Comments on: Install Windows 7 directly from hard disk without using any Secondary Medium

By: Bharat Balegere

Bharat Balegere — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:52:19 +0000

I am glad that it helped you.

By: Ernan

Ernan — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:23:09 +0000

This is great for notebook computers with no internal or external DVD-ROM Drive available. And probably..not tested most useful if you do this on a Thumbdrive or external hard drive

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:27:01 +0000

I still have an old PC with no DVD drive and this procedure helped me. Thanx a lot and keep up the good work.

By: skeeter

skeeter — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:15:51 +0000

I agree its not worth it, but just ordered my new system last week, and got blindsided that it had no ide port! LOL all my dvd drives are ide so $1500 system and no way to install. since I’m upgrading to win7 at the same time as this upgrade, its a very welcome feature. Also read alot netbooks dont have optical drives :P

So thanks for the info, but I have a retail disc already :)

By: gnikolic

gnikolic — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:06:52 +0000

Yes, I read somewhere about it.

Have you got some directions for making BDC to boot more than one WIM files?

Thanx in advice.

By: Bharat Balegere

Bharat Balegere — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:49:02 +0000

For this you need to boot from DVD and install Windows 7.
If you want to install from hard disk you cannot do a clean format.

By: Bharat Balegere

Bharat Balegere — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:46:12 +0000

A wim file can have only one bootable image.If you want to boot more than 1 wim image,you must create wim images with different file names and make an entry in the bcd file for each of the wim file.

By: gnikolic

gnikolic — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:55:53 +0000

Hi Bharat!
I see that you are using BCD. Have you any idea how to make one wim file with more than one bootable images, like Active@, Ghost, MSDaRT, adn other tools which are using Windows 7 to start their own applications?

Thanx in advice.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:35:59 +0000

I have an ssd drive and xp 32 bit currently on it, and I want to replace it with win 7 64 bit by doing installation from hdd. I need to secure erase the drive before instal and thus Ill get my xp wiped off before installing win 7.
Anybody knows a way to do that? I can’t get the partition on my other storage drive to boot :/

By: John

John — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:52:42 +0000

ha-ha, i think this is not about waste or not, if you don’t have a DVDROM or just got some trouble with the optical drive, with your external port too, what will you gonna do?

i think it still worth, coz everybody not in a same condition as you, so many problem’s outthere buddy..

*cheeerr*