# You can also use this guide if you don’t have a 4GB USB stick. If you have a 4 GB+ USB drive then try out my “” for a quick installation. # We are not using either CD/DVD drive in this guide so you can even use this method to install this method for Netbooks. There are two ways to install Windows 7/Vista without using A DVD or USB. The first one is using VPC (Virtual PC) and the second one is mounting an ISO file using free tools like Daemon tools or Virtual Clone Drive. Also read: Method 2: Installing Windows 7 without using a DVD or USB via direct method In this method we install Windows 7 on a clean partition like the normal DVD boot method. Only change is we don’t use a DVD drive in this guide.

Please follow the below instructions carefully and don’t skip any steps to make things quickly! I hope you have already downloaded one. Step 2: Download and install Virtual Clone Drive from. Step 3: Firstly, go to the directory where you have saved Windows 7 ISO file.

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Right-click on the ISO file, select Open with and then select “Mount files with Virtual Clone Drive” to mount your ISO file. Step 4: Go back to My Computer (or Just Computer) and then double-click on the Virtual Clone Drive icon to start process. Yes, you are installing Windows 7 without a DVD or USB drive! Step 5: Next, follow the normal to finish the installation. Windows may restart during the install process. Worry not, everything will go fine.

You can also refer my “” guide if you have doubts about the installation. Below is the another way of installing Windows 7 without using a DVD or USB: Method 1. I mounted the ISO onto the Virtual Clone Drive (Daemon tools also works) running on Win XP and installed Win 7 (32 bit) on a different partition.

If the installation successfully finishes the stage one (copying files) of the entire process, you should not have any problem at all. After this, it restarts and continues on its own to stage two (expanding files), from here on everything happens in the Win 7 environment and the mounted ISO is no longer accessed nor needed. Couple more restarts and its done. • Chris says. Ok, followed the steps for formatting my external hard drive, in the process of doing that as we speak. I have the win7 iso file on my computer.

I have daemon tools if that helps. I do not have a win7 bootable disc or cd/dvd drive. I have a hp mini which has win7 already on it. Tryin to boot win7 from usb on my bro’s laptop that has vista on it. I made the mistake of formatting the recovery drive on his laptop and now it won’t boot vista, it tells me that the boot mgr is missing. Am I completely SOL?

How do I mount the win7 iso file onto the usb external hard drive and make it bootable for his laptop? Making the usb bootable steps helped out a lot, thanks. To do a CLEAN install, booting into the Setup (PE) environment on a computer with no DVD and no usb boot options do the following.

Prepare the drive. You can take the primary hard drive out of the computer and using an external adapter and another functioning computer create your partition, make sure it is active.

Extract the contents of the installation ISO to the root of the HDD you just created the partions on. You now have a HDD with a primary, active partition and all of the files from a windows 7 DVD which will be bootable. Install the HDD back in the target computer.

Boot, install windows. Cleanup, use EASYBCD to remove the setup entry from teh boot menu and remove all setup related files and directories from the root of C: • Farhan says. Sorry to interrupt. Before i proceed to the final stpe of installing windows 7, i have a 15Gb usb drive(Actually my Phones drive) and was wondering to not make the same mistake screwing my computer that lost its boot manager after it failed installing Windows 7 at the final step. So i thought to make a Recovery disk, rather than a dam Drive that is costly buying 16 of them of high capacity, my phones Drive is 15gb.i use it for all the types of cmd commands you give for making it into drives and stuffs.and all was successfullbut this time, i need something better and backup of my windows. SPACE REQUIRED: 8.75GB’s. Location: External drive.my simplest result i could think of is, Cloning my usb drive into a DVD drive JUST like the “Virtual clone drive” that cloned a space of memory into ROM and DVD.

So now, can you help me make my PC vista 32bit “Toshiba Recovery Wizard” identify my USB(phones drive lol) as a DVD drive?????Please reply me in mail fast, because i’m running out of holiday time.so i thought i could try out the new system in multi-boot. • Challu says.

For those trying to install a 64 bit Vista/Win 7 OS from a 32bit OS – It can’t be done by this method. The setup files and suport utilities on the 64 bit DVD are complied to be run from a 64 bit windows OS only. Therefor the only option is to do a clean install generally by booting from a DVD or alternativly from a usb stick as per tweakwindows other excellent and simple guide: Incidentally, if your computer bios supports it, you can use the exact same method as the usb stick guide to boot from a memory card reader via a memory card (such as a SD card). I used this method to put win7 RC on my Eee 900 using a 2 gig SD card I had lying around.

Thanks both of you John and Rush. I have spent almost 5 hours to install windows 2003 server to my new laptop came with Windows 7. I have deleted and recreated Partition using BootIt(TM) Next Generation because I want to do multiple OS on this laptop. I thought something is wrong my new HP laptop. Until I found these tips and I changed the BIOS from ACHI to IDE just like Russ.

Download Summertime By The Jamies Youtube Broadcast. I started windows right away. Just curious why it does not work with ACHI and only works for IDE. Here is the blue screen: I got a blue screen with an error message that said: 'A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER. IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS ERROR SCREEN RESTART YOUR COMPUTER. IF THIS SCREEN APPEARS AGAIN FOLLOW THESE STEPS: CHECK FOR VIRUSES ON YOUR COMPUTER. REMOVE ANY NEWLY INSTALLED HARD DRIVES OR HARD DRIVE CONTROLLERS. CHECK YOUR HARD DRIVE TO MAKES SURE IT IS PROPERLY CONFIGURED AND TERMINATED.

RUN CHKDISK /F TO CHECK FOR HARDDRIVE CORRUPTION, AND THEN RESTART YOUR COMPUTER. TECHNICAL INFORMATION: ***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7B6D528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0X00000000) ' Every attempt to boot up in safe mode brought me to this screen.

I then tried booting in safe mode through msconfig. I still received the blue screen error message. However now I receive it no matter how I start windows. Specifically when I try to boot up I am brought to a black screen with the message stating: 'We apologize for the inconvenience but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly or was automatically shut down to protect your files and folders, choose Last Known Good Configuration to revert to the most recent settings that worked.

If a previous startup attempt was interrupted due to power failure or because the power or reset button was pressed, or if you aren't sure what caused the problem, choose Start Windows normally. Safe Mode Safe Mode with Networking Safe Mode with Command Prompt Last Known Configuration Start Windows Normally' I tried using last known good configuration as well as booting up normally but ever since I tried booting in safe mode with msconfig everything brings me to the blue screen error message. My best guess is that windows is now stuck in trying to boot up in safe mode but thats based solely on the course of events. I don't have a windows disk, only Microsoft Windows Recovery Console installed.

I'm in much need of help and any insight would be very appreciated. Hey Guys, I was running into this problem too. My BSOD was during the windows xp install, it would get to the part where the bottom of the screen would say preparing to install windows then dead. Here is the only fix I could figure out: (unfortunately this fix assumes you have an image of the computer before the Win7 install) Remove the harddrive from the computer. Use a USB adapter or an external enclosure to plug the drive into another computer. Format the drive to NTFS. Put the harddrive back in the original computer.

Put in your Imaging CD (I use Acronis). Flash your image back on to the harddrive. I had to go through about 6 hours of work using this method to take a test computer from Windows 7 64-bit, to Windows Server 2003. Hope this helps someone. I had the same problem as I wanted to install Win XP before the expiration of the pre-installed trial Windows 7. I followed the advice from John JEASter (this thread) but it didn't work.

I kept getting a hang up on 'verifying DMI pool data' when I rebooted after installing Win XP. I even phoned the manufacturer of my PC and talked to the Tech guys and they suspected it was a corrupted BIOS. However, what I did was to format the whole drive eliminating the 100MB system partition used by Windows 7 and then everything worked fine. Presumably this 100MB partition kept trying to load Windows 7 (which had been deleted) and this caused the problem. I was wondering if you have actually had Windows 7 installed on a C drive, then tried to revert back to XP. I am having the same problem.

Ive used fdisk, and Partition Magic to try to sort out the hard disk but after re-partitioning and re-formatting, the ONLY Operating system that will re-install is Windows 7. I know its not something Im doing wrong cos when I physically change the hard disk, XP installs with no problem. Have Microsoft included something on the Windows 7 install that prevents any other operating system being installed afterwards.??

Here is what I did for people who have a netbook but found in hard doing it with a bootable usb: 1. Buy an external enclosed dvd drive unit, they sell for around $30. Setup BIOS to boot from CD/usb unit.

Put the operation disc in the DVD unit and install the same way as if your netbook had a CD/DVD drive. This is the best way for people who are not that techie, and also this way saves you time but not money, which is sometimes a good trade off. *But the way I did mine by using an old usb hard drive enclosure. I have a desktop computer and this is what I did: 1. Removed the backing on the enclosure unit 2. Open the desktop computer and removed the ide and power cables from the dvd rom drive.

Installed the enclosure backing on the dvd drive 4. Hooked up the usb connection from the unit to the netbook. Setup the Bios to boot from cd/dvd drive 6. Installed windows xp 7.