Discussion on several different installation ways of Windows 7

Windows 7 Beta1 Since the public test has received a lot of praise, many users have downloaded Windows 7 Beta1, ready to install the experience, perhaps you have installed the Windows 7 Beta1 is experiencing. Today, however, Goxia wants to share with you some of the installation pathways for Windows 7 Beta1.

We know that the traditional installation is to burn the downloaded Windows 7 Beta1 ISO files to a DVD for installation, but this approach may have minor problems in some friends ' environments, such as some friends who have not DVDRW devices, or encounter a time when there is no DVD-R or DVD-RW CD-ROM, but the need to install the experience of the mood is also able to experience. OK, these days on the Internet widely spread a popular way is to use USB Flash (commonly known as U disk) as a carrier of the Windows 7 Beta1 ISO file decompression, and then use a U disk for boot to install, so it is really convenient many, and speed is faster than the CD-ROM way some.

In addition, we can also by moving the hard drive to install, and the way U disk is different. There is also a network to install, such as through WDS or with the MDT to install. It's easiest to install as an individual user via a U disk or a mobile disc, but be aware that if you're on a system that is not Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, you'll be disappointed. In other words, if your current environment is Windows XP, then use the method provided on the Internet partition format can not be normal boot, not to mention installed! So if you're going to install Windows 7 Beta1 in the way you mentioned earlier, you have to meet a bit, at least a Windows Vista machine, or you already have a Windows PE 2.0 CD on hand.

Because the ability to use a U disk or a removable disk for Windows 7 Beta1 installation, the focus is on storage devices that are formatted and activated through Diskpart in Windows Vista. So friends who have started using Windows Vista are forward-looking. Users who are still using Windows XP do not make Windows PE even if you install Waik now, unless you generate the ISO format for Windows PE and then burn to a CD.

In addition, Windows 7 Beta1 ISO is not able to download the installation through the Virtual optical drive tool that was previously published by Microsoft, even if it is successfully loaded, an error will be prompted during installation. Goxia has been using its customized Windows PE 2.0 to integrate into Microsoft's Virtual optical drive tool, which has been used for operating system installations such as Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 M3 Build6 801. However, it is now necessary to release Windows 7 Beta1 from ISO and then install it through Windows PE 2.0 boot. Currently, in Microsoft Connet's Windows 7 Beta program test Project, Tester has submitted suggestions that Microsoft will be able to provide Native Mount ISO functionality in Windows 7, which would be great if it could be done. ！ At least later, users do not need to install the virtual optical drive software, not to worry about the virtual optical drive software is incompatible with the system.

Ok! Let's now revisit the important step that you must perform to install Windows 7 Beta1 by moving the storage device. Partition and activate storage devices in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows PE 2.0. To do this, open CMD with administrator privileges, and perform the following steps:

DiskPart

List disk (the physical disk on the current computer for the listing)

SEL Disk 1 (select Mobile storage device, where number 1 is the ID number of each disk when the list shows the physical disk)

Clean Erase All the information on the device, and be careful to back up your data in advance. ）

create partition primary (creating a primary partition volume)

Format Fs=ntfs quick (using the NTFS format for quick formatting)

Active (active partition volume, bootable)

Exit

After that, release the files from the Windows 7 Beta1 ISO to the storage device. You can use the latest version of 7Zip to perform the release operation. (7Zip is an open source free decompression software, widely supports the current popular compression format.) ）

If you want to create a boot for Windows PE on a mobile disk, you can refer to the article that was written in this Blog. Steps are similar, just create partitions of different sizes, after all, many friends want to create multiple partitions on a mobile hard disk for storage of data. If you have mastered the Diskpart command, I don't think I can tell you how to use it flexibly without goxia.