I bought a external cd drive and not an internal one for my new build for some reasons, but can i install windows 7 from it? i dont have any os installed before i do it
You should be able to. If not you could always use a memory stick or something.
You can use a memory stick?!?! Linky please?
if you already bought an external just use that
You have to boot from usb is what you have to do.
like just put the iso on the drive?
When you go to install windows, just choose your external drive as your primary C: drive.
External DVD drives don't like being run for extended (5 minute) periods of time (figured out the hard way with Ubuntu 9.10 on my netbook), I'd highly recommend using a flash drive for the installation.
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