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You’ll be wiping the flash drive clean, so back up any data on the drive before

you continue. With the flash drive inserted into a USB port, and your Windows

setup disc in your DVD drive, make note of each of these drive letters.

You’ll need a flash drive of at least 4 GB, and one that plugs

directly into a USB port. (In most cases, flash cards used for

cameras are not suitable.) Also, only newer PCs can boot from

flash drives; to see if yours can, check the documentation or

snoop around your PC’s BIOS for settings to enable this fea-

ture, as explained in Appendix A.

Next, open a Command Prompt window in administrator mode (see Chapters

9 and 8, respectively), and type diskpart to open command-line disk parti-

tioning tool (discussed in “Work with Partitions” on page 328). At the dis-

kpart prompt, type:

list disk

Look through the list and find the number assigned to your USB flash drive.

Then type:

select disk n

where n is the number of your flash drive. Then type these commands in order:

clean

create partition primary

select partition 1

active

format fs=ntfs

assign

exit

to prepare the flash drive. When that’s done, type:

d:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 u:

where d: is the letter of your DVD drive and u: is the letter of your USB flash

drive. Finally, copy all of the files from the Windows DVD to the flash drive

root (top-level) folder.

When all the files are in place, plug it into one of the target PC’s free USB ports

and use it to start your computer.

Upgrade from a Previous Version of Windows

In a departure from earlier versions, Microsoft has made it impossible to per-

form an in-place upgrade on any Windows older than Vista. (And XP users

thought they were unhappy when Vista came out!)

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