Help me with installing windows?

I have a windows 7 ultimate cd and the windows support drivers on peak brand 8gb usb 2.0 drive. When I do the windows 7 ultimate installation it ask me to install the necessary drivers before I continue. So, I go to the usb drive and navigate to the proper folder and coose "Ok". The installer keeps saying no drivers were found. Solutions? Do I have to format the usb drive before I put the windows support drivers/software on the usb drive?
P.S. Usb Drive is already in MS-DOS format. Do I need to do a clean format?
----- Partion is for 60gb
----- 13 inch MacBook pro 2012, 4 GB ram, 500 GB HD, i5 2.5 ghz

Are you using Boot Camp Assistant? Did you download the support software from within Boot Camp Assistant? The usb drive must be in a format readable by Windows (FAT, FAT32, ExFAT). http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

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