W7 USB Download Tool

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Built my new PC OK but cannot install W7. I used the above to copy an ISO to a USB stick.
Unfortunately the PC Bios cannot see the USB stick because it is formatted NTFS. I have reformatted the stick to FAT32 but the MS software always formats the stick again before converting the ISO to a boot device but in NTFS.
Can you help me to convert the ISO to a boot USB but keep it in FAT32. Cheers
 
You could create the USB partition at the command line, and then use an ISO mounting program to mount the ISO and copy and paste the files over. Thats what I do.

Command order in command line goes:

diskpart
list disk
select disk n - where 'n' is the number of the USB drive
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32 label="Windows 7" quick
assign
exit
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That will create the bootable USB drive in fat32. Just to mount the ISO and drag and drop the files into the USB drive.
 
Nymins said:
You could create the USB partition at the command line, and then use an ISO mounting program to mount the ISO and copy and paste the files over. Thats what I do.

Command order in command line goes:



That will create the bootable USB drive in fat32. Just to mount the ISO and drag and drop the files into the USB drive.
Click to expand...

I have done the command line stuff to the USB stick but am confused as to what now to do with the ISO file. Can you help please.

Do you mean create the bootable USB using the microsoft tool on another usb stick and then drag them over to me USB stick I have created using your commpand line entries?
 
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