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Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool - "unable to run bootsect"
Hello. I have a laptop whose hard drive is ruined and I want to perform a clean Windows install on a new hard drive using the Product Key found on the label on the laptop.
I downloaded an ISO image of W7 Home Premium 64 bits from here and used W7 USB/DVD Tool on my Windows 7 32 bits desktop to create a bootable flash drive. At the the following message appeared:
Files copied successfully. However, we were unable to run bootsect to make the USB device bootable. If you need assistance with bootsect, please click the "Online Hlep" link above for more information.
I looked around on the Web and found this page. I understand where the error comes from as stated in the link but the problem is that I cannot download the bootsect.exe file since I don't have a microsoft store account and I haven't bought Windows 7 HPrem. either, it came pre-installed with the laptop.
Is there any other way of getting the bootsect file?
Thanks for the help.