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  1. I have the files burned to a USB drive, this is the third time I tried to burn an ISO of Win 7 Ult SP1 to removable media, the this time I let someone from MS go ahead and to the work (no personal info on that drive), they used whatever program they use to burn the image and make the disk bootable. At the end of the process, after downloading the files and burning the ISO to the disk, at the end of the process to make the disk bootable that program (I think it might be called Rufus) generated an error, the green progress bar turned to red and the verbiage was basically along the the lines the the process to make this disk bootable had failed. I have the program Imgburn, now that I have these files burned to a USB disk, can Imgburn make the disk bootable?
  2. Just to put things into proper perspective I have never used this program or otherwise burned an ISO to a DVD/created a bootable disk from it, I couldn't be more of a beginner. I picked up a used PC (from a certified MS rebuilder, I do not suspect any hardware issues), I did not want the HDD or the O/S on it, I am trying to get an updated version of Win 7 Ultimate on to a freshly NTFS-formatted ssd and get it running in this machine (I have the original media from MS but it is pretty old and i would be doing Windows updates all day). I have drivers for HP's main board on a jump drive, I am ready to go except for getting Win 7 onto the DVD in bootable form, actually I think I may have that now, but let me ask a question that my go a long ways for me. On the main screen of this program, in the mode that has the graphics (like the one showing a folder on the L and a R pointing arrow pointing to a disc on the R), what is the difference between "Create image file from files/folders" and "Write image file to disc"? The first time I tried the former, at the end of the process it opened my CD/DVD burner door (I do not have that option checked), with a message to manually close it, so I did and then the program seemed to start the process over from the start - this didn't seem right so I stopped that (I think maybe it was some sort of finalization process and I probably should have let it go). I tried again, this time I chose the other option, "Write image file to disc". It did the same thing at the end of the process but this time I let it go and it seems I now have a bootable DVD with Windows 7 on it, I put that in the DVD burner and rebooted the PC and it loaded Windows install program. Why would I have wanted to choose "Create image file from files/folder", though, as others have advised me to do?
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