Category: accessories
By: Pallab Jyotee Hazarika
Microsoft provides tool for installing Windows 7 on netbooks
Remember the netbooks generally don’t have an optical drive
Historically Microsoft operating systems used to come in CDs. Now as we go more and more compact, the scope for the optical drives has become very limited. Small SD cards have taken the place, as most of the software are downloadable. So how do install Windows 7 on a netbook?
Now Microsoft launched a tool that lets you download Win 7 and install it using a USB drive (of a minimum of 4GB storing space). The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool basically allows you to make the USB drive with the Win 7 installer ISO file in it to become bootable. Now restart and go on as you normally install an OS. Note that you cannot install by extracting the ISO file on your harddisk and double clicking the .exe file. It has to be copied somewhere. The device must be formatted in order for the device to be bootable, so it is not recommended to have it copied in iPod, camera, or other device with enough free disk space.
There is one glitch – while writing this tool, Microsoft engineers seem to have borrowed a piece of code from Imagemaker, an open source project hosted on Microsoft's own CodePlex service, and forgot to give it due credit. Microsoft has put its own licensing terms on the source codes.
Once this is revealed, MS had removed the download link, but after some rework, posted it again (If you want the original file, remember it is a collection copy, get it here). The latest version makes you install a few support software first viz. Microsoft .NET Framework v2 and Microsoft Image Mastering API v2.
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