usb installation

I have Win 7 Pro bought online during last winter's college student sale. No original CD, but I burned two copies of the download. I'm trying to reinstall Win 7 on a new processor and motherboard. Backed up the old system drive and have been trying a clean install with no success. During file...

Requirements: 1. MultibootISO > Install Grub4Dos easily into USB Flash Drive Get it here: Boot Multiple ISO from USB (MultiBoot USB) | USB Pen Drive Linux or here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/MultiBootISOs/MultiBootISOs-v1.4.8.exe 2. Windows 7 DVD, ISO or Source Files 3. Notepad++...

Hi, I recently bought a new PC specs: Gigabyte 770T/USB3 ATI Radeon HD 5670 AMD Phenom II X4 ( Quad Core ) 3.2 Ghz ( Stock speed ) 2 Gig Generic Ram Gigabyte Superb PSU 550W 500G HDD ( Unsure of brand ) When I tried to install Windows from a CD it froze and different parts every time I made an...

I have formatted and copied windows 7 to my 4GB USB key and I have installed a new HDD into my Dell Optiplex 745. When I boot up the computer I am notified with: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Existing Broadcom PXE ROM I have searched and found out that this can be caused by...

Recently a power surge did something funny to my computer. Everything pointed to drive corruption, so I bought a 1TB drive to replace my 2x160GB RAID 0 array. Now I can install the 32-bit version with seemingly no problems but not the 64-bit. I usually get a BSOD but sometimes I get an error...

Well, unfortunately I have a serious problem. To go ahead and get this over with. I'm not sure what kind of drives they are..GParted failed to boot [ "BootMGR is missing"] Anyway to figure this out? I'm installing via USB, due to me not currently having the disc. The USB is bootable 100%...

Sorry about the misspelled word printer in topic heading but I cannot correct it. As posted on the HP Forum HP will not released drivers or new software for Windows 7 until January 2010 due to problems. They state to use the Windows 7 generic printer driver which will leave you with a lot of...

Hi Folks, MS just recently re-released their "improved" GUI tool to create a USB flash installer for Win 7 all versions. As you may or may not know their original release was found to be in violation of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2) and they removed it from the MS store because of...

An easier free solution for USB installs: When you purchase Windows 7 from Microsoft Store, you have the option to download an ISO file or compressed files. The Windows 7 USB-DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a...

Upon installation of Windows 7 check that your drives are visable by Disk Manager, if not you will have problems as time passes, most notable is the inability to do disk fragmentation either by the built in defragmenter or by programs such as Perfect Disk. The operating System will perform like...

i couldn't find a topic on this, please direct me to one if there is so my problem. i'm trying to install win7 pro 64bit onto a new hdd (WD 1.5tb). beginngin few attempts. i didn't format or partition through xp. just pluged it in (unplugged my xp hdd) put the win7 disc in. it goes past the...

Last night after all the troubles with getting W7 Pro 64bit installed, I finally managed to do it using a USB. This morning I start installing all my programs and I noticed that my "Windows Experience" number was 1.0 (it had formerly been 5.0). I assumed this was down to it not recognising my...

A friend gave me Windows 7 on a USB disk. I created a new 16GB partition on my hard drive because i wanted to keep XP as a backup, then ran it from the USB. The installation ran fine, but now when I try to start the computer, all I get a message saying BOOTMGR is compressed Press Ctrl+Alt+Del...

I am attemtpting to install the win 64bit 7 RC on a brand new build. I am using a USB stick as my install media. The install boots, although it takes a VERY long time to get from when windows begins to load the setup files to the place where I have issues (about 15 - 20 minutes). Where the...

I kept receiving an error on my Dell laptop during the Expanding Files process of the install. It kept stopping at different percentages indicating it couldn't find a file believing it was corrupt. I tried this serveral times from the USB install, finally burned an ISO and tried the install that...

I have Win 7 32 bit build 6.1.7100. I have installed all the updates from windows update except for all the language packs. I have all the drivers I could find for Windows 7, including ATI Catalyst for graphics. I could not find most of the drivers for my Mobo,k but everything seems to be...

I am experiencing a problem with installing the Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000, I believe) from a USB drive. I followed Link Removed due to 404 Error to make the bootable USB drive as I have Windows XP Home Edition and not Windows Vista, like so many tutorials like this out there assume. Before...

I can not get the Sierra 597 working on Windows 7 as the driver for the modem fails to load during the USB file installation phase. I tried using the 3G watcher download method from the Sierra 881 thread and it also fails to see the 597 modem as being installed on the computer. Has anyone...

I've been trying to install Windows 7 Beta 7000 on my USB Hard Drive, so far no luck. I was wondering if anyone has yet to find a way on how to do it. I've searched forums and everywhere and can't find anyone who has done it. I know it doesn't let you install on the USB Drive, but I did try to...