Installing Win7 using a USB Stick

Posted By: Dennis Chung | Jan 16th @ 2:33 AM | 466,847 Views | 76 Comments
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.
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#Aug 16th @ 6:20 AM
hsianghui
hsianghui

Anyway for those who wants to prepare a 64bit win7/vista bootable USB using a 32bit winxp, you can check out the guide I did:

http://xhdev.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/how-to-install-win7vista-64bit-on-a-hp-elitebook-2730p-on-usb/

#Nov 7th @ 10:00 AM
Barrybgb
Barrybgb

I have UltraISO and I think you may be right.

I have version 8.2.0 and the menu item under bootable is "Write Floppy Image"

There with the pull down menu, you select the flash drive.

In my case, I only have two options, A: or I:

The I: drive is of course my flash drive

 

I will try this soon but looks like it will work.

 

Barry

#Nov 10th @ 2:13 AM
csmart
csmart

i was able to install using USB pen drive with UltraISO.

 

however there was no significant change in installation time using Kingston 4gb. is this related to hard disk? i have toshiba Portege m400 tablet PC. i have upgraded by HDD to 320GB (5400 rpm) seagate, ST93230320AS..  i checked for errors, but found none.

#Nov 18th @ 2:11 PM
dnetsky
dnetsky
body of hacker, and computer cracker ;)

don't forget about turn off hibernation in win7 (if you dont use it)

to do that put this:

 

powercfg /hibernate off

 

in command window

and press enter

 

after that You can delete hiberfill.sys from system partition (usually drive C:/)

 

from my experience after that Win7 is more faster and less hard disk user Wink

 

Second thing is IF you got 4GB RAM and more

You can turn off pagefile.sys

 

and again Win7 is more willing to use RAM memory instead use hard disk drive

 

GOOD JOB Win7 creators !!!

greetings

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