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VMWare: Windows 7 USB installation disk

In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Now I am going to use the USB disk to install my systems but also I can use this media to install my virtual machines. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does not support to boot from USB removable disks, but there is a workaround to achieve that.

Start VMWare Workstation and open the properties of your VM; than create new virtual harddisk and use the physical partition of the inserted USB disk. In following screenshots you can see what I did to get this done:

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  1. VMWare: Windows 7 USB installation disk « Networknet.nl Blog | All about windows 7 says:
    December 16, 2009 at 6:03 pm

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