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So I have a few copies of 7 and a new rig that needed a install. So I dumped the ISO file onto a hard drive, made it active, and boom had 7 installed in 6 mins.
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Installing windows 7 from a hard drive FTW!
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Interesting. So you created a partition, copied all the contents of the Windows 7 installation disk to that partition, set it active, and booted to it, and you installed from a hard drive? That seems pretty convenient.
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I had download a few copies from msdn from when I was in school. What I did was open the ISO using PowerISO, extract the files onto the hard drive, then I went into disk management and made the drive active. This was done using a extra hard drive. No partition. I could see this working very well if your doing a lot of benching and blowing out windows all the time.
It works great! Rips the files sooooo fast!
I have a few copies of server so what I may try to do is dump 7, server, and XP onto this disk and installing that way.
The one issue I may have is it may of saved the boot log on the the install hard drive.
It works great! Rips the files sooooo fast!
I have a few copies of server so what I may try to do is dump 7, server, and XP onto this disk and installing that way.
The one issue I may have is it may of saved the boot log on the the install hard drive.
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i do the same thing with a usb flash drive. with vista and 7, you can extract the iso onto w/e storage device, make the partition active, and then boot off the drive. doing the same thing with an internal hard drive would definitely speed things up.
i know i did a full install of a of 7, off a usb drive onto my s599 128gb ssd in 8 min 47 secs. thats from pressing enter to boot off the usb flash drive, to having internet explorer open.
i know i did a full install of a of 7, off a usb drive onto my s599 128gb ssd in 8 min 47 secs. thats from pressing enter to boot off the usb flash drive, to having internet explorer open.
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I can install from a flash drive to an SSD in about 8 minutes. From turning the computer on to having the desktop up.
I still remember the days of the OS taking forever to install, and everything else being fast. Now we can install in OS in a few minutes, and spend several hours putting games and crap back on the computer.
I still remember the days of the OS taking forever to install, and everything else being fast. Now we can install in OS in a few minutes, and spend several hours putting games and crap back on the computer.
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something else I thought of, I could take a hard drive install windows on it, split it into 2 drives and put the ISO on one. So when I need to do a fresh install it would be no problem. I could also load drivers and software so no need to download lots of stuff.
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This activating of the drives you guys keep talking about, how does this work?
I gathered that you open the ISO with a program, copy all the files off the ISO onto an empty partition of a grive, usb stick what ever, other media then dvd-rw. But im clueless on this activating.
I gathered that you open the ISO with a program, copy all the files off the ISO onto an empty partition of a grive, usb stick what ever, other media then dvd-rw. But im clueless on this activating.
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Excellent advice - Will definitely try this. I tend to keep my IDE DVD-RW as I don't have a need to upgrade it yet to a SATA based drive... Even then, I'd still prefer this method! Many thanks!
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have the drive plugged into a win 7 or vista computer.
open a command prompt type: (after each line below press enter)
diskpart
list disk
select disk # (where # is the number from the above list that corresponds to ur flash drive / hdd with the extracted iso)
list partition
select partition # (where # is the number from the above list that corresponds to THE PARTITION that the extracted ISO is on)
active
exit
And then ur done.
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^ Yup. This marks that partition on the drive as the "Active" partition, which the system will look for when booting to that drive.
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