Extracting ISO from EXE

[Noone II]

There was a person on Microsoft support that sent me an .exe file to install Vista on an old laptop. How to I change the .exe to a .iso so that I can create a bootable drive?

 

[BrandonYoung]

If you're sure its directly from microsoft, I would simply run the .exe. It sounds like a self extracting archive file. Alternatively, you could attempt to open it with "7zip" to see if the ISO is stored in a conveniently extractable way.

 

[Noone II]

If you're sure its directly from microsoft, I would simply run the .exe. It sounds like a self extracting archive file. Alternatively, you could attempt to open it with "7zip" to see if the ISO is stored in a conveniently extractable way.

When I open it up, Its just a bunch of unrecognizable files. I am doing this on Mac so I can't run .exe file types. Should I just ask them for the .iso?

 

[BrandonYoung]

It would simplify your life I think. Unless you have access to a windows machine, and a 8gig usb stick.

 

[eatmypie]

If it is just a .exe I'm pretty sure you just have a downloader for the setup installer. Also do you have the number for the person who you talked to over the phone?

 

[hang-the-9]

If you're sure its directly from microsoft, I would simply run the .exe. It sounds like a self extracting archive file. Alternatively, you could attempt to open it with "7zip" to see if the ISO is stored in a conveniently extractable way.

When I open it up, Its just a bunch of unrecognizable files. I am doing this on Mac so I can't run .exe file types. Should I just ask them for the .iso?

If you don't know what you are looking at, yes it will be a bunch of files you don't know. Would you recognize the files on an operating system disk before it's installed? If not, you could be looking at just that.

Run that on a PC, I'm sure the support person you dealt with would have told you what to do with that file, the would not just send you something without instructions. Maybe you got an email from them you did not read.