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1. COPY A WINDOWS 7 DVD TO USB INSTALL
2. COPY A WINDOWS 7 DVD TO USB ISO
3. COPY A WINDOWS 7 DVD TO USB DOWNLOAD

In this example, we’re simply using a folder called “V” in the root of the C drive (“C:\V”).Ģ.

Place the 3 files you downloaded (boot.wim, install.wim and X14-63452.exe or X14-63453.exe ) in the same folder on your computer. This is how you can burn your own Windows Vista DVD or create your own bootable USB flash drive from the 3 files you’ve downloaded.

COPY A WINDOWS 7 DVD TO USB ISO

After downloading the required files you’re ready to create the ISO or write the files directly to USB.

You can find 10 MD5/SHA1 hash checking tools in this article. SHA1: FD3DDD67071373542D195209AC5E5B1702C18C4CĪs it’s a large file, make sure that the downloaded Install.wim is the correct size and the SHA1 checksum matches to verify its integrity.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 English 64-bit Windows Vista Service Pack 1 English 32-bit Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, Home Basic N, Business N These distro’s contain the following versions of Vista: Unfortunately, there are very few languages available, so here are just the English versions. The following downloads are direct from Microsoft’s official distribution partner Digital River, you need the 3 files from either version to create the ISO file.

COPY A WINDOWS 7 DVD TO USB INSTALL

Sadly Microsoft never seemed to release these files with Service Pack 2 integrated so that has to be installed manually after you install Vista.

COPY A WINDOWS 7 DVD TO USB DOWNLOAD

If you have a legitimate Vista product key, it doesn’t take too much effort to download the 3 files concerned and convert them into an ISO which can be burned or written to USB and Vista installed from. And as you hopefully still have a readable Vista product key on a sticker on the casing of your computer, it’s useful to have the facility to perform a clean install once in a while. Users who received Windows Vista already installed on their machine will likely only have a rather old and bloated recovery partition to fall back on. Unlike Windows 7 and 8 which can be downloaded direct from Microsoft as an ordinary ISO file, Vista needs a bit of work to create an ISO image which you can burn and then install from. The Marketplace version was available as a “Digital Locker Download” which gave you access to download 3 files, 2 Windows Image Format (WIM) files and an executable. Whether you purchased your copy of Windows Vista direct from the Windows Marketplace or it came pre-installed on your machine, the chances are you won’t have a bootable DVD around with clean Vista installation files on it. Don’t forget, Windows 7 and 8 are in part based on Vista so it did in fact get a number of things right. Although it received criticism in the early days, in reality a fully patched and updated Windows Vista isn’t that bad and is still a perfectly usable operating system. We might almost be on the latest version 10 of Microsoft Windows, but there are still a lot of people around that have Windows Vista installed on their machines, especially laptops.