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Jonin4life
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So I bought windows seven on a disk, and i dont have an optical drive. This is for a new, fresh build. Any suggestions?

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I'd borrow a friend's computer and follow Linus's instructions here:

Or go pry your friend's optical drive out of his PC and promise to return it.

Or just pick one up from somewhere for $15.

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I say borrow one if you don't want to spend the money,

Just I don't advise going to the length I went to with my server.. which was old IDE DVD drive hooked up to an external IDE->USB dock into the IO on the Motherboard.. it wasn't pretty

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As others have mentioned, the easiest and quickest thing to do is to just find an optical drive to use for a while, either to install it from that drive or to use somebody else's computer to make a USB drive out of the DVD.

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OMG that video from Linus is soooooo complicated for nothing.

I guess he never heard that Microsoft made a tool to do just that: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

1- You make an ISO out the disk.

2- You run the program from Microsoft, select the ISO, and it will prepare the USB flash drive, extract the OS ISO disk image, and make the drive bootable, all for you. That is it!

3- Plug the USB drive to your computer, boot from it, and install Windows 7 (or 8) in a few minutes.

Note: You need a computer running a 64-bit Windows to do the above.

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Use Win2Flash to do it. Very similar to what "GoodBytes" said, except you don't need a 64-bit OS and it's not an official tool. I've done it lots of times :)

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Since you got it on a disk you'll need to download an equivalent copy of the DVD as an ISO, burn it to a USB as mentioned by the previous commenters, and use the product key that came with the disk.

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Thank you all for the comments! I'll probably borrow an optical drive for the time being

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