Windows Installation from Drive

Steps:

  1. Boot Windows installation from USB flash drive.
  2. Press Shift+F10.
  3. In console type diskpart.exe and press enter. In this program execute following:
  • select disk=0. Disk 0 is your destination drive, so be careful, all information on this drive will be removed.
  • create partition primary size=xxx, where xxx – is the size of new partition.
  • select partition=1.
  • active.
  • format fs=ntfs quick.
  • assign.
  • exit, now you have bootable drive C.

Navigate to USB flash drive, in my case: cd d:.

Copy all files from USB drive to C: drive: xcopy d: c: /e /h /k.

Go to boot folder: cd boot.

Make you C: drive bootable with following command: bootsect /nt60 c:.

Put off USB flash drive from computer and restart them.

Install Windows.

Remove unnecessary menu item from bootscreen.

  • Run cmd.exe as Administrator
  • See boot menu list bcdedit
  • Find Windows Setup and copy identifier
  • Run bcdedit /delete {identifier}

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