Making a bootable USB drive

[kevinyhong]

So here's the gist:

 

I've planned a new build around the NZXT H440 and doesn't have any room for optical drives. Because of that, I plan on making a bootable USB drive to install Windows 7 Ultimate when I finish building. Right now, I'm running into problems making the bootable drive.

 

I got the software from my university and it's saved as a PowerIso IMG file. I've tried to convert by renaming it, but it shows no change. I was able to use ImgBurn to convert the image into an ISO file, but when I run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I keep getting an error towards the end that says not all the files are able to be copied over and that I would have to restart the process.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on making bootable USB drives, especially in terms of what free software I could use to make sure all the files I need are in the correct format?

[techguru]

first

take that img file you got and convert it to a plain ISO file...poweriso will do this

next once that done

download rufus

load the iso file into rufus....choose the usb stick and push start

[RedSphyxis]

first

take that img file you got and convert it to a plain ISO file...poweriso will do this

next once that done

download rufus

load the iso file into rufus....choose the usb stick and push start

wait, you can download a naked mole rat?

 

:3

 

anyways @kevinyhong what he said

[kevinyhong]

first

take that img file you got and convert it to a plain ISO file...poweriso will do this

next once that done

download rufus

load the iso file into rufus....choose the usb stick and push start

unfortunately, the trial version of powerISO only allows conversions up to 300 MB

 

also, when i run rufus, i get an error associated with the bootable iso's that are supported by rufus

[Master Disaster]

Sounds like the image is corrupt. Grab another ISO from the internet.

[G33k 4 L1F3]

Sounds like the image is corrupt. Grab another ISO from the internet.

Not necessarily, I always tend to come across this error when using anything other then windows iso's.

Download this, Im pretty sure it will work http://www.isotousb.com/

[Dautin]

I'd recommend ISOtoUSB as well.  Always worked for me in the past.  http://www.isotousb.com/