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I have the Windows 7 iso and I wanted to make a bootable flash drive out of it. I used to use Unetbootin but they have now removed the option to show all drives. Can anyone suggest another program that can make a bootable flash drive?

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  • It seems like you're asking how to write a Windows 7 .iso image to a USB flash drive from within Windows. How is this related to Ubuntu? (If it is related to Ubuntu, I recommend editing your question to explain how, and perhaps provide more details about what you're trying to do, if you think that would help.) Nov 28, 2011 at 1:53
  • I think its related because this used to work on Ubuntu but now the program cannot recognize the flash drive.
    – lieudusty
    Nov 28, 2011 at 3:25
  • You ran Unetbootin on Ubuntu? Or do you just mean that this technique worked for creating a booting flash drive of Ubuntu, but does not work for creating a bootable flash drive of Windows? Nov 28, 2011 at 3:51
  • I meant that I ran Unetbootin before on Ubuntu and it works but now its not recognizing my flash drive in the program.
    – lieudusty
    Nov 29, 2011 at 3:26

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As recommended in step 2 of the simple Ubuntu download and installation instructions (click USB stick, click Windows, then click Show me how), you can use the Universal USB Installer to write .iso images (including Ubuntu .iso images) to USB flash drives.

Microsoft maintains some Windows 7 specific instructions for creating a bootable Windows flash drive. If the above suggestion doesn't help, perhaps those will. (I cannot watch that video--I have Moonlight, but I'm still not able to watch that Silverlight video. But you're interested in doing this from Windows, and you can probably watch that video from Windows. As I commented, I do wonder if this is on-topic for AskUbuntu...)

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  • But.. does this work to make a bootable USB out of a Windows iso? Nov 28, 2011 at 1:54
  • Thanks for quick response! I just tried it but when I select the windows 7.iso, nothing apears in the top box.
    – lieudusty
    Nov 28, 2011 at 1:55
  • @lieudusty I've added a section pointing to Microsoft's instructions for doing this with Windows 7. Maybe that will help. Nov 28, 2011 at 2:03
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Using gparted format the drive NTFS, set the boot flag.

Using Archive Manager extract the iso to the drive.

(or just copy the DVD to the drive).

That's it.

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