If you're looking for a quicker way to install Windows 7 than via DVD, try installing it from a USB drive. This guide describes two ways to make a bootable Windows 7 USB drive.
Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back....  38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 10, 2009 14:26 | #1 If you're looking for a quicker way to install Windows 7 than via DVD, try installing it from a USB drive. This guide describes two ways to make a bootable Windows 7 USB drive.
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AngryDad Senior Member  783 posts Joined Apr 2007 Location: Split time, Illinois/Tanzania More info | Dec 12, 2009 03:02 | #2 Wow thanks.
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joeseph "smells like turd"  More info | Dec 14, 2009 00:23 | #3 Thought I'd try that today - alas it supports only the ISO downloaded from MS. some fairly old canon camera stuff, canon lenses, Manfrotto "thingy", and an M5, also an M6 that has had a 720nm filter bolted onto the sensor:
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joeseph "smells like turd" More info | Dec 14, 2009 20:29 | #4 update: Win 7 installed quickly and with little fuss. Got itself on the network and downloaded an update or two no problem at all. some fairly old canon camera stuff, canon lenses, Manfrotto "thingy", and an M5, also an M6 that has had a 720nm filter bolted onto the sensor:
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basroil Cream of the Crop  8,015 posts Likes: 2 Joined Mar 2006 Location: STL/Clayton, MO| NJ More info | Dec 14, 2009 20:31 | #5 joeseph wrote in post #9198569  update: Win 7 installed quickly and with little fuss. Got itself on the network and downloaded an update or two no problem at all. That was, until I couldn't access the second partition I had on the drive with all my website files on it... nothing I don't have a copy of elsewhere, but would be nice to know beforehand if an OS install was going to delete other partitions... Probably didn't delete it, rather just assumed it was a non-OS partition (recovery, etc) and just didn't show it. If you go to disk manager, should still be there I don't hate macs or OSX, I hate people and statements that portray them as better than anything else. Macs are A solution, not THE solution. Get a good desktop i7 with Windows 7 and come tell me that sucks for photo or video editing.
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Exactly, the disk manager in my BIOS, for some reason would only recognize 3 drives. CD rom, HDD and flash drive. after I installed Win7, I went back and reconfigured the BIOS to normal ( had to set it up to recognize a flash drive as a bootable HDD) and there was my other HDD's. Can't explain it, can only relate it... Brent
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joeseph "smells like turd" More info | Dec 14, 2009 22:28 | #7 basroil wrote in post #9198582 Probably didn't delete it, rather just assumed it was a non-OS partition (recovery, etc) and just didn't show it. If you go to disk manager, should still be there That's what I thought - I tried booting from a Hirens boot CD and the "data" partition no longer exists. Have got some Acronis partition software looking for anything deleted that can be restored but suspect I'll just have to re-create it, not a biggie as it was mostly photo's I was sharing online. I might try the process again in the same order to confirm that it loses the partition in the same way. (curious geek...) Golden Hunter wrote in post #9199097 Exactly, the disk manager in my BIOS, for some reason would only recognize 3 drives. CD rom, HDD and flash drive. after I installed Win7, I went back and reconfigured the BIOS to normal ( had to set it up to recognize a flash drive as a bootable HDD) and there was my other HDD's. Can't explain it, can only relate it...  Thanks for the suggestion - I'll give the BIOS a lookthrough when I get home, although I had only one physical HDD whichj was previously partitioned into a 30G OS part (WinSVR 2k3) and a 200G data part. some fairly old canon camera stuff, canon lenses, Manfrotto "thingy", and an M5, also an M6 that has had a 720nm filter bolted onto the sensor:
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