Copy Win 7 disk to HDD?

[Wrenches]

Long ago I used to partition my HDD and copy the Windows disk to the partition. Then I'd install Windows from the HDD. Can I still do that with the Win 7 disk?

 

[AddRAM]

Why would you want to do that if you have the disc ?

Be better to put a disk image on the partition.

 

[Wrenches]

Never mind. Just found out I can't make a boot disk with Win 7. I used to do that because the HDD is faster installing Windows and it's there when needed.

 

[theog]

You can if like.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/58455-recovery-partition-create.html

 

[Wrenches]

Cool but it used to be lot simpler with old Windows. I guess when they removed DOS the days are over.

Oh well, I'll just use the disk.