Do not have a DVD drive in your laptop or netbook, facing problems with DVDs getting scratched.Here is a permanent solution to have a reliable Installation source as USB or Pen drive.Also the installation would be 3X faster. The USB drive should be atleast 4 GB in Size.
- We will use the DiskPart utility inbuilt in Windows operating system to prepare the usb drive as a installation source.
- Open the Windows command prompt by typing cmd in Run box.
- Type diskpart in the command prompt .
- Type list disk command to check the status of your drive
- Type select disk 1 where the “1” is actually the corresponding number of your USB drive.(It may different on your system, check the size of the disk to confirm it is the USB drive.)
- Type clean.
- After the USB drive is clean, type create partition primary.
- Now make the partition active by typing command active
- Then you need to set up the file system as Fat32 by running format fs=fat32 quick
- Type assign to give the USB drive a drive letter .
- Then copy all the files from the Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation DVD onto the USB drive. If you have Windows 7 or Windows 8 ISO You can actually copy all the contents after extracting the ISO.For extracting you can use Power ISO or other similiar utilities.
- Now you can install the Windows 7 using the USB drive(might need to change boot options to boot from USB in your system BIOS settings) .
The installation will be atleast 3X faster than DVD.