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#Create bootable usb from iso windows 7 how to geek install

the appropriate ISO image from Microsoft, and.

WARNING: This will erase any existing data on the USB stick! Secure Boot must be disabled for this to work. This should work for any Windows version released over the last decade or so. Here’s the actual process to create a bootable Windows installer on a USB stick from a Windows installer ISO image for a UEFI system. I imagine this will also be perfectly doable on a Mac as well, with a few modified commands. This took a few attempts to get right but turns out to be relatively simple.

So I set about to find a way to make a bootable Windows USB stick when you’ve only got immediate access to a Linux box. The ISO mounting capability via the server iDRAC console actually worked, but was painfully slow (hours).Tools that were known to work such as Rufus and the Microsoft USB imager only run in Windows, which I didn’t have handy.It’s too large to fit into Dell vFlash which has a image size limit of 4GB (presumably as it uses FAT32 internally).Update: wimlib can do this and means you can probably do this on a legacy FAT filesystem after all! There is a command in Windows ( dism) to split a WIM file but hadn’t come across any Linux tools to date.The ISO image contains a file ( install.wim) that is greater than 4GB, so won’t fit on a FAT32 filesystem as created by tools such as Unetbootin.

It’s too large for a regular DVD-R disc, and I didn’t have any dual-layer discs on hand.

#Create bootable usb from iso windows 7 how to geek install

Actually getting the server to boot and install from this ISO image was surprisingly difficult: Microsoft make the ISO images available for download on their website, however the Windows Server 2016 ISO clocks in at over 6GB. I recently had a case to install Windows Server 2016 on a Dell PowerEdge R630 server.