If you have a USB boot-able computer this is all you should need to do. How to format NTFS on XP How to format USB drive and memory stick with NTFS Finally, rename your flash drive to the same name as the DVD.įor those of you needing to know how to do this on XP here is a step by step link. Make sure that your USB flash drive format is NTFS. This can be done on either a 64 bit or a 32 bit machine, you are not running the software you are copying it.

The work around is to copy your windows 7 disk to a 4GB or larger USB flash drive. For those of you who don't know this is the Windows 7 Disk, My copy is Retail not an iso burn.) This occured with a Windows7 OEM disk, and a Windows7 Professional Retail. In doing so I ran into the same issue that you are having (would freeze at 4% then request the GRMCPRFRER_EN_DVD to be placed in the drive bay. Now I ran this tool and the tool informed me that I would need to do a clean or 'custom' install. Your DVD is fine there seems an issue that is affecting the installation of windows 7 from optical drives.įirst thing, Did you use the microsoft upgrade tool to verify that you would have no issues with the install? I had this issue as well, and it took the entire last 48 hours to develop a work around.