Flash Drive Unbootable

[JiaShu no Chinese Allowed]

Hi all!

So this is my second post of the day

 

After I download the ISO for windows 7 64-bit trial through Digital River, and Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool, I begin copying the content into my flash drive. However, when the download tool finishes copying the content, it says the flash driver is unbootable. And sure enough the driver cannot boot even after I select the flash drive to be boot priority. I try many methods suggested on the internet and  I find one a software people say on the other forum called "bootsect utility," which they say it's included in the DVD that I don't have. What are the necessary steps to make the driver bootable?

 

Thanks!

[miyabwah]

Did you format the USB Drive using a formatting tool?

[JiaShu no Chinese Allowed]

Yes, the flash drive formatted through command prompt into NTFS (by the way what is NTFS?)

[acidydragon]

It isnt a big deal! I've never had it work to make it bootable.

So what you need to do, is go into the BIOS on boot, and go to your boot selector thingy (Where It lets you select what you boot from) and select the UEFI Flash drive.

[Bluejay0]

Try and select through BIOS

 

Helping cuz gundam

[T.Vengeance]

Try using USB 2.0 if you plugged it into USB 3.0.

[Flyguygamer]

Yes, the flash drive formatted through command prompt into NTFS (by the way what is NTFS?)

It is better to use fat32. Here is a video Linus did on it. 

[JiaShu no Chinese Allowed]

So I format the flash drive into fat32, put the installation content into the flash drive, and change the boot priority onto removable drive via BIOS, and still the computer did not recognize the flash drive and go straight into the windows. Help please TAT, is it because of the flash I use, which is 3 years old Transcend with 4GB storage? Or somewhere else goes wrong, please help!

[Analog]

It isnt a big deal! I've never had it work to make it bootable.

So what you need to do, is go into the BIOS on boot, and go to your boot selector thingy (Where It lets you select what you boot from) and select the UEFI Flash drive.

 

This ^^. It happens to me 1 out of 2 time when I install Windows 7 and I just do as @acidydragon says. It works every time.