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elegant
31.10.09, 04:22
Those of you who no longer believe optical drives are essential or own a netbook or similar device without a CD/DVD drive might be left wondering how they would go about installing Windows without one. Relax, as all you need is a 4GB or bigger USB drive, flash or hard drive based.

Please, see this guide @ eTeknix (http://www.eteknix.com/how-tos/how-to-install-windows-vista-or-windows-7-from-a-usb-drive/)

striker89
03.12.09, 15:47
I want to try it but will it wear out my Usb drive??

anyone have tried it? is there any performance hit?

anon
03.12.09, 18:11
I want to try it but will it wear out my Usb drive??

If your flashdrive uses SLC memory, its cells will work for ~100000 write cycles. MLC memory can only take ~10000. Some newer USB sticks allow up to a million writes.