Creating a bootable thumb drive and booting your PC or Laptop using USB flash drive is a very common and easy way to install any OS, now a days. And few notepads are even built without CD/DVD ROM/RW, that system has to boot from USB thumb drive, in case you want to install new OS or repair the existing OS. However, Windows 8 Release Preview version is available on the Microsoft website and you can download the ISO image of Windows 8 Release Preview version for both 32-bit and 64-bit system. Now, the problem is when you want to install Windows 8 Release Preview version, you need to write the image into the disk and then you will be able to use it. And for the system, which is not provided with the CD/DVD ROM, will be in trouble, as it has no choice other than to create bootable USB flash drive. Moreover, in case of thumb drives, you can reuse the thumb drive by erasing or formatting the setup files but in case of optical disk other than rewritable disks, you can not reuse the disk for any other purpose. [Also view: Recover Any Deleted File or Folder From Any Hard Drive or Thumb Drive.]
Microsoft, itself has developed an application called Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool, to create bootable Thumb drive or DVD. The application is free of cost and can be downloaded from the Microsoft’s website. All you need, is to download the ISO image of Windows 8 Release Preview version, from Microsoft’s website along with the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool application. Now, install Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool, into your existing operating system and then run the installed application to create bootable Thumb drive or DVD.
How to create bootable thumb drive of Windows 8 Release Preview version or Windows 7 using Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool ?
Download the ISO image of Windows 8 Release Preview version and setup file of Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Then install Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool, into your system. Run the installed application of Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. [Also View: Secure or Lock Your Files and Folders–A Free Windows Apps.]
1. At first you will be asked to choose the ISO file of Windows 7 or 8. In the source file field, select the source ISO image file of Windows 8 Release Preview and then click Next button.
2. Then you will be asked to choose the media type, you may select DVD, if you want to create bootable DVD of Windows 8 Release Preview. Else select USB, in case you want to create bootable Thumb Drive.
3. As we are discussing about creating bootable Thumb Drive, so we prefer to select the USB device option. Now you will be asked to select the appropriate removable drive. If you still not have inserted the thumb drive, then insert the drive and click on the refresh button, and then select the appropriate drive and then click on the begin copying button.
Then the copying of the setup file will begin and wait for few minutes till the copying is completed. Once the copying is completed, your Windows 8 Release Preview version bootable thumb drive is ready for use. Now boot your system using the bootable thumb drive, by restarting your system and selecting the first bootable drive as USB Thumb drive from the system BIOS or by selecting USB Thumb drive as the boot drive by pressing F8 key while system start (It may be different for different Motherboards, in general F8 key is used to select the boot drive while system start).
That’s it, your Windows 8 Release Preview version bootable thumb drive is ready to use. The same software can also be used to create bootable Microsoft Windows 7 thumb drive, if you have or can create the ISO image of Windows 7 bootable disk. However there are lot other third party applications to create bootable thumb drive for Windows, Linux and other operating systems, but Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool has both the features to create bootable thumb drive as well as write the bootable image into the disk, you need not have to install any optical disk writing software to write the image into the disk. Thus Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool is a great tool to create bootable thumb drive or DVD, of your own.
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