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Win7 Bootable Thumbdrive Error

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I have a spare Win7 Home Premium license key sitting around, so I bought a 128GB USB 3.0 drive yesterday and tried to install Windows to it last night. I successfully mounted the ISO to the drive, but then when I booted to the drive to install windows it said that there were no drivers so it wouldn't let me finish the install. This is my first attempt at making a bootable USB drive so I'm not entirely sure where to go from here. Any tips?

 

EDIT: This is regarding Windows 7 everyone. NOT Windows 10.

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Is this Win7 or Win10? Also where is the ISO from and how did you make it?

It's a Win7 Home Premium license key that I want to make into a portable OS for when I will have to eventually fix all my family's and friend's borked computers, and if I can upgrade it to Win10 even better. I don't remember the exact name of the site where I got the ISO, but it was linked through the "How-To" guide that I was following, and I mounted it to the USB drive using Power ISO.

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Use this to create one for win 10 :D 

It's a Win7 key that I have right now...

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Maybe you can't install W10 with a USB 3.0, look if your MB allows that.

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Maybe you can't install W10 with a USB 3.0, look if your MB allows that.

I'm not trying to install it to my computer from the USB drive, I am wanting to install it on the USB drive so that I have a portable OS to boot to when diagnosing borked computers. And it's Windows 7 not Windows 10. Nowhere in the OP did I say I was installing Windows 10....

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I'm not trying to install it to my computer from the USB drive, I am wanting to install it on the USB drive so that I have a portable OS to boot to when diagnosing borked computers. And it's Windows 7 not Windows 10. Nowhere in the OP did I say I was installing Windows 10....

Well mate, the title says Win10...

 

I think I found your issue http://lifehacker.com/how-to-run-a-portable-version-of-windows-from-a-usb-dri-1565509124

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Well mate, the title says Win10...

 

I think I found your issue http://lifehacker.com/how-to-run-a-portable-version-of-windows-from-a-usb-dri-1565509124

The forum must have had a delayed refresh or maybe it was my crappy internet connection. I had already edited the title but I guess it didn't change right away. My bad.

 

I'll see about trying that tonight, but I don't know that it'll fix the issue. I mounted the ISO using Microsoft's instructions. I can boot to the USB just fine and the Win7 installer starts and loads just fine, but then it tells me there are no drivers. I should need drivers to install Windows, so that's what I'm trying to figure out for working around.

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It's a Win7 Home Premium license key that I want to make into a portable OS for when I will have to eventually fix all my family's and friend's borked computers, and if I can upgrade it to Win10 even better. I don't remember the exact name of the site where I got the ISO, but it was linked through the "How-To" guide that I was following, and I mounted it to the USB drive using Power ISO.

Just realized you can use your Win7 key to activate Win10, so go ahead and install Win10 instead of upgrading later. Use this ISO (or any one you feel like honestly) and make it into a mountable USB drive using Rufus. Not sure if your method will work the same way.

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Just realized you can use your Win7 key to activate Win10, so go ahead and install Win10 instead of upgrading later. Use this ISO (or any one you feel like honestly) and make it into a mountable USB drive using Rufus. Not sure if your method will work the same way.

When did they change that? Because the last time I looked into it MS said that you could not just use a Win 7 or 8 key to activate 10, you had to install the correct version and then do the upgrade....

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