If you have the drive space, you might want to increase this to 40960. 20480 = 20 Gigs which should be plenty for testing and installing a few applications. This setting controls the size of the Virtual Hard drive Windows 7 will be using. The only thing you might want to customize in Step 5 is the setting “ maximum=20480”. Type create vdisk file=c:win7boot.vhd maximum=20480 type=expandable and Press Enter Now we’re going to build a virtual hard drive (.VHD) on your physical hard drive.ĥ. Press Shift + F10 when the Install Windows screen appears (as shown below.) ISO file to a DVD and reboot with the DVD in the drive so that you will boot from the DVD drive.ģ. Otherwise just create a Live ID and you will be provided a product key for Windows 7 RC 1.Ģ. If you have a hotmail account just use that. If your computer is ~6-12 months old, this would be a good time to try out a 64-bit version.ĭuring the download process you will be prompted for your Windows Live ID. FYI – For most computers and applications, you should probably just download the 32-Bit Version for now. Note – In order to create a Dual-Boot Install of Windows 7, you will need at least 20 GB of free space on one of your Hard Drives in your system.ġ. But essentially I’m going to show you how to use the native VHD support in Windows 7 to boot a physical machine. So, to keep things simple, what I’m going to do is show you the EASIEST way to install Windows 7 Release Candidate to test and play with while at the same time not messing with your current Windows Install – even if you have only 1 hard drive in your computer. Before I do that however I figure it’s only fair to first talk about how all you groovyReaders out there can easily install Windows 7 risk free so you can not only read about Windows 7 but actually ENJOY it as well!
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