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Topic: Anyone install Win7 to a USB drive on their rig? - page 2. (Read 3800 times)

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You don't need anything bigger than 8GB, just make sure it's a decent flash drive and not a cheap-o.

Use Rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/ to make a bootable USB, and a good ISO of Windows 7. That's it!

That's for installing Windows 7 from a flash drive.

If so, any quik details you can chime in with?

Installing Windows 7 on a flash drive (or even an external HDD) is not straightforward for a rather simple reason: Microsoft doesn't want you to. Can Windows 7 boot from an external USB or FireWire drive? gives a little bit of information on the topic.

Also, what size USB? 8gig or so?

The minimum disk space for 32-bit Windows 7 is 16 GiB. It's 20 GiB for 64-bit.
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You don't need anything bigger than 8GB, just make sure it's a decent flash drive and not a cheap-o.

Use Rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/ to make a bootable USB, and a good ISO of Windows 7. That's it!
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If so, any quik details you can chime in with? Also, what size USB? 8gig or so?

Thxx!
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