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Solved ***Burning Win 7 image*** Solved

  • 02-04-2014 08:23PM
    #1
    Gadgetman496
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    I burned a genuine Win 7 ISO image to DVD using imgburn and it burned fine but it will not boot. The issue is with the burn I would think as all the boot order settings on the machine are correct.

    I just used the "Burn image to disc" option but seem to remember in earlier versions of imgburn there used to be a check box to tic if you wanted it bootable or something like that? It's so long since I needed to do it via a disc that I'm not doing it correctly.

    Is there an extra setting within imgburn I should be looking at?

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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  • #2
    200motels
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    gadgetman496 wrote: »
    I burned a genuine Win 7 ISO image to DVD using imgburn and it burned fine but it will not boot. The issue is with the burn I would think as all the boot order settings on the machine are correct.

    I just used the "Burn image to disc" option but seem to remember in earlier versions of imgburn there used to be a check box to tic if you wanted it bootable or something like that? It's so long since I needed to do it via a disc that I'm not doing it correctly.

    Is there an extra setting within imgburn I should be looking at?
    Try CDBurnerXP. http://www.filehippo.com/download_cdburnerxp/


  • #3
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    I knew I encountered this issue way back and finally remembered what I done to sort it. I had to extract the Img to a folder and use the "Burn files or folders" to Disc option in ImgBurn, that gave me the option to make the disc bootable & once I filled in those parameters & burned the disc it boots perfectly every time. The disc has SP1 and the ei.cfg file removed so it will install any edition. Happy days :)

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #4
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    gadgetman496 wrote: »
    I knew I encountered this issue way back and finally remembered what I done to sort it. I had to extract the Img to a folder and use the "Burn files or folders" to Disc option in ImgBurn, that gave me the option to make the disc bootable & once I filled in those parameters & burned the disc it boots perfectly every time. The disc has SP1 and the ei.cfg file removed so it will install any edition. Happy days :)

    Interesting. I reckon the .iso you had didn't contain the boot code hence imgburn didn't include it. Nice tip for getting around this though, never heard it before! :)

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  • #5
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    yoyo wrote: »
    Interesting. I reckon the .iso you had didn't contain the boot code hence imgburn didn't include it. Nice tip for getting around this though, never heard it before! :)

    Nick

    The ISO is an Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River and it has the boot folder and boot file included but for whatever reason ImgBurn didn't play nice, it would burn it fine but I couldn't boot from the resulting burn on any machine.

    I don't know if you know Nick? but MS released a second Win 7 image after they released the first one with SP1 and it is recognizable via the -U in its name string

    The latest version of Windows 7 DVD image available is of media refresh version, which commonly known as Windows 7 SP1-U (Media Refresh). Microsoft released the media refresh version of Windows 7 DVD media to fix a rare bug related to invalid computer name when a small set of computer names returned an error when used to install Windows 7. Otherwise, the Windows 7 with SP1 and Windows 7 with SP1-U (Media Refresh) is completely the same.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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