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VMWare: Windows 7 USB installation disk
Dec 16th
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:
Windows 7: USB/DVD Download Tool
Dec 15th
If you are planning to deploy and install Windows 7 on your computer systems and you are downloading ISO files than this tool can help you in creating the USB or DVD’s installation files. Now days I only download the ISO file from MSDN of the Microsoft Volume Licensing websites.
The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.
To download the tool please click here. Run the setup, next and install.
Start the “Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool” shortcut from the menu.
Browse the iso file and click next.
Choose USB drive or DVD.
Select your removable drive and click Begin copying.
That’s it! Insert the USB drive and power the system, change the boot order and select the removable drive.
Data really deleted???
May 18th
Today I moved my data using the robocopy.exe tool and using the /move switch; the tool migrated data from one usb disk to another one. Before returning my usb disk to the IT department I checked the disk partition with one of the tools I use to check deleted files. Guess what the tool found 18000 files in 10 minutes scan on the usb volume which was empty…
Before I will return this USB disk for re-use I will make sure no data is left which can be recovered by any tool. With physical disks I used gdisk with dod option to wipe all data. For the USB disk I am going to install tool called Eraser which is freeware.
