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Since Apple was one of the first companies to erase DVD players from their computers, many manufacturers sooner or later have decided to do the same to try to minimize the size of their laptops. Since Apple stopped using these optical drives in their computers, any user of the company's laptops had to use a pendrive to be able to install each new version of the operating system that the company releases each year, an operating system that, unlike Windows, has been absolutely free for several versions.

Fortunately OS X is not the only operating system that can be installed using a USB drive, since Microsoft also makes this option possible after the arrival of laptops, those laptops with a very limited processor of approximately 10 inches and that did not include an optical drive. In order to install our version of Windows 7 from a USB drive, we first have to download or create an image of the DVD with the operating system to later transfer it to a USB drive to be able to start our laptop or computer from that drive and proceed with the installation.


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Once we have prepared our USB with the Windows 7 image or through the DVD, we will proceed to restart our device and go to the BIOS. Each computer offers us a different way to enter it. For this we will have to press the ESC key, or the F2 key, even though, as I have mentioned, as soon as we start the PC, it will show us the way to enter it before it starts to load the operating system. Once inside the BIOS we just have to go to the boot section (BOOT) and modify the primary boot drive to be a USB drive instead of the hard disk or optical drive that we have in our computer.

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