{"id":607,"date":"2011-03-10T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=607"},"modified":"2011-03-12T22:31:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:31:56","slug":"installing-windows-7-from-a-flash-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/installing-windows-7-from-a-flash-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Windows 7 from a flash drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Installing Windows 7 from a flash drive \t\t– faster and more convenient<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Did you know you can install Windows 7 from \t\ta flash drive? Putting the Windows 7 installation on a USB flash drive has \t\ta couple of big advantages:\u00a0 A flash drive is more portable than a \t\tDVD, and Windows 7 will install much faster from a flash drive than it will \t\tfrom a DVD because the data transfer rate is much faster.. Plus having the \t\tWindows 7 installation disk on USB flash drive enables you to install Windows \t\t7 on computers that don’t have a DVD drive – like a netbook computer for \t\tinstance.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s really easy to transfer the contents of \t\tthe Windows 7 DVD onto a USB flash drive. But you must be careful to copy \t\tall of the files on the DVD and make sure your flash drive is properly prepared. \t\tFirst make sure there’s nothing on your flash drive you want to save. If \t\tthere is, move it to your hard drive or to another flash drive – or burn \t\tit to a CD or DVD. You’ll need a clean flash drive to make a Windows 7 installation \t\tflash drive.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve got your flash drive and it’s free \t\tof files and other things you want to keep – follow these steps to make \t\tan installation flash drive for Windows 7:<\/p>\n

* First, you\u2019ll need the DiskPart utility on \t\tthe system you’re using to prepare your flash drive. DiskPart is a free \t\tdisk partitioning utility that is most likely already installed on your \t\tWindows computer. If you can’t find it on your system, \t\t you can download DiskPart here<\/a>.
\n* If you’re using Windows Vista you can start the DiskPart utility by typing \t\tdiskpart in the search form at the bottom of the Start Menu.
\n* Then run the list disk command to check the status of your drive.
\n* Now run select disk 1 where the “1” is actually the corresponding number \t\tof your USB drive.
\n* Run clean.
\n* Once the flash drive is clean, you can run create partition primary.
\n* Now make the partition active by entering active
\n* Then you need to set up the file system as Fat32 by running format fs=fat32 \t\tquick (quick meaning you want to perform a quick format which is faster \t\tthan a full format and will work fine for this process).
\n* Entering the assign command gives the USB drive a drive letter, making \t\tit easy to access from Windows Explorer
\n* Then you can copy everything from the Windows 7 installation DVD onto \t\tthe USB key – the easiest way to do it is good old drag and drop.
\n* Now you’re done – and you can insert the flash drive into the computer \t\ton which you want to install Windows 7.
\n* Now boot the system – and the installation will start. It will be much \t\tfaster than installing from DVD but otherwise the installation will proceed \t\tas it normally would.<\/p>\n

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Installing Windows 7 from a flash drive – faster and more convenient Did you know you can install Windows 7 from a flash drive? Putting the Windows 7 installation on a USB flash drive has a couple of big advantages:\u00a0 A flash drive is more portable than a DVD, and Windows 7 will install much faster from a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[387,385,386,384,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}