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.