Windows 7 - Portable Usb

Write-Host "Preparing USB drive (clean, partition, format NTFS, set active)..." -ForegroundColor Yellow Invoke-DiskPart -Commands $diskpartCommands

# Clean up mount if ($mountDrive -match "^[A-Z]:\\?$" -and $mountDrive -ne $tempExtract -and (Get-PSDrive -Name $mountDrive[0] -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) Dismount-DiskImage -ImagePath $IsoPath -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue elseif ($tempExtract -and (Test-Path $tempExtract)) Remove-Item $tempExtract -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue windows 7 portable usb

It works on Windows 7 itself (with PowerShell 2.0+) or newer Windows versions. Please extract ISO contents to a folder first

# Copy files to USB Write-Host "Copying Windows 7 setup files to USB (this will take several minutes)..." -ForegroundColor Green if ($mountDrive -match "^[A-Z]:\\?$") # It's a drive letter (mounted ISO) Copy-Item -Path "$mountDrive\*" -Destination $drivePath -Recurse -Force else # It's a folder path Copy-Item -Path "$mountDrive\*" -Destination $drivePath -Recurse -Force Write-Host "Preparing USB drive (clean

# Mount ISO (works on Windows 8+; on Windows 7 use alternative) $mountDrive = $null if ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -ge 6 -or [Environment]::OSVersion.Version.Major -ge 10) Get-Volume).DriveLetter + ":" else # Windows 7 fallback: use 7-Zip or mount via free tool? Better to guide user Write-Host "Windows 7 cannot natively mount ISO. Please extract ISO contents to a folder first." -ForegroundColor Yellow $extractedPath = Read-Host "Enter path to extracted ISO folder (or press Enter to use 7-Zip automatically if installed)" if (-not $extractedPath) # Try 7-Zip $7z = "$env:ProgramFiles\7-Zip\7z.exe", "$env:ProgramFiles(x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe" else $mountDrive = $extractedPath

$driveLetter = $UsbDriveLetter[0] $drivePath = $UsbDriveLetter + "\"

$diskNumberLine = diskpart /s (New-TemporaryFile | % $_.FullName; Set-Content $_.FullName "select volume $volNumber`nlist disk`nexit" ) $diskNumber = $diskNumberLine | Select-String -Pattern "\*" | ForEach-Object $_ -replace '.*Disk (\d+).*', '$1' | Select-Object -First 1 if (-not $diskNumber) Write-Host "Failed to get physical disk number." -ForegroundColor Red exit 1