{"id":647,"date":"2009-08-06T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=647"},"modified":"2009-08-06T21:13:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T20:13:40","slug":"use-a-usb-key-to-install-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Use a USB Key to Install Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several advantages of install Windows 7 from a USB drive \u00e2\u20ac\u201c It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s small and easy to carry around, it can be installed much quicker, and you can install it onto computers without a DVD drive.<\/p>\n<p>To get started just follow the instruction below, and in just 10 easy steps you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be ready to boot from your USB drive.<\/p>\n<p>1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Download and install DiskPart, you might already have this preinstalled on your computer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=0FD9788A-5D64-4F57-949F-EF62DE7AB1AE\">Download DiskPart<\/a>.<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Open a CMD windows, and type \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<b>diskpart<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>3 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Next type \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<b>list disk<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, this will display the disks install on your system.<\/p>\n<p>4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Type the following command \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<b>select disk 2<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 2 is the number of you USB drive. <\/p>\n<p>5 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Then type \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<b>clean<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>6 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Next Type \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<b>create partition primary<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>7 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Now enter \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<b>active<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Next format the drive \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<b>format fs=fat32 quick<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Now make the drive visible \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<b>assign<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>10 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Copy everything from the Windows 7 DVD and put it on the newly created USB drive.<\/p>\n<p>Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready to start installing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several advantages of install Windows 7 from a USB drive \u00e2\u20ac\u201c It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s small and easy to carry around, it can be installed much quicker, and you can install it onto computers without a DVD drive. To get started just follow the instruction below, and in just 10 easy steps you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,10,5],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","tag-usb","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}