Remember old thread
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Windows files aren't normally bootable. Rufus will mark a USB to boot, but you can't just put files into an ISO and expect it to boot, booting doesn't work that way.
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@scottalanmiller I am having the extracted file of Windows OS in my pendrive.but the pendrive is not in bootable format.the extracted files to be made bootable by Rufus but before that I need to make that files into an ISO so that only I can try to install the Os in the laptop of my friends
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@Lakshmana said in Remember old thread:
@scottalanmiller I am having the extracted file of Windows OS in my pendrive.but the pendrive is not in bootable format.the extracted files to be made bootable by Rufus but before that I need to make that files into an ISO so that only I can try to install the Os in the laptop of my friends
Files cannot be made bootable, that's my point. No tool can do this for you. There is nothing bootable in those files. What do you expect a computer to do with them?
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Please wait I got the Windows OS from my friends which was not in ISO format in DVD so all the files copied to my pendrive.the pendrive has the file which was the extraction of that ISO.so I need my pendrive to be bootable now for installing os
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@Lakshmana said in Remember old thread:
Please wait I got the Windows OS from my friends which was not in ISO format in DVD....
DVD and ISO are the same thing. It can't be one and not the other.
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But the OS is not booting after changing the boot order in BIOS too
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@Lakshmana said in Remember old thread:
But the OS is not booting after changing the boot order in BIOS too
Of course not, you've explained that it cannot be bootable because you started from files. Files cannot be "made bootable" in this way. You've explained that you did not start from an ISO. I explained why that meant that what you are trying to do cannot be done.
Your response doesn't make sense given what we know. Of course it did not boot, it cannot.
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So only I got Imgburn now and made ISO from DVD and then made bootable pendrive with the help of Rufus now
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@Lakshmana said in Remember old thread:
So only I got Imgburn now and made ISO from DVD and then made bootable pendrive with the help of Rufus now
I understand that. You are not listening to what I have said. You don't have bootable files. So the ISO image can't be used to make something bootable. So Rufus marking it as bootable doesn't help you.
This is what matters: you didn't start with bootable files.
None of the rest matters.
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Sorry Scott I got the answer as Imgburn by googling and making a process in reverse too
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@Lakshmana said in Remember old thread:
Sorry Scott I got the answer as Imgburn by googling and making a process in reverse too
It doesn't work that way though. You aren't starting from a bootable item. There is nothing to boot no matter what tools you use.
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What is your goal? If you want to copy Windows you have to first sysprep it then you need to image it. Copying files will never make a usable system.
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Is this what you are looking for @Lakshmana ?
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-bootable-windows-iso-from-filesfolders/
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@Ambarishrh yes it is
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@scottalanmiller for that only having issue in going to BIOS.i will make to check my friend to go to BIOS and follow the steps
