Installing Windows 7 From USB Stick

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Excellent tutorial! I'll definitely be using this.

 

I need serious help. I installed it, and it's now at the desktop screen. It keeps trying to run Windows Explorer but keeps failing, and won't let me do anything. I'm on another computer right now.

 

Did you get this sorted out?

I haven't seen that type of problem. I did have a hang similar to that, but, then it reverted back to Vista. maybe that is what is happening.

 

Alright the problem is with the explorer.exe process. I kept trying to end it and I guess it finally worked, but now obviously I have no desktop/taskbar/start menu. I got programs running through the task manager, and if I try and open explorer.exe it just keeps failing to work. It will just start, stop running, and try and restart. Every time.

Here's a picture of my computer:



I tried running my computer if safe mode last night and it worked fine, which led me to believe that something in the full mode was interfering with the explorer process, thus making it faulty. Safe mode doesn't even work anymore though, and a lot of other problems seem to be arising now as well.

 

I have never seen that. I used that exact same download to upgrade one of my Vista installs. The only thing I can think of is to boot from the usb stick again and do a repair install. It should fix the problem.

You could also try using windows update to see if there is any drivers that need updating.

 

Just to add I'm not home. I am on my way to Vegas for a conference. Once I land I'll log into my home computer so I have access to the MSN.

 

I was thinking, do I actually need the USB for anything? I think the USB/disk would be needed if you're taking the Windows 7 installation to another computer... but you need it when you're using it on the one you downloaded the .iso for? I guess I shouldn't have ran a beta on my home computer anyway...

As for repair install, could you explain to me what you mean?

 

You can remove the usb stick. In fact it could be causing the problems. Shutdown, remove the usb and then reboot.

 

I've had the usb removed from the start.

The "repair install" is this?

 

YouTube - Windows 7 explorer.exe error

 

I think I'll just do a clean install of the RC provided by Microsoft, and see if that fixes things.

 

Hi, when I try to run command prompt as Administrator (Right Click>Run As>Administrator)
It says the service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.




Im using XP Professional SP3

EDIT: Ok, I got diskpart to work, but it doesn't show my flash drive. Any help?

 

You need to do this from in Windows Vista. There is another way to it with XP and I haven't had time to write up that one.

 

Oh ok.
But don't worry, I won't need the XP guide, I got it installed by mounting it and running it