Bootable flash drive

Drmn4life

Drmn4life

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Hello. im trying to reinstall windows 7 on my friends laptop. it doesn't work, it will either loop or load desktop background, and u cant ctrl alt dlt or any of those commands. its a newer computer so it doesn't come with a windows cd, instead, the stupid thing has a recovery partition built into it, which i think is really stupid. anyways...

so im trying to reinstall the os. i cant burn w7 onto a dvd cuz i have no working dvd burner, and i cant onto a cd due to size of w7. so i decided to do it from a flash drive. i changed the format of the flash drive from fat32 to an ntfs, all the files from w7 recovery or whatever is on the flash drive, but when i plug into my buddy's laptop, it wont load the setup. it says something like "pen drive without operating system, remove pen drive and reboot". im assuming pen drive means the flash drive. but why cant i boot from the device? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, im trying to get this done by thurs if possible. thanks!

KC
 
stop where you are right now. The recovery partition is the best option. It will reinstall the system to an out of the box state. I would do that.

If you have a flashkey and a legal copy of windows 7 OEM that matches the version on the laptop, then you can put it on the flashkey either with YUMI or the microsoft utility and it will boot just as a normal disk would.
 
That's not how the recovery option works. Press F8 before Windows boots and select "Repair Your Computer". Once that loads, cancel the initial scan and choose "Advanced Options" (or something similar) then at the bottom it should have a restore option.
 
thanks guys for the response. i had to contact dell and get a new hdd, apparently there were a lot of bad sectors.
 
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