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4 Free Tools To Create Bootable Windows 7/Vista/XP USB Flash Pen Drives

Posted August 30, 2009 – 9:01 am in: Windows 7
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Earlier we have shown you how to install Windows 7 using bootable USB/flash/pen drive and also how to create only a bootable USB.

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As many users are asking us an easier way to create bootable USB to reduce the task that we have covered in install windows 7 from USB guide (which uses command prompt), we have compiled a list of utilities that help you create a bootable USB in a few minutes.

 

There might be some paid tools that help to create a bootable USB, but these tools are really helpful as one can create a bootable USB in a few steps. All these utilities are absolutely free to download and use.

 

1. Unebootin: This is the best and the ultimate tool to create a bootable USB to install Windows 7, Vista, or XP. With this tool one can create a bootable USB pen drive with a single-click. You can follow our how to create bootable Windows 7, Vista, XP USB flash drive with single-click guide to know more.

create bootable windows 7 usb unetbootin

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2. A bootable USB: Making a bootable USB is very easy with a bootable USB compared the long command prompt approach. The only catch is that this tool doesn’t work with Windows XP.

a bootable usb

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3. WinToFlash: WinToFlash is another fantastic freeware to install Windows 7, Vista and XP from USB flash drive. Even WinToFlash also consumes very less time to make a bootable Windows USB drive.

wintoflash

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4. Make USB Disk Bootable: According to the developer of Make USB Disk Bootable tool, this tool supports & works fine on Windows XP only. So, use this tool to create a bootable XP only. This uses the HP USB Dos format tool to make the disk bootable.

mkboot

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21 Comments

  1. killester
    Posted September 13, 2009 at 6:38 am | Permalink

    fukin awesome softwares….even better than comand prompt…hahaha

    by the way i used the first one which is best among all 4.

    now i can install winows 7 very easily…for free…lol

  2. Test b4 posting
    Posted September 28, 2009 at 12:23 am | Permalink

    You should test these softwares before you do copy and paste reviews.

    Unebootin does not seem to work for XP bootable. Tried Fat and NTFS system.

    It works with windows 7,make sure you you format usb drive using NTFS, not tried vista yet.

    Also remember Uinebootin requires ISO file, while some of the others needs DVD exctracted files.

  3. Stee W
    Posted October 16, 2009 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

    This arctile helped greatly! Thanks!!

  4. Gaurav Karmakar
    Posted September 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm | Permalink

    LOL! Why Should Someone Use Any Software At All To Make A Windows7 Bootable Flash Drive / USB HDD? Just Make The Partition Active (Use Diskpart tool of windows) and Extract The Whole Windows7 ISO Into That Active Partition. Keep The Drive Plugged, Enter the BIOS and Select It As Your 1st Hard Disk if There is No Option To Boot From USB Drive, save and exit. After Restarting Windows 7 Setup Will Start To Load. I do this all the time as a hardware engineer. Never seen this method failed me. One more thing I should mention here; Installing Windows7 from a USB 2.0 Drive into a decent system takes almost 12 minutes in average. ENJOY….For Windows XP I Use WinToFlash, The Best Tool Around For This Job.

  5. karan bhatta
    Posted September 28, 2010 at 11:03 am | Permalink

    This type of tool should help to make bootable for all kind of windows

  6. marco
    Posted November 9, 2010 at 9:12 pm | Permalink

    ONLY ONE WORD THE BEST THANKS FOR THIS GUIDE

  7. dave
    Posted December 30, 2010 at 12:40 am | Permalink

    im trying to great a multie flash usb drive, this is what i want to do if anyone knows how.
    i want it to boot into dos with a menue consisting of a number of different programs. im stuck ived tried partitioning drive to have multiple drives but only the primary is shown in windows enviroment.
    now im looking into this option,
    i want to beable to choose between using hirens software and spinrite allso active boot disk creator there all dos programs.dont know how to creat a script somthing like this
    1.run active boot drive
    2.run hirens
    3.run spinrite

    run [ ]

  8. The Hong
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 2:09 pm | Permalink
  9. raj
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 11:24 pm | Permalink

    i like thjs sofware

  10. SD Formater
    Posted February 26, 2011 at 7:12 am | Permalink

    why i tried everything on my r4i but nothing happened please help me

  11. sourav
    Posted April 20, 2011 at 6:48 pm | Permalink

    Thanks man…

  12. MANO
    Posted May 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm | Permalink

    thanks……
    u r doing good job…….

  13. NITIN KUMAR
    Posted August 27, 2011 at 11:12 pm | Permalink

    thanks alot. very good software. it helps me to reduce tthe efforts of collecting cd/dvd of windows. now we have the power in single instrument. works great. keep it up dude.

  14. baba
    Posted September 13, 2011 at 8:16 pm | Permalink

    GOOD WORK. GOD BLESS U. KEEP IT UP

  15. imran
    Posted April 11, 2012 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

    hi how are you plz instal win to flash

  16. atiqur rahman
    Posted April 25, 2012 at 1:40 pm | Permalink

    i need this software. thanks!

  17. Sandokhan
    Posted May 8, 2012 at 10:23 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for this wonderful post. I’m using Unetbootin right now to make a USB image

  18. prit6655
    Posted August 11, 2012 at 3:07 pm | Permalink

    nicesoftware

  19. vern
    Posted October 12, 2012 at 2:05 am | Permalink

    A Bootable USB failed to produce a bootable usb when run on a 32-bit xp machine with the source being a microsoft iso file for 64-bit windows7. It went through the motions and produced a key, but when I tried to load it on a target 64-bit machine, it failed with NT LOADER MISSING. I also tried to use it running on a 64-bit windows7 machine, but it hangs immediately when you try to browse for an iso file or folder. I was using version 9.6.508

    So, if any one has had success with 64 bit machines, please post here.

    vern

  20. vern
    Posted October 12, 2012 at 4:39 am | Permalink

    I tried wintoflash and it worked well running on a 64-bit win7 machine and using a copy of a Dell Win7-64-bit install files as input. Booted right up. Tomorrow I will try to do the same thing while running on my XP-32 bit machine using the same files as input. thanks for tell me about wintoflash.

  21. Jim in Florida
    Posted March 3, 2013 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

    NOTE: WinToFlash now requires a last-step click-to-install search toolbar or you cannot get the utility. They don’t tell you that up front. You can cancel the download, however, which I did.

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