[Hooch Tan]

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-i...-working-guide/

"This guide works 100% for Vista & Windows 7 unlike most of the guides out there. I have seen many sites/blogs that have “Install Vista from USB guide” but either with incomplete steps or not working guide. I have also seen some guides that don’t’ use proper commands in this guide. After spending many hours I have come up with this 100% working guide."

Into Windows has thrown up a guide showing you how you can install Windows Vista or Windows 7 onto your computer using a USB drive.  While Windows usually gets installed from a CD or DVD, some computers, especially netbooks, lack that option.  So thumb drives are becoming the preferred media for installation and upgrades.  Rumours have been floating around the Internets saying that Microsoft is investigating an official upgrade version of Windows on USB drives, but why wait?  The instructions on setting up your own USB Install Drive is fairly easy for the technically minded, and it is a lot handier to do things from a teeny, sturdy drive than weak, brittle, scratch prone optical media.  I have a few computers that have been stuck at XP and lack a drive.  I think I know what I'll be doing after Windows 7 is released. 

[Hooch Tan]

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-i...-working-guide/

"This guide works 100% for Vista & Windows 7 unlike most of the guides out there. I have seen many sites/blogs that have “Install Vista from USB guide” but either with incomplete steps or not working guide. I have also seen some guides that don’t’ use proper commands in this guide. After spending many hours I have come up with this 100% working guide."

Into Windows has thrown up a guide showing you how you can install Windows Vista or Windows 7 onto your computer using a USB drive.  While Windows usually gets installed from a CD or DVD, some computers, especially netbooks, lack that option.  So thumb drives are becoming the preferred media for installation and upgrades.  Rumours have been floating around the Internets saying that Microsoft is investigating an official upgrade version of Windows on USB drives, but why wait?  The instructions on setting up your own USB Install Drive is fairly easy for the technically minded, and it is a lot handier to do things from a teeny, sturdy drive than weak, brittle, scratch prone optical media.  I have a few computers that have been stuck at XP and lack a drive.  I think I know what I'll be doing after Windows 7 is released. 

[Neil Enns]

I used this guide to do a clean install of Windows 7 on my new HP Mini 110 earlier this week and it worked flawlessly.

One thing to watch out for, which the author notes but people don't seem to notice, is that the steps to prep the USB key have to be done on a Vista or Windows 7 machine. If you try and do them on a Windows XP machine they won't work because some of the required commands aren't available.

Neil

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Hah! The duckie USB drives gave me a good chuckle.