Installing Windows 7 from a USB stick

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I found the steps from the below article:

https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/

Make sure your USB stick is big enough to accomodate the Windows 7 installation bits. And here below is the summary of steps and output on my own machine:

 

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7054

Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.

On computer: MY-PC

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

  -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---

  Disk 0 Online 37 GB 0 B

  Disk 1 Online 189 GB 5120 KB

  Disk 2 Online 15320 MB 0 B

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> clean

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> create partition primary

DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

DISKPART> select partition 1

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> active

DiskPart marked the current partition as active.

DISKPART> format fs=ntfs

  100 percent completed

DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.

DISKPART> assign

DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

C:\Windows\system32>e: (E: drive is where the Windows 7 installation bits are located)

E:\>cd boot

E:\boot>dir

 Volume in drive E is GRC1CULFRER_EN_DVD

 Volume Serial Number is F0D7-C053

 Directory of E:\boot

03/22/2009 08:37 PM <DIR> .

03/22/2009 08:37 PM <DIR> ..

03/22/2009 08:37 PM 262,144 bcd

03/22/2009 08:37 PM 3,170,304 boot.sdi

03/22/2009 08:37 PM 1,024 bootfix.bin

03/22/2009 08:37 PM 97,280 bootsect.exe

03/22/2009 08:37 PM <DIR> en-us

03/22/2009 08:37 PM 4,096 etfsboot.com

03/22/2009 08:37 PM <DIR> fonts

03/22/2009 08:37 PM 484,928 memtest.exe

               6 File(s) 4,021,240 bytes

  4 Dir(s) 0 bytes free

E:\boot>bootsect.exe /NT60 G:

Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

G: (\\?\Volume{396ea864-1e62-11de-a02a-000c76b0f5c0})

    Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode.

Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.

If "could not be locked" & “Access denied” error happens, try this command: bootsect.exe /NT60 G: /force

Then copy all files from DVD to USB, and there you go!