I think the Milky one used unetbootin.

I think even using win32 image writer would work too.

He also said he did it on Mac, so I ignored everything he said and just admired his single-geared bike, beard and dog-eared Jean Paul Sartre book. 

Found a torrent for the ISO, currently getting about 30 k/s from it (fail)

Yeah, I looked for some torrents too. Seems far too much hassle just to get a bloody ISO.

Yup. How's that upload going?  :-O~~~

Done, just md5sum checking. I'll PM you a link in a min.

10 minutes to download 3.8GB? What's the world coming to.

(hug)

The dedicated server is definitely one of my better investments. Well worth the £30something it costs per year.

I bet it still doesn't work for you though.

Probably not, my laptop is cursed. But at least I get to go 'ooooh' at getting these sorts of speeds over my shitty wifi :D

Closed the media creater tool, and the download's jumped up to 6.5 MB/second. </geek>

All working!

I'm still amazed at how quickly things go these days. Not so long ago reinstalling windows was a good couple of hours or so, and then god knows howlong downloaiding updates on a shitty slow connection. 

Now it's less than 15 minutes using a USB 3 memory stick, an SSD and my stupid-fast broadband and I'm all setup, updated, Chrome installed (and synced to my previous settings/extensions). And now I can change my desktop picture!!?!!!!":"111

I knew downloading the ISO when I didn't really need it would come in handy.

for future ref, my bike has gears and unetbootin have a download for Windows and Linux too :)

As I discovered. That'll teach me to ignore hipster mac users!

You were doing this on a fucking battery? WTF?

 (erm)

And download the ISO.

It's one of the many benefits of a laptop, it can run on batteries. Just not my laptop, as it turns out :C

Get Rufus. It's really easy to make a bootable Windows USB drive with it.

I got the hipster boys one and it was pretty straight forward: point it at iso, point it at USB stick, done.

I've recently fixed to Windows 7 computers and they took aaaaaaaaages to complete all the updates. The install was quick both times (twice on the last one - I reinstalled Win7 with the Aldi recovery partition, switched the computer off, plugged the HDD into mine to copy the stuff back and when i plugged it back in the drive was completely empty) but the updates needed lots of reboots and time.