Windows USB/DVD Download Tool - English - United Kingdom

The Windows USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7/8 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 or Windows 8 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD. The ISO file contains all the Windows installation files combined into a single uncompressed file. When you download the ISO file, you need to copy it to some medium in order to install Windows. This tool allows you to create a copy of the ISO file to a USB flash drive or a DVD. To install Windows from your USB flash drive or DVD, all you need to do is insert the USB flash drive into your USB port or insert your DVD into your DVD drive and run Setup.exe from the root folder on the drive. Note: You cannot install Windows from the ISO file until you copy it to a USB flash drive or DVD with the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool and install from there. The copy of the ISO file that the Windows USB/DVD Download tool creates is bootable. Bootable media allows you to install Windows 7 without having to first run an existing operating system on your machine. If you change the boot order of drives in your computer's BIOS, you can run the Windows 7 installation directly from your USB flash drive or DVD when you turn on your computer. Please see the documentation for your computer for information on how to change the BIOS boot order of drives. For Windows XP Users The following applications must be installed prior to installing the tool: •Microsoft .NET Framework v2 must be installed. It can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en. •Microsoft Image Mastering API v2 must be installed. It can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B5F726F1-4ACE-455D-BAD7-ABC4DD2F147B&displaylang=en. Last edited Nov 12, 2014 at 10:46 AM by zacharye, version 4

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 7, Windows 8.1

Windows 7, or Windows 8

RELEASE NOTES For more information about the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, please see http://store.microsoft.com/help/ISO-Tool. The Windows 7 USD/DVD Download Tool uses material from ImageMaster, a .NET C# application for reading and writing disc images (*.iso files). ImageMaster is licensed under the terms of the GPL. For more information about ImageMaster, please see http://imagemaster.codeplex.com/. This project uses the WIX Votive plugin for Visual Studio 2008. Please see http://wix.sourceforge.net/votive.html for installation instructions. To build in Visual Studio 2008: 1. Make desired changes to the source code. 2. Copy the wudtsource.zip file to the same directory as the .sln file. 3. Build the project in Visual Studio. To create localized installers and self-extracting files: 1. Build the project as described above. 2. Run the Install\CreateLocalizedInstallers.cmd script to create the localized MSI installers. To bypass formatting the USB device within the tool: 1. Ensure the registry key "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ISO Backup Tool" is created. 2. Create a new DWORD value named "DisableFormat" in this location and set the value to 1. NOTE: The USB device should be formatted manually before running the tool.