By burning a bootable USB drive from an ISO image file, you can easily boot the computer from external USB flash drive and fix Windows issue to get the devcie back to normal. When looking for USB burning tools, you'll naturally look for default tools that come on your PC.
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Need to create Windows 7 recovery USB
- However, to install Windows 7 from a USB drive, you must first transfer the ISO or disk image to the storage device and make it boot. Also, you must make sure that your computer is configured to boot from an external USB device. Buy, download and copy Windows 7 ISO Step 1. Go to the Microsoft store ( microsoftstore.
- The Windows 7 installation program doesn't recognize the new USB 3.0 port, hence we need patch the driver to the installation package. Please follow the steps, Step 1 - Create Windows 7 bootable USB drive from Windows 7 ISO file. You can find the detail procedure here. Let's assume the USB drive has the drive letter H: after you have created.
If you encountered with serious events like system crashes during using Windows 7 computer, you can use system repair disc to fix these problems or reinstall system. Thus, it is reasonable to create a system repair disc via Windows Backup and Restore utility at first. But in this method, the media can only be CD or DVD. Obviously, this way is not suitable for users without CD/DVD.
Bootable usb windows 7 software - Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool is a tool that allows you create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO on a USB flash drive or a DVD. All you need is a USB stick with sufficient storage space and the Windows 7 ISO file. For more information on this, follow this. It supports both certified and non-certified USB drive. It can create any edition of Windows 10/8/7 bootable USB no matter it is Enterprise, Education, Home or Professional. Besides, it allows you to make Windows 10/8/7 portable USB drive with and without Windows ISO files.
At this point, you can create Windows 7 recovery USB drive. If you don’t have created recovery USB before your system running into problems, you can make a recovery USB drive from another computer.
Create Windows 7 recovery USB drive from ISO
Before starting creating recovery USB via ISO, make sure that the following things are at your hand: ISO image file, USB drive and Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Then, have a closer look at how to create Windows 7 recovery USB drive.
Step 1. Plug your USB flash drive and run Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool, click “Browse” button to choose your source file. Then, click “Next'.
Step 2. Choose USB device as your media type.
Step 3. Insert your USB drive to the working computer and select it. Then, click “Begin copying”. When the whole process finishes, you can get a recovery USB drive.
PS: Your USB will be formatted during this process. It is recommended to backup important files on it.
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Alternative way to create Windows 7 recovery USB drive
It’s not hard to create a Windows 7 repair USB drive from ISO. However, this drive can’t be used for Windows versions that are different from the Windows version of the Windows ISO file. In other words, a Windows 7 recovery USB cannot be used to repair a computer running Windows 10 and a recovery USB from Windows 7 64bit is unable to repair Windows 7 32bit operating system.
To boot any version of Windows 10/8/7, you can turn to third party software like AOMEI Backupper Standard to create bootable media with USB drive. Apart from creating bootable media, AOMEI Backupper can:
◉ Backup and restore Windows system, disks, partitions, or specific files.
◉ You are allowed to save backup images on a local disk, external hard drive, network share, or cloud service, etc.
◉ It offers you various schedule modes including Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Event triggers and USB plug in to make a backup. To use the Event triggers and USB plug in modes, you need to use AOMEI Backupper Professional version.
If your system is unable to boot, you can boot your computer from created bootable device and restore system to normal status using system backup file. Have a look at how it works.
Step 1. Connect USB drive to your working computer and make sure that it can be detected by the operating system. Download AOMEI Backupper Standard.
Step 2. Install and launch it. In the main interface, go to “Tools” > “Create Bootable Media”.
Step 3. Choose one between two bootable disc types. (Here Windows PE based bootable media is selected). Linux based bootable media allows you to apply basic functions like of AOMEI Backupper; Windows PE based bootable media allows you to access all functions.
Step 4. Select a bootable media among three options. Here choose USB Boot Device. Then click “Next” to perform this operation. When the progress reaches 100%, click “Finish” icon.
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Besides, you could enable AOMEI Backupper recovery environment in Windows boot options menu like this: Tools > Recovery Environemnt, and enable it, then you could boot from AOMEI Backupper recovery environment to restore data if system failed to boot.
Boot from Windows 7 recovery USB drive
After creating bootable USB drive successfully, you may want to know how to boot computer from it.
Firstly, you need to insert the USB drive to the computer that you need to restore system.
Secondly, Press certain key to enter BIOS while booting computer (For different computer models, the key can be different. In general, Del key for desktops and F2 for laptops. If you don’t know which key to press, you can refer to the PC’s manual or website).
Finally, choose the USB device and press “Enter” key to boot form the bootable USB drive. Then, you’ll enter the main interface of AOMEI Backupper. Here you can restore system.
Conclusion
It is possible that your system stuck in troubles. To protect your Windows 7 computer, it is a good idea to create Windows 7 recovery USB drive. If you own computers run different Windows systems, you can choose to create bootable media via free backup software AOMEI Backupper. Just create one Windows 7 boot USB drive and it can be applied to Windows 7/8/10 computer.
AOMEI Backupper also allows you to backup disk, partition and file. If you don’t want to make a backup, it is also available to clone disk or system using AOMEI Backupper. All in all, it is a great backup and restore software to protect your data and system security.
If you want to protect unlimited computers within your company, you can pick AOMEI Backupper Technician. With the inbuilt AOMEI Image Deploy tool, you are also allowed to deploy/restore system image file on server-side computer to multiple client-side computers over network.