Installing windows 7 on a x200 w/o external optical drive.

[nightlamb]

Hello.

I been trying to install win7 home premium x64 on my x200, it has a hitachi 7200rpm,i havent an external optical so i make a bootable usb with win 7, and when i get to the screen where you chose the partition to install SO, and after of formating the complete hd and click on next it says that cant find a partition or make a new one, so i tried to format the partition before the installation with acronis disk director, also with paragon and magic partition pro, but i still getting the same message, then looking on lenovo web i found the intel matrix storage driver so i installed it on the laptop when asked for drivers in the same screen, also tried to making the partition active an primary before the instalation but it didnt work, now i dont have any other ideas to solve the problem(by the way, i havent an external optical drive). Any ideas or a solution? what should i do?!

Thanks.

[GrandMasterKhan]

Mister Softee has a software tool to do a USB installation. Check site braddah.

[Subliming]

Here are the steps:

1. Use a program like IMGBURN to create an ISO of your windows disc. If you already have it in ISO format even better.
2. Download USB DVD Tool
3. Install the program. You need a USB flash drive that is 4GB in size at least. The program will format and make the drive into a bootable Windows 7 installation drive.
4. Boot from USB and install Windows 7
5. ???
6. Profit

[billp117]

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=86878

This might help you.