Installing Windows 7 from Hard Disk

Another way of installing windows 7 is installing it from the Hard Disk itself.
Requirements:
Hiren Boot CD 10.4
Windows 7 CD
Usb Stick 


Create Hiren Boot usb by following the guide on Hiren's Website


1. Insert Hiren Boot USB in your USB Port and boot your machine from USB
2. Choose "Dos BootCD" Option

3. Further choose "Partition Tools", "Smart FDISK" and press enter.

4. In Smart FDISK Window press F2 for creating Primary Partition. Size is 15Gb, partition type fat32, click on OK.

5. For marking the partition as active press Alt+P, then Alt+A to mark the partion active.

6. To save the change press Alt+P, then Alt+S,
7. To Exit press Alt+X. It will ask you to restart your machine. Choose OK, Again boot your machine from USB and select "Mini Windows XP" and press enter.

8. In Mini Windows XP mode Right click on My Computer, select Manage. Right Click on the newly created partition and click on format option. Choose File system as NTFS select quick format option.

9. Copy "boot sources bootmgr" from windows 7 disk to your newly formatted C partition 

10. Start Command prompt from the desktop and run the following commands:
c:\
cd boot
bootsect /nt60 SYS

11. Just restart your machine by clicking start button. 
12. Restart your machine by selecting hard disk as a first boot device and it will start with Windows 7 setup.