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Create a Universal Windows 7 Installation DVD or USB Flash Drive

Create a Universal Windows 7 Installation DVD or USB Flash Drive – for netbooks or laptops without a DVD drive, or for PC’s which come without a Windows 7 Reinstallation Disk.

Free download original installation Windows 7 ISO files to make your own Universal Windows 7 installation DVD or USB flash thumb drive from Digital River – Microsoft’s official download supplier.

This is especially useful if you plan to install Windows 7 on more than one computer, or you plan to change versions by upgrading. This would also be useful for IT Support people – it saves you carrying around a whole set of DVDs – in addition,Windows 7 installs much faster from a USB Flash Drive

However these ISO files are each locked to one particular version of Windows 7 – e.g Windows 7 Home Premium, or Windows 7 Professional

In fact, by making a small modification to any of the ISO files, you can turn off the version-lock, and create an All-Versions Universal Windows 7 Installation ISO which can be burned to CD or DVD.

Then you can use the Universal Windows 7 Installer to install the version you want:

The Windows 7 32 bit Installer contains:

  • Windows 7 Starter
  • Windows 7 Home Basic
  • Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Windows 7 Professional
  • Windows 7 Ultimate

universal windows-7-all-editions

The Windows 7 64 bit Installer contains:

  • Windows 7 Home Basic
  • Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Windows 7 Professional
  • Windows 7 Ultimate

universal windows-7-select version

Note that with this method you cannot combine 32bit and 64 bit types – if you want to do this see this article Create your own x86 and x64 All in one Windows 7 ISO – All Versions – 32bit and 64bit on one DVD or USB Flash Drive.

Here’s what to do:

1. Download Windows 7 Ultimate ISO files:

  • Windows 7 Ultimate 32/64bit ISO

Links to other ISO files are here Free Download Windows 7 ISO – Create a Windows 7 Installation DVD or USB Flash Drive but you only need to download one ISO (either 32 bit version or 64 bit version) to convert it to a Universal installer

2. Download WinAIO Maker 

download WinAIO Maker 

We are going to save the 32 bit iso or 64 bit iso to a folder

Click on ISO2Folder, select the ISO you have downloaded and save it to a folder on your hard drive

 WinAIO maker extract ISO to folder

In the folder where you saved the contents of the ISO – locate the version-lock file ei.cfg in the Sources folder and delete it.

This will enable the Selection Menu shown shown above, where you can select the version of Windows 7 you want to install

remove windows_7_iso_ei.cfg

Using the Folder2ISO tool, create a new Windows 7 All-Versions ISO file

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3. Use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool with the ISO you have created

Download the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool here

  • to create a 4gb Universal Windows 7 Bootable USB  flash drive, which you can then use to install any version of Windows 7 from USB drive on your netbook, laptop or PC
  • to burn the Universal Windows 7 ISO file to DVD which you can then use to install any version of Windows 7 from an optical drive

Free Download Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool

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windows_7_iso to USB flash drive / DVD

windows_7_iso to USB flash drive / DVD

Free Download Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool

You will now be able to install all versions of Windows 7 from one DVD or USB Flash Drive


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