Hello Everyone,
I am completely at a loss at how to proceed. Installing OS's is not something I am new to, and this should be a fairly simple process. However, the fact that my laptop does not have an optical drive complicated things a bit, but even then, the steps are pretty clear.
I have a working copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a CD-ROM, and I used it to successfully install Windows 7 on my MBP using BootCamp. I am confident that the issue is not with my copy of Windows. I have a SanDisk Cruzer Blade Firebird 8GB flash drive, and it is what I will be using to create a bootable flash drive.
The first thing I tried was to format the flash drive using command prompt with the NTFS file system. And used the xcopy command to copy the contents from the CD to the Flash Drive. My BIOS settings are already set with USB as top priority. When I restarted my computer with the USB plugged in, it did not boot from USB.
I then re-formatted the USB drive, and this time used third-party software to create the bootable disk. I use WinToFlash, and copied the contents of the CD to the USB and that did no work either.
Again, I re-formatted the USB drive, and used Rufus instead. This time I created an .ISO image from the CD, and then used Rufus to create the bootable USB from the disk image. Again, I restart my Satellite with the USB in the port, and it does not boot from the USB drive.
Also, I have tried to simply run the "Setup.exe" file on the flash drive, but that gives me an error code 0x80070490, claiming that it cannot find a location to store temporary files, although the USB has plenty of space.
I have been at this since yesterday, and I am starting to lose hope/patience. What can be the problem? Is the USB drive unable to be used as a bootable drive? Is there a problem with my BIOS?
Please, any help would be greatly appreciated!
I am completely at a loss at how to proceed. Installing OS's is not something I am new to, and this should be a fairly simple process. However, the fact that my laptop does not have an optical drive complicated things a bit, but even then, the steps are pretty clear.
I have a working copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a CD-ROM, and I used it to successfully install Windows 7 on my MBP using BootCamp. I am confident that the issue is not with my copy of Windows. I have a SanDisk Cruzer Blade Firebird 8GB flash drive, and it is what I will be using to create a bootable flash drive.
The first thing I tried was to format the flash drive using command prompt with the NTFS file system. And used the xcopy command to copy the contents from the CD to the Flash Drive. My BIOS settings are already set with USB as top priority. When I restarted my computer with the USB plugged in, it did not boot from USB.
I then re-formatted the USB drive, and this time used third-party software to create the bootable disk. I use WinToFlash, and copied the contents of the CD to the USB and that did no work either.
Again, I re-formatted the USB drive, and used Rufus instead. This time I created an .ISO image from the CD, and then used Rufus to create the bootable USB from the disk image. Again, I restart my Satellite with the USB in the port, and it does not boot from the USB drive.
Also, I have tried to simply run the "Setup.exe" file on the flash drive, but that gives me an error code 0x80070490, claiming that it cannot find a location to store temporary files, although the USB has plenty of space.
I have been at this since yesterday, and I am starting to lose hope/patience. What can be the problem? Is the USB drive unable to be used as a bootable drive? Is there a problem with my BIOS?
Please, any help would be greatly appreciated!