Step 9: Click on the “Erase USB Device” button. You do know that you are about to erase your USB drive so make a backup if you need anything that you have on it. Warning that you are about to erase the USB Drive You will get a warning about deleting the USB drive like this: Step 8: Click the green “Begin copying” button. Select your USB Drive that you wish to make into a bootable Windows 7 Installer If you have already inserted your USB drive it will be listed in the drop-down. Step 7: Insert and select your USB drive. But you could make a DVD as well if you have a DVD burner and a blank DVD disk.ĭo you want to make a bootable DVD or USB device? Click on “USB Device” In our case you will click on the blue “USB device” button. The iso file has now been selected, click “Next”Ĭlick on the green “Next” button. Once you have selected the iso file click the “Open” button or double click on the iso file.

Picking the iso file for the Windows 7 Installer When you launch the tool this is the window you will see:Ĭhoose the Windows 7 Install disk ISO file Step 4: Launch the installed download tool from the Start menu.Īfter you install it you can find the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool in the start menu Luckily we already have some machines running it. You will need to be at least running Windows 7 to run it. You can download it here for free: Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool. The iso filename we are using is SW_DVD5_SA_Win_Ent_7_32BIT_English_Full_MLF_X15-70745.ISO Step 2: Download the Microsoft Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool. We got our software through Techsoup since we are a not-for-profit so I just simply downloaded it. Step 1: Locate a Windows 7 installation iso file. How to Create a Bootable Windows 7 USB Installer Drive You can install it off of a USB drive and this is the steps you need to take to create one. We have 25 lab computers that do not have DVD drives and Windows 7 comes on a DVD. We are finally rolling out Windows 7 to upgrade all our XP machines.

How to create a bootable Windows 7 installer USB Drive

Universal installer for windows 7