Windows 7 is the latest offering from Microsoft Corporation, the makers of the world’s most popular and widely used processing systems, the Windows series. This brand new version of Windows is already gaining in popularity thanks to its amazing new features, improved touch recognition, improved handwriting recognition, improved speech recognition, incorporation of new gadgets, use of loop trackers and efficiency testing tools in its design and some great new display features. There are a lot more features and surprises waiting for you. You have to experience it to believe it. This latest public release is a series of operating systems that can be used in home computers, business computer models, laptops, tablet personal computers, media center personal computers as well as on net books. The official release date was the 22^nd of October, 2009 along with Windows server 2008.

 When you install Windows 7 on your personal computer, your drive will undergo a formatting process. In this, you will lose all the data that you had saved on your drive. This is done in order to provide a ‘clean slate’ for the new system to install in. this is an important point to keep in mind. Many people tend to create a back up of all their data in a separate drive or use a brand new drive itself for the installation process. Another cool way of keeping your stuff safe is to install and operate the new Windows 7 system is a virtual partition, or a dual partition. The advantage of this system is that you will not have to spend the money or effort required to make a back up and buy a new hard drive. If you want to opt for this method, here is how you can go about it.

 This is a great way of installing Windows 7 without a USB or DVD drive.

 Download the public beta ISO 2.5 GB file and burn it into a DVD – R

 Create a virtual machine in VMWare and boot it off the installation DVD.

 According to the brains at Microsoft, you should burn the disk at the slowest speed that your DVD burner supports.

 Virtualizing applications like VMWare and Virtual PC support the usage of ISO files without having to burn them.

 Go to My Computer and double click on the Virtual Clone Drive icon. This will start the Windows 7 installation process.

 Now, all you have to do is follow the usual prompted commands and steps as advised by the Windows 7 installation procedure guide.

 Windows will usually restart with the restarting of your computer in order to continue with the smooth installation of the new system.

 Of course, the rest of the installation process will go as routinely expected. You will have to agree to the terms and conditions and all the license agreements, and after installation you will be required to enter a user name and a password as an option.

 Great! You have now installed Windows 7 on a virtual partition!