Windows 7 beta - 9th January

ja3h said:
I have got one key so far - if I get another i'll donate it to Larkspeed..

I've got 17 tabs open since 12 and nothing so far. When i got my first key it was in a matter or minutes! Hmmm...

Would it be possible to put windows 7 onto a usb stick and install it that way?
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I installed my Win 7 64 bit last night from my USB hard drive. Worked well, was a bit of messing about to get my drive bootable, but I think I was thinking it was more complex than it actually was.

You can do this in one of two ways.

Use a USB flash drive or partition a USB hard disk.

I made partition on my 320GB USB hard disk of 10GB.

Open the command prompt and run:

diskpart
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when diskpart is running, use the command

list volume
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You'll be able to see which volume your chosen drive is.

Use
select disk #
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where # is the disk number you'll be using.

Once the disk is selected, enter the commands

active
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and then

assign
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Mount your downloaded windows 7 ISO in a virtual drive.

Once you've got the windows 7 ISO mounted, run this command next:

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\
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Change d: to the letter of the virtual drive and change e: to the letter of the USB drive that you'll be using.

Wait while it copies the contents of the ISO to your USB drive.

Once done, reboot, choose your USB drive as the main boot drive, and you'll be able to install it as normal.

But, once your computer reboots, make sure you go back to the bios and change the boot drive back to the one you installed windows to, otherwise you'll just get a loop of your PC booting the Windows installer.
 
If you have never installed an OS before then maybe participating in this beta is not such a good idea, maybe try installing xp or vista first may help you understand things
 
kylew said:
I installed my Win 7 64 bit last night from my USB hard drive. Worked well, was a bit of messing about to get my drive bootable, but I think I was thinking it was more complex than it actually was.

You can do this in one of two ways.

Use a USB flash drive or partition a USB hard disk.

I made partition on my 320GB USB hard disk of 10GB.

Open the command prompt and run:

when diskpart is running, use the command

You'll be able to see which volume your chosen drive is.

Use
where # is the disk number you'll be using.

Once the disk is selected, enter the commands

and then

Mount your downloaded windows 7 ISO in a virtual drive.

Once you've got the windows 7 ISO mounted, run this command next:

Change d: to the letter of the virtual drive and change e: to the letter of the USB drive that you'll be using.

Wait while it copies the contents of the ISO to your USB drive.

Once done, reboot, choose your USB drive as the main boot drive, and you'll be able to install it as normal.

But, once your computer reboots, make sure you go back to the bios and change the boot drive back to the one you installed windows to, otherwise you'll just get a loop of your PC booting the Windows installer.
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Or simply mount the image in a working OS via a disk mounting software program and install from there. Works fine for dual booting. All the files are written to the target drive so it does not need to refer back to the dvd once it reboots.

Had a couple of Black screens after playing COD waw and GTA this morning, back in Vista now, bored lol.
 
Could someone with a downloaded and working version of Windows 7 x64 please post their size of the .sio file, because im having problems installing, it seems to hang a fair bit in installation and the cd activity light doesn't do anything.

Mine is

windows7bb5.jpg


Thanks.
 
is it illegal to download the Public Beta Release from torrent sites? The link official link just stalls when i reach 10%, and also no luck with the guru3d.
 
silversurfer said:
Yea I got the same size, click unblock :p
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Ahh ok, never really noticed the unblock option or would have thought that it would do anything. Cheers.

alexhull24 said:
Mine is identical to that if it helps.
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It does, cheers.

nolimit said:
is it illegal to download the Public Beta Release from torrent sites? The link official link just stalls when i reach 10%, and also no luck with the guru3d.
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I got mine from the official link on this thread and maxxed out my connection.
 
[timko];13258813 said:
...I'm pretty sure your next response is going to be -> "Nope, all of my keys are different to those in that post at Neowin".
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my response is yes those are the keys,listen all they had to say when i posted the link was its already been posted not try to be clever
 
got the iso's last night pretty quick through the links in the 1st few pages

just tried for the keys and they worked 1st time

got a couple of each just incase, i noticed though that the keys are in a sort of cycle, if i refresh a few times it goes through the cycle of the same lots of keys?
 
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