Bootable installation USB key

Dracula28

According to the training kit, the USB key must be formatted with FAT32. but according to sevenforums it can be formatted with NTFS.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html

Also, is really all you have to do, is to create an active partition on a 4GB+ UFD and copy all the files from the DVD to the UFD? Because I tried that, and it would not work on a laptop that has the capability to boot from UFD.

Diskpart
Select UFD
clean
create partition primary
format fs=fat32 quick
active
exit

copied all files from the dvd to the UFD. Just like its written in the training kit. I'll try this in a lab later (have to concentrate on the more important parts at the moment) but does anyone have experience creating bootable win 7 installation UFD?

Hyper-Me

Thats all ive ever done. Format fat32, active, assign, copy files over from DVD. (make sure its all of them, there might be some hidden ones).

Dracula28

Thanks.

Hyper-Me

Oh, make sure you do this from a Vista or Win7 box. Diskpart in XP doesnt recognize USB devices.