-=PCTechTalk=- Install Win7 from USB drive: was ISO burning Question

Hi Folks,
here is an article I have in the win7 links:

How to install Windws7 from a USB stick 
Installing from a USB Memory Stick: My wife has a Samsung NC10 netbook
(very nice machine, by the way), and we wanted to install Windows 7 Beta on
this machine to replace the pre-installed Windows XP environment. Like most
netbook-class devices, this machine has no built-in media drive, and nor
did I have an external USB DVD drive available to boot off. The solution: I
took a spare 4GB USB 2.0 thumbdrive, reformatted it as FAT32, and simply
copied the contents of the Windows 7 Beta ISO image to the memory stick
using xcopy e:\ f:\ /e /f (where e: was the DVD drive and f: was the
removable drive location). Not only was it easy to boot and install from
the thumbdrive, it was also blindingly fast: quicker than the corresponding
DVD install on my desktop machine. 
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-s
ecrets.aspx 

Here is the way Microsoft told us about at the Win7 Beta launch
Install Win7 from USB drive 
Installing Windows 7 via USB or SD Media 
http://tinyurl.com/Win7USB 

I hope this helps

Mike the mod @ PCTechTalk & vista_ & Win7
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/vista_/
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/Win7/
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On 6/25/2009 at 8:50 PM Gman wrote:

I seriously doubt the installer would be able to deal with its files spread

out across more than a single disk.  Are you in contact with anyone who 
might not mind donating a blank DVD to you for this?

Peace,
Gman

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Aiello" <deacondeamon@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 2:42 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- ISO burning Question


> I'm downloading Windows 7 RC.  The directions say to use a DVD to burn
the
> ISO to.  At this time I do not have any unused DVDs.  Would it be ok to 
> use
> the appox. 6 CDs instead of the 1 DVD?.
> This is a massive d/l 2.36 Gigs.  If I have it figured right 6 CDs should

> be
> more than enough.
> Steve 



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