In the notebook has long been popular to this years conference room, business people take the laptop to the PPT presentation and meeting notes in electronic version; the laptop has spread to the classroom this year, the students even with a laptop looking at the data were open-book exam. With laptops becoming an integral part of people's lives, new problems came, the blind pursuit of cost due to the weight of the body is beat unscrupulous people in the shoulders, or "pole effect." There are common sense knows that notebook, cost and portability are the positive and negative proposition notebook field, always confrontation between them and can not live in harmony, even if the state in efforts to promote a harmonious society.

There are many requirements for user mobility, cost-effective sweetness in eating the first notebook while enduring the side effects of all in the "pole effect". So they began to select only the second machine is a portable exist, and most of these machines have a feature that is no CD-ROM design! In the market looking ahead, notebooks without optical drives are usually represents the portable machine, they are very light weight, performance is not sloppy, although the price is high above, but still can not stand to get a lot of "pole" effect, the pursuit of favor of highly mobile notebook users.

??? I have a lot of friends in the use of a laptop with no optical drive, but the problem came, you need to reinstall the system when there is no optical drive, how to do? You might say the hard drive can be installed in dos, but there are a few people will use dos?

In fact, not only laptop users without optical drives worry about how to install the system, desktop users who do not drive is also unhappy. In order to facilitate this type of user, the author today to explain, in the absence of optical drive, how fast and easy installation of the operating system.

�� Preparing to install the system

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U can start a CD image of the disk and a computer system

Before installing the system, you need to prepare something. One is the mirror image of the operating system, the other is able to start the U disk. Here we explain how to install deepin version of the XP system.

Note: to read this article you need to know some basic knowledge to install the operating system.

�� The first is to make a computer can start with WindowsPE the launch of U disk

First online to download called "old peach WinPE" tools to the hard disk, then U disk connected to the computer, and then follow the steps below step by step you can make a U disk can be started up.

Option 4, then Enter

Enter the U disk, and then press Enter

Came to the formatting step, according to the default settings, click "Start" on the line

The successful format

Here to explain part of the guide, there are two options in the "equipment", the one is the computer's hard drive, to make a U disk. Here we must choose to do the wrong U disk and hard disk, you can divide it from the size of which is U disk. The author of the U disk is 2G, so they should choose (hd1) [1898M]. Below the "Options" section can not control, do not check any of the default parameters on the line. After confirming a good step above, click "Install" and then the next step.

Write booted, press any key to continue

To give the launch of U disk I do not want to set up a password originally set to start the password U disk, but this step can not be skipped, so no option but to set up a password. After setting, be sure to keep in mind that you set a good password, otherwise the launch of U disk will not be used.

Production is completed When you have completed the above steps, congratulations, has started a function of U disk has come to you. You no longer have to upset no optical drive can not boot from the CD-ROM drive, because after you re-install the operating system can boot from the U disk! Want to know how to operate it? Next began.

�� The computer entry is set to start the first USB device starts

CD-ROM to install the system in the past, we must adjust the boot entry for the drive started, and now we have to use U disk loading system, so as to adjust the U disk. About this, different versions of the computer bios settings have different methods, but are similar, the purpose is to let the computer become the first startup item U disk. Here we illustrate several different bios adjustment method of.

The most common Phoenix-Award of the bios options, you can choose USB-HDD

bios dell brand machine adjustment options

ThinkPad series of notebook BIOS

HP business notebook series can be seen above the bios BIOS options are different, but the options are adjusted for one purpose: the computer is set to boot from a USB device boot entry, so as to achieve U disk to start the computer from the effects . �� install XP can start with U disk

Start first with the function of U disk connected to the computer

After starting the computer starts the computer, you will be asked to enter a password to start U disk, that is, the password set earlier in the production of the launch of U disk. When you enter the correct password, you can see a selection menu, select "WinPE By: MAOTAO".

Into WinPE and then will enter a run in the U disk (not running on the computer's hard drive) mini WinPE operating system, it has many features similar to XP's, with which we can on the computer oyster.

You can format how an arbitrary method on the C drive? Can be directly on the C drive formatting operation, this shocking enough, right? Before installing the new XP, let the C drive formatting. U disk with WinPE on the computer's C drive after formatting, then a virtual drive to help.

WinPE is running on the U disk comes with a virtual drive

Loading mirrored XP CD-ROM we have chosen is a deepin produced ghost version of the CD image, produced by the famous "eight minutes quick version 6.5" CD-ROM from. If you have the drive, as long as the "eight minutes quick version 6.5" CD into the CD-ROM drive installed directly in the line, but because there is no optical drive, so we took some of the trouble to install the system.

Use will be more of a drive after the virtual drive to load system image we see in the virtual drive to load system image, "My Computer" directory in more than a drive letter of a GHOSTXP-6.5NTFS. This is what we are about to install the system's location.

Start WinPe's Ghost Then we start another WinPE software that comes with Norton Ghost. Use it to restore the system to a ghost image prior to being formatted computer C plate.

After step with the use of GHOST usually no different start GHOST, use it and typically use GHOST to restore the system makes no difference. First select From Image, and then find the virtual CD-ROM drive to load the directory, the GHOSTXP.GHO election, then choose to be restored to the hard disk, and then choose to return to the partition.

After clicking YES, waiting for it to finish to restore the front line have choice, it will pop up a dialog box asking if you want to specify the GHO image back to the computer's C drive to, click yes you can.

Reboot into the system, when completed reinstall GHOST image restore is complete, you can reboot into the system. At this point, install the operating system complete with a U disk! You can not forget the drive can not install the operating system troubles. It is worth mentioning that, because the whole process is to read the data in the hard disk, so than on the installation of speed much faster installation CD-ROM. In fact, this is just one method with U disk to install the system only, there are many other ways to install the system, it will not bore you. Careful you may have found that, with the launch of U disk, do not be afraid after a system crash, important information is stored in the C drive can not be saved, because as long as you use the U disk boot WinPE, you can go to important information backup to another partition. According to this hope netizens can learn by analogy, this tool is very flexible use WinPE installed on the use of U disk.