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Create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive : How To

August 24th, 2010 nugie No comments

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 capacity than disc media, but since they are more expensive, they cannot (yet) really be used as a replacement. There are reasons why you would, however, choose a USB device over a DVD disc, and bootable software is definitely one of them. Not only is it faster to copy data such as setup files from a USB drive, but during usage the access times are also significantly faster. Therefore, installing something like Windows 7 will work that much faster from a USB drive than from a DVD.

This guide will show you two different ways to create a USB flash drive that works just like a Windows 7 DVD. In order to follow this guide, you’ll need a USB flash drive with at least 4GB of free space and a copy of the Windows 7 installation disc.

Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool

You are normally given this tool when you purchase from the online Microsoft Store.

The easiest way to turn a USB flash drive into a bootable Windows 7 installer is by using the tool Microsoft offers, cunningly named the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. To get started, download the installer from Microsoft.com and follow the basic steps to put it onto your computer; you can put it on the computer you plan to install Windows 7 on or another one, it doesn’t matter. Continue reading “Create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive : How To” »

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Notebook dengan Intel Core i7 dan Windows 7

October 5th, 2009 nugie No comments

Laptop HP Pavilion dv8 hadir dengan kelengkapan processor mobile Intel Core i7-720QM 1.6GHz yang telah diumumkan di Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2009. HP Pavilion dv8 memiliki cache L2 6MB, dengan paket memory 4GB plus dual harddisk 320GB 7200RPM.

Laptop ini juga memiliki display 18.4 inch HP Brightview Infinity, dengan resolusi 1920×1080 pixel. Untuk view content HD, HP menambah performanya dengan grafis Nvidia GeForce GT 230M plus 1GB memory video dan port HDMI out untuk menyimpan content video HD ke layar yang lebih besar, termasuk ke TV.

Fitur lain yang ada di laptop terbaru HP ini seperti Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi (802.11 a/g/n), Bluetooth, 4 port USB 2.0, slot ExpressCard/54, port FireWire, VGA out, dan finer print reader. Ukuran keyboard juga tampak besar dipadu dengan keypad numeric. Continue reading “Notebook dengan Intel Core i7 dan Windows 7” »