As we all know, Microsoft plans to release its much awaited Windows 7 in October 2009. But, most of the times people are always interested in knowing how to install Windows 7 on a pen drive or USB drive. They were always eager to know the whole procedure of “Installing Windows on a USB drive so that Windows could be run directly from there.
Nowadays, Creating a bootable USB has become a breeze and so is installing an operating system on it. Linux already provides the option of creating a live CD or even a USB start-up disk for itself.
Now this time it is Windows 7 !
Requirements
1. As Windows Vista and Windows 7 require more space than Windows XP, so we need a USB drive with at least 6 GB of free disk space.For Installing Windows XP, even a 4 GB flash drive will be enough.
2. Bootable Windows 7 DVD or USB.
Procedure of Installing Windows 7 on USB
1. Connect your USB drive or Flash Drive to the computer and backup all the data from the drive.
2. Download VirtualBox portable, double-click on the executable file and extract the contents to your USB/ Flash Drive.
3. Now, go to the VirtualBox portable folder inside the USB drive, and execute the Portable-VirtualBox (.exe) file.
4. From here onwards, you need to follow the onscreen procedure to create a virtual disk and install Windows 7 on USB. Follow the install Windows 7 on VirtualBox guide to complete the process.
5. Once you finish the installation process, you can safely close VirtualBox and remove your USB drive.
6. You can now use this Windows 7 USB drive on any Windows machine that you want. To use Windows 7 on other machine, connect the Windows 7 USB, open USB drive, and run portable-VirtualBox file.
Hope you found it useful !
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