How To Install Windows 7 On Netbook

OK, so here'southward a guide to aid those of you lot wanting to install Windows 7 onto a Netbook without a DVD drive. Surprisingly, installing a more complex Os like Windows 7 onto a Netbook seems to be far easier than a more than simple Bone like Windows XP.

There are a few tools around the net (including an official one from Microsoft) that tin set up a Windows 7 USB flash drive with about just a single click, but a lot of these tools don't seem to work for quite a few people for some reason (me included) -- so this guide is going to show you how to do it the "old fashioned way" using a few simple command prompt commands.

If y'all wish to encounter a guide on how to install Windows XP onto a Netbook from a USB flash bulldoze, please expect hither.

Right, let'due south become started:

[Eye] Step one..What you will need: [/CENTER]

ane - A USB wink drive (must be 4gb minimum)

ii - A working estimator with a working optical bulldoze, a Windows 7 running Os and administrator privileges (I'm not fully sure whether this method would work using Windows XP on the working estimator, then information technology'due south best to utilise Windows 7)

3 - Your Windows seven DVD at the set up

iv - Your Netbook at the prepare

[Middle] Step 2..Set up the USB wink drive with Control Prompt: [/CENTER]

1 - Insert your USB wink drive into the working figurer and be sure to remove any others that are not needed otherwise this could confuse the procedure.

2 - Navigate to and open up a control prompt window: Click the START button, click 'All Programs', click 'Accessories', so right-click 'Command Prompt' and select 'Run as Administrator' (That's important).

Alright, should wait a little like this...

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Moving on:

3 - Now, in Command Prompt type DISKPART and printing the 'Enter' cardinal (might accept a few seconds for the computer to read all the disks).

4 - At present blazon List DISK and press 'Enter'. Information technology will list what disk-drives you lot take continued to the reckoner and will look something like this...

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v - Now we demand to know the number of the deejay that is your wink drive (number significant "Disk 0" or "Disk i" etc.). You lot volition take to effigy out which is your flash drive by looking at the "Size" cavalcade; A 4gb flash drive volition have a size of roughly 3800mb, an 8gb will accept a rough size of 7600mb. One time yous accept identified what disk your wink drive is, movement on the adjacent step.

6 - OK, at present you must select your flash bulldoze in the list by typing like this: SELECT Deejay ? --> (Replace '?' with the number of your wink drive in the list - example SELECT Disk 8).

7 - At present nosotros need to do a footling work on the flash drive to prepare it properly: follow these commands:

7a - Type CLEAN and printing 'Enter'.

7b - Type CREATE PARTITION Main and press 'Enter'.

7c - Blazon SELECT PARTITION 1 and press 'Enter'.

7d - Blazon ACTIVE and press 'Enter'.

7e - Type FORMAT FS=NTFS and press 'Enter'.

7f - Await for the format to stop.

7g - Type ASSIGN and press 'Enter'.

7h - Type EXIT and press 'Enter'.

8 - Now you can minimize the Control Prompt window and enter your Windows vii DVD into the DVD drive.

8a - At present you need to find out what drive letter your DVD drive is (E, F, G ect). Y'all can find this out in 'MY Computer'.

9 - OK, so maximize Command Prompt over again and type ?: CD Kick --> (Replace '?' with your DVD drive letter - example One thousand: CD Kicking) and press 'Enter' afterward.

9a - Blazon CD Boot and printing 'Enter'.

10 - Type BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 ?: --> (Replace '?' with the bulldoze letter of the alphabet of your USB wink bulldoze, found out in 'My Calculator'). For example BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 P: and press 'Enter'.

Now your Command Prompt screen should wait something like this:

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Yous can now shut the Command Prompt window.

[Middle] Footstep 3..Final Grooming: [/CENTER]

1 - Enter 'My Computer' and right-click on your Windows 7 disc (in your DVD drive) then click 'open'.

2 - Highlight all the contents and right-click 'copy'

3 - Enter your USB flash bulldoze from 'My Computer' and 'paste' all the files from your Windows 7 disc into information technology.

4 - When finished, safely remove your flash drive from the computer and congratulate yourself because now it's set up!

5 - But before you go rushing off: Plug the flash drive into the Netbook while it's off and then fire upward your Netbook and enter the BIOS at the very start (normally by pressing 'Delete')

5a - Navigate in your BIOS to your 'Boot Priority'.

5b - Now, you lot need to switch the priority from the main hard bulldoze to the USB flash drive (this should show up in the boot priority list equally 'USB MOAI' or maybe some other name. If your USB flash bulldoze is definitely not in that location, check it's plugged in correct and bank check the 'Hard Drives' section of the BIOS to see if information technology's listed in there. If so, movement information technology up to the 1st in line, so cheque your boot priority to see if it's at that place.

5c - When the USB is the 1st kick option you can restart your Netbook and begin the installation process of Windows 7!

That'due south near it. Don't forget to change your boot options dorsum subsequently yous've completed the install.

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