
The users who do not have the optical drives in their netbooks need not to worry about a fresh installation of Windows Vista or Windows 7 on their machine. You can now do it following some simple and easy steps. All they need is a 4GB or larger USB drive. You have to keep in mind that all computers do not hold up booting from a USB device; hence your computer should be compatible with that kind of booting source. This option is found in the BIOS setting. Also check if your USB drive is bootable.
• Step 1: You will require a functioning computer which has Windows Vista/Windows 7, a Flash Drive of 4GB in size. And if you intend to use a 64-bit version, you may need an 8GB Flash Drive. If you have all these, then get down to the business. A little more to add, installing from USB drive is much quicker than that from a DVD. Just place in the USB drive into a Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer and wait for it being detected.
• Step 2: Click on the Start button to go to the Search field to type cmd. You need not to press enter now. Just scroll down the menu that appears and right click on the ‘cmd.exe’ option. Choose ‘Run as Administrator’ and continue to the next step.
• Step 3: Now in the cmd, you are likely to find some significant information about the USB drive. Carry out the sequence of commands to adapt it to a Windows Vista or Windows 7 boot drive. Type DISKPART in the cmd and this will definitely implement the Vista or Windows 7 DISKPART utility.
• Step 4: Now just type the following commands. You will be provided with a list of disks available on your PC and select the one that is much like your Flash Drive. Now just type the following in cmd
LIST DISK >SELECT DISK >CLEAN >CREATE PRIMARY PARTITION >SELECT PARTITION >ACTIVATE >FORMAT FS=NTFS
• Step 5: If all the steps are done, close the command prompt.