How do I get the Windows 7 installer onto a USB drive?

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Published on 2010-04-18T01:11:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 1:13 UTC
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I'm having trouble installing Windows 7 onto my old laptop. The problem appears to be the laptop's DVD-ROM no longer seems to work. Sucks. So, I'm trying to figure out how to get a bootable USB with my Windows 7 DVD info onto it. I found this link here on superuser.com:

http://superuser.com/questions/66948/place-a-bootable-iso-on-a-usb-drive

That looks good, except for the detail about making the USB bootable. It said that the OS you're making it bootable on must be the same as the machine you're going to be installing it on. I can't do that. The machine I would make it bootable from is a 64-bit version of Windows 7. The target machine is 32-bit. So, how's this going to work?

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