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?

 

[netwalker0099]

Slysoft creates the virtual Cd rom device it lets you mount the ISO like you have it in a CD-rom to copy the bootsect over to the USB drive. So I used Slysoft's program to mount the w7.iso I used in my K drive which is the drive letter assigned to the virtual CD-rom

 

[avatarair]

EDIT nvm XD

 

[avatarair]

NVM again XD, everything is going exactly like the diagram, thanks again!

 

[avatarair]

Oh....Just hit a problem. Once I type in bootsect.exe etc...
It gives me the error message that bootsect is not a valid win32 application.

 

[netwalker0099]

The issue is you're trying to run a 64b app from a 32b system.

Download this: http://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/installation-setup/47060d1263222191-32-bit-bootsect-bootsect7600x86.zip

Extract it, put the folder in your C:\, rename it to bootsect

Do as screen shot shows. This should correct issue I did it on my system and it worked, however my system is not 32b.

Answer found here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/bootbootsectexe-is-not-a-valid-win32-application/5d8c84fd-0e2c-40c8-af2c-14e0b2c160d3

 

[dodger46]

Problem again...the windows tool requires a purchase to make the USB file bootable.

Not sure what to do :c

Oh nvm, it says I have to run the bootsect.exe file...can't figure out how to do that 😛.

Truly can't understand why the Windows 7 download tool didn't work for you, I found it simplicity itself! Anyway, as long as the end result is a bootable USB... and thanks to netwalker, the Windows tool only seems to work for Windows ISOs, anything else generates a 'not a valid ISO' error...

 

[netwalker0099]

The windows tool will only work with Microsoft released ISO's (in most cases) if you make a copy of a CD even to an image you can get a Anchor Volume Descriptor Pointers (AVDPs) error that makes it not pass the ISO check within the Windows tool. This can be corrected by using a program called isoavdpcopy.exe to correct the pointers in the ISO file. I have used this to fix some images for use with the windows tool but at this point I honestly find it faster to just do it all via CMD to make the installer vs trying to get the windows tool to work. isoavdpcopy is not a 100% solution I remember having an Enterprise Win7 ISO that it didn't like.


isoavdpcopy.exe DL link : http://www.withinwindows.com/files/uploads/2009/11/isoavdpcopy_0.1.zip

 

[avatarair]

Ok, I downloaded it, copied it to C:, but when I type in cd bootsect, it says that the specified path is not found.

 

[avatarair]

dodger, apparently the problem is I am trying to do this on a 32 bit system. I recently found out that I have no access to any 64 bit systems so I have to find a way around it, hopefully 😛.

 

[avatarair]

I'd try using that tool, but when you had the other windows ISO File that it didn't like, did it break the flash drive or just not work?

 

[dodger46]

Just told me that the ISO was not acceptable, or words to that effect. Try it, it should work as long as the ISO is legit...all you're doing is downloading a picee of software to do all the work for you!

 

[netwalker0099]

Ok, I downloaded it, copied it to C:, but when I type in cd bootsect, it says that the specified path is not found.

Did your cmd prompt say C:\ before you entered cd bootsect? If you weren't at the base of the C drive it isn't going to see the folder to change directory (cd) to.

When you first open Cmd prompt it's going to be somewhere like

C:\Users\Administrators>

You do a

cd \

To get it to C:\

Then do the

cd bootsect

To tell it you want to open the bootsect directory in the directory you are already in ( C: )

Alternatively if you did that then you named the folder wrong or misspelled something.

 

[avatarair]

the file in C: is called bootsect, should it be named cd bootsect?
And it is at C: and it's still telling me the specified path in invalid =\.

I can add pictures if you want, would those help >.<?

 

[avatarair]

Alright well I just typed in bootsect>bootsect.exe /nt60 E:
And it tells me access is denied >.<

This is an administrator account as well, so it can't be that.

 

[netwalker0099]

Did you run CMD prompt as an admin ? Right click CMD and run as admin.

 

[netwalker0099]

Yes a picture would help, at the C:\ do a dir then hit enter and show me.

 

[avatarair]

Ok, thanks for that, I didn't run it as an admin, I thought you just had to be logged into an admin account, my bad.

But now when I try it it says that "the process cannot access this file because it is being used by another process". I'm not sure why as I closed everything else, but I'll restart my computer or something >.<

Here's the picture you asked for (I'm not sure exactly what dir is but I assumed this is what it meant)

 

[netwalker0099]

Ah yea you moved the bootsect.exe into the C:\ instead of the whole folder so no need for the cd bootsect, you can just bootsect.exe /nt60 L: as you found out.

Let me know what happens after the reboot.

And Dir lists everything in the current directory.

You can do dir /p to browse through a large directory with it pausing every time the page fills.

 

[avatarair]

Weird...it stills tells me that the file is being used by another process.

Should I try this in safe mode or something?

 

[netwalker0099]

Try extracting the file again, looking in my bootsect folder the bootsect.exe file is 103,312 bytes where yours is 0 from the screenshot.

 

[avatarair]

Ok well I extracted it again, it's now 101 kb, but I still get the same message >.<

 

[netwalker0099]

Can you give me the exact message it gives you or a screenshot of it.

 

[avatarair]

 

[avatarair]

So....anything >.<?

 

[dodger46]

I take it the M'soft Download tool was an abject failure as well??