re: Installing Win 7 from an SD card
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:02 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(7848 messages posted)
Are you sure it can run windows 7 and has win 7 drivers for everything? I would just
go buy a USB DVD drive myself.
On Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:39 am, Objekt wrote:
>Has anyone managed to install Windows 7 (any version) from an SD card? I recently
>bought a netbook which has an SD card reader. It will boot off the SD card, but
>I haven't yet found the magic combination to get a Win 7 install going.
>
>I'm pretty sure I could make it work from a USB flash device, but the biggest USB
>flash doohickey I have is only 1 GB. The 32-bit version of Win 7 is DVD-sized,
so
>it won't fit on a 1 GB drive. I do have an 8 GB micro SDHC card + adapter to put
>it in an SD slot.
>
>I tried using unetbootin with the Win 7 32-bit RC *.iso to make the micro SDHC card
>a bootable Win 7 install medium. Didn't work. While the Untebootin menu came up,
>nothing happened when it actually tried to boot. I guess the Win 7 boot loader
wasn't
>happy with something.
>
>FWIW, I tried formatting the SDHC card as both FAT32 and NTFS, with the same results.
> I use HP's flash formatting utility to do that.
>
>What's the secret? I'm sure there's a way, but I haven't found it yet.
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