Create a bootable usb drive

[DutchTexan]

I guess I am just stupid, because it appears to be much more difficult than people have explained it to me. I want to create a bootable usb for the computer I am building.

 

I have a 32gb usb stick and a Windows 7 pro CD.

 

I am on my laptop trying to create a bootable drive with Rufus, but it just isn't working out. The settings for Rufus 2.10.973 are all pretty much default. I don't understand how I communicate to the laptop to pull the Windows key from the optical drive and place an ISO file into my usb stick.

 

i have tried to physically copy the information on the cd and send it to the usb stick with no success.

[DutchTexan]

Partition scheme and target systems type should be? I have it as 'MBR partition for BIOS or UEFI. Also the cluster size is 16 kilobytes, should that be 64?

 

After running this by clicking start I don't understand what the next step is and how my actual Windows 7 Pro oem CD key comes into play.

[Nena Trinity]

Have you tried Linuxpendrive?

[YedZed]

If you have a CD key, you can get it straight from Microsoft online. I imagine it comes with a media creation tool like Windows 8 and 10, but I don't know. It's probably worth a try tho. 

[kalious78]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

 

or

 

https://rufus.akeo.ie/