Installing Win7 using a USB Stick

Posted By: Dennis Chung | Jan 16th @ 2:33 AM | 466,721 Views | 76 Comments

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Everyone's excited about Windows 7, so am i. However, i do notice a new generation of computing equipment, commonly known as Netbooks.

They are much lower in specs. Normally featuring an Intel Atom with 1 or 2GB of ram. Now Win7 is much more capable of running on Netbooks.

This video shows you how you can install Win7 on netbooks, which do not normally come with a DVD Drive. The video shows you how to prepare a USB drive with the installation bits and install off it.

Tags: Top 10, Windows 7

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jprchan

Hi,
Will Windows 7 be able to install on my Dell Mini 9 with 8gb SSD? I have looked around the internet and many sites say that you cannot install to an 8gb SSd, you need a 16gbSSD. Does anyone know for sure if it will work or not?

michi

In reply to DChung

#Jan 13th @ 10:40 PM

format fs=fat32 quick dont work,
what is the fs my Partition number is 2,
how i can make this ?

Withheld

Hi,

does it work with USB External HDD? I tried all the steps and reboot and boot in USB Key, USB HDD but it didn't manage to boot in. After I restarted back into Windows Vista, my external drive is not shown in My Computer. I go into Disk Management, it prompt to set into GUID or MBR mode thingy, then i just set the default mode and the disk is shown, I tried restart again and it can't work. Did I miss anything or it just won't work for USB External HDD?

patricklo71

Hey~! Dennis, big problem here.....
my USB failed the format...after that, it cannot use....it just showed " no media in the disk lst......><.....help!!!!!

Patrick

paeppi

Hi Dennis,

thanks, works great for me (with build 7100 of course).

Just in case anyone else is encountering the problems I had:

When using the current BIOS (v. 2001) for the Asus Eee Pc 901 Go, you must enable the network boot option in the BIOS in order to be able to boot from USB sticks. Don't ask me why.

Also, be sure to chose the USB stick as first "Hard Drive" boot device, which is in an extra menu directly below the normal boot menu.

Regards,
paeppi

PS: Win 7 actually runs faster than XP. Only the disk space needed is ~ 3 GB higher, which might disturb owners of small SSD disks.

foursquaregoof

hey dennis,

i followed your steps to turn my flash drive into an external hard drive so to speak. can you give me step by step instructions on how i can revert it back to just being an ordinary flash drive please??

thanks!

Kira Style

Hey dennis,

I'm using asus motherboard p5q-le

bios: amibios v2.06

what happened is, under the'boot' menu, all my usb devices are classified under 'hard drive drives' instead of removable devices.

so when i put boot sequence to removable devices, it's not being booted.

if i set the hard disk drive seqeunce to bot my flsh drive first, i'll have the same problem as foursquaregoof: 'bootmgr is missing' after the pc restart.

any suggestions to what i shld change to my bios?

Gschmakofazy

Hi,

thanks very much for your work.

As i am using XP 32bit to create a bootable USB-Stick version of Windows 7 RTM 64bit things are getting a bit difficult. - The stick is formated to Fat32 and set active.

- Windows 7 64bit is mounted with daemon tools

- all data is copyed (xcopy)

- the bootsect-command doesn't work (64bit vs 32bit i guess)

Question: Will it help if i download (MSDN) the 32bit version to get the bootsect command working?

Best

Florian