re: Installing Win 7 from an SD card
Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Objekt
(66 messages posted)
Holy blast from the past, Batman!
I have done several Win 7 installs from an SD card (actually a micro SDHC card
in an SD adapter, but who's counting) since my last post.
The possible conundrum is that you have to have the Vista/7 DISKPART utility to
set up the card properly, otherwise it won't work.
It would be nice if there were a way to add that utility to an XP system. Otherwise
someone with a machine lacking an optical drive is kinda stuck. Lots of netbooks
were sold with Windows XP - and no optical drive - so you pretty much have to install
from an SD card or USB stick if you want to upgrade them to 7. But you also have
to have a second machine with Vista/7 already on it to set up the USB stick/SD card
to install 7.
I'm sure there's also a way to install 7 over a network via PXE boot, but that's
a little advanced for me. I once messed with PXE to get Ubuntu on a laptop with
a broken optical drive, but it was a severe pain in the butt and not at all straightforward.
Not only that, but it was achingly slow, because (being an older laptop) it had only
a 100 Mbit NIC.
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