Install Windows7 on to a Acer Netbook from a USB Flash Drive

This is a How-To for installing Windows7 on to a Acer Netbook from a USB flash drive. 

Requirements:
USB Flash Drive (min 4GB)
Windows 7 DVD or ISO image (32bit)
MBRWizard (download)

Step 1 Extract MBRWizard & Format Flash Drive

Download and Extract MBRWizard on your hard drive.  To simplify things later, copy mbrwiz.exe to your local disk C:\.

Connect your USB Flash Drive to your computer and Format the USB drive.  To Format a USB Flash Drive Go to My Computer >Right click on USB drive and select Format from context menu.

Comments

[Furball_Fidelis]

yep...my friend did the same thing for putting WindowsUltimate on my Atom dual core Asus Netbook...except did it with a SD card...similar concept same results...and a much better OS then Starter...

though had to go back and install the drivers for the netbook...which he already had on a memory card.

[kbhasi]

there's the iso tool for the iso's purchased from microsoft online store, now there is this for your own retail copy :)

[junits15]

why not just put the disc in and boot from that?  i have never seen one of these netbooks,  but is there something im missing about this?

[rjwarpath]

Netbooks do not have a cd-rom drive.

[liteoner]

 That's a bit more complicated than using this store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool. It's made by Microsoft, and fully supported by them.