a USB flash drive

After downloading from bootable flash drive will begin copying files systems. An installation window will appear asking you to select the system language, time and currency format, and keyboard layout. Usually the parameters are already set by default, so click “Next”.

The next window brings us directly to the installation. There is a button for this "Install". In addition, there is another option that will come in handy more than once when using the OS - System Restore (located at the bottom left). If the system suddenly refuses to boot, you can use this option during recovery. And there is also reference Information– “What you should know before installing Windows.”

Here we come to the beginning of the installation. The next step is to accept the terms license agreement. Check the box and click “Next”.

The next step brings us closer to choosing a partition for installing the OS. You can select the “Update” option, which only updates system files without affecting other data. It is possible to use it to restore and upgrade to a newer version.

IN in this case This is a clean installation, so the Full Install option is selected.

A window appears, which involves selecting a partition where Windows 7 will be installed from a flash drive. If the partition has unallocated space (unallocated), then select this partition with the mouse and click the button below "Disk Setup".

Select the volume required for the system. For Windows 7 Maximum you will need at least 20 GB, and if you use system disk various programs, then you will need 100 GB or more. After entering the value in MB, click "Apply".

A notification will appear that additional partitions will be created for system files. These are usually recovery partitions. Click OK.

After creating the partition, it will be called, for example, “Disk 0 Partition 2” or something else. To install Windows 7 on it, select this volume and click “Next”.

So the process of installing Windows 7 from a flash drive has begun. In this case, the system files are copied to disk, then unpacked, installed components and completed. You need to wait a while. It all depends on the configuration of the computer and how powerful its components are.

Settings

After installation, a window will appear where you must enter your username. An example has already been provided. You can enter any PC name you like. Click “Next”.

The next step is to enter your password. Although this is not necessary, it is recommended for safety reasons. We enter the password and hint twice, in case the user forgets it.

We are approaching the finish line. You must enter the product key located on the box with the disc, or received via the Internet. In some cases, you do not need to enter a key (if you are installing an OEM assembly for one language, and the key is embedded in the BIOS). If there is a key, enter it, and if not, click “Skip”.

Now, if you select the “Use recommended settings” option, the system will connect to the Internet and begin installing updates. You can choose the second point, or you can postpone the decision for a while, which is what is recommended. If necessary, the user will install them himself.

We exhibit correct time and date, although this is usually done automatically. If the time zone is incorrect, select the correct one.

We set the network parameters. For example, for a network located at your home, select “ home network" A description for each option has already been given.

Once selected, the settings will begin to apply and your connection to the network will begin.

The penultimate steps are preparing the desktop and the appearance of the inscription: “Welcome.”

And here is the worker Windows table 7, which is still empty. There is only a trash can in the upper left corner, the good old “Start Menu” and the taskbar.

Installing Windows 7 drivers and setting up the system

Once you have installed the system, the main drivers will already be built into the system. Others will be installed automatically, for example, when devices are connected. You can make working with the system easier by downloading and installing the necessary software.

So, first of all, if you don’t want to manually search for drivers for your PC, download the utility. I won’t say that it is so effective, since the database does not contain drivers for all devices. There have been cases when a driver was installed from another hardware, a failure occurred and I had to reinstall the system again. Use of such programs is entirely at your own risk.

After downloading and launching this tool, it will begin to check the computer configuration and set the order in which drivers will be loaded. It is recommended to select "Expert Mode", to independently choose what needs to be installed and what not.

What programs to choose? I think you need a browser, one of the popular Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Yandex Browser and others. You will definitely need an archiver, video codecs and a K-Lite player Codec Pack(you can choose something else), to listen to music, a player like AIMP or whichever you like best, an antivirus. What happens next depends on your preferences.

Watch the video below on installing Windows 7 from a USB flash drive.

Results

Now you know how to install Windows 7 from a flash drive on any computer. As you can see, it's very simple and fast. Quite a lot of words are written, but this is done in almost a couple of mouse clicks. Let's summarize what we did today and what we need to do next:

First, create a bootable USB flash drive of an image of Windows OS or any other system. For this, programs such as UltraISO, Rufus, WinSetupFromUSB, WinToHDD, Windows USB/DVD Download Tool and many others are usually used.
Install Windows and configure settings.
We install drivers, programs and use the system.

There is nothing complicated here. Problems may arise if the system image files are damaged, then recording or installing the system will not work and errors will appear, for example, incorrect partition style (), insufficient disk space and many other problems that are usually solved quickly. Now you know what it is to install Windows 7 from a flash drive. For questions in the comments.

No disk drive? Installing the Windows 7 operating system using installation flash drive on a computer or laptop is discussed in detail in this article.

Description of the installation process

The entire process of installing Windows from a flash drive to a laptop can be divided into 4 main operations:

Record installation files Windows 7;
Setting up the BIOS system;
Installation of the Windows 7 operating system;
Installing the necessary drivers.

And now first things first! The first thing you should do is peculiar. If you simply transfer all the files from the disk to a USB drive, the laptop will not perceive it as an installation disk! In order to create an installation flash card, you need to perform a couple of simple manipulations on the command line or simply install a utility created specifically for these purposes, of which there are quite a lot on the Internet. Since most utilities have a fairly simple interface, and many of them are in Russian, this article will consider a method for recoding a flash drive using the command line.

So, let's start creating the installation media! To do this, you can use any Flash media with a memory capacity exceeding 4 GB. Before you start transcoding a flash drive, dump all the important information for you onto another storage medium, since during the encoding process all data will be deleted! Before starting conversion, it is advisable to first format the electronic media in file system NTFS to avoid possible errors at work.

So, in order to re-encode a flash drive so that the laptop accepts it as an installation disk, you need:

Coming out of command line, you will only need to copy the Windows 7 installation files from the license disk or downloaded archive to a USB flash drive.

Reinstalling Windows

Now let's go directly to reinstalling Windows using an installation flash drive. Since the laptop, by default, starts first the system installed directly on the machine’s hard drive, you will have to change the order in which the operating system is loaded through the BIOS menu, which is required in every laptop and computer. In order to exit to the BIOS menu, you need to press and hold the F2 key while displaying the logo of the motherboard installed in your laptop. Each laptop is equipped motherboard The manufacturer's company and the type of BIOS menu are different for each company. Going to the BIOS menu, you need to find the item responsible for the system boot order. In English versions of BISA it is called Boot devise priority and is usually located in the Boot tab.

In the window that opens after selecting the item, you need to find the item First Boot Devise, which is responsible for the system boot order, and change its first value to boot from removable media (USB-DVD), then save the changes and restart the computer. Further

Most laptop users are faced with situations where they need to reinstall the operating system, often while keeping the licensed Windows. This publication discusses several methods of how to reinstall Windows 7 on a laptop, and also talks about the nuances of the process of installing the OS on laptops different manufacturers.

Restoring the system using a Windows 7 backup

Most of the manufacturers mobile computers create backup storage for 7 distributions or any other OS. Reinstalling Windows 7 on a laptop from these memory areas is done using built-in utilities.

To start the reinstallation, reboot your laptop and press:

for Windows on an HP laptop on F11;
on ASUS laptop on F9 immediately at the start of loading;
for Windows 7 on Lenovo laptop to F11;
on an acer laptop the combination is suitable Alt keys+ F10 ;
for Windows 7 on a SAMSUNG laptop on F4.

After clicking on the desired key instead of standard download Windows 7 will open the OS recovery interface:

After downloading the program, follow the instructions to restore Windows.

But remember that all settings will be reset, and data from the previous copy of the system may be deleted.

Reinstalling from disk

When reinstalling from disk, remember that to restore the license you need to use a distribution kit with exactly the same OS as was installed previously. Find out the version installed system possible on a sticker, which is usually located on back side laptop. By the way, it’s also located there license key your copy of Windows.

Remember that when you reinstall, a new operating system is deployed from the disk, and to avoid problems in the future, you should delete the data from the previous Windows.

This is achieved using formatting system partition, so take care in advance to transfer all the necessary data from the selected hard drive volume to install Windows. It is not advisable to transfer installed programs, since this will lose connection with the registry, and many of them may not start. Don't be lazy, install them again after replacing the OS.

Distribution installation disk does not include drivers for all laptops, so download drivers for your device in advance from the manufacturer’s official resource. If this is not done, then after installation there is a high probability of the following problems occurring:

The network card does not work;
Wi-Fi does not work;
Applications do not launch.

If you reinstalled the OS without this, then to troubleshoot network equipment you will have to download the driver distribution using another computer and transfer them using removable media, so before reinstalling, do not forget to play it safe and download drivers for the network card and Wi-Fi module.

To begin the installation process, insert the disc into the drive and restart your laptop. After your computer starts, open boot menu, where you should choose to boot from DVD.

This dialog is called up on most laptops using the F12 key, and on HP devices the combination F9 + Esc is used.

Often on older computers this function is missing, so you will need to open the BIOS and edit the boot priority yourself. To go to the BIOS on laptops, manufacturers use the following keys:

Acer, Asus, Samsung, Lenovo - F2;
hp - F10 + Esc .

If the brand of your device is not in this list, then find out the actual key for it on the window that loads when you turn on the PC.

The BIOS interface from different manufacturers is not similar in appearance, but the sequence of actions for changing the boot priority is almost identical. Navigation through the windows of a running BIOS of all versions is carried out using the arrows on the keyboard and the Enter, Esc, +, - keys.

Sequence of actions for BIOS AMI:

Sequence of action for BIOS Phoenix-Award:

Windows installation

After making a change to the BIOS and rebooting, a dialog will appear with the message: “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD.”

Further installation of Windows 7 is not difficult, do the following:

Press any keyboard key.
Wait until the file unpacker completes; a screen with the entry “Windows is loading files...” is displayed.
In the dialogue " Windows installation» Specify the language and click on the Next button.
In the window that appears, click on the large Install button.
Select the version of the system to install that has a license code. You will need to enter it after reinstalling Windows 7.
Agree to the licensing terms.
Select installation method - " Full installation».
Select the drive volume on which you are going to install the OS and prepare it by clicking on the item " Disk setup».
There are situations when a reserved drive partition is present in the list; be sure to select another volume.
If you have disks with a capacity of more than 250 GB, it is worth splitting them into several. Typically, the area allocated for system installation is separate section up to 100 GB in size.
Format the selected drive partition. A warning will appear that all information on it will be deleted. Confirm your consent, because you have previously saved all the necessary data. Wait for the installation to complete and click on Next.
Wait for the installation process to complete; on average, it lasts from fifteen to twenty-five minutes, the duration depends on the configuration of the laptop.
Fill in the fields provided with your username and PC name.
Protect account password, or you can skip this step.
Enter the key copied from the sticker on your laptop.
Select your security options.
Set the date and time.
If you have a network connection, specify the connection type.

Reinstalled Windows is ready to go. If you changed the boot priorities in the BIOS, return the hard drive to first place in the list, otherwise the computer will constantly try to start from the DVD.

Reinstallation from a flash drive

Many compact PCs, such as netbooks, do not have a DVD drive. Therefore, the question arises of how to properly reinstall Windows 7 on them. The answer is simple - use removable media.

To reinstall from a flash drive, you need to download the Windows 7 distribution image in ISO format and write it to this media using a special utility. Remember, in order to properly reinstall a licensed Windows system, you need to download a container with the same OS version. The flash drive itself must have a capacity of at least four gigabytes.

Burning Windows to media using the most popular utility among analogues Ultra ISO is performed according to the following algorithm:

The installation flash drive is ready, but to start the installation, you need to select " USB-HDD" How to set up the BIOS is described above, all steps are similar, you just need to select another entry from the available list. Further installation is no different from Windows installations 7 from DVD.

Often after reinstalling Windows does not work. To solve this problem, take another OS distribution and repeat the installation process. In addition, many users ignore the need to format the partition and reinstall the seven on a disk that already has an installed copy of the system. Avoid this as it can also cause problems.

Conclusion

This article covered reinstalling Windows 7 in several ways. If missing backup copy, then this procedure should be carried out from a disk on which exactly the same version of the OS is recorded. Some laptops do not have a CD-ROM, so reinstallation can only be done using external media, for example, a flash drive.

Video on the topic

I believe that everyone should master the skill of reinstalling a system. The ability to reinstall windows will be 100% useful to you. For an hour and a half of work, sitting at a friend’s chair, drinking tea, you can earn about $10-15 ( average price service centers for this service). Hear a large number of thanks and receive good recommendations in your company as a specialist in this field. Nowadays, every schoolchild and housewife should know and be able to do this. The ability to independently know how to properly reinstall Windows 7 from a flash drive will allow you to quickly return your computer to working condition, regardless of the time of day or day of the week, which is very important, since the service centers do not work around the clock and if your windows crashes, you will have to wait. Also, using these instructions, you can reinstall Windows 7 from a disk. The only difference is that you will need to select in the BIOS to boot not from a flash drive, but from a disk.

You may also need to do backup files, if the computer has the information or program you need!!!

Reinstalling windows 7 from a flash drive. Step-by-step instruction

First, we need a bootable USB flash drive, this article assumes its presence. If you don't have a bootable USB flash drive, you can find out how to create one here.

Windows 7 installation flash drive
BIOS Settings

YOUR ACTIONS:

Insert the Windows 7 installation flash drive into your computer or laptop.

Turn on or reboot if the computer is on and launch the BIOS menu. On different computers On laptops this menu is called up differently. You may have to restart your computer several times to get the start button right.

Immediately after turning on the computer, press the BIOS key several times until the menu appears, if it does not appear, but the loading windows, wait until it boots, then restart the computer and press another menu key. The picture below shows all possible options to start the BIOS.

Often these are the F2, DEL, F12 keys. Also on some laptops and PCs it is possible to launch the “selection” menu boot disk"it is called using F8. If you manage to call up the “boot disk selection” menu, you select the flash drive in it and proceed to installation. In this case, you do not have to go to the BIOS menu. If not, you will need to go into the BIOS.

After we entered the BIOS, we need the Boot section. Navigation through the BIOS is carried out from the keyboard using the arrows, Enter, and F(1-12). So, use the arrows to navigate to the Boot menu and find there Hard Disk Drives, press Enter. Select 1 st Drive, press Enter, select the flash drive, then return to boot menu using the esc key. We find Boot Device Priority, press Enter and move our flash drive to the first place (if it is not in the 1st place), you can move it either F5/F6 or arrows + Enter, depending on the BIOS version.

Each BIOS menu has hints. Pay attention to them! With these actions we gave the computer a command to start from the flash drive. Now to save these changes, press the F10 key and OK. The computer restarts.

Immediately after the reboot, reading from the flash drive will begin; this is indicated by the next loading bar that you will see on the screen.

After a few minutes, a dialog box appears with the option to select a language. Select the language we need and click “next”.

To start installation, click Install

In front of us we see a window for selecting the system capacity. Depending on the Windows that is recorded on the flash drive, the selection will be made.

The next step we need to select the installation type, select “Custom: Winows installation only (for advanced users)” or as in the photo Select the full installation.

Now carefully, we need to select the disk on which the system will be installed. Unfortunately, you will not see the letters, so you need to select the disk by disk type. Example: When installing, I have two disks C – system (25 GB) and D – working (121 GB). I need to select drive C since the system was previously installed on it. Select the system drive and then click Disk setup — Formatting.

After we click Formatting, a warning message is displayed. We agree by clicking OK

Once formatting is completed, click “Next”.

Now we see the main Windows installation window; this occurs in five stages and should last no more than 25 minutes, after which the computer will reboot and the installation will continue.

It is important not to miss the reboot moment computer, since we will need to remove the flash drive or return BIOS settings(so that the launch is not from a flash drive but from a hard drive)! You can wait 10 seconds and after the computer automatically reboots, immediately remove the flash drive, or reboot now and remove the flash drive. If you did not have time to remove the flash drive, the installation will begin again. Don’t be upset, wait until the language selection window appears, then restart your computer and remove the USB flash drive and the installation will continue!

After the installation is complete, you will see windows for configuring personal settings. We give the PC a name, come up with a password if you wish, we also perform activation, which you can skip, select your time zone, date, time.

If you have a licensed Windows, enter the key, but if you have a pirated version, then uncheck Automatically activate Windows when connected to the Internet.

READY!

Now you have a fully working functional Windows 7. Don't forget to return the BIOS settings if you haven't done so before. Because when you turn on your computer, you will boot from a flash drive.

You may need solutions to problems such as:

Need for Windows activation 7 - you can read in this article

Whatever prompted the transition to Windows 7, installing Windows 7 and drivers for your computer peripherals is a hassle, but it’s worth it. If you reinstall it again, all this can be done in about an hour and a half. This step-by-step guide will help you install the operating system from a flash drive.

Preparing your computer for installing the operating system

Before changing the OS version, it is useful - and sometimes necessary for further work - to copy data, programs and drivers to reliable media, and also make sure that your PC is fully compatible with Windows 7.

Transfer, copying of personal data

Before installation, you need to copy all your valuable files from drive C: to separate media: other flash drives, external hard disks, throw over local network to another computer, laptop or tablet, or upload it to cloud services. Choose any one or more options.

Checking for drivers

Check to see if there are hardware drivers for your laptop or PC on which you are reinstalling Windows. You can do this by visiting the website of the manufacturer of your PC or laptop - the drivers are updated by the developer over the course of several years. For example, a video card or LAN network adapter driver is often compatible - if your PC model is no longer in the list, you can use drivers from a related PC model of the same line, or search on third party resources similar (or similar) drivers from your devices. Yes, to the laptop Acer Aspire The 1650Z may be suitable for all or part of the main drivers from the Acer Aspire 1680, available at www.asus.com.

The main drivers that are vital for a PC include the following drivers.

The chipset driver is the work of the processor, buses, bridges and other electronic components of the main (motherboard), without which the computer would not work at all. Even though the processor is replaceable module, its drivers and library files are located not only in the system folder C:\Windows\, but can also be installed separately, from the distribution kit on disk or from installation files obtained from the Internet.
Video card driver. Without it, video and other moving effects will be slow, and hardware and software graphics video acceleration will not work fully. You won't be able to choose required resolution and image format, if you connect an external monitor or TV, you will not be able to configure additional special effects when watching movies and videos.
Driver sound card. In modern PCs, the sound module is part of the motherboard or, like the LAN/Wi-Fi module, a standard replaceable module.
LAN driver. Network adapter LAN (Ethernet-10/100/Gigabit), without which you would not have home Internet on your PC from MTS or Rostelecom, has been built into all laptops, netbooks, ultrabooks and system units home PCs.
Wireless driver. All mobile PCs, with the possible exception of some desktop PC models, have network card Wi-Fi. Not to mention tablets.
Bluetooth driver. The Bluetooth module is an optional extra that is not available on every PC. This is mainly the prerogative of tablets. And although the Bluetooth connection speed reaches 75 Mbit/s, there are much more popular technologies (USB, Wi-Fi), the speed of which reaches 300 or more megabits per second. Practical use Bluetooth - wireless speakers and headset; smartphones, communicators, mobile phones and tablets with Symbian and Android; keyboards, mice and printers.

If all these drivers are compatible with Windows 7, feel free to take decisive action.

Burning a Windows 7 installation flash drive

So, you are prepared to (re)install Windows 7, now you need to download and burn the ISO image of the operating system.

Finding and downloading a Windows installation copy

Previously, in the 2000s, a copy of the OS or any software package(for example, hacked Microsoft Office, Photoshop, etc.) was “cut” into 100 MB fragments and downloaded from the file sharing server in parts (remember the then popular “rocking apps” RapidShare and DepositFiles?). If one of the parts was missing due to a delay due to inactivity (2–3 months without downloads), it was deleted, and the “uploader” was asked to “upload” it again.

During the night mobile internet with slow GPRS/EDGE speed - when there was no 3G yet - downloading copies of Windows was a real hassle: if it crashed, you had to go back to the download page this file, wait until the server wait counter counts down its 60 seconds, wait for the “Download file (free)” button to appear. Next, the user opened the page in an HTML editor and found a link to the file in its code (the longest link with a “kilometer” code), replaced it in the download manager (for example, in FlashGet or in Download Master) your old link to the new one and clicked on “Continue downloading”. Particularly cunning ones set a long melody or some song to the download error and left the PC sound at maximum volume in order to easily wake up and repeat the above steps to restore the broken download. Half-sleepless nights and one thought: “I wish I could finish it soon!” - very familiar to users of those years...

Today everything is decided by torrent trackers. The easiest way is to find the ISO- Windows image in the form of a torrent. Each tracker organizes a forum (with subforums by content category), where each download has its own topic - finding the right download has become very easy.

Any program source code and image files obtained from fraudulent resources are known to be “viral”. In fact, these services are not well-known “soft portals” or file hosting services, but their fakes with a clumsy web address like “depozzitfiles.com.ru”, extorting money from beginners and simply narrow-minded people who are poorly versed in the Internet. In order not to run into a virus, “spy” and/or “advertiser” instead of the expected copy of “cured” Windows, use well-known torrent trackers, for example, rutracker.org, rutor.org, nnm-club.me or a similar one of several others - they are trusted by tens of millions of users. If your cellular provider has denied you access to your favorite tracker, enable VPN encryption and set up a free Tor service, or use an anonymizer or some free proxy servers, preferably working outside of Russia.

Burning an image

There are two ways Windows copy to a flash drive or disk:

using the command line;
through special utilities.

Via command line

The most advanced way to burn an image of Windows (or any other OS) is to use the command line.

The instructions are the same for Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 - both in terms of recording the flash drive itself, and in the process itself under an already running version of Windows. All steps are exactly the same.

If you want to change the drive letter to the desired one, for example, X, enter the command “assign letter=X” before closing the DiskPart tool.

Now you need to copy the contents of any installation Windows disk 7 per flash drive. You can do this in two ways:

use a ready-made installation DVD, simply copying files and folders from it in the form in which they were on the source drive;
download and unpack any archive file(RAR, ZIP or ISO, which can also be viewed and copied) in any archiver (for example, WinRAR) or a utility such as UltraISO, which is discussed below.

Once the copying is complete, you will see the files and folders of the Windows copy on the flash drive. If you are installing Windows by logging in from another working copy/version of Windows, then it will be enough to run the setup.exe installer. But in order to reliably get rid of all the problems and install Windows on a pre-formatted C: drive, you still need to boot the PC from a flash drive, which is activated from the BIOS/UEFI firmware “hardwired” into the PC’s motherboard.

Using the UltraISO utility

The UltraISO application will make it easier for you to burn a Windows installation flash drive - before you start copying the contents of the ISO image, it will automatically designate the flash drive as bootable.

Video: alternative recording of a Windows 7 flash drive with Daemon Tools

Other ISO burning apps

UltraISO is not the only utility. There are others:

WinSetupFromUSB is a favorite utility for many users. Windows entries to flash drives and external drives;
Win2Bootice;
Rufus (supports burning Windows installation discs, well managed from UEFI - the BIOS successor program);
Universal USB Installer;
Media Creation Tool is a proprietary installer from Microsoft that has become more popular than ever with the advent of Windows 10;
UNetBootin.

The application and utilities can also be used to record an image of Windows 10. In our article you can read the instructions:

Features of recording Windows to USB drives and other external media

Quickly formatting a flash drive before starting recording will take up to 10 seconds, regardless of its wear and tear. It is provided by default - unlike the full one, which can take up to half an hour, quick formatting speeds up the process of creating an installation flash drive without affecting the quality of subsequent recording.

Recording, depending on the speed of the USB interface (USB 2.0 and 3.0 versions differ), the read/write speed of the flash drive (they have some variation in speeds, when buying, try to get the “fastest” flash drive, and do not take the first one you come across), can take from 20 minutes to several hours. The time it takes to write a Windows image also depends on the wear and tear of the flash drive (weak flash memory sectors, frequent erasing of data in dozens of passes using special utilities such as DiskShredder, “hot” shutdowns when reading data, etc.). On old computers with Windows XP, when using flash drives from 5-10 years ago, there were cases when the Windows 7/8/10 image took 10 hours or more to record.

If the flash drive has at least one “dead” sector (this is checked by Victoria and HDD-Scan/Regenerator utilities), it should be thrown away; it is not suitable for serious tasks. Even after software repair(reassigning Bad sectors) it is used only as an auxiliary drive, and not as a disk with Windows - sudden errors that occur when installing Windows from such a flash drive will lead to frequent “brakes” and “freezes” of the PC at the most unexpected moments, frequent error messages SYS and DLL libraries stored in the C:\Windows\ folder after installation.

The result of a successful write is the structure of files and folders created by the utility or Windows command line on the flash drive.

Applied this is what the structure looks like Windows distribution 7

Setting up the BIOS to boot your computer from a flash drive

So, installation media created and tested. Your computer, laptop or tablet is ready to install Windows. But first, you need to make sure that USB drives are set to the highest priority when booting your PC from any type of drive.

Home PCs, laptops, netbooks and ultrabooks can use different BIOS versions: Award BIOS, AMI Bios and Phoenix BIOS. The BIOS Setup utility is entered in the first seconds after turning on (restarting) the PC, when the logo of the manufacturer of the PC or laptop motherboard is displayed on the screen, by pressing the Del or F2/F4/F7 key.

Setting up in Award BIOS

Do the following.

From the main BIOS menu, select “Integrated Peripherals”.
Entering the settings of the built-in PC peripherals
Select “USB Controller” and make sure it is turned on (“Enabled”). A similar setting should be in the “USB 2.0 Controller” item - if it is disabled, then writing and reading flash drives will work with USB speed 1.2, which is several times slower than USB 2.0. Menu items are selected using the “up” and “down” keys on the keyboard, and the setting is changed using the Enter key and the same arrows. To leave this submenu, press the Esc key.
Make sure USB controllers are active
Return to the main BIOS menu and give the command: “Advanced BIOS Features” - “Hard” Disk Boot Priority" hard drives»).
Make sure your flash drive is identified in the list of drives
Use the up or down key to select your external storage(in this case, this is the name of the flash drive) and move it to the first position of the download list using the “+” or Page Up/Down key. Exit this menu by pressing the Esc key.
Move the flash drive to the beginning of the list of drives
In the previous submenu, move to “First Boot Device” and click Enter key. Use the arrows to select “USB-HDD” (the flash drive is seen by the BIOS as an external hard drive), pressing Enter to confirm.
Return to the main menu using the Esc key and press F10 to save the new settings (or select “Save & Exit Setup” - “Save settings and exit Setup”). A prompt will appear - press the Y key (“Yes”) and Enter. The PC will restart with new setting BIOS.
Confirm by pressing Y and the enter key on your keyboard

Setting the startup method in AMI BIOS

The controls in all BIOS versions, including this one, are the same.

Enter the BIOS and give the command “Advanced - USB Configuration”.
Go to USB settings
Check that the “USB Function” and “USB 2.0 Controller” settings are enabled (“Enabled”). The “USB 2.0 Controller Mode” function must be active (“High Speed”).
Checking USB functionality
Return to the main menu of the AMI BIOS and give the command “Boot - Hard Disk Drives”.
Go to HDD settings
Select the first device (“First Drive”) and assign your flash drive as it.
Go back to the previous submenu and select "Boot Device Priority" boot devices"). Check that the flash drive is first in the list of disks.
Return to the main menu, press F10 and save the settings.
Confirm by clicking OK

Setting up startup with Phoenix BIOS

Phoenix BIOS is a variation of Award BIOS - but there are still differences. The settings here are much simpler and more modest than in the Award/AMI BIOS.

After this, the PC will poll the ports for the presence of a flash drive - if the latter has a bootloader with a working copy of Windows, the Windows installation program will start.

Table: instructions for entering different BIOS firmware

The most popular BIOS versions are Award/Phoenix or AMI. If your laptop, tablet or PC is so new and advanced compared to computers of the past, it will most likely run the next generation of “BIOS” - UEFI.

In the BIOS you can find out the characteristics and parameters of the computer, information about the operating system:

Configuring UEFI to boot the computer from a USB drive

Unlike BIOS programs, in which all commands are delimited strictly by keys and their combinations, UEFI has a nice feature - mouse control. You can also use it to access the Internet. When the UEFI firmware starts, it loads the driver for the mouse, and even wireless mice with Nano Receiver technology can work.

But for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth mice you need a full-fledged operating system, and not UEFI firmware - Wi-Fi drivers and Bluetooth have not yet “learned” how to work with the program.

Externally, UEFI is somewhat reminiscent of the Linux/Android OS - the advanced settings are many times richer and more varied than in the BIOS. The BIOS emulation mode has also been preserved - similar to how Windows Command Prompt emulates MS-DOS system, but the teams may not necessarily be “DOS”.

As an example - Asus program UEFI.

To enter UEFI at the beginning of PC startup, press the F2/F4/F7/F10 or Del key - the UEFI interface will open.
This is what the main window of the UEFI interface looks like
Press F7 to enter advanced mode.
Click OK to enter UEFI Advanced Mode
Give the command “Boot - USB Support” and select “Full Initialization”.
Go to the “Boot order from hard drives” item, select “Option No. 1” and assign it the value of a flash drive.
All external and internal media, involved in PC now
To save the setting, press F10 and confirm the request.

How to Install Windows 7 - Step by Step Process

So, having dealt with the settings that go beyond the OS itself, you can start installing Windows. The flash drive must be connected to any USB port.

In versions of Windows 95/98/Me/Se, disk configuration was reduced to actions performed from a floppy disk or CD, on which, in addition to Windows, disk preconfiguration was carried out through MS-DOS OS commands, without any emulators or the Windows command line. The Windows installation itself was controlled by the "Windows Setup Wizard", launched from the winnt.exe startup file from the I386 folder on the Windows CD. However, transferring to external drives and flash drives - and running from them - all this installation package possible in no time.

The Windows 2000/XP version used a self-running customizer to configure the disk, which looked like the BIOS interface. First, the PC driver files were loaded; selection of functions and menus was carried out by pressing keys and their combinations, and not by entering commands, as in MS-DOS. This greatly simplified the Windows installation process - it went according to a pre-planned plan, without the need to manually download drivers and connect external media(CD/DVD drive, USB controllers). From an already working version of Windows, you could also perform an “over-the-top” installation by running the setup.exe file from the CD.

Starting with Windows Vista, disk configuration has moved entirely to a graphical interface. Only the Grub4DOS (or similar) preloader is launched from the flash drive, in which you have a choice between booting the PC from the disk and installing Windows Vist/7/8/8.1/10. Next, control passes to the Windows installer, which immediately downloads the files, and the whole process repeats according to the already familiar pattern. If there is no Grub4DOS bootloader on the flash drive, then after the inscription “Boot from CD/DVD, press any key” (“Boot the computer from a CD/DVD media, press any key” - this inscription may not be there), the Windows bootloader itself starts.

Today's Windows installer is a self-loading “installer” that has the minimum necessary functionality for updating/reinstalling Windows from a copy recorded on a flash drive, as well as for servicing the built-in drive from which Windows itself will work.

Wait for the message “Windows is downloading files” with a progress bar for loading Windows 7 installation files into the PC’s RAM. The Windows 7 Installer file download progress indicator should be complete.
The Windows installer is loaded into RAM for further operation
After the inscription “Starting installation” on a blue background resembling a picture, an invitation to begin the process will appear.
Accept the terms of the license agreement with Microsoft.
The Windows 7 setup application may ask you how to reinstall. To bury past Windows glitches on your PC, select the option final installation Windows.
Do not select the update if you previously had the same version of Windows
You will be prompted to redistribute disk space and re-format drives C: and D:, which you will re-create. After selecting any of them, click the “Disk Setup” link. The “Create”, “Delete” and “Format” links are self-explanatory. The “Expand” function is actually moving the conditional boundary of the section logical drives C:, D: (and the following, if any) - not supported in all versions of Windows; volume extension ( logical drive) it is better to produce on an already installed and completely working system Windows.
Repartition the disk if you decide to change its structure
Once you've finished setting up your disk structure, click Next. The installation of Windows 7 will begin.
The initial stage of installing Windows 7

Errors during installation may include the following:

freezing of the percentage indicator at any stage of the installations, for example, at 99%;
unnecessary reboots, which should not normally occur;
freezing, freezing of the mouse pointer at regular intervals.

This indicates the following problems:

wear of the flash drive, sudden appearance of “broken” or weakened sectors during operation;
the same damage to the hard drive or SSD drive of the PC;
unstable operation of the USB port chip (for example, the flash drive does not have enough power), broken contacts of the USB connector;
unstable work USB bus on the motherboard;
unstable operation of modules random access memory, causing their spontaneous shutdown;
viruses that got onto a flash drive the day before and damaged the Windows installation program (which caused, for example, overloading the processor and RAM).

If everything works smoothly, the result will be a fully completed installation, and Windows system will start with internal disk, as it should be.

The installer loads and saves the configuration of the installed copy of Windows 7

Normally, the installation process takes from 10 minutes to an hour, depending on the performance of the PC or gadget.

Video: How to install Windows 7 and key device drivers

Installing drivers

So, you have found the drivers and checked if they are compatible with Windows 7. So, for example, samsung laptop R60Y+, whose sales peaked in 2008, when it was popular Windows Vista allows you to install the drivers included on a separate DVD on Windows 7.

The driver, which did not work when trying to start the installation from the main “setup.exe” file on the CD, is installed as follows.

Via dispatcher Windows devices. When manually searching for system SYS or INI files in the Add Hardware Wizard, you can specify the path on the disk. Devices previously listed as unknown will be installed, and Windows will prompt you to restart your PC.
By running the auxiliary files setup/install.exe located in the “x32” subfolder (or “x64”, the folder name depends on the bitness of the PC and the version of Windows) from the folder with the files of this driver. If none of the downloaded drivers “worked” through setup.exe, then after going through the contents of all downloaded folders and archives, and even system folder C:\Windows\ , you can still succeed.

The Windows 8/8.1/10 system, which works successfully on laptops less than 10 years old due to their good performance, already contains all the main drivers - for example, network LAN devices and Wi-Fi will work the first time Windows startup. In exceptional cases, only video and sound card drivers may be required - without a sound card driver the microphone and sound input of the PC will not work, and without a video driver the connection external monitors via HDMI will not be available.

Manual method

For example, you need to install a Bluetooth driver. You manually rummaged through the contents of the disk, downloaded many different versions of drivers and, break and their folders, you can already guess where there may be versions of files that you could not register manually.

Reconnect bluetooth module, the driver for which has not yet been installed.
In the dialog box that appears, select driver installation.
Select search and install driver
Choose to install without searching the Internet.
Do not choose to search for a driver on the Internet
The wizard will prompt you to insert a disc - refuse to install from the disc.
If the disc was never inserted, select installation not from the disc
Select the option to search for a driver on this PC.
Don't choose to find a solution to the problem
Using the Browse button, select the folder where you think the driver files you are looking for may be located.
Enter the exact file address and click OK
If the found driver files are fully compatible with your device, the latter will be installed immediately.
Windows 7 has detected that the file version is fully compatible with this device
The Windows 7 system will report successful installed device, restart your PC.
Click the close installation wizard button

Video: how to install a driver on an unknown device

After installing Windows 7 and drivers, the best step would be to create your own ISO image (assembly) of the operating system - everything that you have been looking for for so long and with such difficulty found and installed would be recorded in it. Great job!