Make bootable iso from student d/l

How to Create a Bootable ISO from a Student Windows 7 Download​

If you get the student d/l and have 3 files :

• Win7-HP-Retail-en-us-x64.exe or Windows 7-HP-Retail-en-us-x86.exe file for the 32-bit (x86) or 64 (x64) bit Windows 7 that you purchased
• setup1.box
• setup2.box

Here's how:

1. Rt click each file, Properties > Unblock>Apply>OK.
NOTE: Make sure read only boxes are clear.

2. Rt click and run as admin on the .exe. You will get a folder called expandedsetup on your dektop with these inside:

   Note

If you receive this error:

We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded. Please check the folder properties to make sure that you have security permission on the folder to write files and that the folder is not read-only.

Continue.

3. D/L this zip, extract it and copy/move oscdimg.exe into C:\Windows\system32.
View attachment oscdimg.zip
4. Assuming expandedsetup is on your Desktop:

Vista/7 users open an elevated command prompt ( rt click cmd and run as admin) and type :

Oscdimg.exe –u2 –b"C:\Users\your_username\Desktop\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com" –h "C:\Users\your_username\Desktop\expandedSetup" C:\7.iso

XP users commands are:

cd /d C:\windows\system32

oscdimg -u2 -b"C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Desktop\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com" -h "C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Desktop\expandedSetup" C:\7.iso

5. You can copy and paste the above into elevated cmd.

Vista/7 users- replace your_username with your actual username.

XP users - replace USER with your actual username

6. Then press enter. Xp users press enter after each of their two commands.

7. If the expandedsetup folder is not on your desktop, replace with appropriate paths.

   Tip

You may wish to copy the expandedsetup folder directly onto the root of C:

The paths will be shorter and the command will be:

Oscdimg.exe –u2 –bC:\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com –h C:\expandedSetup C:\7.iso

If your folder is elsewhere, to get the paths easily, press shift and rt click on etfsboot.com - select copy as path ( paste into notepad )

Shift and rt click on expanded setup - select copy as path - paste into notepad ) Use those instead of the above.

The spacing needs to be exact.

   Warning

When the .iso is created you will get this message:

WARNING: This image contains UDF file system structures.

That is normal as you are creating the udf filesystem.

8. A) You can burn the .iso to dvd as an image with an isoburner.
View attachment isoburner.zip
OR

B) You can use the Microsoft DVD/USB tool to burn the .iso to dvd or to use the .iso to make a bootable flash drive. Download the tool:
View attachment Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe

   Tip

To make a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file:

1. Click the Start button, and click Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool in the All Programs list to open the USB/DVD Download tool.
2. Click Browse and select the file in the Open dialog box.
3. Select USB to create a copy on a USB flash drive or DVD to create a copy on a DVD disk, then click Next.
4. If you are copying the file to a USB flash drive, select your USB device in the dropdown list and click Begin copying. If you are copying the file up to a DVD, click Begin burning.

Microsoft Store: Download Manager Help

   Note

Microsoft’s ISO Image for Windows 7 Now Available

There is additional information regarding the Windows 7 64-bit download process. For those customers of the Student Offer, who wish to install the 64-bit version of Windows 7, but are currently running a 32-bit Operating System, there is now an optional downloadable ISO file of Windows 7 64-bit to allow for install.

- If you have already purchased the 64-bit version of Windows 7 from the Windows 7 Student Offer Online Store, please contact Digital River at the following link: http://windows7.digitalriver.com/servlet/PromoServlet/promoID.46354000
· In the Web form select the Download Option in the drop down menu and include "64-bit Windows 7 Solution" in the first line of your problem description.

Have fun.

Related Tutorials

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• Bootable ISO - Create from Installation Files
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• http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html
• http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/16917-bootable-iso-create-older-iso.html
• http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html
• http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1818-upgrade-install-windows-7-a.html
• http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20146-custom-install-windows-7-a.html
• How to Extract an ISO File to the Desktop

 

[SIW2]

This has got be the most ridiculous thing ever. I should have just bought the upgrade disc. Digital River should have at least told us that this would be an .exe and we would have to hack it to get it to work the way it should.

Sorry to hear you are having trouble with your downloaded files. Are you able to download again?

 

[kk405]

Seems to be working. Installing with Windows.old files.
i had bios set up to boot from disc first but i had to actively do it by mashing all my F# keys during startup.

is the windows.old a necessary evil? i thought i had read something about how this could be avoided.

windows.old is the old windows you had on the drive and Windows is keeping it for you if you want to recover it, or in case there are some files in it that you may need.

After a while (maybe a few months) you can delete it, if you never have any use for it anymore.

 

[Razeus]

@ kk405

Well I burned the ISO (got that far) but it's not bootable. It says it can't find the boot.wim file. I tried it within Vista and after a restart of the computer. I noticed that the ISO file and the disc that I burned with Nero is only 205MB though. Did I do something wrong?

you definitely did something wrong. The image file that gets created, called '7.iso' is a single file that is 3.09GB in size.

ok. Then I'm going to redownload again. Sigh....

 

[SIW2]

figured it out!!!!


ran command prompt as administrator

these are the type of differences between individual's PCs that crate many of these errors...

for exmpale I did NOT need to run the command prompt as an administrator, but apparently some have to.

It is in the original tutorial.

 

[michael31986]

its not working for me it says oscdimg.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Move/copy oscdimg.exe into the C:\windows\Sytem32 folder

as in the original tutorial.

that folder has so many files in there though. im not sure i understand why i would put these files in there if i want to burn a boot dvd so that i can format my computer and then install a clean version of windows 7

 

[kk405]

This has got be the most ridiculous thing ever. I should have just bought the upgrade disc. Digital River should have at least told us that this would be an .exe and we would have to hack it to get it to work the way it should.

+1...I would blame MSFT for this for the way they are delivering this to Digital River. MSFT should ahve sent them the exact image, and or packaged it in a way that it would be self-extracting and easily copied on a DVD...

for gods sake, this is 2009 and they still don't get this right...now, if Apple was doing this...

 

[rambo]

Well I take the folder off read only, then go to create the disc image. This error message keeps showing up:

ERROR: Unable to create file "C:\7.iso" of 3242131456 bytes
Error 5: Access is denied.

And when I go back to the properties of the folder, Read-only is still checked. Every time after I uncheck it and hit apply, after the dialog box closes it automatically makes the folder read only again.

I am having the same issue. and removing the read only attributes through the command prompt is rejected to. I can't make the iso. I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit.

 

[SIW2]

Just that one file oscdimg.exe.

rt click on it and copy it, then rt click on the yellow folder System32 and paste.

Open an elevated command and by deafult it opens at C:\Windows \System32 which, by happy coincidence, is where you have just put the oscdimg.exe program you are about to run.

 

[SIW2]

Well I take the folder off read only, then go to create the disc image. This error message keeps showing up:

ERROR: Unable to create file "C:\7.iso" of 3242131456 bytes
Error 5: Access is denied.

And when I go back to the properties of the folder, Read-only is still checked. Every time after I uncheck it and hit apply, after the dialog box closes it automatically makes the folder read only again.

I am having the same issue. and removing the read only attributes through the command prompt is rejected to. I can't make the iso. I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit.

Create the .iso somewhere other than the root of the C drive.

If you have a D: drive, use D:\7.iso instead.

Otherwise, put it on e.g. the desktop, use

C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\7.iso

 

[buckeyejoe]

Seems to be working. Installing with Windows.old files.
i had bios set up to boot from disc first but i had to actively do it by mashing all my F# keys during startup.

is the windows.old a necessary evil? i thought i had read something about how this could be avoided.

windows.old is the old windows you had on the drive and Windows is keeping it for you if you want to recover it, or in case there are some files in it that you may need.

After a while (maybe a few months) you can delete it, if you never have any use for it anymore.

Thanks, i find this odd tho as im going from 32 to 64 so i thuoght it would be a clean wipe.

 

[michael31986]

Just that one file oscdimg.exe.

rt click on it and copy it, then rt click on the yellow folder System32 and paste.

Open an elevated command and by deafult it opens at C:\Windows \System32 which, by happy coincidence, is where you have just put the oscdimg.exe program you are about to run.

i dont know what an elevated command is. where do i put the expanded setup folder then? im sorry im lost.

 

[gstla]

My mistake there is suppose to be no space between -bC:\User

Just there is suppose to be no space in etfsboot.com

I end up making my own line to use

oscdimg -bC:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com -h -u2 -m -lWIN_EN_DVD C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\expandedSetup\ C:\7.iso

That worked for me

Burning the ISO now Thanks!

 

[Nuke Knight]

After I burn the disk it says there is over 3 GB of stuff in it but I see no files whe nI click on it. Any I dea how I am messing this up????? Im using ImgBurn to burn the img on disk but this is just frustrating me now.

 

[rambo]

Well I take the folder off read only, then go to create the disc image. This error message keeps showing up:

ERROR: Unable to create file "C:\7.iso" of 3242131456 bytes
Error 5: Access is denied.

And when I go back to the properties of the folder, Read-only is still checked. Every time after I uncheck it and hit apply, after the dialog box closes it automatically makes the folder read only again.

I am having the same issue. and removing the read only attributes through the command prompt is rejected to. I can't make the iso. I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit.

Create the .iso somewhere other than the root of the C drive.

If you have a D: drive, use D:\7.iso instead.

Otherwise, put it on e.g. the desktop, use

C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\7.iso

The D drive gives error 5 access is denied
My username is 2 words: Jones Family, when I replace the username with Jones Family I get the response - unable to create file "C:\Users\Jones" of xxxx bytes Access is denied


What a mess

 

[gstla]

Just that one file oscdimg.exe.

rt click on it and copy it, then rt click on the yellow folder System32 and paste.

Open an elevated command and by deafult it opens at C:\Windows \System32 which, by happy coincidence, is where you have just put the oscdimg.exe program you are about to run.

i dont know what an elevated command is. where do i put the expanded setup folder then? im sorry im lost.

Elevated Command Prompt- is just a technical term for running CMD.EXE in administrator mode. Start > Accessories > System tools(?) > Command Prompt (Right-Click/Run As Administrator). Or so I'm led to believe. Anyway that should help ya.

 

[michael31986]

oscdimg -bC:\Users\Mike\Desktop\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com -h -u2 -m -lWIN_EN_DVD C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\expandedSetup\ C:\7.iso

after trying that now it says.

error 5. access is denied

 

[rambo]

Can I use the Windows Automated Installation Kit to upgrade from Vista 32 bit Home premium to windows 7 64 bit pro?

 

[gstla]

After I burn the disk it says there is over 3 GB of stuff in it but I see no files whe nI click on it. Any I dea how I am messing this up????? Im using ImgBurn to burn the img on disk but this is just frustrating me now.

An ISO is a disc image, you need to trick your computer into thinking that there's an image > [ISO] in the drive by using an .ISO mounter, I use PowerISO for example. I believe that's what we're supposed to do.

 

[rambo]

Just that one file oscdimg.exe.

rt click on it and copy it, then rt click on the yellow folder System32 and paste.

Open an elevated command and by deafult it opens at C:\Windows \System32 which, by happy coincidence, is where you have just put the oscdimg.exe program you are about to run.

i dont know what an elevated command is. where do i put the expanded setup folder then? im sorry im lost.

Elevated Command Prompt- is just a technical term for running CMD.EXE in administrator mode. Start > Accessories > System tools(?) > Command Prompt (Right-Click/Run As Administrator). Or so I'm led to believe. Anyway that should help ya.

That worked for me!!!!

 

[michael31986]

ok so now it was doing the iso file, but idk where it is. all it says on cmd is done.