How to Install Windows 7 using USB Memory Stick

By Partho, Gaea News Network
Monday, January 19, 2009

Windows 7 is doing really good with the netbooks. With me using HP Mini 2140 running on VIsta, Windows 7 beta was a welcome chance. What mattered was, how I replaced the pre-installed Vista to install the Windows 7 Beta. The real concern was that my machine lacked a built in media drive or even I didn’t have an external USB DVD drive. But I got it done with a simple hack. Take this.The trick was simple.

Step 1

To begin with I had my 4GB USB 2.0 reformatted to FAT 32.

Step 2

The next step was to copy the contents of the Windows 7 Beta ISO image to the memory stick using

xcopy <srcdrv>:\*.* <dstdrv>:\ /e /f

(e:was my DVD drive and f: the removable drive )

The installation was not just easy but as quick that I could have clocked the time. It was much faster than those DVD installations on Desktops.

I must add, with Windows 7 it was a better netbook experience than previous operating systems.
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bjay
September 24, 2009: 11:31 am

hi im bjay from phil.. my desktop is vista 32bit right now and i want to upgrade to windows 7 64bit.. what will i do? when i upgrade the vista it said 32bit cant be upgrade to 64bit..now what will i do.. thx mate in advance.. muahh

Ramlosa
August 11, 2009: 2:05 am

It do work, but this instruction suck because he jumped over a few steps, or atleast I couldnt make this one work.
Google again and find a better one…..

enigm
March 29, 2009: 11:38 pm

this was completely unhelpful and does not work. dont bother wasting your time people
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