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[Doug]

Ok so the time has come where I have to install a new OS (the Win 7 beta crashes every two hours) so I'm updating to the RC. Well I created a bootable USB out of my iPod to install it from that. I keep getting an error saying that it needs/can't find the drivers even though I have done every possible thing I have found to remedy that. So fuck that option.

Next I want to know if there is a easy way to install windows from another hard drive. I hooked my hard drive up to the PC and downloaded Win 7 RC on it. I want to run it from my hard drive and install it onto the pc's actual hard drive (which is currently the slave as mine is the master).

I know the easiest way is to buy a DVD and burn it, but I never use DVD's and they only have them in packs of 15 here. I'm not paying $10 to install a free damn version of windows.

[jagojon3]

Just order DVD's in bulk online. You can get a 100 pack of single layer Verbatims for $20-25 a lot of the time.

[Doug]

I don't want DVD's that's just it lol. I have no use for them what so ever except installing an OS. I just stream any videos and music.

[Doug]

Figured it out.

Plug in my hard drive running old Windows 7.
Download Windows 7 RC.
Mount with PowerISO.
Run installation on secondary drive (main drive once I unplug my drive)

Whole problem was to begin with is that it was missing files. After a THIRD time downloading it, it got them all.

[crxvtec91]

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[Jorsher]

Linux> xindow

Take your shit somewhere, I have less problems from my Win7 machines than I do my Linux machine.  Linux box, I run low on space, shit starts crashing and acting screwy, and I can't remotely log into it...Have to FTP and delete something, then can log in.  Then, even if I do delete shit, Linux doesn't see it until I sudo reboot it.  Have used it on/off for years and don't see what the big deal is.  "Woo, I can go through extra hassle configuring it and getting drivers so I have a much more limited software catalog and driver support."  Wooooo, nothx...  It's good for use as a server, and that's all I use it for.

Win7 I brought down to 16KB and wouldn't have noticed if it didn't give me the "OMGZ LOW DISK SPACE!!1" message.

elitists

Doug - how were you "missing files" ?  If you downloaded it from Microsoft (which is free, and they give you a valid serial), it's an ISO file and there's no way you can be missing files.  I don't get why people download the torrents, if that's what you did.

BTW, I bought 10 DVD-RW from WalMart the other day for about $8.  I don't use discs much and these will probably last me the rest of my life...good for burning ISOs.