INSTALL OS W/ USB

[MuchoMachoMayhem]

Ive been watching the OC3D vids on youtube and I have been wondering how TTL installs the OS without a drive bay and I'm assuming he

uses an external drive.

do you just need to set your bios to boot to usb and if not how do you install your OS without an internal disk drive?

By the way I know its probably a dumb question but its bothering the bleep out of me!

 

[Runebeard]

If you've got the OS installer you want to use, such as UBUNTU, installed on a USB Flash Drive/HDD, then yeah either change priority in the BIOS or most of the time you should be able to just hammer F12 for the one time boot menu.

If you wanted to be real ghetto and you have a spare DVD drive around, just take off the side panel and temporarily connect it to the SATA Data and Power and just remove it afterwards.

Hope that helps dude

 

[Youngie1337]

It is possible: http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/

 

[SieB]

I used this guide to put windows 7 on a USB to install from it. For some reason only the UltraISO method worked though.

http://forums.mydigi...ps-Easy-Process

 

[ruthless_villain]

windows have their own tool.

 

[MuchoMachoMayhem]

If you've got the OS installer you want to use, such as UBUNTU, installed on a USB Flash Drive/HDD, then yeah either change priority in the BIOS or most of the time you should be able to just hammer F12 for the one time boot menu.

If you wanted to be real ghetto and you have a spare DVD drive around, just take off the side panel and temporarily connect it to the SATA Data and Power and just remove it afterwards.

Hope that helps dude

thanks man, a flash drive was my second guess

 

[MuchoMachoMayhem]

I used this guide to put windows 7 on a USB to install from it. For some reason only the UltraISO method worked though.

http://forums.mydigi...ps-Easy-Process

How large does your USB drive generally have to be to fit windows 7 on it?

 

[SieB]

How large does your USB drive generally have to be to fit windows 7 on it?

Win 7 Ultimate with 32bit and 64bit takes up 3.75gb on my 4gb stick. Different versions like Pro and Home edition and depending if they are 32bit or 64bit or both might take up less but i'm not sure.

 

[BaMb1N0]

You may want to use the mentioned tool from M$: USB DVD Download Tool (freeware)

http://www.chip.de/downloads/Windows-7-USB_DVD-Download-Tool_38589636.html

You'll just need an ISO image of your windows 7 dvd. I'm even using that to set up Windows Server 2008 R2's in cases unattended installation won't work or is not available. Most certainly your cd/dvd burning software supports the creation of ISO images.

Once you created the bootable flash drive you'll have to make sure the system you want to install windows on will boot from that drive.

 

[equk]

To install windows7 via usb all I did was use the utils that are on the disk.

Format USB Stick to NTFS

Insert Win7 Disk

Run command prompt as admin

Go to the disk drive (used D: as example + used H: as example USB)

D:

cd boot

bootsect.exe /nt60 H:​

Once you've done that you just need to copy the contents of the Win7 DVD onto the USB Stick/Drive.

 

[bleddyn]

To install windows7 via usb all I did was use the utils that are on the disk.

Format USB Stick to NTFS

Insert Win7 Disk

Run command prompt as admin

Go to the disk drive (used D: as example + used H: as example USB)

D:

cd boot

bootsect.exe /nt60 H:​

Once you've done that you just need to copy the contents of the Win7 DVD onto the USB Stick/Drive.

You need to make sure that the version of windows on your computer matches the one on the disk in terms of 64bit or 32bit otherwise it throws up an error. Had the exact problem myself last week whilst installing from usb.