Creating bootable USB Flash on 32bit but need to clean install 64bit

[mawil1013]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html

"OPTION TWO
Manually Create Bootable Windows 7 Installation USB Flash Drive
Warning
Using this method:
You can only create a 64-bit Windows 7 bootable USB flash drive if your current Windows 7 installation is also 64-bit."

I'm having trouble creating a bootable USB Flash drive with a 64bit Win7 ISO, I downloaded the Win7 64bit and also the Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool, Keep getting the error unable to make USB Flash bootable.

Is it going to be impossible becaue my system is now 32bit?

 

[mitchell65]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html

"OPTION TWO
Manually Create Bootable Windows 7 Installation USB Flash Drive
Warning
Using this method:
You can only create a 64-bit Windows 7 bootable USB flash drive if your current Windows 7 installation is also 64-bit."

I'm having trouble creating a bootable USB Flash drive with a 64bit Win7 ISO, I downloaded the Win7 64bit and also the Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool, Keep getting the error unable to make USB Flash bootable.

Is it going to be impossible becaue my system is now 32bit?

In the second Red Warning area in the tutorial it says it clear enough. If it wasn't true you can bet your bottom dollar that Brink would not have said it!

 

[bobafetthotmail]

Don't want to contradict Brink, but in the help section of that tool (here) says that it's possible but you need an additional thing called bootsect.exe.

WHEN CREATING A BOOTABLE USB DEVICE,I AM GETTING AN ERROR ABOUT BOOTSECT

To make the USB device bootable, you need to run a tool named bootsect.exe. In some cases, this tool needs to be downloaded from your Microsoft Store account. This may happen if you're trying to create a 64-bit bootable USB device from a 32-bit version of Windows. To download bootsect:

1. Login to your Microsoft Store account to view your purchase history
2. Look for your Windows 7 purchase.
3. Next to Windows 7, there is an "Additional download options" drop-down menu.
4. In the drop-down menu, select "32-bit ISO."
5. Right-click the link, and then save the bootsect.exe file to the location where you installed the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (e.g. C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apps\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool).
6. Once the file has been saved, go back to the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool to create your bootable USB device.

 

[mitchell65]

But what about those of us who don't have a Microsoft Store Account?

 

[Golden]

What size is the USB flash drive?

 

[mawil1013]

The flash is 15 GB, I just bought it last month for this project and I kept reading more than 4 GB required so I got three times the size needed.

 

[Golden]

Can you try a different tool? Use this free one:

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Format the USB to FAT32 as part of the options.

 

[mawil1013]

Can you try a different tool? Use this free one:

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Format the USB to FAT32 as part of the options.

I'll try it tonight when I get home, thanks

 

[Golden]

Let us know how you get on.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

But what about those of us who don't have a Microsoft Store Account?

To sign in it just requires a Microsoft Account, that is an old Hotmail or new Outlook mail account. It's free to register afaik.

But yeah, it's not available if you didn't purchase the license from the Store.

Quick googling----- done!

SIW2 posted that file in this thread in 2010, and since MS help boards direct guys to that thread and link, they seem to be fine with it.

 

[mawil1013]

Let us know how you get on.

Rufus worked , thanks!!!

 

[AddRAM]

Just another bit of info. @mawil1013

It makes no difference what operating system you create the usb drive from, as you are burning the 64 bit iso.

 

[Golden]

Let us know how you get on.

Rufus worked , thanks!!!

 

[AddRAM]

Another good program was WiNToBootic, but the website seems to have vanished.

 

[jumanji]

Rufus has always been a nice program whether one wants to create a bootable DOS pen drive or a bootable pen drive with any bootable ISO. If one is using an old pen drive it can also check for bad sectors and map them to reserved sectors so that the created pen drive runs without any problem.

WinToBootic is another Windows 7/8 installation-specific easy to use tool where with only a few clicks one can create the installation drive. It has not vanished. One can still find it here WiNToBootic - the ultimate Windows 7/8 USB Boot Disk Maker

 

[BoseRoHS]

Well in my opinion those boot programs do a half ass job than doing it by command line yourself. You have the boot tools already installed on windows, no need to download crap tools.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

Just another bit of info. @mawil1013
It makes no difference what operating system you create the usb drive from, as you are burning the 64 bit iso.

As long as the program you are using isn't the one from Microsoft, that is.
Most of these programs simply write some linux boot code and bootstrap directly to the extracted iso, the microsoft one seems to copy the boot code from the installed version, so it makes a fuss.

Well in my opinion those boot programs do a half ass job than doing it by command line yourself.

I'm not a fan of using the command line to do real work in the 21st century. Remembering all the darn commands and -x and -y is annoying.
Still one of the main reasons Linux does piss me off sometimes.

 

[jumanji]

Well in my opinion those boot programs do a half ass job than doing it by command line yourself. You have the boot tools already installed on windows, no need to download crap tools.

That only shows that you haven't even tried those programs before making those comments and have some preconceived notions.

As bobafethotmail rightly said, for ordinary users doing anything with the command line is a daunting task and they are likely to go wrong in using the correct commands, syntax and what not.

An intuitive GUI software which mostly act as a frontend is preferred. Even I do not use diskpart clean all to write zeros to all sectors. It is too cumbersome. It is easy to use the HDD Low level Format Tool. Select the drive and click format and watch the progress..

One cannot expect an ordinary user to attain proficiency in using command line to do all jobs. And if you are unaware, once upon a time we always wrote programs in DOS and Windows when it made its debut was merely a frontend to it.

Why don't you go back to DOS and do everything in DOS and prove yourself that only commandline is best?

 

[BoseRoHS]

Well in my opinion those boot programs do a half ass job than doing it by command line yourself. You have the boot tools already installed on windows, no need to download crap tools.

That only shows that you haven't even tried those programs before making those comments and have some preconceived notions.

As bobafethotmail rightly said, for ordinary users doing anything with the command line is a daunting task and they are likely to go wrong in using the correct commands, syntax and what not.

An intuitive GUI software which mostly act as a frontend is preferred. Even I do not use diskpart clean all to write zeros to all sectors. It is too cumbersome. It is easy to use the HDD Low level Format Tool. Select the drive and click format and watch the progress..

One cannot expect an ordinary user to attain proficiency in using command line to do all jobs. And if you are unaware, once upon a time we always wrote programs in DOS and Windows when it made its debut was merely a frontend to it.

Why don't you go back to DOS and do everything in DOS and prove yourself that only commandline is best?

Obviously someone has their wittle panties in a bunch?

Really, I've never used them? Hmmm I've certainly used over 20 different variations of the software and none of them do as they claim. I'd rather stick to HP's "HPUSBDisk" to format the drive to NTFS or the simple format fs:NTFS /quick (shockingly difficult, oh no!!), oh then diskpart ... blah select volume , or select disk ... oh no ... a total of maybe 10 seconds of which this software you use consume more time just loading that junk software that MAYBE does the job correctly 50% of the time when in fact creating the USB as a physical drive within command line can be done in less than 10 seconds.

I guess it's VERY hard to remember less than 7 commands vs. oh lets clicky button.

Heh, sad to say if "ordinary" users are too lazy to figure out how to command line a USB bootable drive you shouldn't be operating a computer period. Hell, I was doing all this at 6 years old on Windows 3.1!!! It's TOO simple! I hear on a daily basis from whinny Windows users "oh i can't do this or that".... Ok , make a switch to Linux or OSX and you actually need to place some effort into utilizing the OS.

 

[Golden]

Hmmm I've certainly used over 20 different variations of the software and none of them do as they claim.

:sarc:

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