Having trouble booting from USB

[WesternGenius]

I have built a new system, and i have the Maximus formula vi mobo. I'm trying to install windows 7 from USB and somehow i can't; in bios i selected boot priority to UEFI usbname but once i restart it goes to a black screen for a few seconds with the prompt just blinking and then going back to bios. I've also tried to go into 'ez mode' and simply boot from the usbname without the UEFI in front of it. The USB is fat 32 format with the contents of the extracted windows 7 iso. Any ideas?

[FruitBasketSilex]

I have built a new system, and i have the Maximus formula vi mobo. I'm trying to install windows 7 from USB and somehow i can't; in bios i selected boot priority to UEFI usbname but once i restart it goes to a black screen for a few seconds with the prompt just blinking and then going back to bios. I've also tried to go into 'ez mode' and simply boot from the usbname without the UEFI in front of it. The USB is fat 32 format with the contents of the extracted windows 7 iso. Any ideas?

Try a different drive, some Dont like to be booted from.

[Teqq]

Is the usb bootable?

[WesternGenius]

Im not entirely sure, this is he only drive i have is there a way of making it bootable?

[rentaspoon]

See if there is a non uefi option I had the issue where it was looking for a uefi USB HDD when I changed it to USB HDD it worked fine

[Teqq]

Im not entirely sure, this is he only drive i have is there a way of making it bootable?

there are programs that can do it for you

[dragoon20005]

microsoft provides a USB tool

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

 

download the program

 

located your Windows 7 ISO and make sure your thumbdrive is at least 8GB

 

it will format the drive and load the Win 7 ISO and convert it to become bootable

 

make sure you use only USB 2.0 ports as the USB 3.0 ports will only work with the chipset drivers installed after Windows is installed