Netbooks do not have DVD players, we must find another way to inject Windows 7. We will see how to create a USB key, or even an external hard drive, install Windows 7. The installation is much faster as well. It is therefore ideal if you must install the RC on several machines. It must, however, that your PC's BIOS supports booting via USB (which is precisely the case of Netbooks).
You will see how to do to prepare a USB key or external hard drive so that they serve as an alternative to the DVD to install Windows 7 RC on a PC. Doing this requires essentially placing a few orders from the DISKPART tool that we have presented a long long ago (yes, we have the sequence of ideas ...). Here you will find this training DISKPART.
The manipulation is to create a boot partition containing all the DVD files, so Windows 7 RC can be installed from a USB key (or external drive).
Preparation:
You will need:
- A USB Virgin 4GB minimum
- The DVD of Windows 7 RC (download the ISO image and burn it with software like "ISO Recorder").
Note: you can use a program like Daemon Tools Lite (it is available for Windows 7) to mount the ISO image onto a virtual DVD drive to avoid burning phase.
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