I have good news for people who want to use Windows 7 but don’t want to install it on their hard drive. There is now an easy way to install Windows 7 RC on you’re external hard drive.
1. Download the Windows 7 RC1 from Microsoft
2. Connect you’re external hard drive to your pc. Make sure that the computer the Hard Drive is connected to is not a netbook.
3. In Microsoft’s Windows Vista click the start button and type in “computer management” (without quotes) In Windows XP click Start –> control panel –> Administrative Tools –> Computer Management
4.You need to extract the Windows 7 ISO file to your Hard Drive. To do this you can use software like Nero, MagicISO, WinZip. I used a trial of Undisker. If you choose to use Undisker like me Click Image, Extract To, then navigate to the root folder of your external hard drive. Click Extract and wait a few minutes for the process to finish.
5. Safely remove the Hard Drive and plug it in to the computer you’ll be running Windows 7 on.
7. If everything goes correctly Windows 7 should start and the setup should begin.
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ReplyDeletethanks for your tip, the best site for all the up to date news on the product is found at the Windows 7 support forum, at micorsoft.com/springboard. The site will also give you all sorts of useful information, such as the “what’s new in the r.c.” feed….or you can also you use talkingaboutwindows.com as an additional resource
Thanks,
Glen@microsoft-springboard