Step Three: Extract the Windows 7 ISO file Head over to and click on the WinRAR 3.80 link to download the software.
I promise this will be the only third-party software that you’ll have to download and install, though, and it’s a great program to have on your computer anyway if you don’t already. I hate guides that make me go download a bunch of software just to accomplish a task, so I apologize for making you do the same thing. The download might take a while depending on your connection speed – set aside an hour to be on the safe side. For the sake of this exercise, we’ll assume that you’ll download the ISO file to your desktop. Head over to and jump through all the hoops to begin your download. It’s all pretty easy once you get going, so let’s begin.
I found a SanDisk Cruzer Contour worked best, while a Kingston DataTraveler was a bit fidgety at first but worked after a couple of tries. The only tangible thing you’ll need is a USB thumb drive with at least 4GB of capacity.
There are plenty of great tutorials out there that basically contain the same information as this one, but I thought I’d try to put together a how-to guide that made everything as simple as possible for people who might like the idea of Windows on a thumb drive but aren’t necessarily super comfortable with the actual process. Creating a bootable USB thumb drive with Windows 7 loaded onto it is more complicated than it needs to be, but once it’s done it’s a great tool to have. Half of my computers don’t have optical drives and I don’t want to buy an external one.ģ. I hate waiting for DVDs to burn ISO images.Ģ. I’ve been playing with Windows 7 Beta for a the past week or so and after loading it up on multiple machines I’ve learned a few things:ġ.
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