How-To: Windows 7 Thumb Drive
Elevate a command prompt and do the following
- :> diskpart
- :> list disk
- Find the disk ID of the thumb drive (Disk1, Disk2 etc.), this will be X.
- :> select X
- clean
- create partition primary
- format fs=ntfs quick
- assign
- active
- exit
Now take the Win7 install media and extract it locally, there will be a "boot" folder under wherever you extracted it, go back to your elevated command prompt and type: <pathtobootfolder>\bootsect.exe /nt60 $:
$: is the drive letter assigned to your thumbdrive during the preparation stage.
You should now have a bootable, installable, USB thumb drive.
Service Manager 7.11: Command Line Options
Don't ask me why I'm posting this here, Service Manager is one of the worst written things I've ever used, and I use App-V. No surprise it's written in Java. The developers need to be drawn and quartered.
-silent
-options-record <answer file>
-options <answer file>
For a silent default install just use -silent, for one that uses the answer file, just do -option AND -silent.
Ugh.