Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

How to Get and Use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool​

Introduction

   Information

If you would like to burn your downloaded or converted .iso image to a DVD or create a bootable USB flash drive, this free Microsoft utility is for you.

In very little time this can be accomplished by even a novice, and in this tutorial I'm gonna show you how. I have seperated this tutorial into 2 sections: Part 1 covers how to burn a bootable DVD and Part 2 is on creating a bootable flash drive.

This is primarily going to be useful to XP and Vista users who do not have .iso burning software installed on their current HDD and wish to perform a clean install.

   Note

The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does not support using Windows XP .iso files.

If you do not have a Windows 7 with SP1 ISO, then you can download the latest official Windows 7 with SP1 ISO file here:

:ar: Microsoft Software Recovery

:ar: Microsoft: Windows 7 Direct Download Links

   Warning

The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does not work with UEFI.

To create a 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8 UEFI USB flash drive, see:

How to Create a Bootable UEFI USB Flash Drive for Installing Windows 7 and Windows 8

Here's How:

First visit the MS Store Website to download and install the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool.

   Note

If the download links are broken at the sites below, then you can click on the blue Download button below to directly download an official copy of the Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe file below from here instead.


Download

After you have successfully downloaded and installed the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, you should see its icon on your desktop. Double click to start the program.
PART 1 - How to Burn a bootable Windows 7 DVD

1) After you run the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool, you will see the Step 1 of 4 dialog box. Here you will navigate to the location of your .iso file by clicking the Browse button. Once you have successfully located your iso file click Next to continue to step 2.
2) In step 2 of 4 you are given the choice of making a bootable DVD or a bootable USB flash. In this first section of my tutorial I show you how to burn a bootable DVD. So click DVD if that is what you want.
3) Make sure you have a blank DVD in your optical drive, or you may see this message.
4) Once you have inserted a blank DVD you will see the folowing screen, click Begin burning to continue.
5) Once the burn starts, you should see the progress bar here at Step 4 of 4. Remember the amount of time it takes to complete the burn depends on many factors... be patient.
6) If all you wanted was a bootable DVD, you are finished when you see the image below, close the program or start over if you wish to make a 2nd copy.
PART 2 - How to create a bootable Windows 7 USB Flash Drive

   Warning

You need a USB flash drive with at least 4GB of free space, and the flash drive will be formattted to NTFS! So backup your data before creating this bootable USB, or you will lose all your data!

Follow the instructions in the Introduction at the beginning of tutorial and download and install the tool. The installation will add the program shortcut to your desktop, just double click to start.

1) After you launch the app, you will see the Step 1 of 4 dialog box. Here you will navigate to the location of your .iso file by clicking the Browse button. Once you have successfully located your iso file click Next to continue to step 2.
2) In step 2 of 4 you are given the choice of making a bootable DVD or a bootable USB flash. Here in Part 2 of my tutorial I show you how to create a bootable USB Flash Drive. So click USB device if that is what you want.
3) Here in step 3 of 4 you will select the USB flash drive of your choice by using the drop down list arrow. Once you have chosen the correct Drive, click the Begin copying button.


4) Here in step 4 of 4: Creating bootable USB device, you should see the progress bar move across the screen. As always your speed depends on many factors, have patience!
5) Once completed you should see the following dialog box.
I found it interesting that the USB device icon in "Computer" now looks identical to that of the DVD!
Here are the contents of the USB device after completion...
I hope this helps out some of you who are "stuck" when it comes to burning an iso to DVD or creating a bootable USB device.

Thanks!

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[VistaKing]

The Windows 7 ISO file from this tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

Number 1 is the link of the legit Windows 7 ISO files .

You could right click on the ISO file and choose Burn disk image and it will be a bootable disc .

 

[spike47]

Hi Shawn

Thanks for your reply , I do not have a product key or a disc with my PC , it came already loaded , it is a genuine W7 on it , because I keep getting updates regulary on it .there was some discs with it when I bought it but they are for the motherboard drivers etc .

anyway thanks again for your help .

spike

 

[VistaKing]

You should have a product key label under neath the laptop if your laptop came with Windows 7 preinstalled

 

[bobafetthotmail]

Hi, I found the official way to have that program make usb installers for 64-bit even from a 32-bit installation.
For the sake of not repeating myself, this post and a following one

Hope it's useful.

It should work for the manual way of this tutorial as well.

 

[Britton30]

bobafetthotmail, this may be useful for you too. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...rsal-installation-disc-create.html#post742211

 

[gelapir]

thanks for that tutorial.

 

[beatriceq]

Hi,
can you help me to find the right window 7 for my laptop?
my laptop is sony vaio window 7 home premium oa, and product key is [REMOVED]
there are many window 7 home premium, i was confuse to choose the right one. i have try the first one is Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 U (media refresh) and boot on my laptop. but it shows
so i think i pick the wrong one
please help!!!!
thanks

 

[Golden]

From where did you get your Windows 7 ISO?

Only download it from this location:
Windows 7 Direct Download Links

 

[beatriceq]

From where did you get your Windows 7 ISO?

Only download it from this location:
Windows 7 Direct Download Links

yea, i get it from that link and i choose Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 U (media refresh) in english

 

[Golden]

Follow this tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

 

[beatriceq]

Follow this tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

does it clean everything in my computer? because my laptop have problem boothmgr is compressed, so i want to find the right window to boot it

 

[Golden]

It can do....it depends on how you install

 

[Ben Utzer]

The selected file is not a valid ISO file.

Hi, is there a "search this thread" function somewhere? Cannot find. I hope it was not yet answered (or maybe yes, so it is easier to solve!): I get the message on the title of my post. Not a valid ISO file. I am trying to burn the Comodo Rescue Disk ISO. Downloaded directly from them. Why should it not be a valid ISO file? Can somebody try with the same file? Thanks

 

[derekimo]

Hi, is there a "search this thread" function somewhere? Cannot find. I hope it was not yet answered (or maybe yes, so it is easier to solve!): I get the message on the title of my post. Not a valid ISO file. I am trying to burn the Comodo Rescue Disk ISO. Downloaded directly from them. Why should it not be a valid ISO file? Can somebody try with the same file? Thanks

Welcome to the forum,

I just gave that a try as well, came up with the same results. I would guess this tool is only for Windows 7 ISO's.

Are you trying to create a bootable USB?

There are other tools like this,

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

 

[Brink]

Hello Ben, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Yep, there's "Search this Tutorial" link towards the top right of tutorial pages.

Did you get the Comodo Rescue Disk ISO from the link below? It was 50.5 MB for me. You might see if downloading a new copy may work better if the first one was corrupted.

Comodo Rescue Disk for Windows, Download Rescue Disk Software

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hello Ben, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Yep, there's "Search this Tutorial" link towards the top right of tutorial pages.

Did you get the Comodo Rescue Disk ISO from the link below? It was 50.5 MB for me. You might see if downloading a new copy may work better if the first one was corrupted.

Comodo Rescue Disk for Windows, Download Rescue Disk Software

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Not trying to be a smart ass Shawn but there are more here (20) Comprehensive List of 26 Bootable Antivirus Rescue CDs for Offline Scanning ? Raymond.CC


and my favourite site
5 Bootable AntiVirus Rescue CD for Windows: Free Download cos it narrows them down a bit

John

 

[Brink]

No problem John. The more the merrier.

 

[Ben Utzer]

Hello everybody!
Thanks for the welcome.
I do not have often problems so I am afraid we will not see each other often

Yes, I did download the ISO from that exact place. Did you try to pass it to USB and it worked for you?
I had read about Rufus and was about to try it when I saw another one called Universal Extractor I think, and I realized that WinRar can be associated to ISO, so I just gave it a try and well, I could "Extract File" with WinRar to the USB.

Unfortunately, I do not know why, it did not work out. I rebooted and chosen USB but not "operative system" was found on my portable USB drive (maybe because it is a Hard Drive and not a Flash USB?).

So I burned the ISO on a CD. I did not want to waste a CD for that (also because it was my only one and I am extremely lazy for buying CD, as I do not use them anymore).
It worked.
My PC is clean. I mean, it was already clean. Comodo has only found a supposed trojan in a exe on the Avira folder, a bar installator. I suppose it is a false positive but I removed it anyway.

Well, all those other options, are, many!

I think I am fine for now.
Just wanted to see if there was something which was not seen from Windows.
But had not really reasons to worry, I mean, my PC is going fine.

Cheers and thanks for the answers!

 

[ill4rill]

USB/DVD

I'm trying to do this for a different laptop ...will this work on my dell if I created it on my HP? they both have the same operating system windows 7 ultimate 32 bit but my dell has no OS installed I formatted the drive after merging the partitions....

 

[Brink]

Hello ill4rill, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Yes, as long as it's the same edition (ex: Ultimate) and 32-bit or 64-bit of the OS you wanted to use it on.