junkylesno.blogg.se - february 2023

Don’t use the same USB drive you plan to install Windows with. Either connect to a network or plug in a USB drive and copy everything want to keep. The first thing you will want to do is make sure you get everything you want off the computer.

ImgBurn for ripping your installation disc if you choose that route.

Another computer with an optical drive may be needed borrow a friends or go to a public computer lab.

A flash drive with at least 4 GB more if you want to put stuff other than Windows install files on it.

A copy of the Windows installation disc and not just your recovery discs (for our purpose we will use Windows 7 which you can get for around $100 as an OEM version or cheaper from a campus bookstore if you are a student).

So how do you install a new OS without an external or internal drive? It could be that you are not too cheap, but are too broke. Maybe you’re like me too cheap to drop $50-$150 on an external drive. The simplest way to install a new OS is to buy an external optical drive, plug it in, and after inserting the Windows installation disc into the drive, boot the computer from that drive. This tutorial will show you how to install Windows without a CD drive. Or maybe you are like me and bought a computer that has Windows 7 Starter Edition and want to upgrade to Home Premium or some other version. Could be that you have one of those Linux Netbooks and want to go with Windows.

Maybe your Netbook came with Windows XP and you want 7 on it or vice versa.

There are a number of use case scenarios where you would need to install Windows onto a computer without an optical drive. This can save you the cost of buying an external optical drive for your Netbook. But it is not impossible and with the right tools, it is doable. If you have a notebook computer without an optical drive and want to install Windows onto it, you have a challenge.