Windows To Go (WTG) is an enterprise feature of Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows 8.1 Enterprise, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Windows 10 Education. This means that you have the ability to create a Windows To Go USB drive for Windows 10/8.1/8 by using Microsoft's official tool Windows To Go Creator Wizard, unfortunately, Windows To Go Creator Wizard doesn't support creating Windows 7 To Go USB drive. For some special reasons, there are still many users eager to be able to create a Windows 7 To Go to accomplish some special work. Is this possible? Yes, WinToUSB is designed specially to create Windows To Go USB drive. With it, you can not only create a Windows 10/8.1/8 To Go USB drive, but also create a Windows 7 To Go USB drive easily.
Tutorial to create a Windows 7 To Go USB drive with WinToUSB.
Create Windows 7 Bootable USB on Mac #1: DD Command in Terminal. Mac is built on Unix kernel fundamentally so all tasks being done in GUI interface can be done via plain text command. This also applies to create Windows 7 bootable USB on Mac. However, there are several commands combined in order to do this successfully. Create Bootable USB for Mac on Windows 10, Mac and Windows file system is completely different, so you are not able to create bootable USB for Mac with PowerShell, CMD or Rufus.If you remembered, till MacOS sierra the Apple file system was Hackintosh, but MacOS 10.13 High Sierra has the technology of Apple Filesystem. That’s why we can’t create bootable USB with Windows tools. Create Bootable USB for Mac on Windows 10, Mac and Windows file system is completely different, so you are not able to create bootable USB for Mac with PowerShell, CMD or Rufus. If you remembered, till MacOS sierra the Apple file system was Hackintosh, but MacOS 10.13 High Sierra has the technology of Apple Filesystem. That’s why we can’t. At the Create Bootable USB Drive for Windows Installation step, choose the Windows ISO image and the USB drive, then click Continue. The Windows files are copied to the USB drive. This process may take a long time to complete (you can click the Stop button to interrupt this process). When the computer restarts after bootcamp finishes, insert the bootable windows 7 USB into the mac when the screen is black, and then hold down the C key as soon as you hear the mac turning on sound. This command tells the mac to boot from USB.
Step 1. Connect the USB drive to the computer, then run WinToUSB.
Win 7 Usb Formatter
Step 2. Click the button in the left side of the main window, then click the button and select the Windows 7 installation ISO file from the open dialog box.
Step 3. WinToUSB scans for and lists installable operating systems in the Windows 7 installation ISO. Please select the edition of Windows you want to install, then click 'Next'.
Step 4. Select the destination disk in the drop-down list. If your USB drive is not correctly recognized by WinToUSB, you need to click the button for the program to recognize the USB drive.
Step 5. A pop-up will appear asking you if you want to format it to continue, select the partition scheme you want to use and click 'Yes' to format it. If you choose 'Keep the existing partition scheme', you need to manually prepare the partitions on the USB drive before this step, and here is the user guide on how to manually prepare partitions for Windows To Go. Please note that the 'Keep the existing partition scheme' option is valid only for an external disk.
Step 7. Select the boot partition and system partition from the partition list, the selected partitions will be marked as red, then click 'Next'.
Step 8. After clicking 'Next', WinToUSB begins installing Windows 7 to the USB drive.
Step 9. It takes some time to install Windows 7 to USB drive. After installation restart the computer and change BIOS to boot from your USB drive. Windows 7 normal installation starts up and you have to complete all the installation steps. After that, you can install programs, copy files, etc.
With the powerful functions and straightforward user interface, you can install Windows 7 to a USB drive and run Windows 7 from that USB drive easily. I have to say that WinToUSB is the best tool to create Windows 7 To Go USB drive.