Trouble creating a Win7 bootable USB stick

Goose · 24 Mar 2014 at 12:33

I downloaded my ISO from here and have tried using Rufus to create the bootable but drive but it always says 'ISO extraction failed' and the Microsoft tool simply says its not a valid ISO.

I'll try downloading another ISO but if that fails too would anyone know what might be causing the problem?

Thanks

marc2003 · 24 Mar 2014 at 12:51

seems like the ISO is corrupt if 2 different programs are having problems? you could try mounting it. windows 8/8.1 can do it without extra software - just double click it. if using 7 or earlier, you can install virtual clone drive.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

edit: i forgot 7-zip can open ISO files. presumably winzip/winrar/other dedicated zip progams can too.

Goose · 24 Mar 2014 at 13:46

Downloaded two other ISO's this time from the MS site and its the same problem. Mounted one with Daemon tools and tried to run setup.exe and get an error that autorun.dll cannot be loaded or is corrupt.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

KIA · 24 Mar 2014 at 15:51

Bad RAM?
Try it on a different machine?

Goose · 24 Mar 2014 at 16:05

Tried it on my dads laptop and got the same thing. I've ended up making an ISO from my DVD and that seems to be working fine.

Makes no sense.

wesley · 24 Mar 2014 at 16:05

thats funny cos i downloaded win7 64bit iso late last night. i spent hours trying to boot up PC. turned out the ISO is CORRUPTED!!!!! do not download from that website.

win7 64 bit iso is 3.1gb but when click download it would say 3.1gb but download stops at 2.5GB.

Goose · 24 Mar 2014 at 17:38

Ah, sounds like that server is FUBAR.