Can't download Windows 7 Home ISO file on a USB?

[avatarair]

It only gives me the options to burn the disk, and I can't find an option to install it to a USB drive.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[avatarair]

yup, I tried the m'soft tool, when it finishes with the flash drive it explicitly tells me that it did not make it bootable, and I tried resetting the boot order and everything on the other computer.

The info page about the tool also says that you can't make it bootable on a 32 bit version of windows if you're trying to put a 64 bit windows on the flash drive when you're using a 32 bit version of windows, which I unfortunately am in the position of doing =\. And the solution windows provided for it is something I can't do, to top it off.

 

[dodger46]

Disk drive looking like the only viable option. Can I assume the machine you're installing Windows to is too small for a drive? If you have a machine with a drive, be it laptop or PC you can obtain adapter leads to use as an external via USB...

 

[avatarair]

Disk drive?

 

[dodger46]

Optical disk drive,aka CD/DVD RW etc

 

[dodger46]

Could you manage with the 32 bit Windows instead of the 64bit? or do you have to increase your RAM beyond 4Gb?

 

[k1114]

I used vista 32 bit to make the bootable flash drive of w7 64 bit. As I said, all I did was format it to ntfs and unpack the iso to it using winrar. It is important to unpack it as it will not work in iso form on the flash drive. There should already be a boot folder with bootsect.exe in it when it is unpacked.

 

[avatarair]

I do need 64 bit, and the computer I am installing does have an optical drive, but the original windows install disk is bad =\

how would I go about unpacking the iso?

 

[netwalker0099]

Just mount the ISO in the virtual CD rom and copy the contents of the drive over to the flash drive. Or get something like 7zip (7zip.org) and right click extract the ISO to a folder then copy the contents to the flash drive.

 

[jamesmcuk]

Download and use a program called YUMI to make a nice bootable flash drive

 

[avatarair]

Ok so I went on 7 zip.org and I'm not sure which version to install, do the two versions differ based on my current operating system (32 bit) or the operating system I'm going to be compressing and then installing (64 bit)

 

[avatarair]

copying the mounted ISO to E: now, I'll say if it boots in just a minute, crossing my fingers >.<

 

[jamesmcuk]

As already said Download and use a program called YUMI to make a nice bootable flash drive drom the ISO. You can also download the ISO's mentioned on Digital river and use YUMI to boot them.

 

[avatarair]

Ok, I downloaded YUMI and am about to start . Just a quick question, I picked the flash drive, ISO, and file distribution, but I didn't slect format or clean. Should the flash drive be empty and formatted to NTFS prior? Or any other format?

 

[avatarair]

IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks you so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[avatarair]

WOOOOOOOO!

Thanks so much for this, every single person on this thread! You're all amazing, and I might feel completely retarded but I'm glad that there's awesome people here that could help me with this, I would've been completely lost otherwise!

Thanks you so much again for recommending YUMI!

Time to enjoy my new build XD!

 

[jamesmcuk]

Great glad you sorted it!

 

[dodger46]

Suspect we all learned a bit about ISOs and USB boot... plus the longest thread I've participated in to date! Glad something worked in the end, link to YUMI added to list of useful URLs...

 

[jamesmcuk]

yay i have a legacy

 

[dodger46]

yay i have a legacy

May YUMI be spread to all corners of the digital world...you're not a shareholder by any chance?

 

[jamesmcuk]

lol no just a good app

 

[dodger46]

Talk about trying to revive an old thread that has been solved.... not the sharpest tool in the shed eh?

Managing Director/Sole Proprietor of Zapworld, perhaps??