Making bootable Windows 7 DVD

[herlihyboy]

I have a Windows 7 iso image that I downloaded from Microsoft (I'm an MSDN subscriber) and would like to install this on a wiped hard drive in my laptop. In the YouTube I watched, the guy browsed to an image file as part of creating the bootable DVD. Where can I find this image file? Am I on the right track? I want it to spin up and load Windows 7 when the laptop boots. Right now, it spins, but doesn't start the install process so I'm pretty sure I didn't burn the image to the DVD correctly.

 

Thanks!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Isn't the ISO already bootable?

 

Post the log please, that'll tell us.

 

You may just have to set the boot priority/order on your laptop so it knows to load from the DVD drive.

[herlihyboy]

I would have thought it was, but I get a flashing cursor and nothing more when I boot with my DVD in. I popped an old XP install CD in and when I boot with it in, I get the typical option that I would expect to see if I was installing Windows XP, so I'm pretty sure the drive is reading the disks.

 

All I did was download the ISO and burn it to a DVD using the built-in Windows DVD burning option (didn't do it with imgBurn).

 

Which log are you interested in seeing?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Oh ok, if you didn't burn it with ImgBurn then there's no point in showing me the log.

 

Open ImgBurn, click the 'Write image file to disc' option, load your ISO in the 'Source' box, take a screenshot of the main window and then upload it so I can take a look please.

 

If you don't see the word 'Bootable' in the 'File Sys' line in that same 'Source' box, it isn't bootable. In which case you'll have to mount it in a virtual drive program (or just extract it somewhere if you have WinRAR/7zip etc) and rebuild the ISO by following the 'Windows 7 OS installation disc' guide in the Guides forum.