Installing Windows 7 off USB Drive

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Originally Posted by robinbredin View Post
You can get the win 7 ISO's from the link below,

http://www.mydigitallife.info/downlo...ownload-links/

Or the win 7 ISO's with SP1,

http://techdows.com/2011/07/download...oad-links.html

Cool they look good, silly question to ask but are they safe to use as in free from any malicious software etc? Also just to clarify you need a valid Key to use it as well (which i have)?

Thanks

They are all legal, and safe to use, but you will have to use your own product key to get it to activate.
 
Just wondering if i should format the USB drive to NTFS or keep as FAT 32 before uploading the ISO on to the drive?

Thanks
 
I'm sure I just copied the contents of the installation DVD (or, in my case, ISO) onto a fresh USB drive...

But, it has been a while, and when I did it I also made a 32/64-bit hybrid installer ISO so I've got one small 4GB USB drive that I can use for any PC.



Edit: Actually, thinking back now, maybe I went through this diskpart process...

http://blogs.technet.com/b/aviraj/archive/2009/02/01/installing-windows-7-using-usb-thumb-drive.aspx

in short user diskpart to partition the usb drive - you cannot use the GUI because it will not allow you to make the aprtition active...

its as simple as creating a partition, make active, format fat32 copy the contents of the install CD onto it.. I did it yesterady, much easier that I thought
 
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Ah yes of course!

Done it as NTFS now, though i dont think it matters anyway just tested it and it booted fine.

Thanks
 
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