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    Posted on October 24, 2009 at 17:20 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows Team Blog says that a new tool, called WUDT, will take a Windows 7 ISO file and turn it into a bootable DVD or create a bootable USB drive with all the files. WUDT runs on Windows XP, Vista, or Win7.

    No mention of whether WUDT will work with “Upgrade” versions of Win7, or if you must purchase a “full install” version of Win7. Ah well. Yet another detail still unanswered.

    If you want to put Win7 on your netbook, and you can’t get a bootable DVD drive attached to the netbook very easily, it’s a good approach. Nothing magical about installing from USB: Steve Sinofsky said months ago that he had installed Win7 on his netbook using a USB drive, and there are instructions for doing it all over the Web. But this is the first time that I know about where MS has specifically come up with a USB option.

    There are several problems with the approach. For starters, at this point, you can only buy the ISO version of Windows 7 through Microsoft’s own store. There’s a good analysis of the downsides on Geek.com.

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