Requirements.

To complete this guide successfully, you must have:
1. A windows 7 product dvd; this can't be an upgrade disk, or a manufactorers recovery disk, it must be a full genuine windows 7 product dvd.
2. A windows 7 product key.
3. A USB Pendrive, flash drive, memory stick or a floppy disk etc. I recommend that you format this drive and remove everything from it before use with your answer file to prevent problems.
4. A computer with the windows automated installation kit installed (see the links document). This can be the computer you install windows 7 on.
5. All the drivers for your hardware; sound, video, chipset/motherboard, etc. Make sure you have all your drivers on a cd before continuing.
6. If you need to use Narrator during the welcome setup, and your soundcard is not supported out-of-the-box with windows 7, you will need a USB Plug and play headset or soundcard,  or set of USB plug and play speakers.
7. A free USB port or a floppy drive.
8. A dvd rom drive in both the computer you build the answer file on, and the computer you are installing to. Again, this can be the same computer.
9. the Install.wim image from the sources directory on your windows 7 product dvd copied to a directory on your harddrive. For example, c:\Windows7UnattendedInstallationFiles.


The computer you are installing on must meat the windows 7 system requirements. see the links document for more details.
