Installing Windows 7 Through Daemon Tools?

[Sethos]

Hey,

Here's the deal, want to give the latest build of Windows 7 a try but I've got no spare DVDs and the biggest USB pen I have is 1GB. So I read a while ago about installing it through Daemon Tools, hopefully it wasn't some sort of crazy dream? You were supposed to mount it in Daemon Tools from within your OS, then you should be able to boot from that image when restarting your PC and then be able to install from there - Is that true or did I read this wrong? Perhaps it's not the exact way to go about this ... ?

Any info appreciated :)

[Nemo Live]

Yeah, I'm assuming you've made another partition for your Win7 install. Just mount the DVD from the other partition and setup will run and allow you to select the target partition and copy the files over and it reboots continues the setup.

[DukeEsquire]

I've done that with Vista so I imagine Windows 7 would work as well.

[Sethos]

I was under the impression it would find the virtual drive during boot :laugh: Guess I just learned something new, it worked perfectly and I'm not up and running, thanks (Y)

[LiquidSolstice]

  Sethos said:

I was under the impression it would find the virtual drive during boot :laugh: Guess I just learned something new, it worked perfectly and I'm not up and running, thanks (Y)

Wait wait.

What?

Daemon tools makes a boot-readable drive? Where was I when this feature came out? :x

I didn't know you could do that.