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Booting win 7 from USB flash drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sushant_mac" data-source="post: 895007" data-attributes="member: 89823"><p><strong>The Solution !!!!!!!!</strong></p><p></p><p>Hey Bassi , Don't get frustrated.... I know the stuffs of win 7 and how it can get annoying to install it without the external drives. Hey i tried most of the forums to get answers and used google for a week to find the answer. ANd I found it... I have installed Win7 through this way about 2 months ago and i am mostly gaming. Well, experiences aside and back to solutions..</p><p>You got 2 options:</p><p><a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=631901" target="_blank">Install Windows from USB Flash - Mac Forums</a></p><p>One boot from USB(flashdrive) and install windows!!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=601414" target="_blank">Bootcamp install of Windows without using the super drive - Mac Forums</a></p><p>Other install windows without using Superdrive, cds or external drives.</p><p></p><p>I actually used the 2nd option as i didn't have 4Gb or larger USB drive. Well its your choice. I actually got this idea while sleeping to boot without external drive... i searched then found some but not quite useful then asked at the forum and the guys helped me....</p><p>I would suggest u to use 2nd option as 1st option is working for some and not working for some people. IF ANy problem let me know;D </p><p></p><p>Note: In the 2nd option, see the Collin Ec's post for understandable steps as he has correct some stuffs. And you can use trial of Vmware for this(u don't need to buy it for this) </p><p></p><p>Note: I used refit to boot after installing win7 and i didn't had to go through winclone stuff...cuz refit found my win7 bootable...If refit's not working, try enabling it through a enable.sh which in the refit directory somewhere.. ;D</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sushant_mac, post: 895007, member: 89823"] [b]The Solution !!!!!!!![/b] Hey Bassi , Don't get frustrated.... I know the stuffs of win 7 and how it can get annoying to install it without the external drives. Hey i tried most of the forums to get answers and used google for a week to find the answer. ANd I found it... I have installed Win7 through this way about 2 months ago and i am mostly gaming. Well, experiences aside and back to solutions.. You got 2 options: [url=http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=631901]Install Windows from USB Flash - Mac Forums[/url] One boot from USB(flashdrive) and install windows!! [url=http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=601414]Bootcamp install of Windows without using the super drive - Mac Forums[/url] Other install windows without using Superdrive, cds or external drives. I actually used the 2nd option as i didn't have 4Gb or larger USB drive. Well its your choice. I actually got this idea while sleeping to boot without external drive... i searched then found some but not quite useful then asked at the forum and the guys helped me.... I would suggest u to use 2nd option as 1st option is working for some and not working for some people. IF ANy problem let me know;D Note: In the 2nd option, see the Collin Ec's post for understandable steps as he has correct some stuffs. And you can use trial of Vmware for this(u don't need to buy it for this) Note: I used refit to boot after installing win7 and i didn't had to go through winclone stuff...cuz refit found my win7 bootable...If refit's not working, try enabling it through a enable.sh which in the refit directory somewhere.. ;D [/QUOTE]
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