Rookie Growth Manual: How to install an operating system without a CD drive

                  In the era when laptops have been popularized in conference rooms, business people took notebooks to demonstrate PPT and make electronic version of the meeting minutes. In the era when laptops have been popularized in the classroom, students even used laptops to read materials for open-book exams.

As laptops are becoming an indispensable part of people's lives, new problems are coming. The blind pursuit of cost-effectiveness is the unbridled weight of the body, which is the “shoulder effect”. People with common sense in notebooks know that cost-effectiveness and portability are the pros and cons of the notebook field. They are always opposite and cannot live in harmony, even if the country is striving to promote a harmonious society.

Many users who have requirements for mobility have endured the side effects of the "shoulder effect" while eating the price-performance sweetness of the first notebook. So they started to choose a second machine that exists only for portability, and most of these machines have a feature that is no optical drive design! In the market, the notebooks without optical drives are usually representative of portable machines. Their weight is very light, but their performance is not sloppy. Although the price is high, they still get a lot of can not stand the "flat effect", the pursuit The favor of mobile notebook users.

I have a lot of friends who are using a notebook without a CD-ROM drive, but the problem is also coming. When I need to reinstall the system, there is no CD-ROM drive. What should I do? Maybe you will say that you can install the hard disk under dos, but how many people will use dos?

In fact, not only the notebook users who do not have an optical drive, but also the desktop users who do not have a CD-ROM drive are also embarrassed. In order to provide convenience for such users, the author will explain today how to install the operating system conveniently and quickly without an optical drive.

● installed before the system can start to prepare

a CD image
U disk and a system of computer

Before installing the system, need to prepare something. One is the image of the operating system, and the other is the USB flash drive that can be booted. Below we will explain how to install the deepin version of the XP system.

Note: Reading this article requires some basic knowledge of installing an operating system.

● The first is to make a bootable USB flash drive with WindowsPE that can start the computer

First go online to download a tool called "old peach WinPE" to the hard disk, then connect the USB flash drive On the computer, then follow the steps below to create a bootable USB flash drive.

Select item 4, then enter

Enter the drive letter of the U disk, then enter

to the formatting step, press the default setting, click "Start" "On the line

Successfully formatted

boot part
Here to explain, there are two options in the "device", one is the hard disk of the computer, one is the U disk to be made . Here must choose the U disk and do not choose the wrong hard disk, from the size can be divided out which is the U disk. The author's U disk is 2G, so you should choose (hd1)[1898M]. The "Options" section below can be left alone. By default, no parameters are selected. After confirming the above steps, click "Install" and proceed to the next step.

Write to boot, press any key to continue

Set a password for the boot U disk
Originally, I don't want to set the password for booting the USB flash drive, but this step cannot be skipped, so There is no way to set a password. After setting up, be sure to keep in mind the password you set, otherwise the U disk will not be available.

Production is completed
After you complete the above steps, congratulations, a USB flash drive with boot function has come to your side. You don't have to worry about it anymore. No CD-ROM drive can't be booted from the CD-ROM drive, because you can boot from the USB flash drive and install the operating system later! Want to know how to do it? The next page begins.