*Find the # of the disk corresponding to your USB stick* Then enter:
Open up CMD.exe as an administrator, then enter the following commands (press enter after each line):.
Note: This will erase everything on the thumb drive.
Note: you can probably just quick format the thumb drive to NTFS, but to be safe, follow the procedure below.
Take a USB 2.0 or 3.0 thumb drive (3.0 recommended) with at least 4GB capacity and plug it in.
Acquire a Windows 7 ISO file, and save it to C:\w7install.
Delete and ‘re-integrate’ the installation partition.
Restart and boot to the installation partition.
Copy all files from the installation USB to this partition.
Using the command prompt from within setup:.
Boot from the USB and “F6” the NVME drivers.
Load a set of NVME drivers onto the installation USB.
Modify those installation files so that setup has ‘native’ driver support for USB 3.0.
Format the USB and copy W7 installation files onto it.
Here’s a brief overview of what we’ll do: When we’re done, you can delete that partition and extend the OS partition to reclaim this space. I’m going to show you how to install Windows 7 with a USB key onto an NVME-based SSD such as the Samsung 950 Pro.Īlong the way, you’ll be creating a bootable installation partition on this SSD.