![]() ![]() As it turns out, I “missed” or rather ignored your advice to use the 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. I apologize for my somewhat terse & well…ignorant remark above. I like using the USB flash/disk drives more and more. Burning ISO images to CD/DVD is becoming less popular. ![]() Thanks to VMWare Workstation I was able to use the new USB flash drive media to install Windows 7. ![]() The installation of Windows 7 will start. Make sure that right partition is selected Specify the Disk File and Finish the configuration of the virtual disk Select the USB flash drive device “PhysicalDrive1” and “ Use individual partitions“ In following screenshots you can see how I did to get it done: Start VMWare Workstation and open the properties of your VM then create new virtual harddisk and use the physical partition of the inserted USB disk. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does not support to boot from USB removable disks, but there is a workaround to achieve that. I also can use this media to install my virtual machines. Now I am going to use the USB flash disk drive to install my systems. In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. ![]()
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