Installing Win 7 from an SD card
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:39 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Objekt
(48 messages posted)
Has anyone managed to install Windows 7 (any version) from an SD card? I recently
bought a netbook which has an SD card reader. It will boot off the SD card, but
I haven't yet found the magic combination to get a Win 7 install going.
I'm pretty sure I could make it work from a USB flash device, but the biggest USB
flash doohickey I have is only 1 GB. The 32-bit version of Win 7 is DVD-sized, so
it won't fit on a 1 GB drive. I do have an 8 GB micro SDHC card + adapter to put
it in an SD slot.
I tried using unetbootin with the Win 7 32-bit RC *.iso to make the micro SDHC card
a bootable Win 7 install medium. Didn't work. While the Untebootin menu came up,
nothing happened when it actually tried to boot. I guess the Win 7 boot loader wasn't
happy with something.
FWIW, I tried formatting the SDHC card as both FAT32 and NTFS, with the same results.
I use HP's flash formatting utility to do that.
What's the secret? I'm sure there's a way, but I haven't found it yet.
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