@johngardner58 wrote:
It works fine. There are number of ways to get Window 7
1. Use a portable USB DVD player. Make it bootable from USB in BIOS.
2. Mount and share another computer's DVD drive and use that. But it doesn't work for booting. However I don't think it is still necessary to boot. I think you can run the setup file. The downside to this approach is that your registry will have mappings to the network drive which may not always exist and create delays as your computer tries to ping them.
3. Use various imaging tools like Norton Ghost or Clonzilla to put a predefined image.
There are more ways too like mounting and booting from an ISO image located on a USB external drive. You need some software for this but there are some free ones out there that work.
Often your IT group has ways of provisioning a machine over the network.
I actually shared a DVD and this worked
I also cloned the HDD and replaced it with a much larger SSD. A total WOW performance upgrade
