Comments on: Windows 7 on a Thumb Drive?

By: ibjasonbme

ibjasonbme — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:22:07 +0000

I have a thumb drive with Windows 7 Ultimate on it now. I made it myself, it is bootable and installs just fine on all of the netbooks I have tried it on. Fairly simple, just boot from drive as if it was a Cd or DVD then install. I used a Disk to get all the files, then moved them to the Flash drive after making it bootable.

Jason

By: ǝıɥɔıɹ

ǝıɥɔıɹ — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:22:39 +0000

Wow just wow im getting a new notebook in november how do you think theyy will send the se7en upgrade by disc or download?

By: Apple Jacks

Apple Jacks — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:10:57 +0000

I remember even a couple years ago some tax and antivirus software came on USB flash drives, giving their users a chance to gain a free USB Drive from their purchase.

By: טכנאי מחשבים

טכנאי מחשבים — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:42:10 +0000

very nice idea!

By: narreh

narreh — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:37:24 +0000

I dunno about this either, would cause much issues for Microsoft Support. who’s supposed to support it if there are any installation issues, if the end-user is unable to boot from the device and so on, Microsoft? the manufacturer(OEM)? The end-user?

By: tommyy77

tommyy77 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:17:53 +0000

well I don’t know about this…. Windows7 on pen drive sounds really odd.

By: Blog Troony » Blog Archive » Windows 7 poderá ser vendido em pen drives

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:01:53 +0000

[...] De acordo com o blog Beyond Binary do site CNET, em maio a Microsoft declarou que seu novo sistema operacional seria perfeito para netbooks. Então, para incentivar o upgrade dos usuários que compraram suas máquinas com o Windows XP e até mesmo com Linux, a empresa de Bill Gates teria pensado na venda do sistema já em flash drives, a fim de facilitar na hora da escolha e da instalação, noticiou o site Technologizer. [...]

By: JustCallMeBen

JustCallMeBen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:33:31 +0000

@ Randy:
I have a USBstick on which I isntalled a linux-distro and I can boot it anywhere. At least on machines on which I have access to the BIOS :)

Most modern PCs can boot from a USB-drive by default, but some don’t, and then you have to change the boot priority in the BIOS… I fear this won’t be an option for most mainstream user :/

By: ediedi

ediedi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:41:59 +0000

The disappearance of physical drives is not 2-3 years away, it’s 20-30 years away at best. Download everything? only when everything will be available online and every single consumer will benefit from cheap broadband internet – we are very fram from that globally.

By: Randy Peterman

Randy Peterman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:50:45 +0000

I am curious how many devices boot cleanly off of a thumb drive. I don’t have any real experience with it, but maybe someone here can comment on the quality of the experience across different machines.