No optical drive Install operating system tutorial

In this age when laptops are already popular in conference rooms, business people take notebooks to demonstrate PowerPoint and electronic meeting minutes, and when laptops are already popular in classrooms, students even use notebooks to read books for open exams.

With the notebook computer is becoming an integral part of people's lives, the new problem comes, the blind pursuit of price-performance is caused by the body weight unscrupulous in the shoulders of people, that is, "pole effect." People with common sense of notebook know that price/performance and portability are the pros and cons of the notebook field, they are always opposite and impossible to live in harmony, even if the state is striving to promote a harmonious society.

Many of the users of mobility requirements, in the first notebook to eat the cost benefits of the same time they are suffering from the "pole effect" side effects. So they started to choose a second machine that existed only for portability, and most of the machines had a feature that had no optical drive design! In the market to look, not with the CD-ROM drive is usually a portable machine representative, their weight is very light, performance is not sloppy, although the price high, but still got a lot of unbearable " Pole effect ", the pursuit of mobile strong notebook users of all ages.

I have a lot of friends in the use of the notebook without optical drive, but the problem also came, need to reinstall the system, there is no optical drive, how to do? Maybe you would say that you can install the hard disk in DOS, but how many people will use DOS?

In fact, not only without the optical drive notebook users worry about how to install the system, those who do not have optical drive desktop users worry. In order to provide convenience for such users, the author today to explain, in the absence of optical drive, how to facilitate the rapid installation of the operating system.

Preparation before loading the system

A USB drive that can start a computer and a system's optical image

Before installing the system, something needs to be prepared. One is the operating system of the mirror, the other is able to start the U disk. Here we will explain how to install the Deepin version of the XP system.

Note: Read this article to understand some of the basics of installing the operating system.

%20 first is to create a computer with a windowsPE boot USB drive.

First go to the Internet to download a "Old peaches WinPE" tool to the hard disk, and then the U disk connected to the computer, and then follow the steps of the following step-by-step can be made to start a U disk.

Select item 4th, then enter

Enter the disk character of the U disk and return

Come to the formatting step, press the default setting, click "Start" on the line

Smooth formatting

Boot section

Here to explain, in the "device" there are two options, one is the computer's hard disk, one is to make a U disk. Here must choose the U disk and do not choose the wrong hard drive, from the size can be divided out which is a U disk. The author of the U disk is 2G, so should choose (HD1) [1898M]. The "Options" section below can be done without a tube, and the default is to not check any parameters. After you confirm the above steps, click Install and then proceed to the next step.

Write boot complete, press any key to continue

To set a password for the boot disk.

Originally I do not want to set the password to start a U disk, but this step can not be skipped, so there is no way to have to set a password. After setting up, be sure to keep in mind that you set the password, otherwise the boot U disk will not be able to use.

Finished production

When you have completed the above steps, congratulations, a startup function of the U disk has come to your side. You don't have to worry anymore. No optical drive can be started from the optical drive, because you can start from the U disk and then install the operating system! Want to know how to operate? The next page begins.

%20 the computer's first boot to USB device startup

In the past, the CD-ROM system must be adjusted to start the CD-ROM drive, and now we have to use U disk installation system, so you want to adjust the boot for U disk. On this, different computer versions of the BIOS have different settings, but are the same, the purpose is to let the computer's first boot into a U disk startup. Below we illustrate several different bios adjustment methods.

The most common phoenix-award bios option, select USB-HDD

BIOS tuning options for Dell-branded machines

BIOS for ThinkPad Series notebooks

BIOS for HP Commercial Notebook series

You can see that all of the BIOS options are different, but the adjustment options are for one purpose: Set the computer's startup key to be from USB

Equipment to start, so as to achieve the effect of starting the computer from U disk.

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Connect the USB drive with the startup function to the computer first

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Start the computer

When you start the computer, you will be asked to enter the password to start the U disk, which is the password you set when you start the USB drive. When you enter the correct password, you can see a selection menu, select "Winpe%20%20by:maotao".

Enter WinPE

Then you'll get into a mini OS WinPE that runs on a U disk (not on a computer's hard drive), and it has a lot of features like XP, and with it we can do whatever we want with the computer.

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You can format the C disk

How do you do it? can be directly to the C disk format operation, this is shocking enough? Before installing the new XP, we will format the C disk first.

Use the WinPE on the USB disk to format the C disk in your computer, and then give the virtual drive to help.

The WinPE running on the U disk has a virtual optical drive

Load a mirror image of an XP CD

We chose a deepin ghost version of the CD-ROM image, made from the famous "8-minute quick-Install 6.5" CD-ROM. If there is an optical drive, as long as the "8-minute Fast version 6.5" CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive directly installed on the line, but because there is no optical drive, so we have some trouble to install the system.

One more drive when you load a system image with a virtual CD drive

We see a ghostxp-6.5ntfs drive letter in the "My Computer" directory after loading the system image with the virtual CD-ROM. This is the location of the system we are about to install.

Start the WinPE Ghost

Then we start another WinPE with the Software Norton Ghost. Use it to restore the ghost image of the system to the C disk of the previously formatted computer.

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It's no different from the usual steps to use ghost.

After starting the ghost, the use of the method is no different from the usual use of ghost to recover the system. Select From%20%20image, then locate the CD-ROM directory where the virtual CD-ROM is loaded, pick the Ghostxp.gho, select the hard disk you want to revert to, and then choose the partition you want to restore to.

Click Yes, waiting for it to return to the line from the computer to master the Web

Before you choose, a dialog box pops up asking if you want to restore the specified Gho image to the computer's C disk, and click Yes.

Reboot into system, reload complete

Once the ghost Mirror is restored, the system can be restarted. At this point, the installation of the operating system with U disk is complete! You can forget the trouble of not having an optical drive to install the operating system.

It is worth mentioning that, because the whole process is to read the data on the hard disk, so the installation speed than the CD-ROM installation much faster.

In fact, this is only a USB disk to install the system of one of the methods, there are many other ways to install the system, this article is no longer one by one examples. Perhaps careful you have found that with this boot U disk, you do not have to fear the system after the crash, the important data saved in C disk and can not save, because as long as you use U disk to start WinPE, you can go in to the important data back to other partitions. Hope netizens can according to this extrapolate, the nimble use WinPE this installs on the USB disk the very use tool.