Install Refit On Usb Key

This is Windows 7 being installed on a MacBook Air from a USB thumbdrive. Note: it's not a requirement that the thumbdrive is pink. Dong Ngo/CNET So you've gotten yourself the sleek new MacBook Air and your first thought is to install Windows 7 on it. OK, that's my first thought.

Uefi usb boot on mac without refit. I really don't wanna install rEFIt. Is there any other way? REFInd so that its menu appears only if you hold down a key. Oct 25, 2010 - This is Windows 7 being installed on a MacBook Air from a USB. REFIt allows for boot the Macbook Air from other a USB thumb drive, which is.

The problem is the laptop has no optical drive, meaning you'll probably have to buy an accessory that costs around $80 to do the job. Well, unless you're reading this. Download lagu jesijee money honey. Yes, it's totally possible to install Windows 7 (or Vista) on the MacBook Air without a DVD drive.

All you'll need is a computer running Windows 7 (that has a DVD drive), a 4GB or larger USB thumbdrive, a Windows 7 installation DVD, and about an hour of free time. Note: make sure you back up the contents of the thumbdrive as they will be completely erased during this process. Also, the actual work is a lot shorter and less intimidating than the look of this article. Here are the detailed steps. Getting Windows installation on the thumbdrive.

On the Windows 7 computer, plug the thumbdrive into a USB port, then start the command prompt with administrator rights. This is how: a. Click on Start, type cmd in the search area, then press Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Click on Start > All Programs > Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. Now that the command prompt has opened, you'll want to use a tool called Diskpart to prepare the thumbdrive by typing in diskpart and then pressing Enter.

As Diskpart doesn't see storage devices on your computer as drive letters, but rather as a list of disks, you'll need to identify the thumbdrive. You can do this by typing command list disk then pressing Enter. Now the screen will show a list of storage drives currently connected to the computer, starting with Disk 0. You can easily figure out which one the thumbdrive is by looking at the amount of storage. A 4GB thumbdrive will show as around 3856MB. For this guide, as seen in the screenshot below, the thumbdrive is Disk 3. Now you want Diskpart to select this drive by typing command select disk 3 then pressing Enter.

So far we have used the following commands: diskpart list disk select disk 3 Note: In case you mistype a command (and then will be greeted with an error message), you can always redo it. These commands are not case-sensitive. If you have done everything correctly, the command prompt window should be displaying something like this: Run command prompt with admin rights and use Diskpart to select the current thumbdrive. Dong Ngo/CNET 3. Now we'll need to further prepare the thumbdrive by executing another handful of commands, one after the next. Remember to press Enter after each of them. Clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=ntfs assign exit Note that format fs=ntfs will take about 5 to 10 minutes to finish depending on how large the thumbdrive is.