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Windows 7 will not boot from USB

Bloodyvalley
By Bloodyvalley
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Been trying to fix this shit all day... Just built a PC and it will not boot into the USB drive (16GB). I put a Windows 7.iso (Home Premium) onto the FAT32 formatted drive (initially, I was using NTFS but that wasn't working so I formatted it to FAT32). I looked at the USB drive on an old Windows XP PC and I saw that it did not recognize the .iso file, it appeared to be compressed with WinRAR. However, on my sister's laptop (Macbook air), it shows .iso. 

 

 

Any ideas why it isn't working?

 

 

Specs of the new PC: 

-Samsung 850 120GB

-Seagate 1TB

-i5 4440

-ASRock H97 Anniversary 

 

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Use rufus and create a bootable USB drive, make sure that your boot priorities on the PC are set correctly or mash F8 on startup and choose the USB drive. This should work.

 

o yeah make sure that the usb is inserted @ a usb 2.0 port not a usb 3.0 because it will give driver error :)

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no luck

 

did you make the usb to boot? did you only placed the iso on the usb to boot it up?  you need to have a usb boot partition or it will not boot. it will only detect storage if it has no boot selection partition.

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did you make the usb to boot? did you only placed the iso on the usb to boot it up?  you need to have a usb boot partition or it will not boot. it will only detect storage if it has no boot selection partition.

it's alright guys, I'm home now, brought the computer w/ me, I'll figure it out, thanks though

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