{"id":4216,"date":"2012-05-28T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2012-05-25T21:21:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T11:21:53","slug":"making-bootable-windows-installation-usb-sticks-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/making-bootable-windows-installation-usb-sticks-the-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Bootable Windows Installation USB Sticks the Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a quick tip for today.<\/p>\n

Creating a bootable USB stick of a Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation disc used to be quite the black art but there is a much easier way to achieve the same outcome by using a neat little tool from none other than Microsoft.<\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/a>

Windows 7 USB & DVD Download Tool<\/p><\/div>\n

All you need to do is download, \u00a0install and run the Windows 7 USB\/DVD Download Tool<\/a>\u00a0and then follow the wizard. You’ll be prompted to do the following:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Select an ISO file containing the Windows installation disc image,<\/li>\n
  2. Choose the media to which you want to create the image (either USB device or DVD),<\/li>\n
  3. Select which specific device to which you want to copy the image,<\/li>\n
  4. Kick off the process.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Doing this ahead of time can help speed up an unexpected Windows reinstallation if you don’t happen to have a backup of your system and can be potentially quicker than using a DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here’s a quick tip for today. Creating a bootable USB stick of a Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation disc used to be quite the black art but there is a much easier way to achieve the same outcome by using a neat little tool from none other than Microsoft. All you need to do … <\/p>\n

    Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,151,18,155,1374],"tags":[102,2246,171,2278,2361],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-dvd","tag-microsoft","tag-usb","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Windows-Logo.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}