How to Install Windows 8 From a USB Drive

How to Install Windows 8 From a USB Drive

Now that Windows 8 has hit the RTM stage and Microsoft published the final bits on TechNet and MSDN today, lots of people will be getting it from different places and begin installing it on their computers.
The most used way of installing a operative system today is from USB drives instead of optical media. The most important reason to this is, among others, the speed of installation and how easy it is to maintain your source files up to date. You can save yourself some time by installing from USB.
This article will cover the process of preparing your USB so you can install Windows 7/8 from it.The result will be a USB drive that can be used to install Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Preparing the drive

Open a command-prompt window. You can do this by typing CMD in the Start Menu and pressing Enter afterwards. I use a program called PowerCmd for all my command-line needs, but you can use Windows built-in utility.
Diskpart is a command-line utility already built-in into Windows that allows you do many things with your hard disk and other drives. You can delete/create partitions, format disks, assign drive letter and more.
Type diskpart and the utility will start right away. The list disk command will list all available disks in your system. In my case, the USB drive is listed as number 5.

Make sure you select the correct drive number! You can delete important data by mistake.
 
 
  • Select the correct drive. Type select disk X, where X is your USB drive.

  • Delete all existing partitions on your drive. Type clean.

  • Create a new primary partition. Type create partition primary.

  • Select the new partition to work with. Type select partition 1.

  • Mark the partition as active (bootable). Type active.

  • Format the partition as NTFS. Type format fs=ntfs quick label=”Win8″.

  • Assign a drive letter to your drive. Type assign.

  • Exit Diskpart. Type exit.
 
That’s it. The drive is already formatted and marked as active so you can boot from it.

Copying the instalaltion files

To install Windows from you freshly prepared drive, you need to copy all the contents of the DVD disc or ISO image to your drive. Do it by selecting all files and copy them to the root of your USB drive.

Now you can go and boot from the USB drive to install Windows.

Diskpart commands list

Here are the commands we used in this tutorial. This list can help you as a quick reference.
DISKPART> diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk X
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> create partition primary
DISKPART> select partition 1
DISKPART> active
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick label="Win8"
DISKPART> assign
DISKPART> exit
 

Gateway NE56R Series Drivers for Windows 8.1 (64bit)

Gateway NE56R Series Drivers for Windows 8.1 (64bit)


Gateway NE56R Series Drivers for Windows 8.1 (64bit)

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Vendor
Description
Version
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AHCI
Intel
SATA AHCI Driver
11.5.0.1207
Audio
Realtek
Audio Driver
6.0.1.6657
CardReader
Broadcom
Card Reader Driver
15.4.7.1
Chipset
Intel
Chipset Driver
9.3.0.1021
MgmtEngine
Intel
Intel Management Engine Driver
8.1.0.1263
TouchPad
ELANTECH
Touchpad Driver
11.6.11.002
TouchPad
Synaptics
Touchpad Driver
16.2.10.19
VGA
Intel
VGA Driver
9.17.10.2867
VGA
NVIDIA
VGA Driver
9.18.13.0630
Wireless LAN
Atheros
Wireless LAN Driver
10.0.0.217
Wireless LAN
Realtek
Wireless LAN Driver
2007.3.0821.2012

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Aspire V3-112P Drivers for Win10 (64bit)

Aspire V3-112P Drivers for Win10 (64bit)

Category
Vendor
Description
Version
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Audio
Realtek
Audio Driver
6.0.1.7606
Bluetooth
Atheros
Bluetooth Driver
10.0.1.2
Bluetooth
Broadcom
Bluetooth Driver
12.0.1.653
Chipset
Intel
Chipset Driver
10.1.1.8
DPTF
Intel
Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework
8.1.10603.192
IO Drivers
Intel
Serial IO Driver
604.10135.1001.53001
Lan
Realtek
LAN Driver
10.1.505.2015
MBI
Intel
Sideband Fabric Device Driver
604.10125.2655.573
TXE
Intel
Intel TXE Driver
1.1.0.1064
TouchPad
ELANTECH
Touchpad Driver
13.6.3.1
TouchPad
Synaptics
Touchpad Driver
19.0.7.34
VGA
Intel
VGA Driver
10.18.10.4276
Wireless LAN
Atheros
Wireless LAN Driver
10.0.0.324
Wireless LAN
Broadcom
Wireless LAN Driver
7.35.303.0
Quick Access
Acer
Quick Access Application
2.00.3008

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HP Pavilion g6-2270dx Drivers for Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit)

HP Pavilion g6-2270dx Drivers for Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit)



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IDT High-Definition (HD) Audio Driver
6.10.6425.0
43.3 MB

Driver-Graphics

AMD High-Definition (HD) Graphics Driver
8.982.10.2500
211.8 MB

Driver-Keyboard, Mouse and Input Devices

HP Wireless Button Driver
1.0.6.1
2.7 MB
Synaptics TouchPad Driver
16.5.3.3
136.3 MB

Driver-Network

Broadcom Wireless LAN Driver
6.30.59.49
24.5 MB
Qualcomm Atheros AR9000 Series Wireless LAN Driver
1.00
33.1 MB
Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth 4.0+HS Driver
1.00
180.6 MB
Ralink 802.11 Wireless LAN Adapter
5.0.5.0
31.9 MB
Ralink Bluetooth Software Driver
9.2.10.24
84.7 MB
Realtek Local Area Network (LAN) Driver
8.3.730.2012
5.9 MB

Driver-Storage

Realtek Card Reader Driver
6.2.8400.29029
17.3 MB

Software-Multimedia

Cyberlink YouCam Software
5.0.1.3202
138.7 MB

Software-Solutions

HP CoolSense Technology
2.10.51
6.4 MB
HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
4.2.9.1
9.6 MB

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