Windows 7 has been slimmed down and optimized to work well even with the minimalistic netbooks and other not so powerful machines. Our tests have all shown that Microsoft’s new operating system is indeed fit for these machines, but there is an obstacle for many netbook users. Netbooks in general doesn’t have an optical drive and therefore you have to install Windows 7 either through an external optical drive or a USB memory stick.
The latter is most likely to prefer since USB memory with several GB capacity can be bought for practically no money today. Though it can be tricky to make a USB memory stick bootable and ready for a Windows 7 installation, something memory maker A-DATA has decided to help us with.
It has released the first beta version of the software OStoGO, which through a simple user interface enables your USB memory to do a Windows 7 installation. The only thing required is a Windows 7 DVD and a PC to do all of the preparations.
We have been hearing some exciting reports about how SSDs have been used as USB installation drives for Windows so if anyone of you are eager to try, it has never been this easy.
More on the software and download links at at A-DATA’s website.
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