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    Install Windows 7 Directly From Hard Drive

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    This document provides a guide for installing Windows 7 or 8 directly from a hard drive without needing a DVD or USB drive. It involves connecting the hard drive to another working computer to prepare it, copying necessary Windows setup files, making the hard drive bootable using Diskpart commands, and then installing Windows on the target computer by booting from the hard drive. Some final steps include editing the boot menu and deleting unnecessary files to clean up after installation. The method allows installing Windows by booting directly from a prepared hard drive.

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    Install Windows 7 Directly From Hard Drive

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    This document provides a guide for installing Windows 7 or 8 directly from a hard drive without needing a DVD or USB drive. It involves connecting the hard drive to another working computer to prepare it, copying necessary Windows setup files, making the hard drive bootable using Diskpart commands, and then installing Windows on the target computer by booting from the hard drive. Some final steps include editing the boot menu and deleting unnecessary files to clean up after installation. The method allows installing Windows by booting directly from a prepared hard drive.

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    This document provides a guide for installing Windows 7 or 8 directly from a hard drive without needing a DVD or USB drive. It involves connecting the hard drive to another working computer to prepare it, copying necessary Windows setup files, making the hard drive bootable using Diskpart commands, and then installing Windows on the target computer by booting from the hard drive. Some final steps include editing the boot menu and deleting unnecessary files to clean up after installation. The method allows installing Windows by booting directly from a prepared hard drive.

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    Install Windows 7 Directly From Hard Drive

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    Venkatesan Venugopal
    This document provides a guide for installing Windows 7 or 8 directly from a hard drive without needing a DVD or USB drive. It involves connecting the hard drive to another working computer to prepare it, copying necessary Windows setup files, making the hard drive bootable using Diskpart commands, and then installing Windows on the target computer by booting from the hard drive. Some final steps include editing the boot menu and deleting unnecessary files to clean up after installation. The method allows installing Windows by booting directly from a prepared hard drive.

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    How to CLEAN Install Windows 7 directly from Hard drive – NO

    DVD or USB needed!!

    For example, you have a netbook or desktop that you want to install
    Windows 7 onto, but can’t use DVD or USB for whatever reason (or
    don't want to, like me). This method will allow you to boot and install
    Windows directly from the hard drive. This guide involves plugging
    the hard drive into another working computer, preparing the hard
    drive, placing it back in the system, and installing Windows as
    usual.

    This guide will work for Windows 7 and Windows 8. I have a


    Windows 8 instructable, but it's essentially the same guide with
    some Windows 8 pictures. This guide will not work for Windows
    Vista - I have an instructable for that.

    Part 1: Preparing the HD with Windows 7 setup files.

    - Connect the hard drive to another working computer.


    - Format the hard drive to NTFS (Quick format works fine; multiple
    partitions also work).
    - Copy the following from your Windows 7 disc:

    Boot
    Sources
    Bootmgr

    Part 2: Making the HD bootable

    Using Windows XP, Vista, or 7, open CMD as Admin (Windows key


    + R, type CMD, hit Enter)

    Enter the following commands, (replace X with what applies to your


    hard drive):
    diskpart
    list disk
    select disk X
    list partition
    select partition X
    active
    exit
    X:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 X:

    (See picture for example)

    Exit and shutdown.

    Note: If you’re working on a 32-bit system, and you want to install


    64-bit Windows, you may get problems trying to run the last
    command (X:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 X:).
    Solutions:

    Use a computer with a 64-bit version of Windows

    OR

    A little trick that worked for me: If you have a 32-bit Windows 7
    disc, you can copy bootsect.exe from that and replace the 64-bit
    one (boot\bootsect.exe).

    Part 3: Booting and installing Windows

    Place the hard drive back into the target machine. Make sure that
    the BIOS is configured to boot from the hard drive. If you did
    everything correctly, you should see “Windows is loading files” and
    setup will load (really fast, too, because it's loading from the hard
    drive). Install Windows as usual (but don’t format your drive this
    time in the installer – otherwise it will erase the Windows 7 setup
    files too!).
    Part 4: Final steps/housecleaning

    We’ll have to quickly edit the boot menu once Windows is installed.
    In Windows 7, hit the Windows key + R. Type msconfig, and hit
    Enter.
    Click to the Boot tab at the top.
    Click 'Windows Setup (\windows)', and hit Delete.
    Click OK.
    Click 'Exit without restart'.

    And lastly, delete the ‘Sources’ folder from your hard drive root (this
    will free up 2-3gb).

    I hope this helps some people out. Feel free to comment :)

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