hardtailstar Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 (edited) Im being really thick here and cant seem to create ISOs so I can boot from them to install a fresh OS on a computer Ive tried various amounts of programs to do it but none seem to work. I have the ISO of the operating system but it just dosent seem to work at being created to a bootable disk. The OS was downloaded from MS Volume Licensing portal. The furthest I have got is into the windows setup but then it says that files are missing. Any ideas and help would be great! Thanks Edited August 4, 2014 by hardtailstar
tmcd35 Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 This has been my favourite ISO burner for a while: The Official ImgBurn Website If the CD/DVD is booting but has corruptions perhaps there's a quality problem with the media being used? If you've got the ISO from VLSC it should be complete, I've never had a problem. The only other issue I can think of is if the Motherboard has an unknown hard drive controller, or you are using RAID, then you's need to have a USB memory stick with the additional drivers plugged in when you boot the OS Installer (I think Win 7 picks the drivers up automagically if it sees the pen stick - but don't quote me on that, Win XP you had to push F6 at the right point in setup to load the drivers.) 1
Arthur Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 (edited) I have the ISO of the operating system but it just doesn't seem to work at being created to an ISO. Why would you need to create an ISO of an ISO? Have you verified the SHA-1 checksum to make sure the ISO isn't corrupt? Edited August 4, 2014 by Arthur 1
plexer Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 You just burn the downloaded iso to a disc and boot from it? if that doesn't work your d/l is corrupt. Ben 1
hardtailstar Posted August 4, 2014 Author Posted August 4, 2014 Why would you need to create an ISO of an ISO? Have you verified the SHA-1 checksum to make sure the ISO isn't corrupt? typo, I meant bootable disk
hardtailstar Posted August 4, 2014 Author Posted August 4, 2014 You just burn the downloaded iso to a disc and boot from it? if that doesn't work your d/l is corrupt. Ben tried that, was on disc but not booting from disk. I'll try an create another one by downloading it again and see.
hardtailstar Posted August 4, 2014 Author Posted August 4, 2014 This has been my favourite ISO burner for a while: The Official ImgBurn Website If the CD/DVD is booting but has corruptions perhaps there's a quality problem with the media being used? If you've got the ISO from VLSC it should be complete, I've never had a problem. The only other issue I can think of is if the Motherboard has an unknown hard drive controller, or you are using RAID, then you's need to have a USB memory stick with the additional drivers plugged in when you boot the OS Installer (I think Win 7 picks the drivers up automagically if it sees the pen stick - but don't quote me on that, Win XP you had to push F6 at the right point in setup to load the drivers.) That was one of the ones I tried that didnt work. Installing Win 8.1 Enterprise.
hardtailstar Posted August 4, 2014 Author Posted August 4, 2014 (edited) You did try the Microsoft tool? Microsoft Store yeah but it didnt like that either. Its doing my noggin in! Ive created disks before! Edited August 4, 2014 by hardtailstar
LeMarchand Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 If you have a W8 machine, can you double click the icon to mount it? If that works, it would suggest ISO is OK.
tmcd35 Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 How old is the PC? BIOS or EFI? I've seen a Win8 compatibility option in a lot of new BIOSes, not sure what it does, but might be needed if you haven't checked it already.
hardtailstar Posted August 4, 2014 Author Posted August 4, 2014 Thanks all for the above, I have reburnt to same disc and all is working
cpjitservices Posted August 5, 2014 Posted August 5, 2014 You are selecting a boot menu on boot up - and chosing the Optical disk drive... right ? Or go into BIOS and change boot options to boot from CD first. yeah but it didnt like that either. Its doing my noggin in! Ive created disks before!
mats Posted August 5, 2014 Posted August 5, 2014 Nobody's mentioned Yumi yet - not just good for linux stuff, I installed W7 from it the other day.
hardtailstar Posted August 5, 2014 Author Posted August 5, 2014 You are selecting a boot menu on boot up - and chosing the Optical disk drive... right ? Or go into BIOS and change boot options to boot from CD first. yeah, It was the usb disk drive causing issues and still is, Created a second disk and thats having same issues as the first disk. Tried just attaching it to a working pc to play a cd and install office and still having issues with it, so new usb disk dive needed!
penfold Posted August 5, 2014 Posted August 5, 2014 I tend to create USB boot disks these days using the Windows 7 USB Download tool. Only thing to remember is that you need to create a x86 boot disk on an x86 machine (or x64 on x64).
Arthur Posted August 5, 2014 Posted August 5, 2014 I tend to create USB boot disks these days using the Windows 7 USB Download tool You should try Rufus instead. It's much faster than Microsoft's USB Download Tool and will also create bootable flash drives that work properly on UEFI PCs. 1
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