Windows 7: office ISO to a bootable usb????

Tomrdiedrich · 17 Apr 2011

I have a office 2010 pro .iso that i need to intall on a pc with no disc drive. How do I put it on a usb drive? I know also I need to make my usb drive bootable. An idea on how to do that? I wouls apprecite any help I recieve. A google search has sent me in circles for over 2 hours now! lol. So here I am.

Shootist · 17 Apr 2011

Use 7Zip to extract the ISO to your hard drive, into a separate folder for it.
Then run the Setup.exe or.msi

If you put it on a USB stick that is bootable and boot your computer from that stick you won't be able to install it. Windows needs to be running to install Office.

That ISO is just a way to compress all the files into one smaller file for downloading and moving around.

richyrichuk · 17 Apr 2011

u can use a program installed on the machine (poweriso, ultraiso etc....) with no disc drive and mount it through the USB drive (copy it on to it) or share and mount it across your network.

Prof Kerfuffle · 17 Apr 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by richyrichuk

u can use a program installed on the machine (poweriso, ultraiso etc....) with no disc drive and mount it through the USB drive (copy it on to it) or share and mount it across your network.

I would think so as the file is still there, if it works it probably be slower.

Tomrdiedrich · 17 Apr 2011

So just running iso is the way? OK i get that. If I wanted to put it on usb so it would auto run the install like it would from the dvd, how would I do that?

SledgeDG · 17 Apr 2011

In that case you would need to extract the ISO (with 7-zip or any other ISO-aware program of your choice)
and copy the content into the root folder of the stick.
For the final installation you open the appr. drive letter and either run the autostart.exe or the setup.exe. (autorun will most likely be disabled on the target computer

-DG

Tomrdiedrich · 17 Apr 2011

into the root folder? Is that just on the stick? Or is there a special way to do that? Also what is a good free .ISO software?

DocBrown · 17 Apr 2011

Power iso free trial version should work for this

PowerISO - Create, Edit, Extract, Mount, Compress, Encrypt, Split ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive, DAA

Tomrdiedrich · 18 Apr 2011

Thanks A bunch. Software stuff like this is not my stronghold. Sorry. Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

jimbo45 · 18 Apr 2011

Hi there
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Then you just mount the ISO you've got on your USB stick to the virtual drive you've set up with alcohol 52%

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Cheers
jimbo

Windows 7: office ISO to a bootable usb????

office ISO to a bootable usb???? problems?