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ok so i've been trying to make my USB drive bootable for windows 7.. and i get all the way to the part where i type /nt60 X: in the command prompt and it says the the bootsect.exe is not a valid win32 application...
i did some googling on not a valid win32 application and it said files were corrupt or something... but unfortunately im on vacation visiting my dad in a different state and the internet he has has a download cap of like 400mb download within a 24hour limit and if i exceed that limit the whole internet goes slow for 24hours so I can't really re-download the whole W7 beta ISO...
So i was wondering if someone that has the ISO could compress an zip or rar archive of their boot folder with the setup.exe, bootmgr.efi, and bootmgr file thats in the main directory for me please? I think these are the only things that may be corrupted and i can't find the files anywhere on google or anything.. So this would be very very much appreciated..
Or if anyone could help me with my issue that would be great also.
Thx.
i did some googling on not a valid win32 application and it said files were corrupt or something... but unfortunately im on vacation visiting my dad in a different state and the internet he has has a download cap of like 400mb download within a 24hour limit and if i exceed that limit the whole internet goes slow for 24hours so I can't really re-download the whole W7 beta ISO...
So i was wondering if someone that has the ISO could compress an zip or rar archive of their boot folder with the setup.exe, bootmgr.efi, and bootmgr file thats in the main directory for me please? I think these are the only things that may be corrupted and i can't find the files anywhere on google or anything.. So this would be very very much appreciated..
Or if anyone could help me with my issue that would be great also.
Thx.
The way to see if the 7.iso is corrupt is to try it with a different bootable .iso - a small linux one will - just to see if it boots when you have got the files on the USB drive.
Another way is to google or Ixquick your machine/mobo model and see if that throws any light on booting from usb drive.
Another way is to google or Ixquick your machine/mobo model and see if that throws any light on booting from usb drive.
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Ok I did that and still nothing... So i'm guessing it has something to do with Booting from the USB Device..
After UltraISO puts the files onto the usb drive it changed the USB's file system back to FAT32.. Not sure if this matters or not just thought I'd tell you just incase it does..
Also does the Write Method on UltraISO matter to what I set it to? It's set by default to USB-HDD+
I went into bios and changed all three boot settings to USB-FDD, USB-HDD, and USB-ZIP and still nothing.. it even still booted from the HDD and it wasnt even set as a first, second, or third boot device in the bios.. is that normal or was it not suppose to be able to boot from the HDD?
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Ok well with the CD it worked just fine!.. I'm on Windows 7 as we speak..
Now the question is.. was my USB Drive just not able to be used as a bootable? or why exactly was it not booting from the USB drive? Maybe it was user error and I didn't make the USB drive bootable correctly? I'm not soo sure but I guess it doesn't reall matter anymore.. I'm happy I have Windows 7 finally installed