Microsoft has announced that it will support Windows 7 installations from a USB key. This will allow people to install Windows 7 on systems that do not have a DVD drive (yes, Windows 7 will also run quite fast on your old notebook that only has 1Gb of RAM and does not have a DVD player), but it will also speed up the installation process (because installing from USB is faster than installing from DVD)
Dennis Chung, IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, has published a video, demonstrating how easy it is to prepare the USB and use it to install Windows 7. You can watch the video below (or from here )
In short, the procedure to prepare the key consists of the following steps :
(you must run the diskpart preparation on a Vista computer, because diskpart on XP will not show USB drives)
That’s it
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