To follow up with my previous post, for those who got their hands on the latest leak build, some of you are looking for blank Dvds or waiting for it to burn at low speed and hopefully it wont fail half way (bad burns). I’m not sure if this was posted before but here’s the solution.
- Get a 4GB USB Drive and plug it in under Vista (i don’t think XP has diskpart)
- Click Start –> type CMD and right click Run as Admin
- Inside cmd, type and enter the followings:
- diskpart
- type “list disk” and you will see all connected disks and numbers
- select disk X (X being the number of the usb disk )
- clean
- create partition primary
- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=fat32
- assign
- exit
- Open your drive under explorer, copy all files from vista/7 iso to the usb drive.
- in Bios, set to boot from USB and have fun.
For USB Hard drive,follow this tips from istartedsomething:
Updated Article
http://dotnetwizard.net/hacks/how-to-bootinstall-vista-from-a-usb-flash-drive/
I’ve been trying to install Windows 7 Home Premium on my Samsung NC10. This solution wouldn’t work at first. It would either do nothing at boot time or say “Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart”. Then I found the solution. I renamed the file BOOTMGR to NTLDR, now it works fine
@Donnie: Please read the updated article. I have installed Win7 twice using that. Its in the bottom of this article.
im installing windows 7 on my computer and when it gets to the part where it asks you what disk you want to put it on it dosent show anything, not even my hard drive, plz help me
im installing windows 7 on my computer and when it gets to the part where it asks you what disk you want to put it on it dosent show anything, not even my hard drive, plz help me
@manny:
see if your hard drive is plugged in properly(preferably first SATA port and the power cable firmly plugged in ).
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Also try to plug it into a machine that already has an os and partition/format your HDD.
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And last of all check the your Windows copy. Try using a DVD instead of a USB pen.
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Finally there are several more articles written on this subject on the site. And the author of this post is currently unavailable, so please do a search and use those other methods to put windows 7 on a USB stick
@blacknoise: yes ive done all of those its not showing when i go to create partitions
hey i found something much useful http://cyberlifeday.blogspot.com/2009/12/botting-windowslinux-os-any.html
NICE Tutorials mate!..Works flawlessly, i could manage to boot from USB drive!
Just follow the exact instruction.. =))
I got stuck at the format part. It seems that there is no format keyword in my version of diskpart (5.1.3565)…
Unfortunately these instructions only work when running on Vista and newer operating systems. I just ran across an app that automates the process of creating a bootable Win7 flash drive, but does it under XP as well.
http://firesage.com/bootsage