How to copy OEM (ASUS) Windows 7 onto a bootable USB Drive?

I have tried those "How to install Windows 7 from an USB stick" Tutorials online, but they don't work with my ASUS Windows 7 Disk. Also tried WinToFlash, doesn't like the ASUS's disk.

Anyone know a way ?

Thanks!

 

Download unetbootin-windows.

Use that program to extract the ISO image of your disk onto the USB drive, it will also make it bootable.

That should work.

 

Asus W7 recovery is an OEM-only license disc. You can't take this image and use it to install W7 on another system; if it works, it's software piracy.

Just use the DVD or your recovery partition (even faster) on the HDD to reinstall.

 

I am trying to install it into my ASUS Laptop, but my laptop has no DVD drive, thus I'm trying to make a bootable image on a USB drive on my desktop w/ a drive. The reason I dont want to use the recovery partition is because it still has Asus's bloatware.

 

Oem and regular win7 dvd/iso only differs with the integrated oem serial and license file.
With 2 windows command any regular win7 install can be converted in to oem activated.
Google helps.

 

If they are like the Asus recovery disks I've seen, they don't even use the Windows Setup program. Rather they use a proprietary setup program. So just a few changes isn't going to do it.

Theoretically, it should be possible to take the DVD and transfer the files to the USB and boot it. You gotta make sure you get all the files.

 

I was never able to bootup on my G60Vx via USB for some reason (even though the USB drive was made bootable).

The Asus Recovery DVDs also include the same "bloatware". They automatically install your computer back to the exact state it came with. Same drivers, same Anti-virus crap, etc etc.

In my case, I installed W7 onto my SSD and the W7 setup actually partially failed. It installed Windows, but not any drivers at all. I had to boot into a barest Windows (800x600 resolution) and proceed to install Chipset drivers and everything from the driver DVD itself.

 

Install setup ones make hdd image use boot cd to restore it automatically.
Yep the easy oem recovery way reason they wipe the hdd in the process
Basic meaning of prev. post was just get a win7 install dvd, use google how to convert it to usbstick installer, and oem it yourself using google.

 

Dang really, because my Dell Recovery disk was a clean windows with no bloatware. The Asus laptop I just bought came with 2 discs, 1 Windows Recovery and 2 Driver/Utilities, so I was assuming that the ASUS Windows Recovery disk should be a clean install.

 

You assumed correctly. The 1st disc is just Win7, the second is all the asus provided drivers, utilities and bloatware. If you restore from that 1st dvd and reboot when it askes for the drivers disc, you'll have a 'clean' Win7 install.

However, as appropriate to the discussion here, that 1st dvd isn't the stock Microsoft provided Win7 install disc... its a customized Asus installer that provides the same thing, however, as long as you don't feed it the 2nd driver dvd.

The advice provided above should work if you want to make the bootable USB stick: simply get a copy of Windows 7 RTM and make it OEM with tools provided on the net. All the info you need can be googled as its probably not a great idea to talk about any of it here. Why? Because, even though you have a valid license (I assume), the process we're talking about lives in a pretty gray area.

 

Thanks, I'll look into this I was just hoping to make the Asus's Recovery disk bootable through USB.

 

Sorry, didn't mean to discourage you from that particular question as indeed it may be possible. Unfortunately I can't help with that one but maybe someone else still can. Its the other method, converting a standard Win7 RTM disc into an oem version that I was cautioning about (and could work for what you want to do).

I hope someone can help you better.

 

Do you have it in a .iso?

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/12/-the-usb-flash-drive.ars

http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe

Straight from Microsoft.

 

I just tried it, it doesn't work. It doesn't like my (ASUS's Recovery Disk) .iso file.

 

Did you try what I said before:

 

Yes I tried that too... doesn't work either. I made the ISO and select that to be copied onto the USB, everything went okay, but when I try to boot from the USB, it displays the unetbootin menu and doesn't do anything.

 

If that doesn't work, find a program like 7-zip to open the .iso file to view its contents and follow the guide below:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/12/-the-usb-flash-drive.ars/2

Diskpart is how I made my flash drives bootable.