download windows 7 bootable usb iso file

The final part: you need to write a bootloader to your USB stick.

On Windows 7, open the ISO with 7-Zip and extract to the drive letter of your USB stick. This will take a few minutes depending on the speed of your USB flash drive.

Double click the ISO image in Windows 8 to mount it, and copy all files from the ISO image to the USB stick.

You will return to the elevated command prompt - do not close it.

This is to allow your USB stick to be able to load some bootloader. This will create a primary partition which will store your data.

Type the following command: crea part prim.If you are not sure, it is better to clean the partitions and data. Note: you can skip this step if you are an advanced user and know that your USB stick has a proper filesystem. It will erase all data from your USB drive. In my case, it is 1, so i have to use the following command: sele disk 1 Where # the number of your USB stick drive. You need to select your USB disk in diskpart.It will show a table with all your disks, including the connected USB stick. Type the following in diskpart's prompt: list disk.It allows you to perform the full set of disk management operations from the command line. Also, you can create a bootable USB stick with Windows 7 from the Windows 8 environment and vice versa.ĭiskpart is a console disk management utility which is shipped with Windows by default.

However, you can create a USB drive with 32-bit (x86) version of Windows from a 64-bit edition of Windows.

Use a 64-bit version of Windows to create a 64-bit USB stick. Important Note: You cannot create a bootable 64-bit (圆4) Windows USB stick from a 32-bit (x86) version of Windows. Then you can just copy and paste files from the virtual DVD drive to your USB stick. Simply double click the ISO to mount it Windows 8 will create a virtual DVD drive in the This PC folder. In Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, you don't need any third-party software to extract the ISO's contents to the USB flash drive: Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have built-in support for ISO images. It creates a virtual drive which can mount ISO images and you can work with them like a regular DVD disk inserted in the physical DVD drive. Alternatively, there is Virtual CloneDrive software which is also free. The free and open source 7-zip archiver can perfectly extract the contents of the ISO image. You need to unpack the ISO file of Windows 7 setup to extract its contents. Warning! You will need to erase all data from the USB flash drive you use for this, so make a backup of the important data on it before you proceed.

Download windows 7 bootable usb iso file