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How do you get your OS on your PC if you do not have an optical drive

saltdlt
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I'm planning to buy and build a PC, but I am not sure if I need an optical drive. If not how else would I get windows on my PC.

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USB flash drive/external hard drive.

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With a USB drive. 

 

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/a/install-windows-7-usb.htm (same principal for win8)

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I manually encode the bits on the drive :P,

 

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USB thumb drive, or if you need to use optical disk, then usb optical drive.

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Copy the files on the DVD to a USB drive.

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USB drive. You can download the installation media from almost anywhere you want, it's perfectly legal. But you must buy a licence key for it if you install it. The licence doesn't matter, as long as it's the version of Windows you plan on installing (say for example: if you plan on installing Windows 7 Ultimate, buy a licence for Win 7 Ultimate. You get the idea.)

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Just copy the files onto a USB drive and boot from said USB drive. It's fairly simple.

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Make sure it's in a USB 2.0 port and not a USB 3.0 port. If you try installing it with USB 3.0 you'll run into a screen that tells you there's a driver problem.

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Please mark this as solved, try searching for the answer on the forum for popular/common/basic questions. I've seen this same question answered several times in the past week.

 

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