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Posted on 18-01-2009
Installing Windows 7 beta via USB pen drive
Filed Under (Guides) by KiNG on 18-01-2009

Grab yourself a 4GB (or bigger) USB 2.0 thumbdrive, reformat it as FAT32, and simply copy the contents of the Windows 7 Beta ISO image to the memory stick using xcopy e:\ f:\ /e /f (where e: was the DVD drive and f: was the removable drive location).

Not only was it easy to boot and install from the thumbdrive, it was also blindingly fast: quicker than the corresponding DVD install on my desktop machine.

Thx to rmancl on our forums for posting.

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Comments

shijaz on 31 December, 2009 at 2:23 pm #

Useful tip for users of netbooks and nettops without DVD drive. I have made a step-by-step guide on the whole process at http://www.microsoftnow.com/2009/12/installing-windows-7-on-netbook-without.html


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