How to Install Windows 7 using USB Memory Stick

Windows 7 is doing really good with the netbooks. With me using HP Mini 2140 running on VIsta, Windows 7 beta was a welcome chance. What mattered was, how I replaced the pre-installed Vista to install the Windows 7 Beta. The real concern was that my machine lacked a built in media drive or even I didn't have an external USB DVD drive. But I got it done with a simple hack. Take this.The trick was simple.

Follow the steps:
Step 1
To begin with I had my 4GB USB 2.0 reformatted to FAT 32.

Step 2
The next step was to copy the contents of the Windows 7 Beta ISO image to the memory stick using

xcopy :\*.* :\ /e /f

(e:was my DVD drive and f: the removable drive )


The windows installation was not just easy but as quick that I could have clocked the time. It was much faster than those DVD installations on Desktops.

I must add, with Windows 7 it was a better netbook experience than previous operating systems.