Installing Windows 7

[grybos]

Im building my first computer and I was wondering if there was anyway I could install Windows 7 from a flash drive or external hard drive when I go to set up my computer?

Thanks for any help.

 

[saint19]

Hi newcomer and welcome to the Tom's hardware forum.

Here u can find all the information that u need.

 

[Jonmor68]

Instructions for a flash drive at Microsoft, although they are for netbooks which don't have dvd drives, the principle is the same. Why the need for a flash instalation, surely you will be fitting a dvd drive, it's not like they are expensive?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows7/installing-windows-7-on-a-netbook

 

[grybos]

Yeah i'll have a disk drive, its just my friend is giving me a copy of his windows 7 and its an ISO file so I wasnt sure about how about setting it up this way since there would be no way to use like daemon tools or something.

 

[saint19]

Do u have ur own win 7 key?

 

[grybos]

Yeah he has 3 and he's only used one of them.

 

[Jonmor68]

If that is a family license he has, you can't legally use it as per his license agreement which in part states:
“If you are a ‘Qualified Family Pack User’, you may install one copy of the software marked as ‘Family Pack’ on three computers in your household for use by people who reside there.”

 

[ksampanna]

Yeah i'll have a disk drive, its just my friend is giving me a copy of his windows 7 and its an ISO file so I wasnt sure about how about setting it up this way since there would be no way to use like daemon tools or something.

Not to be pedantic, but I think that's not exactly legal.

 

[grybos]

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