Microsoft has made Windows 7 release candidate 1 available. Yet, it is a DVD image - what if you want to try it on a netbook or an ultra-slim laptop without a built-in optical drive? Here is how to ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

You might have come across a situation where your CD-ROM is non-functional or DVD drive is inaccessible, but you want to install Windows Vista or Windows 7. Obviously ...

Brier Dudley has good news, everyone: Responding to concerns about loading Windows 7 onto … computers that don’t have DVD drives, Microsoft introduced a tool to load the software onto a USB memory ...

Hey, I'm trying to create a bootable USB stick of a Windows 7 Home Premium disk using my Mac (10.7 Lion). I've followed the following procedure adapted from the Create a USB Stick on Mac OS X for ...

The USB flash drive has replaced the floppy disk drive as the best storage medium for transferring files, but it also has its uses as a replacement for CDs and DVDs. USB drives tend to be higher in ...

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...