Slipstream Windows 7 SP1 into a Installation DVD or ISO File

fuqua · 03 Sep 2011

Brink said:

Foqua,

Here's a list here at Microsoft: Updates in Win7 and WS08R2 SP1.xls

We also have the list available as a MHT web page file here under FAQs: https://www.sevenforums.com/windows-u...ful-links.html

if im understanding it right, those links are all about pre sp1 patches, but i want to know what patches are released post sp1.

Brink · 03 Sep 2011

For that, you would just need to compare the list in the link I posted above with what is in your Windows Update view update history. Anything not on the list in the link above is what you need to get a MSU file of.

Night Hawk · 03 Sep 2011

Another thing to look at with each update will be the release date. Anything from 3/1/11 onward would be post SP1 since the SP1 rtm release was seen on 2/28/11.

fuqua · 05 Sep 2011

thank you for the info guys.

my first tries getting this to work where a faillure. 1ste time i had my product key wrong. which was easy to solve ofcourse.

but on the next step it said it didnt had permission to format my drive.. i have 1 hd with 3 partitions:

0: is recovery drive of laptop
1: is where windows gets installed
3: is empty

i think it is trying to install on the 0 partition, which also ****ed up my bootsector and got stuck in a loop, so i had to reinstall another windows 7 to get it going again :) and i deleted the unattended.xml to see how far the rest of the process would go. still some tweaking needed.

anyway ill be going over the manual once again. see what ive missed.

Darryl Licht · 09 Sep 2011

Has anyone figured out how to slipstream into a universal (32/64 all versions) install disc yet???

Brink · 09 Sep 2011

Hello Darryl,

The RT7 Lite program just doesn't support doing that currently. I don't know of any program that does so far.

Darryl Licht · 09 Sep 2011

Brink said:

Hello Darryl,

The RT7 Lite program just doesn't support doing that currently. I don't know of any program that does so far.

Bummer... I love my multi version, multi bit, universal install disc and usb!

Night Hawk · 09 Sep 2011

Here I made up two usb install keys with flash drives as well as burning a pair of unlocked dvds all slipstreamed with the updates included except for one 64bit install key which was reduced to two updates and custom fitted onto a 4gb flash drive. For that a second program for writing the slipsteamed ISO had to be used due to the RT 7 Life requiring a larger 8gb.

You'll notice that all Windows disks, install keys, etc. are each separated from each other as far as vfersions, editions, and kernels. I haven't run into anything combined except the SP1 ISO imaged you burn to disk that would otherwise see both. That's typically a download found for IT dept.s where one disk covers multiple machines while the average desktop, laptop user would only go for one or the other.

john10001 · 25 Sep 2011

Is there a way to do this without using RT Seven Lite? It's just the computer I am trying to make a slipstream copy of my Windows 7 on is an XP Pro SP3 OS and RT Seven does not work on systems older than Vista I believe.

All I want to do is to to get the Windows 7 boot disc onto a USB drive instead. I have also tried the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool but that doesn't work either. I get the error message that files have copied sucessfully however there was a problem in making it bootable.

Unfortunately I can't install off the DVD because my Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3 doesn't recognise my DVD-RW as it is old style ATA connector having to be connected via Belkin PCI ATA133 card as the Asrock boad has no ata connectors but does have the older floppy connector that nobody uses anymore go figure!

No option in the Bios to boot from pci ata! No option I can see to select to boot from USB but was gonna try make a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7 slipstreamed or copied onto it and see if it works or detects it.

Any other ideas or advice greatly appreciated on how I can just get this Windows 7 installed to my new system build. Do you know if there is any other way to do this besides the RT Seven Lite and the Windows USB/DVD utility that actually works?

Cheers,

John

Brink · 25 Sep 2011

Hello John, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Where did you get your copy of Windows 7 from, and what form is the installation media in?

If retail, could you not just install Windows 7 with the DVD?

If ISO, you should be able to use a free program like ImgBurn to extract/burn the ISO to a DVD that your drive supports.